More thoughts on the Social Networking Conference, Day 2, are here.

This is the question that the LA Times posed in a story about the writers strike. First the music industry was disintermediated by the internet, and now the movie and TV industries are waking up, courtesy of the writers, to the fact that the only game in town is Google…. and perhaps Microsoft…. or Apple. [...]

I went to the Social Networking Conference in Sydney yesterday.  I posted a brief report on it at the GRMP blog.

Great article on the bloomberg site about Greenspan. Patric Artus, Chief Economist at Natixis SA and an adviser to the French Government talks about why Greenspan was both the fireman and the arsonist in the US and global economies. Greenspan was an arsonist and a fireman combined. He derived all his glory from his reaction [...]

John Howard was, for whatever reason, what seemed to be a slavish follower of George Bush. Read this essay called Bad, Worse, Worst to get one person's view on what is wrong with Bush and the American Presidency. What is interesting about it is the concept that Bush wants government programs to fail so that [...]

Check out this article. This guy predicts that the dollar may go down as much as 90% and gold will go to $2,000. Of course the price of gold is only going to be of relevance to you if you are in the US. Everywhere else one would expect it to retain parity.

I have been writing about the topic of global financial meltdown for a few years, but the more I write about it the less it seems to happen. The interventions by people like Greenspan in the US to reduce interest rates in order to maintain liquidity has always pushed the timing back. However, there has [...]

For those people who visit this blog and are interested in my new book…. it is going quite well thanks! I am working on getting the first 50,000 words polished to get to Mary Cunnane, my agent. And then I find out whether the rubber hits the road or not! During the last two months [...]

I was trying to find a reference to Pascal's Theorem about why it makes sense to believe in God… Came across this instead…. 300 – count 'em – proofs of why God does exists… Here are a couple… ARGUMENT FROM LACK OF EVIDENCE (II) (MODIFIED SIMPSON’S ARGUMENT) (1) God, if you exist, please give me [...]