by dgw_HDSadmin | Feb 24, 2017 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, The Currency Cold Wars
Hello. It looks as if the number of currencies in the world is set to go up again. Across the English Channel, satisfaction with supra-national monetary arrangements is waning. [Marine le Pen] said she could see the EU setting up another currency like the ECU, or...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Feb 6, 2017 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars
The American President recently re-iterated his plans to build a “beautiful” wall along the border with Mexico, for no reason that I can fathom except to provide stimulus to the Mexican economy at a difficult time. As a good friend of mine says, we should not get too...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Nov 23, 2014 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
In 1657, Blaise Pascal made a comment in a letter. In English, it translates as “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter”. [From If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter | Quote Investigator] I...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 24, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
I heard an interesting piece on Radio 4 a while back when an interviewer was talking to Nate Silver, the author of The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction, who used the familiar fox and hedgehog framing when discussing the way people deal with...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jun 16, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
Internet porn and surveillance is all the rage in the newspapers today. The general sense of middle England, as far as I can see, is that they want to police to snoop on their children (to stop them seeing stuff like The Daily Mail) and their neighbours (in case they...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jun 7, 2013 | Archive, The Currency Cold Wars, Will Robots Need Passports?
Since I am flying around Europe in economy class a lot at the moment, one of my pet hates is the abuse of the carry-on rules, particularly (I’ve observed) by women. The rule is ONE carry-on. Like all sensible travellers, I have a sturdy piece of Samsonite that...
