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The ET Interviews: Anti-Authoritarian Technology

By Neville Crawley | December 3, 2018 | 2 Comments

Fresh thoughts on the intersection of technology, freedom and decentralization.
ET’s Neville Crawley interviews Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer for the Human Rights Foundation (HRF).

Pics or It Didn’t Happen

By Ben Hunt | December 1, 2018 | 10 Comments

What will it take to Burn The Oligarchy Down? Pics of a certain sort. Which is why “doctored” will be 2019’s Word of the Year.

Fiat News Index – November 2018

By Rusty Guinn | December 1, 2018 | 6 Comments

In our November 2018 update to the Fiat News Index, we review some topics that media outlets are even happier than usual to tell us how to think about.

Central Bank Omnipotence Monitor – 11.30.2018

By Rusty Guinn | November 30, 2018 | Comments Off on Central Bank Omnipotence Monitor – 11.30.2018

Access this month’s monitor slides in Powerpoint and in PDF. Access the monitor values in Excel. While our slower smoothed measure has moved only slightly, our November point estimate…

Inflation Monitor – 11.30.2018

By Rusty Guinn | November 30, 2018 | Comments Off on Inflation Monitor – 11.30.2018

Access this month’s monitor slides in Powerpoint and in PDF. Access the monitor values in Excel. Attention to inflation narratives continued to wane in November as drumbeats for a…

US Fiscal Policy Monitor – 11.30.2018

By Rusty Guinn | November 30, 2018 | Comments Off on US Fiscal Policy Monitor – 11.30.2018

Access this month’s monitor slides in Powerpoint and in PDF. Access the monitor values in Excel. After the usual mid-term election Narrative chatter, the importance placed on fiscal…

Trade and Tariffs Monitor – 11.30.2018

By Rusty Guinn | November 30, 2018 | Comments Off on Trade and Tariffs Monitor – 11.30.2018

Access this month’s monitor slides in Powerpoint and in PDF. Access the monitor values in Excel. Thanks to a remarkably concentrated November point-in-time measure, our attention measure rose sharply. …

Credit Cycle Monitor – 11.30.2018

By Rusty Guinn | November 30, 2018 | Comments Off on Credit Cycle Monitor – 11.30.2018

Access this month’s monitor slides in Powerpoint and in PDF. Access the monitor values in Excel. Our single point attention measure rose from floor levels in…

FAQs and Guide to Narrative

By Rusty Guinn | November 29, 2018 | Comments Off on FAQs and Guide to Narrative

Some of our terminology, exhibits and analyses may not be immediately intuitive. We’ve assembled a short guide to help you familiarize yourself with the Epsilon Theory frameworks.

Burn. It. Down.

By Ben Hunt | November 28, 2018 | 19 Comments

It’s almost as if there’s a ruling class.