Lavabit Encryption Service Used By Snowden Relaunches
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who is currently in exile in Russia for leaking classified information, has endorsed the relaunch of Lavabit, an encryption email service company that chose to shut down instead of complying with…
How Years Of The Right-Wing Media’s Obama Hatred Paved The Way For Trump
Reprinted with permission from Media Matters for America. Today, Donald Trump will swear the oath of office and become president of the United States. His ascent would not have been possible without the years of vitriol that the right-wing media…
The US Has Passed Peak Savings
The US Has Passed Peak Savings The risks posed to the asset management industry by low-cost tracker funds, and Robo-advisers have been well documented, and while these risks should not be ignored, there’s an even larger threat to the industry…
Donald Trump Poses a Threat Unseen in American History
I have watched, listened to, and read many commentaries on the inaugural address but so far none of the mainstream pundits have used the one word that best identifies Donald Trump: fascist. The United States is not Weimar Germany. Our…
The One Thing We Can Never Let Ourselves Forget About Donald Trump
In this web exclusive, Bill Moyers and four historians dissect the big lie Trump rode to power: the Birther lie. Nell Painter, historian and Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race…
FINRA Seeks Comment on BD Blockchain Implementation
FINRA issued a report on Wednesday examining the uses and implications of distributed ledger technology in the securities industry. The paper provides an overview of distributed ledger technology, commonly called blockchain, and discusses the ways it could be used in…
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Ransomware infection shutters St. Louis Public Library
Patrons were unable to borrow books throughout the entirety of the St. Louis Public Library System this week after its computers were sidelined by a ransomware infection. A “ransomware attack” took hold of the library system’s server late Wednesday or…
Kansas And Puerto Rico Show How Trump’s Tax Cuts Will Hurt Us
The business-oriented media are loudly proclaiming that president-“elect” Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts for the rich and corporations will “boost” the economy. ? WSJ: Trump’s Proposed Tax Cuts Could Boost U.S. and Global Growth, Says World Bank ? CNBC: Trump…
Donald Trump could send America into repeat of 1929 stockmarket crash, says Nobel prize winner
Donald Trump could send America into repeat of 1929 stockmarket crash, says Nobel prize winner Buz Investors repeat of 1929 stockmarket America should brace for a final blow-off surge in stock markets akin to the last phase of the dotcom…