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Inflationary lessons for the Department of Defense

December 30, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s Friedrich Hayek discussing the negative consequences of economist’s presumption that they can control macroeconomic outcomes — from his 1974 Nobel prize speech The Pretense […]

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Podcast: Mission resilience with Trey Herr and Simon Handler

March 8, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Trey Herr and Simon Handler from the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss how the Department of […]

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More Air Force success turning manual processes into software, TRON/BESPIN

May 14, 2020 Eric Lofgren 1

Scheduling training for C-17 Globemaster III pilots and crew is about to get easier with the launch of Puckboard, a data-powered software application to plan […]

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Rich-contextual capitalism and blockchain transparency

May 22, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I am of the perspective that what we currently have is information-poor capitalism. We all agree that markets are really good at making decisions, but […]

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The Exchange reacts to itself

January 14, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

The factors that determine activity on the Exchange are innumerable, with events, current or expected, often bearing no apparent relation to price variation. Beside the […]

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