Federal Reserve
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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…
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Forget Summers and Yellen: Let a Bot Run the Federal Reserve
via Flickr The shameless campaigning and cat fight over who should be our next Federal Reserve Chair has only served to underscore the inevitable human flaws and lack of omniscience of whoever is ultimately appointed, all while further politicizing and debasing the office. I argued four years ago a bot could do that job…