Elon Musk has now joined Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Sam Altman of OpenAI in demanding that government mandate a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence. The three largest players in a growth industry demanding government regulation forms an infallible indicator of a potential cartel, in which new and smaller players in the industry […]

The AfD’s election win in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6 has shocked Germany and the world, but it should not have done so, being a direct result of the delusional policies of the last three decades. After the Wall fell in 1989-91, liberal pundits proclaimed the “End of History,” pronounced that international trade barriers would fall, […]

Consultant usage by large corporations and governments has exploded since the 1970s. In both types of organization, tough decisions are outsourced to consultants so their victims can blame the consultants rather than management or bureaucrats. Consultants are also used to implement ever more complex IT systems, their natural incentive being to stretch implementation projects for […]