Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Saturday, June 6, 2020

6/5/20: 99% of Police Violence Cases Go Unpunished: The Culture of Impunity

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For those interested in the current events in the U.S., here is a data-driven background to police violence as a systemic problem:  https:...
Monday, June 1, 2020

1/6/20: U.S. political culture and mass protests: "Russia-gate" Season X, Episode Z

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The U.S. media has been quick in accusing Russia of stirring the current wave of violence that is sweeping across the U.S. cities. As daft...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

26/10/18: De-democratization of our values?

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Do you, my friends love that smell of napalm in the mornings? Does it fill you with confidence about the future - your own and that of the...
Sunday, September 9, 2018

9/9/18: Populism, Middle Class and Asset Bubbles

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The range of total returns (unadjusted for differential FX rates) for some key assets categories since 2009 via Goldman Sachs Research: ...
Monday, July 30, 2018

30/7/18: Corruption Perceptions: Tax Havens vs U.S. and Ireland

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Transparency International recently released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a measure of the degree of public concerns...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

11/1/18: Physical Mobility and Liberal Values: The Causal Loop

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One of the key arguments relating the decline in the Millennials' support for liberal democratic values to socio-economic trends, iden...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

28/10/17: Income Inequality: Millennials vs Baby Boomers

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OECD's recent report, "Preventing Ageing Unequally", has a wealth of data and analysis relating to old-age poverty and demog...
Monday, October 23, 2017

22/10/17: Italian North: another chip off Europe's Nirvana

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Having just written about the Czech electoral pivot toward populism last night, today brings yet another  news headline from the politica...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

21/10/17: Prague Pages Brussels... Following Vienna

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Just after Austria , the Czech Republic too has swung decisively in the direction of embracing populism as Populist billionaire's Euro...
Monday, October 16, 2017

15/10/17: Calling Brussels from Austria: Change Is Badly Needed in Europe

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Austria just became a *new* flashpoint of European politics that can be best described as a slow steady slide into reappraisal of the deca...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

26/7/17: Panic... Not... Yet: U.S. Student Debt is Cancerous

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Reuters came up with a series of data visualisations and brief analytics pieces on the issue of student loans in the U.S. These are ‘must ...
Friday, November 27, 2015

27/11/15: The Welfare State Going Broke, and You Know It...

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Bruegel’s  Pa Huttl and Guntram Wolff have recently posted on Capx.co results of their study, under a handy title “Lack of confidence in t...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

11/7/15: Harder Default for Greece, Less Democracy for All

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My article on the Greek crisis for Irish Independent: impossible mathematics of debt and the political trilemma of sacrificed democracies:...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

8/3/2014: Democracy and Inequality: A Link of Surprising Direction?

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Everything written or co-authored by Daron Acemoglu is worth reading. Everything. And here is an example why. The man does not shy away fr...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

15/1/2014: Simple, but entertaining... a democratic elites 'score card'

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Recently, I cam across the following highly simplified, but rather amusing graphic highlighting some differences between the US and Italy ...