markets – Trail of Sparks

A Review of “The End of the World is Just the Beginning,” by Peter Zeihan.

Geography, Demography, Technology, Pax Americana, Free Money, and Cheap Energy. This time really is different. It will not end well.

Emotions: The Killer App for Humans

Emotions were a killer app for homo sapiens to win the evolutionary strugle against other proto-humans. will they also be a “killer” app in this Age of Intelligence?

Emotions have been a killer app at least twice in human history. The first time, emotions helped us win the evolutionary race for survival. The second time, will emotions help us self-destruct?

Machine Learning in Juypter Notebooks

:Links to Juypter notebooks with Python code written by Richard Barrett.

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Adam Smith is Still Right

According to a decade-long study by the McKinsey Global Institute, countries with more competitive markets, less regulation, and fewer social objectives, have much stronger economies.

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What’s a Market, Anyway?

Can a market be involuntary? Does a market require human participants? What is the biggest market in the world?

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