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Minimum Reserve Requirements: the dark horse in the FED toolbox
The past decade has been unprecedented in terms of financial policy. Specifically, low-interest rates and central bank stimulus into economies around the globe starting from arguably the 1970s/80s (indisputably since 2008) to today have led to recent volatility in inflation and sharp increases in interest rates leading to bank collapses, increased business bankruptcies, and financial…
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Commentaries on Peter Thiel’s “The Straussian Moment”
If you are inclined towards Philosophical topics of discussion I highly recommend you watch Peter Thiel’s conversation with Peter Robinson: In the second half of the conversation, Thiel touches on the subject of innovation and on the US vs China conflict. He is famous for claiming that the world at large is lagging in innovation…
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The definition of Technology
Since I discuss technology a fair bit here I deem it necessary to explain the definition of technology from my perspective so we can all get on the same page. In the current zeitgeist, the term technology has become synonymous with digital technology, especially with a bias to software that is built with interactions to…