Carey Miller

The Leader Fetish and the 2022 Election

Perhaps there is a charismatic celebrity candidate already positioning themself to be the next OLP leader. Who knows, maybe there is a Trudeau or Trump who wants to be Premier and already has a team of sycophants, ready to go. But while that may make fundraising easier, I strongly believe it will make elections ever harder.

But what do I know.


Primary vs. Election – President Trump?

It is fun to watch the pundits sweat. We had the pleasure of watching them carom from one instance of “this will kill the Trump campaign” to another. Who didn’t have fun watching them try to justify including Trump in every question, article and discussion, on the basis of showing that he was not really fit to be President. It is even more fun to watch them squirm when people suggest that the billions in earned media they provided had anything to do with Trump’s victory. The excuses they come up with make many of them look more mentally damaged than a Trump supporter.


From Wired Magazine: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transparency Now!
A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists—even Wall Street quants—have received the Nobel in economics before, and Li’s work on measuring risk has had more impact, more quickly, than previous Nobel Prize-winning contributions to the field. Today, though, as dazed bankers, politicians, regulators, and investors survey the wreckage of the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, Li is probably thankful he still has a job in finance at all.