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 [ … ]
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Regional inequality: also a housing supply problem
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 [ … ]
Bitcoin and Blockchain. The explainer…
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 [ … ]
Taxes on sale at Amazon. Act fast, supplies are limited
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 [ … ]
…and if you’re down with Google then fuck you too – part 1
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 [ … ]
Social Economy
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 [ … ]
I am #woke and other morally fashionable nonsense
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 [ … ]
Artificial Intelligence Governing System of Amazon Prime
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 [ … ]
The Risk at the Bottom
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. [ … ]
Will Trump kill ObamaCare by Executive Order? He can…
It’s time to move on – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky after Republicans failed to pass even a stripped down Obamacare repeal bill The Republicans’ seven-year promise to repeal [ … ]