June 4, 2013 Bubbles happen because people ignore economics and assume away reality in their excitement over a new idea. “Virtual currencies” could be the latest tech “economics of abundance” bubble in the making. Fans of abundance economics imagine that the free and open Internet’s...
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FreePress’ Latest Net Neutrality Folly – Pushing for Shareholder Votes
FreePress’ latest net neutrality folly and political agitation is pushing the SEC to make shareholders from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint vote on inappropriate, ill-advised, and unwarranted proposed shareholder resolutions in favor of wireless net neutrality in the weeks ahead. Let me count the ways this...
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Google 21st Century Robber Baron
See my Forbes post “Google 21st Century Robber Baron” which briefly tells the story of Google’s Robber Baron rap sheet, in advance of Google’s Wednesday Senate antitrust hearing. The post is documented with 79 links to the supporting evidence. The post also explains why Google’s...
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Google’s “Total Information Awareness” Power — A one-page graphic of all the information Google has
To help you picture both the enormity and unprecedented power of what Google knows about you and the world’s information: public, private and proprietary, I have organized all the world’s information types that Google collects onto a one-page chart/PDF: “Google’s ‘Total Information Awareness’ Power.” For...
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Google’s Liability Decade: Why Google’s leadership ducks investors
The abrupt change, that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt will no longer be accountable to shareholders on Google’s earnings calls, should prompt investors to ask why? Google claimed that they wanted to put more focus on Google’s strong financials, but they did not disclose any more...
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GoogleMonitor.com Launches Today — Will spotlight Google’s lack of transparency and accountability
January 27, 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 Media@GoogleMonitor.com GoogleMonitor.com Launches Today Will spotlight Google’s lack of transparency and accountability WASHINGTON – A new web site designed to make Google more transparent and accountable launched today. GoogleMonitor.com is a crowd-sourcing site...
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Takeaways from Google’s 4Q09 earnings
Google generated probably the strongest annual revenue growth, 17%, of any large U.S. company this past quarter. Given that Google is exceptionally non-transparent, the minimal guidance and insight that Google is required to provide as a public company always provides a rare glimpse into what...
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Systemic Uneconomics: Financial Crisis Root Causes: Part III
To discern the real “root” causes of the financial crisis of 2008, one must probe beneath the surface and examine the health of the “root system” of our capital markets “forest.” The roots of the capital markets forest are sound economics; the natural market function...
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“Systemic Risk Laundering” — Financial Crisis Root Causes — Part II
How could American taxpayers get stuck with a multi-trillion dollar tab that they weren’t even aware that they were running up? How could that huge tab still be allowed to run up unchecked today? For the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the sad...
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