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Meraglim™ Response to Models Will Run The World

A popular notion is that data-adaptive machine models are the nee plus ultra of modeling technology that will make human involvement in model-making obsolete.  However, the scope of data-adaptive models is fundamentally limited by the scope of the data available to train them, which is necessarily restricted to historical and/or categorical data, and by the scope of

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The U.S. – China Trade War Is Taking Its Toll in China. Leaders Unsettled.

The mainstream media narrative about the U.S.-China trade war implies that Trump is on a highly damaging ego trip and China holds all the cards. The exact opposite is true. Trump has ample financial warfare weapons including tariffs, penalties, bans on direct investment, improved cyber-security, forced divestiture and freezing of assets. Meanwhile, China has almost run

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The Line Between Economic War and Shooting War Is Getting Blurred.

Readers are familiar with the war chronology I’ve described for the 1920s and 1930s. Now, events are playing out the same way. The 1920s began with a currency war started by Germany with its hyperinflation under the Weimar government. The currency war spread to France and Belgium in 1925 (with inflation) and the UK (with

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Democratic artificial intelligence will shape future technologies: Gartner

“Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a key area of research and development, and while AI and machine learning algorithms begin to influence everything from our cars to our social media news feeds, the technology will soon be available to everyone. That is if Gartner’s predictions on emerging technology trends prove to be true.” Click here to continue.

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New Reality of China’s Failing Economy Is Coming Soon

I’ve written for years that Chinese economic development is partly real and partly smoke and mirrors, and that it’s critical for investors to separate one from the other to make any sense out of China and its impact on the world. My longest piece on this topic was Chapter Four of my second book, The Death

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