Sustainable Retail Distribution on the Internet
When internet-shopping, you can’t look your retailer in the eye. You lose a deeply intuitive (and largely effective) indicator of whether you and your seller are a good match. So […]
Category Archives: Current affairs
Ed Snowden will have done the NSA a favour
The title of this post is not a political statement, but will simply be a statistical truth, if the not-so-recent revelations lead to a step away from “just-in-case” wholesale data collection […]
Game Theory and the Debt Ceiling
The idea of applying game theory to the debt ceiling debate isn’t exactly new. In fact, I did exactly that, back in March. The FT just ran an article on […]
Method in the Madness of Greece’s Government?
Moody’s is putting Greece on credit watch negative because of the threat to government stability following the unilateral shock decision to dissolve the government broadcaster ERT in its current form […]
Democracy is Coming Home to Die
Greece, at alarming speed, is digging itself into an ever deeper political hole. The government, or more precisely the Nea Demokratia faction of it, shut down Greece’s national broadcaster on six […]
The Future of Offshore Outsourcing: The Case of India
My blog has been silent for a while, as I got ready to speak in Bangalore, India, where my friends at AMBA put on a great conference on offshore outsourcing […]
Ready for Ageing? The House of Lords (Thinks It) Is…
We should envy the UK for having the House of Lords! For they have given us a useful reminder of the consequences of an ageing society. But, like most such […]
Breaking News: EU Statement on Cyprus
I always will try to avoid a “breaking news” section here. I am most definitely not online all the time, so there might be a lot of breaking news I […]
Hot or Not? Rumors of Cyprus’ next move
Apparently, the proposal being put together to be presented by the Cypriot president on Thursday (when most of you will be reading this), is that the depositor haircuts are a […]
Cyprus, Round Two
Commentary is wildly diverging over whether the Cypriot parliament’s rejection is a big deal or not. Surprisingly many articles predict something like Europe-wide bank runs, Russian Mafia killings, and what […]
Cyprus: The State Giveth, The State Taketh Away
All eyes are on the Cypriot parliament. Will they, or won’t they approve the deal that takes a cut from all deposits, including small ones, in order to get the […]
EU-11 “To Bin” Tax: The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
Quoting from wiki.ironchariots.org: The Great Green Arkleseizure is a deity mentioned in a work of fiction by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Although not offically considered a god, the Great Green Arkleseizure is […]
