LEAKED: Trump Threatens to Launch Trade War v. Rattled China Over IP Theft
Trump’s trade threats against China make steel and aluminum tariffs look like a game.
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Silicon Valley’s Gilded Cage
Silicon Valley glitters but at least some of its workers want more.
Read more...Cryptocurrencies as Prosecution Futures: Judge Rules Manipulators Can Go to Jail
The Wild West of cryptocurrencies just got a little less fun.
Read more...How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations.
Read more...FinTech and Banks
Why FinTech will not be as disruptive as its promoters would have you believe.
Read more...MIT Study: Median Uber and Lyft Profits Less Than Half Minimum Wage; 30% of Drivers Lose Money
Yes, it is now official: you really are engaged in exploitation when you use Uber or Lyft.
Read more...Time to Stand Up for Dumb
The New York Times today gives an extremely cautious and narrow defense of traditional, now denigrated as “dumb” devices: In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better. It listed a grand total of five examples: A wristwatch vs. Apple Watch A car mount vs. a smart car console An alarm clock vs. […]
Read more...The Dystopian Technologies Being Used to Control Workers
Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
Read more...Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus.
Read more...Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains
Larry Summers and Anna Stansbury challenge the idea that workers getting a smaller cut of the productivity gains pie is due to technology.
Read more...Wolf Richter: “Blockchain” Stocks Completely Disintegrate
Blockchain plays have collapsed at an astonishing speed.
Read more...How Hunter-Gatherers May Hold the Key to our Economic Future
Their relaxed approach to work stemmed from their faith in the providence of their environment and confidence in their ability to exploit it
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirteen: Even After 4Q Cost Cuts, Uber Lost $4.5 Billion in 2017
How the business press got the story on Uber’s latest financial report wrong.
Read more...Wizards and Prophets Face Off to Save the Planet
How to feed 10 billion people? Wizards, as in technophiles, and prophets, conservationists, have very different answers.
Read more...Buffett, Bezos, and Dimon Launch “An Undertaking of Great Advantage” to “Innovate” in Health Care
Decoding the press release on the new health care venture from Berkshire Hathway, Amazon, and JP Morgan.
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