The French Film Festival: 2018
Festival Website | Films | Schedule Top Picks C'est La Vie! (Opening Night) Over a career spanning more than 30 years, Max Angély has enjoyed...
Our countries need us.
Humanity is at a high point. What our ancestors dreamed of is slowly becoming a reality: a world without hunger in which the vast majority...
Banks, money and bootstrapping capital adequacy
Below is an extract from a recent academic article setting out – rather laboriously I have to say – three 'theories' – I'd rather call them 'ways of seeing'...
Crikey! It’s that time of year again: Last call
If you'd like to be in this year's submission to Crikey for a group submission, please email me on ngruen AT the domain formerly known as gmail...
Now is the time for complacency: RBA v Bank of England edition – Part Two
Cross-posted on The Mandarin: To quote Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King in 2010 “of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the...
And now for some complete madness
https://youtu.be/LHrvQ7qaadE If you're a chess player who's touched with the human weakness of impatience or just liked to be engaged and see things develop – as...
How to tax the platform economy?
In the engine room of nation states, ie the tax departments, the coming battle with platform providers is taking shape. Uber, airbnb, facebook, linkedin, ebay,...