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Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy

July 18, 2021

Ending Anonymity: Why The WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens The Future Of Privacy With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum’s real ambitions in cybersecurity – to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the […]

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If It’s Profitable, Is It Really Sustainable?

May 29, 2021

If It’s Profitable, Is It Really Sustainable? That an economic activity has to be profitable is considered a truism, something taken for granted and not reflected upon. But what if the opposite is the case? When I first took up small-scale organic farming in the 1970s, I spent a lot of energy in developing new methods […]

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Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business

August 26, 2018

Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business Many look around at today’s crises – climate change spinning out of control, inequality driving political instability and our oceans filling with plastic – and despair at the prospects for serious change. Most then try to apportion blame or at least seek to understand why. Business blames consumers. […]

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Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections

April 6, 2018

Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections It’s alarming that there are far fewer media outlets for consumer protection news and features than there were thirty years ago. Recall the huge Phil Donahue Show, the regional radio show and TV news shows, the television networks and syndicated radio shows that would report and interview consumer advocates about the […]

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Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers

March 1, 2018

Daniel Nevins: Economics for Independent Thinkers It’s time we stop trusting the ‘experts’ Economists are supposed to monitor and analyze the economy, warn us if risks are getting out of hand, and advise us on how to make things runs more effectively — right? Well, even though that’s what most people expect from economists, it’s […]

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Operation Choke-Point Is Worse Than We Thought

February 18, 2015

Operation Choke-Point Is Worse Than We Thought Operation Choke Point is an initiative of the DoJ that was announced in 2013 which investigates bank interactions with certain businesses believed to be at higher risk for fraud and money laundering. When first disclosed it was heavily criticised for bypassing due process with critics warning that “it’s a thinly […]

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The Incredible Lies We Are Told About Wall Street

February 8, 2015

The Incredible Lies We Are Told About Wall Street The corporation has become a financial asset to be manipulated by CEOs and institutional shareholders. Fewer than half of the US population owns a single share of stock and even fewer Americans are in a position to start their own businesses. Nonetheless, at least in rhetoric […]

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