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Black Money India and the Visible Hand of the Market 54 Others

India and the big demonetization. Has Modi solved cash?

Adam Townsend - December 11, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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Amazon in New York & the tax payers who subsidize it

Adam Townsend - December 3, 2018December 12, 2018

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… [ … ]

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The YouTube purge. Who does it better, us or the Chinese?

Adam Townsend - November 28, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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Overton window & the social media purge

Adam Townsend - November 27, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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HIPPA and the High Regulatory Hurdles You Pay For

Adam Townsend - November 24, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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Can AI solve #FakeNews & what if another AI says the first is lying?

Adam Townsend - November 21, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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VC’s & hype riders tout blockchain asset tokenization

Adam Townsend - November 19, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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Uber creationism and 3rd qr 2018 earnings

Adam Townsend - November 16, 2018December 12, 2018

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. [ … ]

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China trade and you

Adam Townsend - October 24, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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Timestamping my prediction. Conor vs Khabib #UFC229

Adam Townsend - October 4, 2018December 12, 2018

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 [ … ]

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