Boeing, Crapification, and the Lion Air Crash
Boeing looks culpable for the Lion Air crash that killed 189 people.
Read more...Boeing looks culpable for the Lion Air crash that killed 189 people.
Read more...If private cryptocurrencies were to find widespread economic use, either coexisting with or fully displacing fiat money, the result would be increased financial instability, inequality, and social instability.
Read more...The UK’s surveillance state poses legal problems for the legality of personal data transfers to it post Brexit, and the UK and EU are not close to having a solution.
Read more...Sex workers in the UK are by now just another part of the online, freelance, customer-reviewed digital economy. They story of how they got there exposes a dangerous shift.
Read more...More cheery Brexit news.
Read more...A rare bit of positive news on the global warming front: oil demand topped out in developed economies and emerging economies are increasingly fighting both internal combustion engines and single use plastics.
Read more...US Copyright Office issues a rule that allows a right to repair for smartphones, home appliances, home systems, and motorized land vehicles – including tractors. The rule is imperfect and the Empire will certainly strike back as Congress explores further necessary measures.
Read more...Rumors of Brexit progress seem to be greatly exaggerated.
Read more...Plastic Watch: The European Parliament recently approved a plan that will ban outright certain single-use plastics. Alas, these measures fall far short of what’s necessary, both in timing and scope, to address the burgeoning plastic crisis. And they would only apply to the EU.
Read more...Within the US, the majority of kidney exchanges continue to be performed within hospitals, suggesting a fragmented market that comes at a large efficiency cost. National platforms may need to be redesigned to encourage full participation, with reimbursement reform.
Read more...Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.
Read more...Explaining a fundamental error in a widely-touted paper on HAMP modifications.
Read more...Who will feel the pain first in the coming credit squeeze?
Read more...Some of the analytical sleights of hand used to promote the ideology of financializatation.
Read more...How a new paper on HAMP manages, by not understanding the program. to whitewash it as well as promote financialization.
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