Uber Board Members Kiss and Make Up (for Now), but Long-Term Problems Remain
Uber may have bought itself more time with a conditional pact among its big shareholders, but it hasn’t solved its fundamental problems.
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Italy has taken a step towards issuing a new currency in the form of tax credits. Will it make it more money-like by making it more tradable?
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Gaming out possible moves by Spain if Catalonia proceeds with its secession plan.
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Trump speaks an inconvenient truth about Puerto Rico. How long before his minders walk it back?
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Cryptocurrency fans have a perverse and badly misinformed loathing of the role of credit in payments and money systems.
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Despite staging large-scale protests on Monday, Catalonia just revealed it is holding a weak set of cards in it secession efforts.
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Shale production may stay in the doldrums until oil prices move higher and stay there.
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Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
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Naked Capitalism is a critical part of the information war that the traditional, corporate-owned media is losing, and deserves to lose.
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