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The Probability Myth
Do you know how many times you use “Probably” in a day? The word refers to the possibility of a certain event happening. Irrespective of our ability to calculate the probability, we frequently estimate, compare and make decisions based on probability. It is a subjective degree of belief in the occurrence of an event. The…
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The Philosophy of Time
Socrates often said his wisdom was limited to the awareness of his own ignorance. He believed the best way for people to live was to focus on self-development rather than the pursuit of material wealth. Socrates seems to have been notorious for asking questions but not answering, claiming to lack wisdom. Perhaps his most important…
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Religion and Time
The local priest is happy with the crisis. “People are coming back to churches and the faith is increasing”. The nine-year cycles linked with religion and credit witness increase (decrease) in deposits every nine years linked with the decrease (increase) in the number of people going to church. Bloomberg has repeatedly reported the Hedge funds…
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Space and Time
Challenging Einstein might be blasphemy, but there are a host of papers and published scientific features asking the same question. Was Einstein wrong? Even if he was wrong, what’s that got to do with markets and economics? We already talked about self-similarity of research in ‘The Time Fractal’. Physicists and economists have more in common…
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The Three Systems
The omnipresent three systems is not a coincidence, it might be the pulse of everything.Three is often the largest number written with as many lines as the number represents. To this day 3 is written as three lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way the Indians wrote it, and it was after…
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The Triangular Harmony
A simple triangle can integrate all market theories. Can we spot it? While writing ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ in 1776, Adam Smith would never have thought that after 2 centuries people will find it oxymoronic to see morals and sentiment in the same phrase. Now, sentiment creates the popular news, lack of morals are ascribed…
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The Question of Time
We are on our way to Greenwich to see the time laboratory, the conventional origin of time. We came for business to London, but the history of the place is too big to restrict the travel to just work. For more than two years, we have to address the issue of alternative research, challenging conventional…
