How inflation taxes cash
“If you take cash, on the other hand, and you think about it from a purchasing power standpoint, if you own cash in the world today, you know your central…
Study finds that in pandemic policy induced recession, more workers over 50 will face age discrimination
Employers seize on slumps to purge more expensive, more experienced workers, study warns Source: Bye, boomer: the coming cull of workers over 50 – MarketWatch
Check the track record for those giving economic advice
Nobel economist Paul Krugman, Election night, 2016, writing in the NY Times: Nobel economist Paul Krugman, July 28, 2020: As Talib has observed, most economics prognosticators do okay for some…
CBS flags its own marketing material on Youtube as a copyright violation – heh!
When Youtube originally announced they would auto-detect music copyright violations, I noted that they could not tell the difference between a licensed use and an unlicensed use. CBS just managed…
Why does a GM web page feature a Tesla charging port?
Why does a GM web site page feature a Tesla and Tesla charging cable? GM’s all-new modular platform and Ultium battery system will be the heartbeat of its all-electric future…
You become passionate about what you do well
Public school programs have long advised students to pursue their passion. Mike Rowe – and others before him – have noted this is probably not good advice. Instead, pursue success.…
Facial recognition’s 96 percent false positive rate
Close enough for government work, eh? “If we would use the software only , we would not solve the case 95-97 percent of the time,” Craig said. “That’s if we…
Primary business of the Internet is spying: More apps found to have copied contents of your phone’s clipboard
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, and scores of other apps may have accessed your passwords and other copy and pasted data. Source: Tons of news apps caught…
Google to restrict targeted advertising based on gender, age, parental and marital status and zip code
To further improve access to housing, employment, and credit opportunities, we are introducing a new personalized advertising policy for certain types of ads. This policy will prohibit impacted employment, housing,…
Tech companies are going big on remote workforces … but this may be bad for future American workers
Companies switching to remote workforces will probably hire more staff overseas, outside the U.S. Source: Twitter, Apple, Google and Facebook employee work changing amid Covid This puts offshoring on steroids…