Category Archives: Technology and innovation

Where Did the Bernie Sanders Movement Come From? The Internet.

How the digital divide explains where Sanders did well, and not as well.

Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions

Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.

Should Banks Be Worried About Apple Pay?

Will Apple Pay eat retail payment systems?

What “Hope” (and Change) Look Like in the Labor Market, According to the New York Times

Why aren’t all segments of the labor market equally crapified?

A Wake-Up Call on Climate Change and Clean Energy

Why 2017 could be an event horizon as far as climate change is concerned.

How McKinsey Helped Turn Big Pharma into a Rent Extraction Business

How McKinsey contributed to the devolution of Big Pharma.

Google is Evil….

A case study of how Google tortures customers.

Cyber Security and the Financial System – What Do Governments Want from the Banks?

Governments are combining aggressive, ambitious talk with a curious helplessness in warning banks they really should be Doing Something about terrorist risk.

France To Build 621 Miles Of Solar Roads

Solar roads sound too “gee whiz” to work. But it would be terrific if they did.

Tax Breaks for Big Pharma on Top of Unreasonable Price Hikes

Big Pharma’s claim that it is hard pressed to find cash for R&D spending needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.

Does Better Internet Access Wind Up Disenfranchising Lower Income Groups?

As counterintuitive as it seems, reducing the “digital divide” may not be the plus its advocates assumed it was, if the UK experience is any guide.

Why Bitcoin is Not Disruptive

Get a cup of coffee. This is a deep dive into how Bitcoin works from a payment systems perspective, and why the failure of promoters and journalists to look at it in those terms has led them to greatly overestimate its significance.