Category Archives: MN Gordon
Cynics and the Big Fat Greek Default
“Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius. Please don’t forget to pay the debt,” were the final words of Socrates. He uttered them shortly after downing poison hemlock in 399 BC, in fulfillment of his death sentence for corrupting the … Continue reading
Monkey Economics
Despite the advent of the tablet phone and microwave kettle corn, there are still rudimentary evolutionary responses hardwired into the core of the human psyche. During moments of failing they take over and suppress clear thinking. How else can one … Continue reading
Get Paid by Politicians
“I’m out here studying what appears to be an epidemic of arrested development in the American Dream,” wrote Hunter S. Thompson from San Francisco to a New York Editor in the mid-1960s. Fifty years later the effects of this epidemic … Continue reading
Pinching the Losers in Congress
Financial markets are remarkably confounding. If you’ve ever speculated on stock price movements, you know what we mean. Predicting where the market will go is hard enough. But knowing exactly when…that’s nearly impossible. Looking back, assigning causation, and projecting forward, … Continue reading
