DALLAS FED SHARES HOUSING BUBBLE SIGNALS
The Dallas Fed has an interesting article on empirical data and signs of housing asset price misallocation. In this case, the...
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Philip Ammerman
Apr 8, 2022
Skin Cell reprogramming demonstrates 30 year Rejuvenation Effect
Those of you following Navigator Consulting's Digital Utopia / Digital Dystopia vision know that among the medium-term changes we see are...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 22, 2022
CRACK THE ECONOMY
According to National Debt Clocks, using US Treasury Data, as of 22 March 2022: Federal Debt reached $ 30.33 trillion Federal Debt...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 22, 2022
€20 per day
Another depressing and entirely predictable conversation yesterday. I won't say where or with whom: it's irrelevant. The conversation was...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 20, 2022
Ukraine Day 25
Although the outlook in Ukraine looks bleak, the message I am getting from a very wide range of sources is that the majority of Russian...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 11, 2022
11 March 2022
A quick update for my friends and associates. The last few months have not been easy. I've been struggling with exhaustion and some major...
Philip Ammerman
Mar 2, 2022
HOW THIS ENDS
Photo (c) Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / CNN On February 24th, Russia mounted an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine....
Philip Ammerman
Feb 26, 2022
FIGHTING IN SEVERODONETSK
I worked for the Rubezhnoye Board & Packaging Factory between 2001 and 2013 on a variety of projects, including three major investment...
Philip Ammerman
Feb 25, 2022
THE INVASION OF UKRAINE
Like so many others, I’ve been tied to the news about Ukraine. I’ve worked there between 1999 and 2018, mainly on investment projects,...
Philip Ammerman
Jan 12, 2022
THE GREAT SIBERIAN THAW
Joshua Yaffa (@yaffaesque) has a brilliant article in The New Yorker entitled "The Great Siberian Thaw" on the effects of global warming...
Philip Ammerman
Jan 7, 2022
GET LULU TO CALL ME
Photo (c) Anadolu / Getty Images from The Guardian I wonder what kind of system invests billions in the illusion of being a great power...
Philip Ammerman
Dec 24, 2021
Making Decisions Based on Weakness
It’s December 24th and as I sit in my apartment in Limassol, cleaning up this year’s mess and reflecting on the next year, I understand...
Philip Ammerman
Nov 29, 2021
ABSURD BICYCLE SCHEMES
Not that long ago, people in Greece and Cyprus prided themselves on being self-sufficient. My grandparents had a house in a remote...
Philip Ammerman
Nov 9, 2021
The reverse of the medal
An idle thought this morning. This year is the bicentennial of the Greek revolution. On 25 March 1821, the Revolution broke out (earlier...
Philip Ammerman
Oct 26, 2021
25 Cities contribute 52% of Greenhouse gas Emissions
According to research published by three Chinese scientists, 25 cities worldwide account for 52% of global greenhouse gas emissions. When...
Philip Ammerman
Oct 16, 2021
VALUES AND GOVERNANCE
What strikes me with every visit to the Acropolis Museum is how intensely our ancestors believed in a common set of values and ethos, and...
Philip Ammerman
Sep 28, 2021
The US Constitutional crisis
Robert Kagan has a brilliant opinion piece in the Washington Post on America's Constitutional Crisis. I can't think of another major...
Philip Ammerman
Sep 24, 2021
SUNSET AT MELITE
Today I walked up past the Pnyx to part of the ancient deme of Melite. The remains of its streets and houses can be seen on the bare...
Philip Ammerman
May 24, 2021
THE PINAULT COLLECTION OPENS AT THE BOURSE DE COMMERCE
Jonathan Bastable has written a beautiful paean to the renovation of the Bourse de Commerce to house the Pinault Collection on the...
Philip Ammerman
May 16, 2021
THE NON-SAFE NON-PASS
I am increasingly amused at the government’s invention of a coronavirus safety product where no product exists. The SafePass. We keep...
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