How to Scuttle Overfishing? Tax the Catch

A friend recently gave me  a book of Gary S Becker “the Economics of Life”. They are a collection of his articles in Business Week. The late Professor Becker, a Noble Prize winner for Economics, nearly turned down the opportunity to write the column for Businessweek. I am glad he did not. I’ve been working on … Read more

Horoscopes for Commissioners

The real question on everyone lips is how Jonathan Cainer will be able to guide the Commissioner-designates in their hearings.   I spent a few minutes looking at the Commissioners-designate and listed their star signs. If Monday will be a good day for Mr Vella during his hearing, please  check out http://www.cainer.com   Johannes Hahn   … Read more

What Fishermen Could Learn from Foresters

I recently read Mark Spitznagel’s ‘The Dao of Capital’. Mark Spitznagel is one the world’s most successful investors. More interestingly, he is openly an “Austrian economist”. You can read his 10 chapters to understand he became a self made billionaire. You may be tempted to skip to the last two for him to reveal the … Read more