I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven!...
The Kremlin Is Obsessed With Cryptocurrencies
Putin and his people once threatened to jail bitcoin users. Now, they can’t get enough of the digital money. In early June, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The headline moment at the event was a...
The tech industry and the media can share blame for creating Donald Trump
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the article. Three weeks after Donald Trump won a historic victory to become the 45th president of the United States, the media postmortems continue. In particular, the role played by the media and...
Website pop up ads aren’t clever or effective
By Alison Griswold First off, I have a few confessions to make. Despite being a business and economics writer, I’m not interested in today’s most important stocks. I don’t actually like winning. And really, I don’t care about the future, either. Sorry. These are...
Goldman’s Former Head Of Housing Research Predicts Housing Crash, Recession Within Three Years
Submitted by Tyler Durden It's one thing for contrarian financial websites to accurately predict the transitory phase and housing price dead cat bounces which are only sustained by the unholy trinity of foreclosure bottlenecks (which are simply supply-side subsidies),...
Revolting against the Ivy League
“They are intellectually underpowered and full of themselves, because they’ve been told their whole life how wonderful they are” (The so-called meritocracy. -- risk averse people, educated at schools where it's impossible to fail, utilizing the schools alumni to...
Many startups suck at starting up
Why Consumer-Facing E-Commerce Is BROKEN Sindhya Valloppillil, Helix Men I finally found panties on True&Co., an ecommerce lingerie company. It took them nearly one year to start selling panties. They allegedly sold them when I mentioned them in an article...
Why I love and hate having a smartphone
Smartphones — are they heaven-sent blessings or the devil's contraptions? We can't decide on most days, so we'll just let comic artist Matthew "The Oatmeal" Inman walk us through his love and hate relationship with one of his most important gadgets. We're nodding...
Marketers, people are cynical, and hype is not the antidote.
The chorus of marketing voices has become cacophonous to the point where advertisers and their customers have tuned it out as so much white noise or have become hardened against it. We think the following makes sense and will help to separate you from the countless...
Susan Boyle as parable: our hunger for mighty metaphors
By Kendall Allen Countless many were enraptured last week by the sneaky vocals of Susan Boyle. Her talents, unveiled on "Britain's Got Talent," were unexpected by those who prejudged her for her appearance. Wait -- that was everyone. The doubters evidently were most...