Cassandra Does Tokyo

I’ve always had a morbid fascination with systemic faults and those that game them. LOR and portfolio insurance. BARRA risk models. Valeant/...

Things, people, and/or ideas believed to have integrity, now seemingly compromised...(the  second   third   fourth  latest updated and expan...

The rise of populism has caused both left and right to indict centrist’s seeming embrace of “neo-liberalism”, to further their ow...

I sent my middle child to a boarding school, deep in the bowels of the English countryside, when she was of a tender single-dig...

So farewell then Theranos, inventor of innovations that weren't. You fooled some of the people all of the time, but not enough ...

Farewell then Toys"Я"Us America's Halfway house to Barbie, Ken, G.I. Joe and "Rock-'em Sock-'em  Robots...

It's been more than three years since I first posted these. So on the day when the value of 1 Bitcoin surpassed that of 1 oz of Gold, I...