Monthly Archives: January 2015

Gig is up: Euro QE talk signals panic not strength

More of the bond buying ‘good money after bad’ that hasn’t worked in Japan and the US? Lowering interest rates to virtually nothing and super cheap loans for banks didn’t work, so ECB chief Mario Draghi has to do what … Continue reading

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Financial industry continues to block meaningful reform

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist who called for a tax on high-frequency trading, discusses how he was blocked from a regulatory reform panel by the financial lobby. Here is a direct video link.

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A password free future

This cannot come soon enough!! Passwords be damned! 2014 was the year of the hacker, and a number of companies at CES 2015 want to replace your highly insecure passwords with something much more difficult to steal: your biometrics. Here … Continue reading

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