How the Anglo-American fad of mindfulness bolsters neoliberaism. | Continue reading
A post-mortem of the Uber and Lyft IPOs. | Continue reading
Keep your eye on what Assange's real offenses are in the minds of the officialdom. | Continue reading
SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million. | Continue reading
Lambert gingerly enters the worlds of gaming and Republican politics. | Continue reading
Rather than confine themselves to operating systems and PC software like they did in the 1980s and 1990s, the tech industry has figured out that the real money lies in being a middleman. | Continue reading
Uber's financials statements and economics shows a complete lack of progress towards profit and no reason to expect significant improvement | Continue reading
Nader: "There is no need to wait for some long-drawn out, redundant inquiry. Management was criminally negligent, 346 lives of passengers and crew were lost." | Continue reading
Will Trump declare a win if his trade representative fails to negotiate a viable long-term solution with Beijing? | Continue reading
Your humble blogger plans to leave NYC. | Continue reading
Uber's financial data in its S-1 filing is misleading and even inconsistent. | Continue reading
While it is gratifying to see Senator and presidential contender Elizabeth Warren focusing on antitrust and the abuse of monopoly power, her $25 billlion fix looks too simplistic. | Continue reading
Michael Hudson describes how, in antiquity in Greece and Rome, emerging oligarchs ended the practice of debt jubilees, impoverishing laborers. | Continue reading
Minnesota may soon be the first state to adopt right to repair legislation, and measures are pending in a total of twenty states. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a national right to repair for farm equipment. | Continue reading
Illinois Supreme Court hands down unanimous decision that an individual needn’t prove actual injury nor adverse effect to recover under the state’s bellwether biometric privacy statute. | Continue reading
Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders propose what are actually modest restrictions on corporate stock buybacks to force their to give workers higher priority. | Continue reading
One expert says he gets versions of this question almost daily -- usually from “people at big institutional real estate funds, rich people who want to buy land or already own land, or survivalist types.” | Continue reading
Even relatively simple pricing algorithms systematically learn to play sophisticated collusive strategies. | Continue reading
A short-term program to help poor seniors cope with their limitations appears to be very effective. | Continue reading
Trump's neocon extremists are burning the US dollar house down. | Continue reading
The right to repair movement is growing -- not just in the US, but in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand as well. | Continue reading
A jaundiced look at "Singapore on the Thames," yet another barmy Brexit idea. | Continue reading
Teachers are taking aim at the way charter schools drain resources from public schools. | Continue reading
New York’s City Council has scheduled a hearing Thursday to debate a measure to enshrine a right to disconnect - which would bar firms from requiring workers to check e-mail or other electronic communications outside the normal workday unless their contracts specify otherwise. | Continue reading
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, patient mortality, and a medical coding debacle | Continue reading
Andrew Dittmer continues his series on the world that some conservative libertarian thinkers would like to establish. | Continue reading
A dialogue about how a libertarian society would work. | Continue reading
A romp through surveys on "package thieves," as publicized by a recent viral piece of Youtubery. | Continue reading
Due to Western misperceptions and China's rising authoritarianism, the current trade war is evolving dangerously into Cold War 2.0. | Continue reading
Confirming Airbnb's effects on rentals and home prices. | Continue reading
Three perspectives on whether the internet is damaging democracy. | Continue reading
An update on the meth epidemic. | Continue reading
Another look at the ugly Sears bankruptcy. | Continue reading
It''s getting hard to believe Uber's story. | Continue reading
Another benefit of higher minimum wages. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley stars like Apple suffer from financialization—the same ailment that felled GE and Lucent. | Continue reading
What the Google walkout says about the company's management and the Silicon Valley view of employee rights. | Continue reading
This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter. | Continue reading
Bad Brexit news just got worse. | Continue reading
The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google. | Continue reading
Urban apartment development all over the US has been heavily skewed towards luxury units, even though there isn't enough demand for all the supply. | Continue reading
Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties. | Continue reading
Just when you think the SEC can't possibly to more to demonstrate how toothless it is, it reinforces its sorry reputation in by gutting its Dodd-Frank mandated whistleblower, and worse, in a manner that Commission Kara Stein suggest is illegal. | Continue reading
Toys R Us stores will shutter this month: private equity firms killed the company, and its workers are left with no severance. | Continue reading
Senators seek information on testing protocols for self-driving cars; mandatory arbitration for further lawsuits involving such vehicles looms as a threat. | Continue reading
Why debt is the great threat to modern China’s development. | Continue reading
Many gig economy firms will have to classify a big swathe of their workers as employees or radically change their business models. | Continue reading
Why a Universal Basic Income won't produce the benefits its boosters claim it will. | Continue reading