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Category Archives: Government
Cave Rescue: A lesson in leadership
July 10, 2018 The following weeks will likely reveal the intricacies of the rescue of the youth soccer team from the Chiang Rai cave in Thailand. But from the outside, it seems to me that the operation is a clear … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Government, Leadership
Tagged cave, Chiang Rai, decision making, Leadership, rescue, thailand
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A No-Cost Job Program for Obama
In a couple of recent blogs [Does Complexity Breed Volatility? and Perry, Obama, and Political Volatility], I postulated that citizens (and investors) tend to get overwhelmed by news of which they can no longer clearly evaluate the impacts, because the World … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Society
Tagged 9/11, bush, complexity, economy, job, job program, jobs, Nation, Obama, politics, U.S., volatility, work
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Perry, Obama, and Political Volatility
In my last post [Does Complexity Breed Volatility?], I briefly talked about how complexity makes it increasingly difficult for investors to evaluate the impacts of incoming news, especially “big” news, on their investments. The result is that everyone sells with everyone else, … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Society
Tagged anxiety, budget, CBO, complexity, economy, fear, investing, Jonathan Chait, medicaid, medicaire, Obama, political, politics, Rick Perry, Social Security, stock market, U.S. Congressional Budget Office, volatility
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Does Complexity Breed Volatility?
We have now become familiar with the VIX, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index, thanks to the wild stock market volatility that has graced our television screens in the last few weeks. Investors process incoming political and economic … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Government, Society
Tagged complexity, connectivity, economy, financial, Nicholas Colas, politics, risk off, risk on, Steve jobs, stock market, system, Telis Demos, trust, uncertainty, volatility
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Is Complexity Useful?
I was reading Michael Behe’s recent blog entitled “irremediable complexity” about complexity in nature, and I wanted to ask this simple question: is complexity useful? That question, of course, brings a number of other questions, and so I will try to … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Making, Government, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged behe, complex, complexity, doolittle, securities, society, value
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Bernard Markowicz
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