New Data Shows Young Voters Should Scare The Crap Out Of The GOP
New Polling Data Shows Young Voters Yearn For A More Progressive America The GOP tends to be wrong about a great many things, but at least, their name – The Grand Ole’ Party – is on the money. According to…
The Risks Wrought By “Very” Negative Interest Rates
As the world’s central banks continue to weigh the risks and potential benefits from negative interest rates and for some, even moving further into negative territory, it’s no surprise that investors are worried. But when desperate times call for desperate…
Insider’s View To Oscar-Nominated ‘The Big Short’
The following is excerpted from a Q&A with former Citigroup risk executive and current finance professor Clifford Rossi: “ Living Through the Big Short” Insider’s View To ‘The Big Short’ SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Feb. 25, 2016 — With roles…
Bernie Sanders cleaned Chris Matthews clock in one on one interview (VIDEO)
Bernie Sanders stood his ground against Chris Matthews assault Bernie Sanders went mano a mano with Chris Matthews and he did not allow Matthews’ plutocratic defeatist message to take hold. It was beautiful. The exchange snippets in the clip in…
Advice To The President: Addressing A Financial Crisis In The First Year
Advice To The President: Addressing A Financial Crisis In The First Year Robert F. Bruner University of Virginia – Darden School of Business November 15, 2015 Abstract: If confronted with a major financial crisis in the first year (2017) of…
We Read Apple’s 65 Page Filing Calling Bulls**t On The Justice Department, So You Don’t Have To
Apple didn’t need to reply until tomorrow, but has now released its Motion to Vacate the magistrate judge’s order from last week, compelling Apple to create a new operating system that undermines a couple of key security features, so that…
Why Hasn’t The NSA Broken Apple’s Encryption?
The question Apple is asking the FBI: If you want to hack into our iPhone so bad, why don’t you just have the U.S. National Security Agency do it? That’s what a strongly worded legal brief filed Thursday amounts to….
The Government’s Decades-Long Battle Over Encryption
The FBI wants to crack open a mass shooter’s iPhone, and Apple has refused to cooperate. It’s a story for the 21st century, but the roots go back a whole generation earlier, to the 1990s when the FBI and other…
How To Protect Yourself On Public WiFi
The easiest way to get yourself hacked is to sit down at a coffee shop, open your computer and log onto the internet. The very notion of a public WiFi network means anyone, including hackers, can almost instantly access all…
Bitcoin at a crossroads: The Canadians who may have saved the virtual currency – or ruined it
At 3:30 a.m. in a hotel conference room in Hong Kong last Sunday, a group of people involved in Bitcoin did something they haven’t done in a while: Come to an agreement. Samson Mow, the B.C.-born chief operating officer of…