Predictably, there was a lot of irrelevant noise after the passing away of Lee Kwan Yew. Nearly all the obituaries I read were wide of the ...

These graphs are taken from an excellent new working paper [ pdf ] by Stephanie Schurer that analyses risk attitudes on a very large - 1...

I have been reading a social psychology textbook recently and, when I last opened Goodreads, this is what greeted me: Weird, right? OK,...

(*) Translates as: Next year in Monte Carlo? A thoroughly ineffectual President, who lied his way into office and who had become extremely...

I once taught economic policy in France to civil servants for several years in a row. Of course, I always considered that the most impo...

China is very large by most geographical standards. It is the most populous country on the planet. It now has  arguably the largest single ...

Having at last renounced Twitter and all his works and pomps, I will now endeavour to start posting seriously again on selected financ...

There has been for the last 24 hours widespread hysteria among the commenting classes about the supposed Lehman II, The Seque l-type signi...

A quick reminder that anyone mad enough to want to meddle with the world's major currency pair, the euro vs the dollar, ought to be l...

What a beautiful country! Le Monde commissioned a poll from Ipsos along lines not that different from those of the World Values Survey ...

The Elysée Treaty turned 50 this week, a grand occasion for official hypocrisy, reporting ineptitude and a garish mixture of flonflons an...