UnsecurityBitcoin Multi-Billion Dollar Crypto Firm: Bitcoin Finding Use as Hedge for Global Crisisnewsbtc.com - Nick Chong Throughout its short history, Bitcoin (BTC) has been seen as anything but centralized, sovereign, and censorable. The crypto asset was created by a …
UnsecurityState Bank of India Shadow Banking Crisis Raises Risk of Indian Bad-Loan ReduxBloomberg - Suvashree Ghosh Just as India’s banks emerge from under a pile of bad loans to large energy, steel and other industrial companies, they are facing a new reckoning …
UnsecurityLarry Ellison Coffee tests and jumbo jets: Do trick questions in interviews drive the best talent away?smartcompany.com.au - Stephanie Palmer-Derrien When it comes to hiring for startups, are cryptic questions or secret tests actually helpful, or indicative of the kind of employee a candidate would …
UnsecurityPlay buttonBusiness (Australia) Inducing consumer paralysis: how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choicetheconversation.com - Robert Slonim Do you think you are paying more than you should for energy, banking, insurance, internet and phone services? You are not alone, and you are probably …
UnsecurityAndrew Scott Employers want trade skills not BAsafr.com - Robert Bolton That compares to 2018 (latest available) when there were jobs for 5.04 million people with certificate 2, 3 and 4. But only 4.02 million jobs for …
Unsecurity America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and MiserableThe New York Times The upper echelon is hoarding money and privilege to a degree not seen in decades. But that doesn’t make them happy at work.
UnsecurityAging This Economy Is Not Aging GracefullyThe New York Times - By EDUARDO PORTERThe median age of the American worker is 42, four years more than the median 20 years ago. Americans are used to hearing dire warnings about aging. We are told it could bankrupt the social safety net Medicare
UnsecurityFossil Fuels United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than EducationForbes - James EllsmoorA new International Monetary Fund (IMF) study shows that USD$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017. The equivalent of over 6.5% of global GDP of that year, it also represented
UnsecurityNouriel Roubini The Growing Risk of a 2020 Recession and Crisis | by Nouriel Roubiniproject-syndicate.org - Nouriel Roubini NEW YORK – Last summer, my colleague Brunello Rosa and I identified ten potential downside risks that could trigger a US and global recession in …
UnsecurityTechnology Millions Of Jobs Have Been Lost To Automation. Economists Weigh In On What To Do About ItForbes - Amy SterlingArtificial Intelligence (AI) and automation promise to usher in a new era of inexpensive goods, effortless personalization, and freedom from tedium. Yet beneath the surface of innovation a current of disenfranchisement
UnsecurityBooks How economists turned us all into selfish rottersThe Telegraph - By Tim StanleyTim Stanley reviews Licence to Be Bad by Jonathan Aldred Our lives are shaped by economists we’ve never heard of – or so says Jonathan Aldred in his fascinating assault on modern economic orthodoxy. He
UnsecurityPocketcasts 'People felt totally trapped': what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soartheconversation.com - Sunanda Creagh A growing number of older Australians don’t own their homes. And whether they are private renters or live in social housing can make a big difference …
UnsecurityBernie Sanders Bernie Sanders just made a brilliant defense of democratic socialismThe Guardian - Bhaskar SunkaraIn a speech yesterday at George Washington University in Washington DC, the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders brilliantly articulated what he means when he calls himself a democratic socialist. With characteristic
UnsecurityTechnology 3M has long known it was contaminating the US food supplyQuartz - Zoë SchlangerMultinational manufacturer 3M, which developed two types of industrial chemical now found in the blood of virtually all Americans, has known since 2001 that those chemicals were entering the food supply,
UnsecurityCapitalism The Left’s Failure to Envision a World Without Capitalismnewrepublic.com - Conor Lynch Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism underscored the limits of a growing movement's imagination. There is a common saying on the left, …
UnsecurityJapan If you want a peek at the future, try looking at Japan. You may not like what you see.The Washington Post - By Robert J. SamuelsonIf you want a peek at the future, try looking at Japan. It’s a sobering exercise. Here’s how economist Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, describes the country’s “[Japan]
UnsecurityJon Stewart Jon Stewart Ripped Members Of Congress For Not Sitting Through A Hearing About 9/11 First Responder Benefitsbuzzfeednews.com - Krystie Lee Yandoli “Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one.” Comedian and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart called Congress “shameful” in …
UnsecurityCapitalism Capitalism isn't 'broken'. It's working all too well - and we're the worse for itThe Guardian - Maria SvartExploitation is not a bug in capitalism, it is a feature Capitalism is not broken. It is working all too well, concentrating money in the hands of the few by exploiting the work of the many. Runaway climate
UnsecurityLoneliness 'I really have thought this can’t go on': loneliness looms for rising numbers of older private renterstheconversation.com - Alan Morris and Andrea Verdasco Loneliness is increasingly recognised worldwide as a critical social issue and one of the major health hazards of our time. Our research shows older …
UnsecurityPatents Corporations Shouldn't Be Able to Patent Your DNABloomberg - Faye Flam The practice of patenting genes, once banned by the Supreme Court, may come back soon despite a measure of horror the very idea once inspired. Author …
UnsecurityOpinion (UK) It’s cheap to tackle climate change - but that isn’t the reason to do itThe Guardian - Richard DennissIf we wanted to reduce emissions, we could. And if we wanted Australian industries to have cheap gas, they would have it If renewables weren’t getting cheaper, would Australia still want to tackle climate
UnsecurityNews (China) Beijing faces a choice: open up or stagnateinkstonenews.com - Graeme Maxton For decades, China’s development path has seemed clear. State management of key industries coupled with some level of free-market liberalization …
UnsecurityPoverty Americans are too poor to survive whether or not they're workingboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow A new study from the United Way claims that 43% of American households are in a status called "asset limited, income constrained, employed" (ALICE), …
UnsecurityJacinda Ardern Jacinda Ardern pulls New Zealand troops out of Iraqsmh.com.au "Significant progress has been made in this area, which will allow the mission to reduce in numbers and conclude within the next year, having …
UnsecurityChina Before You Decide China Is the Enemy, Please Visit Itrealclearmarkets.com - John Tamny Shanghai, China – To land by plane in China is to be reminded how lucky one is to be an American. The previous assertion is in no way meant to insult …
UnsecurityU.S. Air Force The American cult of bombing and endless warSalon - William J. AstoreFrom Syria to Yemen in the Middle East, Libya to Somalia in Africa, Afghanistan to Pakistan in South Asia, an American aerial curtain has descended across a huge swath of the planet. Its stated purpose:
UnsecurityGeorge Orwell The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell ImaginedTIME - Shoshana ZuboffOrwell's 1984 was published on June 8, 1949. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Zuboff is the author most recently of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. George Orwell repeatedly delayed crucial medical care to
UnsecurityTech Industry Welcome to the Age of Surveillance CapitalismBloomberg - Noah Smith In 1998, science fiction author David Brin published a remarkably prescient book of nonfiction, titled “The Transparent Society: Will Technology …
UnsecurityConservatism Capitalism and the death of conservatismThe Guardian - LettersThere is an omission in Jonathan Aldred’s account of how western capitalism began to shortchange many people from 1980 onwards (The long read, 6 June). For decades after 1945, communist tanks lined the
