An influential book from 1895 on the social psychology of crowds, originally written in French (“Psychologie des Foules”).

Markets and a British WW2 poster from the Ministry of Information.

Liminal spaces are understood as physical locations that are transitional in nature, somewhere between origin and destination. Their aesthetics is associated with feelings of eeriness, apprehension, and nostalgia. Now, what would be its equivalent in financial markets?

"distingué en quinze livres, esquels les ruses et impostures de Satan sont descouvertes, solidement refutées, et separées d'avec les sainctes propheties et d'avec les predictions naturelles."

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...and will most surely be seen as one of the most ridiculous, and, sadly, destructive liberal media creations ever concocted."

“Time renders most individual moments meaningless… but it is only through the passage of time that life acquires its meaning. And that meaning itself is constantly in flux.”

Non-linear observations on the nonlinearity of 2016-2020

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"While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument."

People do not buy Bitcoin as an inflation hedge; they do so because it’s exciting.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year - Let it Snow Let it Snow - “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” (Milton Friedman, 1980), and other memories from a not so distant past.

Quote addressed to "Messieurs les Monopoleurs".