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May
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PRN: Vol. 2, Num. 4 | May 29, 2012

Making It Up As We Go

A REPORT FROM THE WALL
2,112 days--and counting--of global shaking, destabilizing change, dysfunctional math, widespread volatility, and soft anarchy

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Keywords: Arab Spring, Economics, Europe, Eurozone, Facebook, Germany, Greece, Healthcare, IAEA, Iran, Israel, Middle East, National debt, Netanyahu, Nuclear energy/weapons, Recession, Roubini, Spain, Syria

Oct
07
PRN: Vol. 1, Num. 6 | October 7, 2011

Approaching an Event Horizon?

The cover of today's The Economist (Britain's respected 170-year-old news weekly) shows a swirling black hole sucking in the words "Be Afraid." The insinuation is we're nearing an event horizon, the devastating boundary at the mouth of a black hole beyond which nothing can escape, not even light. The past few week... read more »

Keywords: Arab Spring, BRIC, Change, Congress, Economics, Egypt, Gold, Greece, Healthcare, History, Italy, PIIGS, Progress, Putin, Recession, Russia, Shaken, Stock Markets, Timothy Geithner, Unemployment

Jun
16
PRN: Vol. 1, Num. 3 | June 16, 2011

Dysfunctional Math

A defining characteristic of our age is the unusual math. Today's unprecedented numbers and figures are matched with graphs increasingly exponential in nature--especially the hyper-exponential, purely vertical Profusion Curve. What makes this disconcerting is that plotting the math into the future leads to dysfunction ... read more »

Keywords: Complexity, Dysfunction, God, Healthcare, Infinity, Information, Mathematics, Precision, Profusion, Progress