Russian Mobilisation
Today President Putin announced a partial call-up of 300,000 reservists, and repeated his threat on the use of nuclear weapons. I have...
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Philip Ammerman
- Sep 8
Using examples of democracy to … condemn democracy
Matthew Karnitschnig published a logically absurd article in Politico on September 8th. Entitled “Putin's attack on democracy is working....
Philip Ammerman
- Aug 31
Remembering Courage
I have been reading obituaries marketing the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, who died yesterday at the age of 91. Let me begin this post by...
Philip Ammerman
- Aug 20
Karma Debt
I’m sitting here at Costa Coffee on a Saturday morning, hard at work. The place is absolutely full of beautiful young people. Sometimes...
Philip Ammerman
- Aug 15
Bourbon
So … the nice lady asks me what I would like to drink. I answer “Bourbon, please.” Blank stare. “What is bourbon?” I scrambled to define...
Philip Ammerman
- May 28
US University Leadership Gender Gap
Statista reporting on university leadership equality and diversity, as found in a report by the EOS Foundation. It makes for grim...
Philip Ammerman
- May 9
Josep Borrell's $ 300 billion Good Idea
Reading the Financial Times this morning, I came across this: EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange...
Philip Ammerman
- Apr 29
A LETTER TO AEGEAN
Dear Sir, Madam, I issued my one-way ticket ATH-LCA on Aegean A390 at an insanely high price (EUR 243.85 / Lite) for a 90 minute flight....
Philip Ammerman
- Apr 13
DALLAS FED SHARES HOUSING BUBBLE SIGNALS
The Dallas Fed has an interesting article on empirical data and signs of housing asset price misallocation. In this case, the...
Philip Ammerman
- Apr 8
Skin Cell reprogramming demonstrates 30 year Rejuvenation Effect
Those of you following Navigator Consulting's Digital Utopia / Digital Dystopia vision know that among the medium-term changes we see are...
Philip Ammerman
- Mar 22
CRACK THE ECONOMY
According to National Debt Clocks, using US Treasury Data, as of 22 March 2022: Federal Debt reached $ 30.33 trillion Federal Debt...
Philip Ammerman
- Mar 22
€20 per day
Another depressing and entirely predictable conversation yesterday. I won't say where or with whom: it's irrelevant. The conversation was...
Philip Ammerman
- Mar 20
Ukraine Day 25
Although the outlook in Ukraine looks bleak, the message I am getting from a very wide range of sources is that the majority of Russian...
Philip Ammerman
- Mar 11
11 March 2022
A quick update for my friends and associates. The last few months have not been easy. I've been struggling with exhaustion and some major...
Philip Ammerman
- Mar 2
HOW THIS ENDS
Photo (c) Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / CNN On February 24th, Russia mounted an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine....
Philip Ammerman
- Feb 26
FIGHTING IN SEVERODONETSK
I worked for the Rubezhnoye Board & Packaging Factory between 2001 and 2013 on a variety of projects, including three major investment...
Philip Ammerman
- Feb 25
THE INVASION OF UKRAINE
Like so many others, I’ve been tied to the news about Ukraine. I’ve worked there between 1999 and 2018, mainly on investment projects,...
Philip Ammerman
- Jan 12
THE GREAT SIBERIAN THAW
Joshua Yaffa (@yaffaesque) has a brilliant article in The New Yorker entitled "The Great Siberian Thaw" on the effects of global warming...
Philip Ammerman
- Jan 7
GET LULU TO CALL ME
Photo (c) Anadolu / Getty Images from The Guardian I wonder what kind of system invests billions in the illusion of being a great power...
Philip Ammerman
- Dec 24, 2021
Making Decisions Based on Weakness
It’s December 24th and as I sit in my apartment in Limassol, cleaning up this year’s mess and reflecting on the next year, I understand...