COVID-19 fatalities Days to hit 10k - 41 days 20k - 5 30k - 5 40k - 5 50k - 4 60k - 4 I still don't understand two things. 1. What makes...

Sometimes, your prediction has to be ignored in order to come true. Someone predicts that a stock will skyrocket in price over the next few ...

The Dutch have records that go back to the time of Martin Luther - 500 years. In that entire time, including the European settlement of co...

Models of complex behavior increasingly sit at the background of vital political discussions like global warming and pandemics. It is time...

Adding to the trauma of deaths, illness, layoffs, and social isolation, at the end of this pandemic we will find ourselves with tens of mi...

The Dow between mid-Feb and mid-March dropped 38%. between mid-March and mid-Apr (today) rose 34%. Since mid-Feb the Dow is down 18%. (R...

The forecasts for COVID-19 deaths are falling. That's wonderful news. It turns out that measuring the cost for exponential growth of a v...

Per the Economist , by the 21st of March in most cities trips planned had dropped by 70 to 90%. People are traveling and polluting less - ab...

In a time of crisis, everything is questioned. That makes sense but the West has made progress in certain ways that should never be undone. ...

Greek tragedies were based on the notion of a dilemma, a character forced to choose between two bad options. Kill your mother or your father...

Right now, Trump seems focused on the stock market. You can see why. The stock market that he has taken as an affirmation of his leadership ...

Markets across the West are down 9 to 15% today. It's important to talk globalization. The most defining issues of our day are not nati...

Somebody picks up on a problem in the pond. Lily pads are growing rapidly. By their calculations, they're doubling every day to cover mo...

Mutual fund. Fund, from the past tense of fun.

A standing army is a fairly new thing in the history of humanity. Now we likely spend too much on the military but the notion is that a comm...

One simple distinction for leaders is eloquence. Bill Clinton was the best speaker I've heard in politics. Obama created a similar confi...

This week Google joined Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in the trillion-dollar valuation club.  Location matters. Microsoft and Amazon headquar...

Each month bls.gov releases the new jobs numbers. "The economy created 130,000 jobs last month." The technical title for this jobs...

I've heard and read concern about the millions of truck drivers who could lose their jobs to self-driving trucks. Here are two reasons ...