The Uneconomics guide to money creationNo metaphysical dilemma about bankers on pinheads ... In the creation of money, credit is everything. … on a £10 note it states that ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of ten pounds’. It appears this money is a future claim upon others ...
Three Colours Red - live! with Peter BradshawIt's one of the distinctively unreal, strange parts of the film Joe writes: A reference to coins again....'unlucky' this time ... to be utterly unconnected with everything else crowding in around 7.35pm: There is something so sinister about this scene ...
Holiday MashupIf you have other recommendations, please feel free to comment below ... Pueblo-born and -raised, Valdez produces gorgeous silkscreen prints for the likes of national acts like Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Andrew Bird, The Fray and Lucero, as well ...
Nate Silver on Predicting the UnpredictableSo I want to broaden my focus a little bit and say, look, by being data-driven and looking at how predictions go, doing analysis from statistics and everything else, we can look ... a lot of people who want kind of metaphysical certainty about things.