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In the 50s, 60s and 70s we had stakeholder capitalism.  Company managements believed they had an obligation to their employees, customers, a...

The reaction of financial market participants to Michael Lewis' new book, Flash Boys, is irritating in the extreme.  The  typical respo...

Below is a link to an excellent review of recent academic papers rebutting the notion that bigger and bigger financial sectors (typically me...

Japan shifts agenda as Abe's arrows miss - FT.com http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8cde512a-9d50-11e3-a599-00144feab7de.html D uring New Ye...

This is quite a long piece and non-students of economics may find it tough slogging. However, I think it's extremely significant because...

One of the most disappointing failures of the Obama administration is their rolling over for the financial industry: big banks are bigger th...

In late 2012, Oculus raised $2.4 million on Kickstarter (as well as VC money).  The company was sold a year and a half later for $2 Billion....

This is an excellent summary of some of the new tools developed to meet the surging demand for online privacy.  Browsers and search engine...

Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees | PandoDaily http://pando.com...

Is  China slowing NOW?  Is the big collapse predicted for years by US hedge fund managers actually   happening NOW? "This is terr...

Seth Klarman, a truly great investor who thinks markets are complacent about 90% of the time! is warning in his most recent quarterly lette...

Don't worry about China or Brazil, don't worry about a "flattening out" of the commodity supercycle, "Frontier Marke...

There used to be serious debate about how dependent Brazil is to rising commodity prices. Now we have the answer: completely.  Brazil's ...

Three equal partners?  One a Chines SOE, one the French government, the third a French aristocratic family?  Making cars in Europe? Starting...

The U.S. Middle Class Is Turning Proletarian | Newgeography.com http://www.newgeography.com/content/004179-the-us-middle-class-is-turning-...

Nigeria and Uganda enacting laws making gays illegal, whipping up deep cultural and religious hatred of gays for political gain. Where is th...

Interesting stats in this New York Times piece showing that 60% of consumption is made by the highest 20% in income.  So the top 20% generat...

This piece by William Galston in the Wall Street Journal is a terrific review of the most important issue facing this country and the wor...

Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency.  It has some similarities to gold.  Forget all the technobabble and central bank wonky-talk.  It...

US academia founded and built with money from slave traders and owners.  Not only that, but were often actively hostile to abolitionists!  ...

I'm a conservative and have been most of my adult life.  I don't believe in racial quotas and I don't believe that many Republ...

Subject: Bloomberg: Mobius Says Emerging-Market Selloff to Deepen on Outflows   From Bloomberg, Feb 7, 2014, 9:47:24 AM The worst isn't...

Wolf of Wall Street - The Worst This review takes the film to task for glorifying an animal who did serious harm to many people. Fair e...

How Silicon Valley's most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers' wages http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-te...

This piece is a great reminder - that Facebook account I never check anymore?  This afternoon it's going bye bye. I AM A complicate...

More Money Was Invested in Emerging Markets from 2005-2013 than in the Rest of Recorded Time Combined Chart from NY Times This shows ...