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 [ … ]
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Where recession ends and balanced economic expansion begins
An economic expansion can die many deaths. They frequently will succumb to an unanticipated, adverse shock. They can die from their own dynamics, from imbalances that sustain the expansion but [ … ]
Economy, Tax. Industry. Market. Wow. How do we win some more?
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul – Daniel Burnham Corporate tax cuts (subtitled fallacies of “paper investments” vs. “real investments) Suppose company 1 [ … ]
Corporate tax cut. OK, and then what do they do with the money?
Pundits are using political hysterics and clickbait worries when discussing the corporate tax cut. Savannah Guthrie, interviewing Paul Ryan on the Today Show, posited for a gotcha with“What they [CEOS] [ … ]
Bitcoin ain’t bling. “If you flashin it, you must not want it” – DMX
“…each competitor has to pick, not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom [ … ]
Timestamped prediction. Survivor: Heroes, Helper & Hustlers
I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t. I’d like Ben [ … ]
Regulating Cryptocurrencies–and Why It Matters
Nations that attempt to limit cryptocurrencies’ ability to solve these problems will find that protecting high costs and systemic friction will grind their economies into dust. There’s a great deal [ … ]
Worshipping Algorithms. No salvation in technology
We have changed. What we are now is all those algorithms. An algorithmic culture that is devotional. We supplicate ourselves to computers that have replaced gods in our minds, even [ … ]
Socialized Medicine? Who’s on first?
There must be such a thing as socialized medicine, but no-one is exactly sure what it ‘is’. We know all the things that it isn’t. Include in that long list [ … ]