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The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
It’s long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis-20130619

In this case, the …

Author TfouiPosted on June 24, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Law, Politics, Psychology, Society

A SCOTUS decision I can fully agree with

U.S. top court bars patents on human genes unless synthetic
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/13/us-usa-court-genes-idUSBRE95C0PW20130613

It has always stuck in my craw that the simple act of sequencing a gene could possibly be considered ‘novel, useful and non-obvious’, yet we have (had) thousands of …

Author TfouiPosted on June 14, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Healthcare, Law, Politics, Science, Society

Employment says that unemployment is 24%

Employment is still near a 30-year low
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/06/news/economy/employment-rate/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Using the most generous measurement of employment in the article (for workers ages 25 to 54 — those who should be in the prime of their careers) there is an employment rate …

Author TfouiPosted on June 6, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Politics, Psychology, Society

Who watches the watchers?

Why Didn’t the SEC Catch Madoff? It Might Have Been Policy Not To
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-didnt-the-sec-catch-madoff-it-might-have-been-policy-not-to-20130531

For those non-financial types amongst my reader(s) this article might be a bit hard to follow. The gist is the SEC is basically in place to …

Author TfouiPosted on June 3, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Law, Politics

Potemkin Stimulus

Potemkin Stimulus: One Way to Offset Austerity
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/potemkin-stimulus-one-way-to-offset-austerity/

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How far away are we from doing this? I doubt it is very. At the moment we rush around and spend huge dollars replacing broken things (like bridges, cities; generally with borrowed …

Author TfouiPosted on May 31, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Politics, Psychology, Society

Big brother

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/

I think what bothers many people is that 1984 was in the past and they expected it to stay that way. However, Big Brother just needed some more time …

Author TfouiPosted on May 27, 2013Categories Government, Infosec, Law, Politics, Psychology, Society

Normalcy of war

Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent
Senior Obama officials tell the US Senate: the ‘war’, in limitless form, will continue for ‘at least’ another decade – or two
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/17/endless-war-on-terror-obama

I almost didn’t blog on this, it is …

Author TfouiPosted on May 17, 2013Categories Government, Law, Politics, Psychology, Society

The fix is in…

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425

Somehow I missed this article and …

Author TfouiPosted on May 16, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Law, Politics, Society

More on student loans

Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/student-debt-and-the-crushing-of-the-american-dream/

I have waxed on the subject of student loans a number of times (see here, here, here and here for just a few examples). When the student loan …

Author TfouiPosted on May 14, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Education, Government, Society

Less privacy = more privacy?

Crime and Privacy
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/crime_and_privacy/

I got to admit that Scott makes an interesting argument for more == less. For those too lazy to read the article, here is his summary:

In general, whenever privacy is lost in a democracy, it

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Author TfouiPosted on May 7, 2013Categories Government, InformationTechnology, Infosec, Law, Politics, Psychology, Society

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