Why Consumers Aren’t Buying Electric Cars
Press and affluenza enthusiasm for electric vehicles is ahead of mass consumer appetite.
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Financial Times Goes Wobbly on Brexit No Deal Impact
Is a flabby Financial Times story just a case of a piece not coming together, or is the pink paper pulling its punches on Brexit?
Read more...Softening Real Estate Markets in Prime West Coast Cities: Does China Trump IPOs?
Looking at undercurrents in West Coast economies and what they might portend for the US.
Read more...Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake Accounts Ponzi Scheme
Why Facebook may be a bigger fraud than Enron.
Read more...Why Are Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos So Interested in Space?
There are good reasons to be leery of billionaires colonizing a public sector activity like space exploration.
Read more...Agroecology as Innovation
A UN report on agroecology finds that many farming methods pooh-poohed as traditional offer significant advantages over industrial farming.
Read more...Banks Again Hoist on Their Cost-Cutting Petard: Burgeoning Credit Card Fraud
Credit card companies are paying for their stinginess via being exposed to rapidly rising levels of fraud.
Read more...737 Max May Stay Grounded into 2020; Why Does Boeing CEO Muilenburg Still Have a Job?
Boeing remains mired in its 737 Max mess.
Read more...Is Industrial Policy Finally Legitimate?
Awfully late in the game, industrial policy gets the recognition it deserves.
Read more...Why Busy-Ness Is So Damaging
How our economic and political order fuels busy-ness, harming both individual and community well-being.
Read more...Takers and Makers: Who Are the Real Value Creators?
Why stories from “value creators” should be taken with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Design Genius Jony Ive Leaves Apple, Leaving Behind Crapified Products That Cannot Be Repaired
The departure of Jony Ive gives Apple the chance to reboot its design philosophy to embrace reliability and repairability.
Read more...Five Things We Found In The FDA’s Hidden Device Database
Disturbing.
Read more...The Individual Costs of Occupational Decline
Quelle surprise! Occupational decline, aka “The robots ate my career,” lowers lifetime earnings, particulalry for low-wage workers.
Read more...Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors
“Excluding capital, the big eight basin producers have destroyed on average 80 percent of the value of their companies since the beginning of the shale revolution,”
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