The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

In the financial world, it is a reliable rule of thumb that the largest and most lucrative forms of arbitrage will be those that don't s...

Narcissism is, as the  Last Psychiatrist put it , the disease of our age. But why this age, and not the ones before it? If we ended up in...

Well, it’s been about 6 months since my last Bitcoin post . I think what I wrote back in May stands up pretty well so far. Certainly the pr...

As far as I can tell, the primary problem with Bitcoin is that after you've bought it, you become medically incapable of shutting the @#...

From the distance of the present, especially for young people, the sexual morality of the past seems very odd.  In particular, the idea o...

In the context of the Strangeloop contretemps , it is worth being clear about what the aim is (in my view). I think it is a rhetorical mis...

I worried, but secretly knew, that this day would eventually come.  So, I strongly suspect, did he. It seems that the political retribu...