Tag: politics

Profitable ETF Trading Strategies: How science can improve your trading

Trading by its very nature is filled with uncertainty. Any human endeavor that has such a strong psychological component must be uncertain, until such time as human nature itself undergoes a fundamental change.  It is uncertainty which helps make a market for assets. It’s what helps drive the discovery process to uncover the relative value […]

A thought experiment in leadership and identity

Here is a thought experiment to get your mental juices flowing Who am I? a multi-billion dollar enterprise with a long and distinguished history, filled with notable achievements, and some dismal failures have for held a position of international leadership for decades associated with a core function of any modern nation and economy provides products […]

Competence

Its ironic to see the Democrats huffing and puffing about the incompetence at AIG among the executives who have the nerve to to be honoring contracts to key leders who elected to remain at the company. The Democrats say that such a violation of common sense and the public trust disqualifies the leaders of this […]

The face of future warfare or a phenomenon emerging from complexity without attribution?

Here is some underreported insight that supports the theme of “Money as a Weapon System” which should give you a moment of pause.   LiveLeak reports this interview of Rep. Paul Kanjorski. At 2 minutes and 20 seconds in the video below, Kanjorski explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a “tremendous draw-down […]

Just what kind of a challenge is military acquisition reform? rhetorical?

We were having a discussion about reforming the military acquisition system around the watercooler today, and the subject came up: what kind of lens should we use to look at the problem? Engineering? Political? Scientific? Metaphorical?   As we circled around the politics of reform I observed: “…If acquisition is a political process (and it should […]

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