Saturday, October 31, 2020

How to avoid having to react to events?

 How to avoid having to react to events?

Leading the events.

Friday, October 30, 2020

What is the best way to deal with a devastating disaster?

 What is the best way to deal with a devastating disaster?

Incorporating it into daily life as something secondary.

How to shift the balance of power?

 How to shift the balance of power?

Putting data back into the hands of the people.

Why do politicians always lie?

 Why do politicians always lie?

Because they always talk about the future.

How to be completely baffled?

 How to be completely baffled?

Watching the world

Thursday, October 29, 2020

How to create political instability?

 How to create political instability?

With overproduction of elites.

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

How to model historical change?

 How to model historical change?

Using cliodynamics.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

How to limit exposure to the theatre of the absurd?

 How to limit exposure to the theatre of the absurd?

Fleeing bipartisanship.

Sunday, October 25, 2020

What is the most popular form of government intervention?

 What is the most popular form of government intervention?

Printing up trillions of fiat money.

Saturday, October 24, 2020

What is proof of your wisdom?

 What is proof of your wisdom?

Having plenty of mental weapons at your disposal.

Friday, October 23, 2020

How to preserve your mental health?

 How to preserve your mental health?

Avoiding comforting certainties.

Thursday, October 22, 2020

How to increase opportunity and reduce disparities?

 How to increase opportunity and reduce disparities?

Ending fiat currencies.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

When a country knows it has a problem?

 When a country knows it has a problem?

When speaking becomes a extremely dangerous activity.

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

How to change relationship with time?

 How to change relationship with time?

Not asking when.

Sunday, October 18, 2020

When to keep talking?

 When to keep talking?

When the threat is for real.

Friday, October 16, 2020

How to save yourself?

 How to save yourself?

By yourself

Thursday, October 15, 2020

How to disseminate a finding?

 How to disseminate a finding?

Exaggerating it so that the press might enjoy correcting.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

How to prevent a tragic economic ending?

 How to prevent a tragic economic ending?

Instilling innovation in the administration of public policy.

Saturday, October 10, 2020

How to equalize everybody?

 How to equalize everybody?

Punishing the competence as a kind of affront to the incompetence.

How to deliver anything anywhere on earth in 1 hour?

 How to deliver anything anywhere on earth in 1 hour?

With a rocket traveling 7,500 miles per hour.

How to monetize debt in perpetuity?

 How to monetize debt in perpetuity?

With trade imbalances

Thursday, October 8, 2020

What is the most useful thing to have in life?

 What is the most useful thing to have in life?

Sense of humor.

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

How to bring down the financial system?

 How to bring down the financial system?

With a deep and long economic recession and health-care recession.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

How to consolidate increasing power?

 How to consolidate increasing power?

Creating a financially engineered depression to destroy competitors.

Monday, October 5, 2020

When a country is dancing with death?

 When a country is dancing with death?

When it is too broken to protect itself.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

When to embrace risk?

 When to embrace risk?

When most run away from it.

Saturday, October 3, 2020

What is the similarity between the good and the unknown?

 What is the similarity between the good and the unknown?

Hope.

How to avoid confrontation ?

 How to avoid confrontation ?

With the cooler heads prevailing.

How to lose an economic decade?

 How to lose an economic decade?

Keeping alive zombie-infested industries.