I started the Uber post-mortem 6 months ago, long before it was vogue. Now it is coming undone and the threads will keep getting pulled. The car crash happened, I [ … ]

Over the past few years compelling evidence has come out suggesting that housing policy errors are behind slow productivity growth, wealth inequality, and the cost of living crisis. But a [ … ]

Dearest Petunia, I remember when I brought you home, you were adhered to my shirt. As soon as you met your new home you ran around. Nancy and I sat [ … ]

Explaining how to play baseball can be a bit tedious for the explainer and the explainee. Bitcoin and blockchain are like this also. It is complex, but, once you get [ … ]

Amazon gotta be Amazon’ing Many companies use tax havens, or impossible but true tax arbitrage schemes to underpay taxes to the country where it should be owed. What sets Amazon [ … ]

I’ve been writing for a while about the political operating system transformation we are deep within. Everything looks the same, there is the appearance of continuity. The facades remain but [ … ]

The key to broadly distributing opportunity and capital is to nurture the source of social capital: the community economy. This asymmetric wealth accumulation and avoidance of risk creates a self-reinforcing [ … ]

Words have meanings. Sometimes. Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life  and have students around the world anoint [ … ]

Amazon has sparked their sim-planet. It’s called Prime. It will increasingly control the information you receive (see my post on Amazon Bookstores) and, through that, control what you buy, who [ … ]

for the full posts and archives Those who have pushed the risk down the wealth-power pyramid are confident the Federal Reserve will continue to limit the risks of speculative financialization. [ … ]