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By Boing Boing on May 16, 2019 in: Video, economics, videos
Competition scholar Tim Wu (previously) is one of the most cogent, accessible voices in the antitrust debate; his recent book on the subject is a must-read; this week, he debated George Mason University scholar Tyler Cowen, proprietor of Marginal Rev...
The chart above is from the Pew Research Center. It shows the percentage of the population in each country that says they pray every day. Note that the most developed countries, with the exception of the United States, all have very low percentages o...
By RedState on May 6, 2019 in: Economy, Budget, Economics, Facebook, Google, Government, Internet, Law, News, Policy, Politics, Science, Social Media, Twitter
The latest Big Tech censorship news broke last week: Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Other Far-Right Figures Let us for the moment leave aside this massive media inanity: “Farrakhan also among those removed from social-media sites.”...
By North Coast Voices on May 5, 2019 in: economics
A scary headline from 7 West Media and Kerry Stokes**….Fossil fuel industry analyst and economist Dr. Brian Fisher has issued another warning about what he apparently believes is the folly of tackling climate change……The Sydney Morning He...
By Boing Boing on May 3, 2019 in: Business, economics, finance
"Collateralized Debt Obligations" (CDOs) are a financial derivative that is a kind of bond that pays out based on revenue generated by a pool of assets: for example, a giant hedge fund might buy thousands of homes whose owners went bankrupt and suffe...
By RedState on Apr 30, 2019 in: Budget, Economics, Economy, Google, Government, Law, News, Policy, Politics
When President Donald Trump was Candidate Donald Trump – he promised a restoration of the US manufacturing sector. Which his predecessor – thankfully-ex-president Barack Obama – dismissed as impossible: “When somebody says –...
By Boing Boing on Apr 19, 2019 in: Business, economics
The public markets are hungry: as Uber and Lyft look to IPOs to let their investors -- who have been subsidizing 40-50% of every ride -- redeem their shares through sales to the public capital markets, the companies are desperate for ways to reduce t...