Amazon and Walmart are eating the retail world. This is the post mortem. (Definition: when relevant, I’ll be using the financial abbreviation of GMV. GMV is a measure of goods that [ … ]

The California Supreme Court recently ruled in Dynamex Operations W. v. Super. Gig economy workers had a big win Gig economy companies had a big loss The decision is significant as [ … ]

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have to solve three important problems if they are to become currencies: Unstable values High transactions costs Anonymity Basecoin is trying to resolve that first problem, unstable values. [ … ]

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 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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 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 [ … ]