I have an article in the really great blog, In the Library with a Lead Pipe, which goes something like this: Ebooks will become the…
aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing.
I have an article in the really great blog, In the Library with a Lead Pipe, which goes something like this: Ebooks will become the…
A Parable of the Past An, er, friend of mine heard an interview on Fresh Air with Scottish director Armando Iannucci about his new film…
“The Big Takeover: The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a…
From TPM: Earlier today, we highlighted some excerpts from a 2004 deposition given by Joseph Cassano, who was then the head of AIG’s financial products…
March 10 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said his bank is having the best quarter since 2007, when it last posted…
In my post about the the stock market bubble(s) of the past 15 years, I asked what kind of policy shift happened in the 1990s…
Check this little gem of a tectonic shift, found in Wired’s The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time (see page 3):…
Wealth ought to come from the creation of value. That is, by designing and selling a better shovel, you make it easier for farmers to…
As a start-up, I’ve complained about how conservative the Canadian business culture is, especially banking and finance. But boring has it’s benefits, when things get…
When I worked at Prebon in 2000 (on financial/insurance products that would financing greenhouse gas reductions while hedging against the risk of greenhouse gas legislation),…