Sweltering, Chills, and Discontent While most of Europe and the United States suffer sweltering heat, darkening economic skies and bitter winter of discontent are looming. Threats to the world economy are chilling. Let’s Start with China China, whose economic growth and GDP figures are always suspect, released statistics showing that…

A new vision for artificial intelligence is using smaller more relevant data sets for dynamic learning generating more effective outcomes and better predictions. This model uses cognitive architecture, learns, transfers learning, and retains knowledge — enabling more valuable and compelling artificial intelligence applications. Our approach is more closely related to…

Inflation and the Art of Bad News Many forecasts expect inflation to subside quickly. The Fed’s latest projection was for annual inflation to fall from over 5% at the end of 2022 to about 2.5% by the end of 2023. At this point, we’re not taking the Fed’s projections seriously…

Where Does the Market Go from Here? “Learning is more about getting the wrong answer, getting better information, and internalizing the right answer. Big mistakes create knowledge.” “We have all the knowledge of humanity on our phone, but won’t integrate it, think, or reason.” Don’t Know, Don’t Care. Perhaps we…

The Point of The Point Kaiko’o and the Point of it All “The present, accurately seized, foretells the future.” V.S. Naipaul Kaiko’o is a point in the Oahu, Hawaii neighborhood of Black Point. I have lived on and off here for over 20 years, and its beauty continues to be…

Cryptocurrency, Speculative Bubbles, and the Markets Financial markets ruthlessly sort nonsense from substance. Is It Still Here? Cryptocurrency staying power has certainly been challenged these last few weeks. There has been a general market drop (even correction), but crypto has been collapsing in value and, to many, is in a…

Recently, I gave a lecture at a graduate program focused on innovation, technological disruption, and the impact on global industries and investment opportunities. My lecture focused on digital assets and attempted to draw distinctions between disruptive and substantial opportunities and hype, nonsense, and unsustainable business models. This is a quiz…

Disruption and Nonsense Transformation, or euphemistically, “disruption,” creates great opportunities to capture newly created wealth. But, as industries are transforming and strategic disruption is occurring, quite a lot of absurdity and certainly enough terror are associated with some of these extraordinary opportunities to require much greater analysis and understanding. There…

Podcast Channel The show analyzes emerging economic and social developments, identifying the most critical issues impacting investment success. It looks at globally disruptive changes and strategies to profit from these new market forces. Innovation, advanced technologies, geopolitics, and new interrelated factors are essential components of future investment success. Investment success…