In 2016, Indian Prime Minister Modi demonetized all of the nation’s ₹1000 and ₹500 banknotes. This was part of his odd war on counterfeiting and everybody else who might hold large amounts [ … ]
Amazon in New York & the tax payers who subsidize it
Amazon has announced its new vaunted 2nd headquarters. Not one but two. Two new hq’s on the east coast. Two high bidders and Amazon split the baby. This means that… [ … ]
The YouTube purge. Who does it better, us or the Chinese?
The people have spoken. Well, maybe not. But, China’s broadcast regulator says they have and he has demanded that two of the country’s most popular media platforms, live-streaming app Kuaishou [ … ]
Overton window & the social media purge
Prologue I’ve been writing about this broad subject for the past five years and this post is one of many, some precise, the post below is directional. But first some [ … ]
HIPPA and the High Regulatory Hurdles You Pay For
From late 1990’s to +/- 2012 one of the core thesis for my investments was outsourcing. Some part of that was pricing ‘risk’ and building the mechanisms so that clients [ … ]
Can AI solve #FakeNews & what if another AI says the first is lying?
A functional society is built on a store of publicly accessible information, its shared history, and that evolves over time. But who is assigned write-privileges to this public ledger and how can [ … ]
VC’s & hype riders tout blockchain asset tokenization
Imagine…. People are gathered at the beginning of time and formulate trading plans for a given vector of market prices (called out by some mysterious auctioneer) Commodities can take the [ … ]
Uber creationism and 3rd qr 2018 earnings
It takes time to dismantle a company as large as Uber. I was one of the first to hit the buzzer and call “bullshit”. You can catch up with these gems: Uber. BS earnings. [ … ]
China trade and you
Peter Navarro’s June 2018 wrote this epic: How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World documenting exactly what’s been happening. Whether it be [ … ]
Timestamping my prediction. Conor vs Khabib #UFC229
Conor vs Khabib. Time stamping my predictions for UFC 229 Khabib is undefeated in Mixed Martial Arts. He is good at the ground game, but I haven’t seen his mytholgical [ … ]