mcnaughtier

This comment should be much higher up. This isn't a financial crisis largely driven by unreasonable inflation in asset values.

That's quite a challenging trip but hardly the "first journey of its kind."

This guy went around the world in an open boat 10 years ago:

http://www.dixdesign.com/steward.htm

I'm fan of your writing but think that after Nate Silver's prediction performance in the last presidential election, coming up with a new predictive model is like trying to invent a search engine that will topple Google or a rounder wheel.