Category Archives: Risk and risk management

How the Economics of Walking About Helps Predict Unemployment, or the Value of Soft Data

On the short-sightedness of over-reliance on hard data.

The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck

Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.

“Potentially Very Bad”: Lots of New Covid Variants in New York City Rats

The officialdom is ignoring a possible dire Covid risk if it materializes: new variants and mutations in rats jumping to humans.

Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?

Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.

Moving the Covid Vaccine Goalposts

The Covid propagation and vaccine news is not pointing to happy outcomes

Inflation Is Not What We Need to Worry About: the Risk of Major Collapse in the Private Sector Is What Should Be Troubling Us Right Now

Inflation may have you freaked out, but there are bigger threats on the horizon.

Covid Vaccine Whack-a-Mole?

Vaccine enthusiasm has blinded people who should know better to Covid downside risks. And as Taleb warned, tails are fat.

Is the Only Green Thing about Cannabis the Almighty Dollar?

Cannabis has an enormous carbon footprint when grown indoors, with a utopian proposal for growing it outdoors.

Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos

Stock margin debt is the visible tip of the iceberg of leverage, and it has been growing at a zoo-has-gone-nuts rate.

Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?

Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.

Bank Shot: Financial Giants’ Return to Manhattan Gives Smaller Businesses Hope

Some bank CEOs are telling their workers to return to the office in the next few months. If Covid stay tame, will other companies follow?

Fed Shamelessly Gives Warnings of Vague and Ominous Risks While Saying Don’t Expect Us to Do Anything About It

The Fed tells the world: Don’t expect us to be ready for the next financial crisis. It’s just too hard.

How America Can Curb the Epidemic of Violence Against Health Care Workers

Health care staffers are on the receiving end of violence more often than you might think, yet perilous little is done to protect them.

The CDC’s VAERS and Vaccine Complications: The System is Broken

The CDC has been visibly remiss in gathering and updating Covid data in VAERS, and that typifies its pandemic mismanagement.