The cash assassins set their sights on Europe’s biggest economy. If there’s one major European economy that did not get the memo on moving swiftly away from cash to digital…
Yves here. The tone of this post, which likely reflects that of the book it discusses, is overwrought. But that does not make it inaccurate. What caught my attention was…
Yves here. Since it’s very profitable for app, program, and device makers to hit users’ emotional buttons, they are set only to get better at it. Robots pets are one…
Yves here. Sadly, the most desperate are regularly the subject of the most intense financial grifting, be it loan sharks or the more-respectable seeming versions, like credit cards that very…
Yves here. Trump follows his line of action by having enlisted his ally, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, to threaten the very existence of Federal courts: Speaker Johnson floats…
Yves here. We’ve explained repeatedly that the Ukraine “raw earths” deal is based on extreme exaggeration of the mineral deposits that the Ukraine government owns (or to which it retained…
The state of play in the Russia-US negotiations after their session early this week in Saudi Arabia failed to get much if any front-page attention. That was thanks to the…
Yves here. As of this hour, there is still no joint statement from Russia and the US on their long day of talks in Saudi Arabia yesterday. But in a…
In the United States before World War II, support for basic biomedical and clinical research was haphazard, depending somewhat on the kindness of strangers. For example, that far-seeing politician Franklin…
Yves here. While this piece teases out an interesting thesis ‘splaining apparent Trump economic madness, IMHO Varoufakis gets off on the wrong foot by depicting Trump and his team as…