Gorillas in the room
In the past few years I have been disappointed multiple times for not reading adequate and missing on most relevant pieces of information. Being an ordinary mortal, I have not taken the blame for this on myself’. I have rather chosen to blame the deluge of data and information that has been persistently inundating my mindscape. The flow of data is so overwhelming that discerning the important from the redundant has been a real challenge; especially because important is usually very marginal and underwhelming. The redundant, manipulated and superfluous is forcefully pushed and pursued relentlessly. The lines between the truth and untruth, conscientious and manipulative, data and information, relevant and redundant have been obviously obliterated or should I say brutally violated. Most of the financial and economic literature I have come across in the past couple of years has focused on analysing the topics like digitalization of economy, modern monetary theory (unsustainability of i...