Monthly Archives: May 2014
Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
Amazon’s strategy (as I noted in 2012) is to squat on the distribution channel, artificially subsidize the price of ebooks (“dumping” or predatory pricing) to get consumers hooked, rely on DRM on the walled garden of the Kindle store to … Continue reading
Coca-Cola’s Happiness Machines
For one thing, he said, Coke is not only using these low-income workers to advertise its product, it is also requiring them to buy soft drinks themselves—at nearly a tenth of their typical daily wages, he pointed out—to use the … Continue reading
The Oh-So-Fragile Class of 2014 Needs to STFU And Listen to Some New Ideas
The entire point of college is to be exposed to different things: Different types of people, different ideas—and maybe some of those people will hail from organizations that negatively impacted poor countries, or maybe they were partly responsible for a … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged college, commencement
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Geithner’s new book rips Kirk on U.S. debt and China
Geithner says Kirk, a Republican, warned the Chinese that U.S. spending “was driving us toward default” and the Federal Reserve Bank was “creating hyperinflation.” “I couldn’t believe it,” Geithner writes. “Not only were those fears delusional, but he was undermining … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged china, national debt
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