Tag Archives: The Economist
History Is Now
The Sum Total of Human Experience For 2000 Years A little while ago the Economist put up this chart in their Daily Chart section. I’ve been meaning to blog it but life has a way of getting in the way … Continue reading
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The Lost Decade
On The Same Track For 17 years after the property bubble burst in Japan in 1991, most of the OECD critics have been on a hand-wringing about the Japanese economy. They’re putting out stimulus measures that won’t help, they’re adding … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt 02/11/09
Film Industry As Venture Capital Project In case you’re wondering why film projects fail in the market, here is a quick answer: they fail because the risks are high as well as the rewards. In that sense, each production vehicle … Continue reading
Schumpeter
Creative Destruction My old man is an old Economics grad. The latest guy with a Theory of Everything at the time he finished university was Joseph Schumpeter. And the way it was understood at that time was that there was … Continue reading
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What Were You Thinking, Economist?
The GWB Legacy Okay, hopefully this is the very last entry about President George Walker Bush. The man was undisputedly a disastrous President and if you asked me back in 2000, I would have (and probably did) told you so. … Continue reading
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