About
I am John Aziz.
I’m 24. I live in England.
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Contact me at azizonomics at aol dot co dot uk.
Recommended Reading:
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim N. Taleb
- The Black Swan by Nassim N. Taleb
- The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski
- The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
- How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo
- An Optimist’s Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
- Models Behaving Badly by Emanuel Derman
- Sleeping with the Devil by Robert Baer
- Blowback by Chalmers Johnson
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Aug 09, 2011 @ 03:28:01
You are absolutely killing it. Every post is incredibly insightful and dead on. I’m curious to know what blogs/new publications you read and if you have any books to recommend.
Keep posting!
Thomas
Aug 11, 2011 @ 11:51:34
Thanks Thomas.
The books I recommend above all else are Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. Blogs and publications I mostly read are zero hedge, The Economist, the daily bail, Gonzalo Lira, Seeking Alpha, etc.
Do you have anything to recommend to me?
Best,
azizonomics.
Aug 21, 2011 @ 15:06:25
Those 2 book are like a revelation. The writings of NNT have opened my eyes om ways that actually felt like taking the red pill and tumbling down the rabbit hole.
Every time I read and re-read the text, there’s a new perspective formed due to changing contexts and information.
Aug 14, 2011 @ 16:10:05
John Aziz,
I have enjoyed your blog very much. Im involved in a website start up that has a similar point of view. We posted some links to two of your articles. I hope that is ok with you? We are always interested in forming connections with like minded people. Take a look at our website if you get a chance. http://www.marketoverflow.com
Aug 14, 2011 @ 16:40:28
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the exposure. I appreciate it. You have a lot of good material. I am sure I will be linking to your website in the future!
All the best
Aug 27, 2011 @ 20:33:26
Just finished reading The Shock Doctrine and found it to be eye opening. I would definitely recommend it.
I also follow zero hedge, that’s how I found out about your site in fact.
Thomas
Aug 16, 2011 @ 08:06:49
Hi John,
Love the blog.. Judging by the date of your first post we have both jumped on the same alternative media wave. Decentralisation of media will get the truth out to the people, so we all have our role to play.
I have a new website http://www.silverrevolucion.com where anyone can submit and share links.. One of silverrev’s users posted one of your articles and i’ve been reading your blog since.
I recently wrote an article and linked to one of your posts, ill let you read it to try and find the link
http://silverrevolucion.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/money-banksters-and-august-2011-the-coming-silver-revolution/
Looking forward to seeing more posts from your blog on my website!
your mate,
choorles
Aug 16, 2011 @ 13:52:09
Thanks for the support. I already read silverrevolucion, as I saw incoming traffic from there. Thanks for stopping by, and I look forward to linking to you in the future!
Aug 18, 2011 @ 18:47:14
Do you have an email address. I cant find one on your website. Thanks.
Aug 18, 2011 @ 19:04:36
azizonomics at aol dot co dot uk
Aug 21, 2011 @ 04:40:36
Now I started learning economics.
Aug 21, 2011 @ 12:45:15
you might like to look at http://www.baselinescenario.com as well.
Aug 27, 2011 @ 16:18:22
Congrats on what is by the far the best-researched, most insightful financial journalism I’ve run across. I blog occasionally on similar topics- mainly out of frustration at the pathetic coverage given to this topic by mainstream media- but now I’ll just read your work.
BTW I’ve forwarded your URL to a number of friends.
Aug 27, 2011 @ 18:34:25
Hi Geof,
I appreciate your support. Feel free to post a link to your blog and I’ll read with interest.
Aziz.
Sep 02, 2011 @ 21:47:37
I’m really liking the blog Aziz, we don’t always agree but that’s quite alright, disagreement fuels healthy societies. I am curious as to your economic training. You seem to know what you’re talking about but it would be nice to know where that knowledge comes from. Are you a trained economist or self trained?
At any rate, keep up the good work, I really like how well-researched your blog is and I’ll keep reading it if you keep writing it.
Sep 03, 2011 @ 00:16:29
Thanks Twiliak. I studied English literature in college. But I have always been something of an autodidact. Most of my economic perspective is fuelled by my work in finance. I am a voracious reader, and around the last crash devoured Keynes, Schumpeter, Hayek, Rothbard, Hicks, Fisher, Bernanke, Krugman, Jevons, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Ron Paul, Stiglitz, Niall Ferguson, Nassim Taleb, Ben Graham, Ayn Rand, Xenophon, Heraclitus, Plato, Socrates, Roubini and various assorted economic thinkers, trying to get a full picture. But by far the most insightful activity I have had is studying the figures and drawing my own conclusions.
I don’t like the idea of working in academia at all. I would be confined to an area of research, and confined to using nomenclature that would only be understood by a small proportion of our planet. My current study — that I haven’t been writing about explicitly on here — is mostly to do with the topics of Nassim Taleb’s new book: fragility, robustness, and antifragility. This is a heavily multi-disciplinary topic (look at note 145: the intervention bias), and is an awkward thing to compartmentalise into a department.
Even as it is I worry that I am obscuring my ideas beneath economic jargon. Further — other than for vocational courses like medicine and engineering — I think college education is a house of cards that is about to collapse: the internet has destroyed their monopoly on higher education, and so humanities departments in all but the most illustrious colleges will dwindle down to nothing, eaten away by online learning and online discourse.
Matt Yglesias (a guy I often disagree with) wrote a post a couple of days ago making very much the same point.
If you have ideas, a blog, and some flair at writing you can get readers, spread ideas, and get a genuine discourse far more quickly and satisfyingly than I ever found I could in academia.
Sep 06, 2011 @ 11:37:35
You are doing good.
Sep 14, 2011 @ 15:28:07
Thanks for your insight.
Sep 22, 2011 @ 14:12:41
wow, you read everything i read, visit every site i visit and are 4 years younger than me, bright future ahead for both of us!
Sep 23, 2011 @ 13:37:58
I like this blog. I wanna add the site feed on my google reader. but can’t find rss address. rss address please?
Sep 23, 2011 @ 20:56:30
http://www.azizonomics.com/feed
Sep 24, 2011 @ 00:41:49
thank you !
Dec 01, 2011 @ 09:48:13
Great blog, very insightful. Glad too to find a fellow admirer of NNT. Just like the whole financial system needs rethinking, the entire political structure will be rebuilt over the coming years. Asia and the Pacific are on the rise, and Europe is going to have a harder landing than it would ever have thought possible. I’m writing from Hong Kong (http://aviewfromtheeast.wordpress.com) and the mood of change here is so thick you could can it.
Keep up the good work
Sam
Dec 01, 2011 @ 14:21:13
I am very bullish on Asia, and bearish on Europe. I admit I have never actually been east of the Holy Land, but it doesn’t surprise me that when I speak to Brits and Americans in the East, they tend to agree with me. Those who tend to disagree seem to live in the West and spend too much time watching CNBC…
Jan 03, 2012 @ 04:04:02
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Jan 11, 2012 @ 20:28:23
John Aziz,
You are extremely well read. I don’t have the English grammar you have but I am working on it.
I think we are the new Illuminati. We source new learning from our online tools, then we go to the original source books (Engels, Keynes, Haydek, Marx, Mises, Hitler etc) It gives a better perspective of History, especially the massive changes caused by the enlightenment, and the rise of Socialism, World War, and NWO.
Perhaps we can have a yearly conference, and thrash out ideas at the same time as the Basle Banker event. This will provide an opprtunity to network and learn in a real environment. I think our downfall is our online reliance. If the switch is turned off. We lose our knowledge and connections.
Peacefully discuss. Perhaps the world media will be curious. They are already there!.
Wouldn’t that ruffle a few feathers!
Jan 12, 2012 @ 21:08:17
I really prize your piece of work, Great post.
Jan 28, 2012 @ 10:06:30
John, I came across this. I have not read, but read other comments on it.
http://www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566092428
How to prevent Black Swans?
Feb 12, 2012 @ 20:02:06
John, I love your blog, it’s brilliant. Sorry I don’t post much, but it’s not my domain, so I am learning…a huge Thank you, and please keep up the great work!
Feb 13, 2012 @ 13:11:08
hi John,
just wanted to drop you a message to say how impressed I am with the site and how much I enjoy reading your articles. keep up the good work. I have recently been thinking how there is a need for a uk-centric ZH analogue, becasue as far as I know one does not yet exist?? with a large enough readership perhaps azizonomics could be a contender…
Feb 13, 2012 @ 14:31:32
Thanks. Interesting point.
Most of my analysis is more America-centric because I know more about American economics and politics than British! Maybe I should write more about the UK.
I’m getting a reasonable readership at the moment. 500-1000 pageviews per day, with 2000+ on the busiest days. That’s about 5% of what ZH gets. Feel free to spread links around the web to help me grow!
Feb 13, 2012 @ 16:23:30
Apologies! for some reason (although looking back I can’t think what) I had it in my head that you and your site were british! It does amaze me that there is not a ZH equivalent for the UK (unless someone can point me in the direction of one?); of course the US is a bigger global player but surely there are some whistles to be blown in the city of london? I would start my own but I’m still new to this game..
anyway if you were to write more about britain I for one would be reading it!
Feb 13, 2012 @ 16:35:40
I am British, I am just more knowledgeable about America, haha! I will write more about Britain, for sure.
Mar 28, 2012 @ 00:02:34
Hi I am in this situation too. I’m in UK though sometimes find s myself making decisions as If I was in US. Can you give me, or link me, your view on UK with respect to declining US dollar/ influence – especially with regards to short, medium & long-term most likely scenarios…
Feb 27, 2012 @ 17:57:02
Your style is really unique in comparison to other people I have read stuff from. Thanks for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I’ll just book mark this web site.
Feb 28, 2012 @ 02:34:39
Great site Mr. J. A , got here via ZH although have been reading many of the other sites on your roll. Am teaching myself the trends in the current world financial system after having worked on farms for the past 20 years. Yes, its very difficult. Will go and read NNT and TRY to comprehend.
I am interested to know if you have any opinion on Steve Keen, Michael Hudson and finally John Brodsky that you can share here. It helps my understanding when there is some corroberation from intelligent writers like yourself when ‘ice-picking’ my way up the learning curve.
Many thanks, hope you can maintain your enthusiasm.
Mar 12, 2012 @ 19:05:44
Nice layout! How did you get that design?
Mar 12, 2012 @ 20:52:15
CSS.
Mar 27, 2012 @ 09:10:20
I concluded you are the real Tyler Durden in spirit. Zerohedge will not give me an account so I can organise a real protest movement by detailing annual thinktank conventions, despite emailing and emailing them for an account to be created.
All fluff and no substance. What are they worried the Government will say, ok you can let people rant and rave and make money from advertising along the way, but as long as it is in cyberspace.
They are not as free thinking and against the corrupt government and bankers as they say they are. And 90% of the posters are idiots. I have given up on them.
See you in Basle!
Mar 31, 2012 @ 17:40:55
Hey, how’s it going? I just started a site called Watercooler Report (watercoolerreport.com), and am looking for contributors. The idea of the site is to have anyone be able to post their opinion about recent news, as well as interesting news. Would you be interested in posting some of your material there? You can post in the Business section. The site is almost live, and I can set up an account if you would like (I need your name and email to set up a contributor account for you). You could write a short bio in the author section, and hopefully it could help you get some extra publicity if it picks up. Let me know if you would be interested.
Thanks.
Mar 31, 2012 @ 18:02:08
You’re free to repost my work so long as you link back to it and credit me for it.
Mar 31, 2012 @ 18:07:11
Sounds good, would you like a contributor account? You can post there with all of the pictures and graphs you include in your posts. If I repost your work, it will be automated and will probably not include the images/graphs. Let me know. Thanks.
Mar 31, 2012 @ 18:43:41
Automated reposts work fine.
There are a few blogs that do automated reposts of my work and it generally works fine.
Mar 31, 2012 @ 19:25:09
Sounds good. Thanks for your responses. I will credit all of your work to you.
May 01, 2012 @ 09:52:58
Hi,
Your blog seems to be so impressive especially about iphone5 and other important news on technology. I want to know how to contact you for any guest posts writing?
May 02, 2012 @ 19:18:48
I like your blog, it makes people think. But this one “It is a dreamworld constructed by and for people with Asperger’s Syndrome.” was really narrow-minded, do you actually believe that!?!? It’s more the other way around, people with a god set of mirror-neurons can’t take decisions of their own.