Monthly Archives: September 2016

Destructive education models bankrupting us: new models needed

Education is one of the best long term investments we can make individually and as a society.  But this is only true where education enriches the student.  Where the business model is designed to prey on the trusting and gullible … Continue reading

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Varoufakis and Chomsky on Money and The Sickest Joke in the History of Humankind

This discussion looks at the evolution of economics into a dominant global theory built on mathematical models and flawed assumptions. Also some insightful observations about “boring bankers” being banned from Bretton Woods in 1944, the empowering of finance since, as … Continue reading

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Price cuts no longer enough

The high-frequency algos went wild blasting millions of buy orders at risk markets yesterday afternoon on headlines that OPEC members might agree in November to freeze production near all time highs. But this morning sober thoughts are dawning that capping … Continue reading

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