Justin Trudeau has been basking in the smug glory of a media coup all weekend, seemingly having “put a sarcastic reporter” in his place at a presser before the weekend who tried to “stump” the PM with a question ostensibly about ISIS but segued (or perhaps teed up?) what is being touted as a “brilliant” “lecture” on the basics of quantum computing to an adoring gaggle of media sycophants.…

“Sooner or later, everybody sits down to a banquet of consequences” 
– Robert Louis Stevenson

Gordon Brown, back when he was the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, distinguished himself by selling off approximately one-half of Great Britain’s gold reserves at what turned out to be a near-bottom at the end of the secular bear market in gold which lasted from 1980 to 2000-ish.…

A friend of mine, a very successful tech CEO who is also profoundly astute in matters of finance, once asked his economics prof during a lecture on interest rates in his university days “could interest rates ever go negative?”.

The professor, gazing over his glasses and down his nose at what obviously had to be an imbecile in his lecture hall calmly set aside a second of his podium time to shoot the idea down: “No.”,…

(reprinted with permission)

I am from Indonesia. I live and work as a senior lecturer at state university in Indonesia. I am a Muslim who received western education.

Indonesia is the country with the biggest number of Muslim in the world. Majority of Muslims in Indonesia are moderate. We also have suffered from some terrorist attacks so far.…

Since I’ve ended up running for the Libertarian Party of Canada in the October 2015 Federal Election I’ve decided to add a “Governance” category here where I will post / repost my articles about this topic.

I recall a moment when I was on the Board to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) during a meeting another director quipped (I believe it was Conservative stumper Rick Anderson) when making some joke about the difference between the American and Canadian governance models “That’s why in the US it’s Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness but here in Canada it’s Peace, Order and Good Government” which earned cackles of laughter from around the table.…