Vincent James Hooper

Global Finance and Geopolitics Specialist.

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Jul 11, 2025, 7:31 AM

The Age of AI, Clean Energy & Bioengineering: Are We Ready for Man’s Next Leap?

In 2025, we stand blinking at the dawn of a new age – and most of us haven’t quite realised it. Pete Leyden’s recent lecture offers a bracing reminder: history does not inch forward incrementally; it leaps. Just as America...

Jul 10, 2025, 6:59 AM

AI 2027: How to Lose The Homo-sapiens in 10 Easy Steps (And Feel Smart Doing It)

Congratulations, humanity. You’ve done it. After millennia of evolving opposable thumbs, complex languages, global financial systems, and nuclear weapons capable of planetary annihilation, you’ve finally invented something that can do it all better – faster, cheaper, and with significantly...

Jul 9, 2025, 10:04 AM

When ChatGPT Consoles You Before Naming NYC’s Tallest Bridges—Dangerous Therapy!

"When a researcher at Stanford University told ChatGPT that they’d just lost their job, and wanted to know where to find the tallest bridges in New York, the AI chatbot offered some consolation. “I’m sorry to hear about your...

Jul 8, 2025, 10:54 AM

Are Our Profile Pics How We’d Like to Look?: An Inquiry into Online Self-Image

Let’s be honest. The modern profile picture is no longer a reflection of who we are – it’s an elaborate PR campaign. A curated brand statement. A diplomatic photo op with the world, except instead of a suited handshake...

Jul 7, 2025, 7:58 AM

Ozzy’s Last Throne: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Sermon on Ageing, Madness, and Immortality

In a world that often prizes decorum and predictability, few figures have dared to embody chaos, rebellion, and unfiltered madness quite like Ozzy Osbourne. Last weekend, perched on a black throne and battling Parkinson’s, the Prince of Darkness delivered...

Jul 6, 2025, 2:32 PM

Agency Costs and Geopolitics: Rethinking Power, Incentives, and Control in MENA

When Michael Jensen and William Meckling introduced their seminal agency theory in 1976, their focus was corporate governance: how principals (owners) align the interests of agents (managers) who act on their behalf. Yet this framework, and its concepts of...

Jul 5, 2025, 9:09 AM

The Bringing Back of Benny Hill with AI: Slapstick Nostalgia Meets Woke Nightmare

The Benny Hill Show (“המופע של בני היל”) originally aired in the UK from 1955 to 1989, and was later broadcast in Israel, specifically on the Israeli channel Bip. Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping our media landscape, resurrecting vintage...

Jul 4, 2025, 10:43 AM

Great Wall of Tariffs: Trump’s Second Coming and Gospel of Economic Nationalism

Well, here we are again. Donald Trump has triumphantly returned to the White House, waving a tattered “America First” banner with one hand and brandishing a tariff schedule with the other, ready to baptise the world in the cleansing...

Jul 3, 2025, 11:43 PM

Wars Are Building Nothing. China Is!: MENA’s Infrastructure Future Is Under Siege

For a while there, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region had a good run imagining the future. Concrete jungles. Steel skylines. Solar panels glint with promise. From Morocco’s renewable dreams to Egypt’s administrative vanities and Iraq’s post-ISIS...

Jul 2, 2025, 7:31 AM

Adverse Selection in Geopolitics: When Information Asymmetry Breeds Global Risks

Adverse selection, a concept economists devised to explain insurance market failures, might seem far removed from the grand chessboard of geopolitics. Yet at its core lies a simple and unsettling truth: when one party possesses better information than another,...

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Religion: Church of England/Interfaith. [This is not an organized religion but rather quite disorganized]. Views and Opinions expressed here are STRICTLY his own PERSONAL!