Stray thoughts, notes, and digressive ditties. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Principal-agent problems in the Soviet Union, circa 1990. Widespread fictitious economic accounting was foiling planners to the point that the KGB employed its own spy satellites to ascertain the size of the Uzbek cotton harvest, but the spy agency itself suffered from internal falsifications. From Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon. Wednesday, February 11, 2015. But this stuff still fascinates .

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Monday, February 4, 2013. The latest from failed Senate Candidate and failed CEO Carly Fiorina really chaps my hide. She was on one of the gasbag Sunday shows. And they got into it about public vs private sector jobs. I hope she runs for Gov next time around.

Helping Institutions and Ordinary People Invest Better by Focusing on Risk Control. On Risk-Based Liquidity and Systemic Risk. Possible Investment ContestWidows and Orphans Portfolio Widows and Orphans Portfolio. Skills, competency and experience is important but not absolute to remove losses. On Learning from the Past, Part 4.

This blog is dedicated to improving corporate communications and incentives to help companies and projects improve productivity. Tuesday, November 6, 2012. How is Mainstream Media Rushing to Irrelevancy? Dave Bressler, over at 1,000,000 miles and counting. What FB, Twitter, Blogs, email, etc. Blog, this election is not close and other than right afte.