The Futurist

R ecently I was asked to umpire an economic wargame that sought to model the impact upon the global markets of a diplomatic incident ...

In February, it was colder in Italy than in Iceland. We have just experienced some unseasonably cold weather. In broad terms, we have j...

This book rather continues the theme of past and present financial crises. If anything, it belongs in the category of 'financial cris...

This is the second of two books about financial crises that I have been studying. The first - Bagehot's 'Lombard Street' - de...

This is the first of two books I am reading about financial crises. Originally written in 1873, this volume alludes to the Overends finan...

One of the features of modern commercial life is the way in which the boundaries between the private sector and the public sector have beco...

One of the more outlandish theories of modern science is that of the multiverse. This is the idea that we only inhabit one of an infinite...