I have had the pleasure of meeting professor Tyler Cowen a few times and always left my meetings … Lees verder “How Technology Could Help Fight Income Inequality”

Loic Lemeur asked Jeff Clavier and me to react to Arnaud Montebourg’s presentation at LeWeb and ask him … Lees verder “LeWeb 2013 Interview of Arnaud Montebourg”

Over the course of the last few years I resolved the cognitive dissonance between my short term pessimism … Lees verder “No Limits to Growth”

Dominic Barton, the managing director of McKinsey, recently gave an insightful speech at Stanford Business School. I encourage … Lees verder “Great speech on the five trends reshaping the global economy”

De afgelopen jaren was de econoom in mij diep pessimistisch over het economische lot van de ontwikkelde wereld … Lees verder “De economie: Een optimistisch gedachte-experiment”

A few months ago, I started writing an analysis of our global economic situation that I wanted to … Lees verder “Is the Euro zone crisis by design?”

I just came across this very well thought through article on everything that could go wrong for the … Lees verder “Must read article on America’s 21st century collapse!”

My good friend Auren Hoffman posited that existing nation states would benefit from a little bit of creative … Lees verder “The Ultimate Startup: Creating a New Country”

Over the last two weeks I had the pleasure of attending the eG8 Summit in Paris at the … Lees verder “Cameron Rules, Sarkozy Sucks!”

I recently wrote how the world is less globalized than we suspect it is and how we now … Lees verder “Why India is behind China!”

  As I was reading The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely’s sequel to the brilliant Predictably Irrational, I … Lees verder “How to minimize human misery in recessions or the macroeconomic implications to hedonic adaptation”

I was shocked that the statistics I came across in a recent article in The Economist which presented … Lees verder “Globalization is more fragile and less entrenched than you think!”

I wanted to share with you something that has been on my mind lately as I have been … Lees verder “Summit Series Speech: The Pessimistic Optimist”

I argued in a prior post that the best way to deal with a deflating bubble was not … Lees verder “Mortgage modifications have done more harm than good”

Over the past few years I have often felt like Cassandra with my dire and pessimistic economic predictions. … Lees verder “Cognitive dissonance be damned: I am a pessimistic optimist!”