Twitter Is Not The World

Posted on July 1, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Sunday I was back from three days without computer and any type of connectivity. Unusual circumstances, nowadays. I spent the days in a Finnish summer cottage that is built on top of a little rocky hill with a fabulous view on the Baltic sea located a good 30 minutes drive from the closest town where [...]

Confident Hope For Lukewarm Worries

Posted on November 19, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Concerns over a global economic recovery continue to reduce risk appetite (WSJ; DJI -2.09%; October 1, 2009). Fragile state of the global economic recovery (Reuters; DJI -0.23%; October 2, 2009). Question the strength and speed of the global economic recovery (WSJ; DJI +1.18%; October 5, 2009). Renewed hopes for a global economic recovery (Reuters; DJI +1.37%; October 6, [...]

Linden Pollen

Posted on May 12, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

You see, recessions have something good too. They remind us, that our industrialized world average consumption style is not sustainable. We get more cautious with the grip at our own wallet, perhaps we think twice before we spend $10, do we really need this stuff? I think, all this is very healthy. Yet, the saving [...]

A One-for-All, All-for-One Endeavor

Posted on April 5, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

I generally laud efforts for a good cause. An effort may be as elusive as a typical public speech. A good cause could be, at least in my world view, a world without nuclear weapons. In Obama Urges Nuclear Arms Reduction, the NYT reports on his speech held today in Prague, President Barack Obama on [...]

The Conservation Of Money

Posted on March 12, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Recently, I have been reading about the current financial crisis, macro-/micro-economic theories, testimonies of brokers specialized in derivatives, options, futures, swaps and other fantastic inventions in the world of financial instruments. If nothing else, I have learned two things. First, this is yet another world I don’t understand, not even grasp. Second, the financial world [...]

It All Makes Perfect Sense

Posted on March 6, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

I consider Roger Waters to be one of the greatest artists in contemporary music. A pleasant side effect of understanding a little bit of English language is, English songs make sense not merely because of their music but because of their lyrics too. This was not always the case in my life. Actually, it wasn’t [...]

Earth & Moon: Agent Orange

Posted on February 16, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Agent Orange has a history of over half a century and side effects that span over multiple generations, as it has been and still is a cause of environmental and health problems. Yet, I only recently read about Agent Orange. I don’t know what is worse about Agent Orange. Perhaps, that it is a code [...]

The Value of No Value: The Power of Scale

Posted on January 2, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

In my home country, mobile service providers have delivered over 106 million short (SMS) and multimedia (MMS) messages over New Year’s Eve (NZZ). Think about this number, it is interesting. Switzerland has a population of 7,689,100 (Wikipedia, 2008 estimate); 13.78 messages per capita. The country counts 8.4 million mobile phone subscriptions (Wikipedia, Q2 2008); 12.62 [...]

Madness Is …, cont’d

Posted on December 1, 2008 | by Markus Stocker

In a previous blog post I quoted IEEE Spectrum, $21 million is the amount the Pentagon spends per hour to produce new defense systems (IEEE Spectrum, 11.08). For what did the Pentagon spend its millions this hour? Or the hour you, dear reader, are scrolling through my blog and are rolling your eyes over this [...]

Madness Is …

Posted on November 13, 2008 | by Markus Stocker

$21 million is the amount the Pentagon spends per hour to produce new defense systems (IEEE Spectrum, 11.08). This seems to be nothing new, we all know it, right? Why is this still reality then? I think we cannot remind ourselves often enough how mad such a figure is. I’d also like to note that [...]

 

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