Fri, May 22 2020

The abuse of business statistics has been rampant for a long time, particularly as it applies to the confusion between correlation and causation. But the misapplication of statistics shows up in other, and sometimes subtle, ways. In a marketing…

In the summer of 2009, the Israeli neuroscientist Henry Markram strode onto the TED stage in Oxford, England, and made an immodest proposal: Within a decade, he said, he and his colleagues would build a complete simulation of the human brain inside…

Venezuela has filed a $1bn lawsuit against the Bank of England over its refusal to release gold stashed in its vaults, as the government of Nicolás Maduro scrambles for funds to alleviate a deepening economic and health crisis. Caracas has…

When times get tough, central banks typically act as the first line of defense. However, modern economies are incredibly complex—and calamities like the 2008 financial crisis have already pushed traditional policy tools to their limits. In…

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