Odd Bits and Square Pegs

One of the charms of living in Porto is that there's a wealth of old stuff everywhere, so when I asked my wife if she knew anyone with a...

Asset bubbles are hard to spot. They tend to sneak up on us, growing slowly into something unsustainable. Then they hang around for much lon...

My older brother's wife is a pastry chef. For a while, she made cakes that people could buy directly from her kitchen, all made with nat...

I wouldn't have been aware of this if it hadn't been for a random comment made in ZeroHedge the other day. It's evidently of no...

The Biden administration is currently rolling out a $1.9 trillion " American Rescue Plan " meant to stimulate the American economy...

Basic economics tells us that prices are set in the market by matching supply to demand. From this it's easy to conclude that prices mus...

As often happens these days, what has long been known to most people has now been proven by science. This time around it's the fact that...