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Recent Posts
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What if Inflation Isn’t What We Think It Is?
This article interrogates the established view of inflation as a neutral price phenomenon, exposing it instead as a mechanism of asymmetric value capture by dominant economic actors – part of a broader concept, ‘excumulation’…
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The Evolution of Economic Control: From Financial Stability to the Economics of Organised Scarcity
Friedman’s claim that inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon shaped global economic policy for decades, but it oversimplifies economic reality. Money, like any commodity, is governed by supply and demand, yet financial institutions and…
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From Neoliberal Nostalgia in Sovereigntist Clothing to a Revival of Ordo-Liberalism?
This response to “Building Economic Dynamism: The Choices We Face” (Feb 2025) examines how the economic vision presented by Lord Frost—while framed as a break from liberal orthodoxy—paradoxically recalls the very Ordoliberal tradition that…
Past Posts
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Business Definitions: the key to reliable Insights & Reporting
Without robust Business Definitions to express “what is what”, there are no reliable and consistent (regulatory) Reporting or Analytics Published first time on 18th Nov 2021 | Updated on 17th Mar 2022 , 4th Sept 2022 The question of “Business Definitions” seems to be such an evident matter. It is not, please believe me. Think…
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Data and ETL/ELT Quality Management: You Always Have the Choice
“There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense by adding discipline and order with ‘Intelligent Automation’ to your data lineage, and other ETL/ELT jobs. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables…
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Belgium Court rules Covid measures illegal and must be lifted
31st March: A Belgian court has ruled that the current government COVID-19 measures being deployed don’t have a sound legal basis. The State has 30 days to lift restrictions or face fines. “The judge gave the Belgian State 30 days to provide a sound legal basis, or face a penalty of €5,000 per day that…
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Praxis Insights: Making the Invisible, Visible – From Disparate Data Silos to a Consistent Body of Knowledge
Praxis Insights offers organisations and businesses the opportunity to make Insights, Analytics and Reporting reliable, or fix it for good.
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New Assets on-the-go Analytics Reporting with Praxis Insights Plug & Report
How long does it take and cost you to integrate and merge any new acquisition/asset’s “body of data” into your corporate BAU reporting system?
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Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot
Technology is about serving human beings. Interestingly, some plan otherwise. Illustration with customers’ contempt by pushing costly, useless, dystopian bot assistants.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy, Prosperous New Year 2022!
A Merry Christmas in this wonderful time of the year and all good wishes of health, happiness and prosperity to our past, current and prospective clients, colleagues, business partners and professional relationships! A Merry Christmas in this wonderful time of the year and all good wishes of health, happiness and prosperity to our past, current…
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