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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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Reason coined the ‘DataVirus’ concept in September 2020. Real Cases illustrations.
Dec 21 update: Omicron’s DataVirus – Reason coined in Sept 2020 the DataVirus concept as far more dangerous than hacking: it is a stealth, good-looking dataset merging into your business data, and designed to target your brain and decision-making. Those who saw the film Inception will immediately see what I am about with our September article and…
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Brexit minister Lord Frost resigns over Government’s direction
His departure was prompted by Plan B measures, tax rises and ‘net zero’ politics. “This country has a great future under Boris Johnson’s leadership if we can get the policies right.” According to the BBC, 18th Dec 21: “Brexit minister Lord Frost has resigned from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government. In a letter, he tells Mr Johnson…
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Business Definitions: the Cornerstone For Reliable Insights & Reporting
Without robust Business Definitions to express “what is what”, there are no reliable and consistent (regulatory) reporting or analytics. The question of “Business Definitions” seems to be such an evident matter. For good and evident reasons, we have dictionaries for words. Why so many businesses can’t fathom the importance of Business Definition? Think about it:…
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Remembrance Day for the Fallen, 11am
In memory of those who died for us to be free In Flanders Fields BY JOHN MCCRAE In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw…
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Feeling like a bit taken for a pumpkin head by spooky business issues?
There is nothing wrong with a deep cleaning of business horror-pains before Christmas. Reason Praxis will team up, with pleasure and dedication. To the attention of Executives, Senior Management Teams, and Shareholders Feeling concerned that some areas of your business: If so, it looks like you may need a squad of exorcists. But for the time being,…
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CO2 and Temperature fluctuation over time v NASA narrative
Knowledge and Decision-Making control frameworks: keep in mind the Method holds the Outcome. Independent, reliable advice matters. You will have certainly read recently in the news about the UN “Climate change: IPCC report is ‘code red for humanity’ ” (here or here). The original report is available here. I read it for those interested to know, and struggle…
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81 years ago: De Gaulle’s Appeal of 18 June 1940 still resonates
The Appeal to Resistance against Nazism and France’s Occupation and Collaboration, recorded on the 22nd on the BBC (UK), still defines what mean vision, courage, and the fight for what is true, good and just.
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