Tag: Schemes

The Price We Must Pay: Navigating Emissions Trading Schemes

That island is Malta, and to compensate our shortfall here, we import 90% of all our needs, including food, leaving it particularly vulnerable to overseas market changes. The recent surge in inflation, primarily triggered by post-pandemic disruptions and the war in Ukraine, has presented c...

On Technical Debt, Margin Calls, and Ponzi Schemes

Ward Cunningham coined the term “technical debt” to describe a particular category of project issues. Those issues required refactoring to make it easier to work with the codebase but did not affect the final product delivered to the customer. That was thirty years ago. It was...