The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes
Quelle surprise! Scammers have cooked up trading schemes to defraud upstanding cryptocurrency users.
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Wolf Richter: Housing Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley & San Francisco
Housing is going pear-shaped in California tech-land….and you can’t blame it on a tech bust.
Read more...Links 1/8/19
CalPERS Star Hire Elisabeth Bourqui Resigns Suddenly After Only Eight Months, an Indictment of CEO Marcie Frost; Insiders Speculate Private Equity Was the Cause
CalPERS loses a highly qualified top executive. CEO Marcie Frost’s fingerprints are all over the departure, in a bad way.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Davos Wants a Better Measure of Failure
Some Davos musings show that our elites aren’t what they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Starting the New Year Badly and Well
Handicapping the new year based on early indicators.
Read more...Kiss What Is Left of Your Medical Data Privacy Goodbye
While you weren’t looking, a full-bore assault on what is left of your medical privacy has been gaining ground.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Response to Reader Comments
A follow up to Andrew Dittmer’s series on libertarian thinking.
Read more...Join Our “Come in From the Cold” NYC Meetup on Friday, January 18 and Upcoming Fort Lauderdale Meetup for Thursday February 7
Announcing our first meetup of 2019.
Read more...Links 1/5/19
6 Ways the Trump Shutdown Is Hurting the Country
A short tally of some of the damage done by the partial Federal shutdown.
Read more...Joining a Group Makes Us Nastier to Outsiders
Being in a group isn’t conducive to cooperation, and it’s not obvious how to change that.
Read more...CalPERS’ Private Equity “Fire, Aim, Ready”: Railroading Board by Screening Candidates Before Scheme Approved; Seeking to be Victimized Again by Silver Lake Partners
Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part VI – Certainty
The implications of conservative libertarian ideas.
Read more...Piketty’s World Inequality Review: A Critical Analysis
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.
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