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Post-Iowa

So where are we? Nowhere further forward. Except, perhaps, that we now know about half of the Democrats in Iowa think Clinton is an extension rather than a repudiation of the past. And I think that matters. The time has come for us all to assess just where we are. There is way too much […]

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An Actual Election?

Well kind of. If you count a caucus as an election. So here we go, the 2016 presidential election gets under way with something more than hyperbolic news reporting. Sometime in the next twenty-four hours we will have hyperbolic reporting tinged with actual voter information. All the preamble, which feels as if it began in […]

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GDP and Other Complex Numbers

When investment advisors want to justify their expensive and ineffective advice they look for red herrings to batter their clients with. One such example surfaced in, of all places, Pieria last week. It was an article sourced from Schroders about how misleading GDP is  as a measure of economic wellbeing. The article is one of […]

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