Globally Rational

//About 200 years ago, the mathematician Thomas Robert Malthus famously wrote an equation predicting that the human population would soon reach the planet’s ecological carrying capacity, causing many of us to die off because of the lack of food and resources (just like what we have often seen with other species). He expected it […]

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//Ever since online stock brokerages like E*TRADE started to show up in the mid-1990’s, the stock market has almost turned into a form of gambling. A few years later in 2000, the market plummeted because tech stocks were overvalued.
Everybody was talking about stocks back then, and rightfully so. The technology sector was booming […]

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//In the past 100 years, the US has established a reputation as one of the world’s best places to live. The best way to gauge this is by the fact that the US is the first choice for potential migrants in India, China, and all over the world. The obvious reason is that we […]

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//If you do a Google search for “rise and fall of the empire”, you’ll get lots of results about the British and Roman empires, and maybe about the Third Reich. You might also see something about the great post-medieval empires, such as those of Spain, France, Portugal, the Ottomans, and the Mughals. There’s […]

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