You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.
The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.
The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.
Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.
Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc. )
I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.
We created god in our own image and likeness!
I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.