No warming trend in Victoria (AU)
The avowed determination of the Biden Administration to make its concerns about global warming a priority for government regulation and spendi...
Category: History
Eden and Ithaca
At the start of 2020, I read Genesis more closely for the first time (I wrote a memorandum of what I found) and completed my reading of Robert Fitzgera...
“Two Terrible Decades” — a synopsis
Part One of the book is a detailed account of the founding of the International Chamber of Commerce in the aftermath of the Great War of 1914–18, and of ...
“Two Terrible Decades” — from A Century of Commerce
Please download a copy of the PDF file (1.8 MB). I look forward to your comments, corrections and suggestions here in the comments on my website, or by...
The ICC’s Century
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has been the most prominent voice of international business for just over a century. This year is the&nb...
The Opium Trade & The “Jacksonian” Depression of the 1830s
Here’s an exotic tale of trade, money supply and financial recession from the days when silver, not gold, was the numéraire and global trade-finance mar...