The Russian investigation of the Kerch brigde bombing claims that a grain transport ship out of Odessa moved the explosives. | Continue reading
We're again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008. | Continue reading
Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable. | Continue reading
India is mulling setting up rupee-ruble payment arrangements, to allow it to trade with Russia in spite of the sanctions regime. | Continue reading
In Chicago, the formerly incarcerated are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities. | Continue reading
I had 17 days’ worth of insulin left. | Continue reading
A very nasty new variant is spreading rapidly and looks to evade monoclonal antibodies and current vaccines. Assume the brace position. | Continue reading
On some of the key management practices and fads that produced dependence on extended and revealed-to-be-fragile supply chains. | Continue reading
What if Hurricane Sandy was only the beginning? | Continue reading
Just as importantly, why is the regulator laying off 20-25% of its workforce in the midst of a global pandemic? | Continue reading
Trying to make sense of Afghanistan. | Continue reading
An update on the already desperate and worsening state of the market for renters in the US. | Continue reading
Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of interests that may exist in economics research. | Continue reading
Uber continues to hemorrhage cash and rack up impressive negative operating margins, yet the press eats up its accounting misdirection. | Continue reading
The Pfizer consent form for a clinical of its booster shot is troubling from a participants and public health persepctive. | Continue reading
Didi has a more commanding position than Uber in a fundamentally more attractive market, yet has been hemmorrhaging money. | Continue reading
Intel is the poster child of how stock buybacks come at the cost of technological innovation. | Continue reading
So why are journalists not covering it? | Continue reading
Introducing "The Bullshit Economy" from Jared Hoist, on products and companies that exist solely to exploit policy failures, in a bad way. | Continue reading
The Pfizer vaccine study, hot off the presses in the New England Journal of Medicine, features troubling omissions and apparent obfuscation. | Continue reading
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help. | Continue reading
With its smackdown of Ant and its billionaire founder Jack Ma, China has made clear that financiers do not call the shots. | Continue reading
"Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony." | Continue reading
Finally the message may be getting through. The recycling fairy alone won’t save us from the plastics crisis. We must confront the pushers. | Continue reading
The coronavirus’ effect has been to help defeat the financial sector’s enemy, governments strong enough to regulate it. | Continue reading
The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse. | Continue reading
CIO Ben Meng demonstrates why CalPERS can't be trusted....even as the giant pension is pushing legislation to be able to make loans in secret. | Continue reading
Dissecting the latest airline gimmick to separate investors from their money: pledging their frequent flyer programs. | Continue reading
An update on getting back to normal (not) in New York City. | Continue reading
The airlines are facing an existential crisis, yet no one in power is inclinded or even equipped to intervene. | Continue reading
Once fat and happy Airbnb landlords are now in a world of hurt. | Continue reading
A recap of what Taleb and his fellow complex systems analysts have been saying about coronavirus. Not pretty. | Continue reading
Coronavirus is smashing up the economic and political order. What sort of world comes next? | Continue reading
Can Boeing stave off a liquidity crisis? | Continue reading
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers. | Continue reading
Los Angeles County is launching VSAP, an insecure electronic voting system that reinforces the power of big donors. | Continue reading
The coup in Bolivia as a resource play. | Continue reading
Google and Ascension look to have shot their medical data project in the head with their flagrant disregard for patient privacy laws. | Continue reading
A nursing home case study in profiteering. | Continue reading
Libra is going nowhere fast. | Continue reading
Contrary to widespread beliefs, gentrification does not appear to harm children. But that may be because it operates differenlty than most assume. | Continue reading
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to. Shopping sites use them a lot, and the bigger the site, the more likely. A new study and legislation bring renewed focus to the issue; | Continue reading
Why neither the government nor the press have covered themselves in glory in 'splaining the death of Jeffrey Epstein. | Continue reading
Apple continues to crapify its products, in ways intended to thwart the ability of their owners to use third party services to repair their devices. | Continue reading
How private equity ginned up yet another abuse. | Continue reading
Why Facebook may be a bigger fraud than Enron. | Continue reading
Trust issues with Facebook's Libra for users, regulators, and technically. And is Facebook seeking to become a sovereign? | Continue reading
In the unlikely event the Amazon drone delivery service gets to be anything other than for show, some ideas for how to protect your rights. | Continue reading