Looking for a good, short read on the current nuclear challenges we face? Henry Sokolski, Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) and with a decade of experience at [ … ]
The anti Uber open sourced insurgencies won. City Governments did too.
I’ve written a lot about Uber. I was very early to start its post mortem, I didn’t want to wait till its body got cold. You can catch up with [ … ]
In the Gig Economy everybody is a product placement
Crowdtap is that venture funded (and what company isn’t) gig economy company that pitches itself as a place where anyone can “team up” with their “favorite brands” and “get rewarded for [ … ]
Technology Transfer via Intellectual Returnees in China’s Solar Industry
The Trump administration has placed a high priority on investigating alleged Chinese efforts to steal intellectual property by forcing US companies to share their secrets if they wish to do [ … ]
Amazon takes hostages. Where are the rescue SWAT teams?
Amazon is fighting hard to keep its competitive tax advantage by making sure it doesn’t have to collect tax on its marketplace sales. Estimates are that at least half of [ … ]
Unraveling Obamacare. Is a sometimes dictatorship good?
The White House has ended the unconstitutional subsidy payments of Obamacare. The uninformed but emphatic CNN (and its ratings driven endlessly exasperated peers) consumers are accusing the president of “sabotaging” [ … ]
Why are houses in London so expensive?
Oxford Economics’s Ian Mulheirn writes that London’s housing market isn’t expensive because of a lack of building, and building more wouldn’t lower prices. I disagree. Claim one: housebuilding has outstripped household [ … ]
P2P Series Part 3: China’s Online Lending Consolidates As Market Grows
China’s online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry is going through a welcome consolidation. Weak, noncompliant platforms are failing, but long overdue regulatory tightening and still excessive competition is likely to further [ … ]
Facebook shakedown. the Main Street Media Mafia
Facebook Shakedown Facebook has announced their solution: outsourcing content decisions to legacy media “fact-checking” organizations According to Eugene Kiely, director of Factcheck.org, after Facebook alerts them of potentially fake news, the [ … ]
Late night laughter? Only for the politically sleepless
Viewership of late-night talk shows is steadily declining. Jon Stewart spin-off Stephen Colbert has clawed his way to the lead of the pack with a nightly audience just a bit over [ … ]










