Federal Reserve
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Let a Bot Run the Federal Reserve: 2021 Edition
Here is my quadrennial plea to put our monetary policy in the hands of a bot (and happy to call it a smart contract if that makes it more au courant). Despite my best efforts, Bernanke, Yellen, and Powell all got the nod over the bot. But the risks of human policy error have never…
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The Geopolitical Game Board – March 2020
As we lurch erratically and haphazardly toward a new world order that finally subsumes the dilapidated remnants of the Cold War era, here are the current players in the great game: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 – what an incredible Cinderella story. This unknown virus, a mere 29,903 nucleotides, comes out of nowhere, to disrupt the entire planet and intensify the…
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Nominating a Bot to the Federal Reserve Doesn’t Seem So Crazy Now Does It?
via Flickr I neglected to repost my quadrennial modest proposal to name a bot as chair of the Federal Reserve (instead of Bernanke or Yellen) during Jerome Powell’s nomination (I blame him). The idea is simple: Software Bot To Be Nominated Chairman of Federal Reserve System Cutting edge technology tapped to bring stability andconsistency to…