3 Weddings and a Funeral – The Coming Global Condo Crash
You’ve probably been reading and hearing about all those condos in Florida that their owners can’t get rid of. It’s going to get much bigger than we think, with numerous scary flavors thrown in. The Crash Heard Around the World? Yep, that would be Surfside, the tragic collapse of a Mimami a condo skyscraper in 2021. […]
Does Social Media Lead in a Direct Line to Autocracy?
Democracy is rapidly a disappearing form of government. We will be lucky if we can just sustain soft autocracies. X Marks the Spot… Until recently social media was nothing. Now it’s the thing. So much so that the Supreme Court is getting on the act by accepting a case (would you believe), namely when can when public […]
Can You Measure Value Creation for Government and Nonprofits?
What’s the Point? You can predict the value that nonprofits and government are creating by assessing the value-adding behaviors of their leaders. Full disclosure: This references my research into the financial styles of CEOs (see “The Three Financial Styles of Very Successful CEOs”) Government Childcare Program Not Working (Gasp) Did you see this one? Research […]
One Person, One Vote…One NFT
Prove it! Let’s not get into politics but I don’t have to tell you that election fraud has been occupying a lot of minds, whether or not it is occurring. And, clearly not just in the US. How about in every country with a voting system, democratic, quasi or not? Even if you don’t have […]
The Second American Civil War?
I recently wrote about the potential number of Black Swans waiting to swoop in on us. Would a Second US Civil War count as one? Very likely I guess. Divided We Stand I don’t think the US has been so divided since the US Civil War, arguably anyway. Sadly, one of the causes of that war is […]
BREXIT is just a sideshow – the main act is European disintegration
It looks like BREXIT is a mess. It’s fiendishly complicated. I already posted on this in 2016 (“BREXITed – UK Gain, EU Pain”). My thesis was that BREXIT would hurt the EU far more than the UK. Now I’ve had more time to consider the issue what’s my lowly opinion now? My opinion last time […]
Could augmented reality save affordable housing?
Did you see the one where 95 affordable apartments were offered for rent in Ye Olde San Francisco recently and 6580 people applied? So much for being poor in the richest city in the US. In a similar vein, I keep on seeing all this stuff about foreign heads of state being entertained at Mar a […]
China has just leapfrogged the US in a big way
I just arrived back from one of my regular business trips to China. Here’s my tally: air pollution is even worse, water in rivers is filthy. Yet the built environment is even more impressive and the Chinese people have made giant steps forward over their American and European counterparts in the convenience of their lives. […]
Is authoritarian leadership inevitable?
We’ve just seen China approve a lifting of term limits on their leader, an epochal decision. Clearly there’s a move to authoritarian leadership globally. As well as China there’s the usual suspects like Russia, Belarus and North Korea, but now there’s some new/newish members of the club including Turkey, Hungary, Poland, Venezuela, Malaysia and Myanmar […]
How about “Nuclear Winter Olympics” World War 3 playoffs?
We’ve just had the latest Winter Olympics in South Korea. Of course it was overshadowed by the nuclear threats hurled at each other by the US and North Korea. Olympics are supposed to be about peace but this clearly wasn’t a very peaceable atmosphere. Now the Dear Respected Comrade is on an ostensible peace offensive, […]