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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pandemic and Growth

April 18, 2020

There is no way authorities can limit the coronavirus and restore global growth and debt expansion to December 2019 levels.Authorities around the world are between a rock and a hard place: they need policies that both limit the spread of the coron…

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While the Top 10% and the Fed Cheer Stocks Rebounding, the Bottom 60% Lose their Livelihoods and Lives

April 17, 2020

If you have any doubt that the Fed and Wall Street will some day be dismantled, please re-read this “real life in America” list again.The pandemic is a stark, brutal spotlight on income/wealth inequality in America: while the top 10% who own the m…

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Quick: What’s The Difference Between Fake News and Hypernormalisation?

April 17, 2020

Before the current Coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian government took delivery of the Broadband Telecom Legislative Review.  The 235-page report tabled 97 recommendations, most of them bad ones. Among them were provisions for requiring all content creators to obtain a license for operating from the government and “discoverability provisions” to force major tech platforms to emphasize “credible sources of news” over others (what the government calls “Approved Media”).

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Future Fibre: Kaslo infoNet Society

April 16, 2020

In this midst of this pandemic, we’re finally recognizing the Internet as essential infrastructure (morally but not yet legally).

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Overcapacity / Oversupply Everywhere: Massive Deflation Ahead

April 15, 2020

The price of a great many assets will crash, out of proportion to the decline in demand.Oil is the poster child of the forces driving massive deflation: overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse in demand. Overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse i…

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Siri: What is a “Unicorn circle jerk”?

April 15, 2020

Carta, a unicorn that makes dashboards for managing equity investments in other unicorns is laying off staff and sniffing out a cash injection from existing backers. Bloomberg reports that the company is seekng a $200 million investment from existing investors at a $3 billion valuation, up from 1.8B last year. Somewhat incongruent with the “growth story” picture that normally garners such a sharply higher round, Carta is laying off employees. They just axed 161 people…

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Contributors

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Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

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Jesse Hirsh

Futurist, researcher and public speaker, Jesse Hirsh has been active in technology and commenting on it across the media for 25 years. His premium newsletter service operates from Metaviews.ca.

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Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.