Tech Giants Trying to Use WTO to Colonize Emerging Economies
Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.
Read more...Tech titans like Google and Apple seek to create a “global” regime to prevent developing economies from protecting their companies or data.
Read more...Incoming CalPERS board member Margaret Brown dishes out some straight talk on where the giant pension fund needs to shape up.
Read more...Yves here. I imagine many readers are acutely aware of the problems outlined in this article, if not beset by them already. By any rational standard, I should move now to a much cheaper country that will have me. I know individuals who live most of the year in third-world and near-third world countries, but […]
Read more...The latest sighting on the student loan front is not pretty, and would be even uglier if the right metrics were used.
Read more...A tiny bit of good, or perhaps more accurately, less bad news on the climate change front.
Read more...As the Sacramento Bee reported, In an upset, a CalPERS critic wins a seat on the pension board: Margaret Brown, a Southern California school district administrator, unseated incumbent Michael Bilbrey in a runoff election to win a seat on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System Board of Administration. Her victory on Tuesday marks an upset […]
Read more...Ajit Pai, the head of the FCC, shows his true colors. Not a pretty sight.
Read more...Some initial comments on the Doug Jones win in Alabama.
Read more...Time to make gun owners pay for the full cost of their hobby.
Read more...Uber’s ever-widening losses confirms Hubert Horan’s thesis that Uber has no credible path to profit absent a radical downsizing.
Read more...The definition of cash widens.
Read more...Economists duke it out over a new defense of discredited but still widely used DSGE models.
Read more...More discussion of the overhyped Brexit “breakthrough” of last Friday.
Read more...How critics of Hayek, like those of Marx, fixate on his politics and ignore his important economic insights.
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