Digital currencies have caught the high-level attention of international financial policymakers. For the first time, finance ministers and central bank governors of the G-20 have called for coordinated action on [ … ]
The American refugees fleeing the tyranny of taxes
The Pensions of Public Employees vs. The Taxed Few (also known as ‘politicians over-promising benefits to public employees and ignoring fiscal realities’) Bills come due, the politicians who cashed on [ … ]
Beware the ides of our national debt
There are debt collectors you can ignore until they go away and can merely do something vengeful on your credit reports. And then there is another type. The graph is [ … ]
The Apology. We’ve got Facebook. China has Toutiao
What does it mean to have “exerted a bad influence on online opinion”? It’s something I must surely have done, you’re not squeaky clean either. Neither is Toutiao one of China’s largest [ … ]
For CEO eyes only. Trump, marketing, sales & asking for the order
Recently an internal Facebook white paper was leaked: The company’s data scientists agree that Donald Trump’s campaign outperformed Hillary Clinton’s. Let’s reverse engineering ‘what happened’ and then perhaps transfer some relevant [ … ]
Uber #FakeNews and its peddlers
I’ve written a lot about Uber. I was early to start its post mortem, I didn’t want to wait til its body got cold. Also, I wanted to tap the [ … ]
Uber. BS earnings. Tech journalists didn’t do forensics. So I did
Uber knows propaganda. Their narrative is that their valuation is justified by a powerful business model based on cutting-edge technological innovation; it has created a totally new product category (“ridesharing”) an [ … ]
Cold Call or starve. Choose wisely
Whoever you are, whatever you do for a living, you should cold call. What you are cold calling on behalf of may vary, some people sell cars, some sell real [ … ]
Facebook. The data mess and what happens next
This is a complex topic. It’s easy to get wrong or overstate certain pieces of the puzzle so I urge us away from the conveniently political, an unproductive course which resolves [ … ]
Quickest way to gain moral authority is this nifty trick
The quickest path, should you wish to gain moral authority over your foes, is to racialize all political difference Accusing one’s political opponents of racism is beyond the pale precisely because the legacy [ … ]