If They’re Going To Hire Chinese Workers What’s The Point Of Having Foxconn In...
There's a story - WSJ no less - that Foxconn is hoping to bring in Chinese workers to staff at least part of its...
SpaceX’s Starlink, Network Latency And HFT In Financial Markets
There's a new paper out making the claim that Starlink, a satellite internet network mooted by SpaceX, will be hugely valuable for financial markets...
Genes, Intelligence And The Racial Implications For Public Policy
This is a fascinating article on the subject of genes, their creation or not of intelligence and the implications this has or public policy...
The Electricity Costs Of Mining Bitcoin, Crypto And Other Metals – Try To Get...
A report out telling us that mining for Bitcoin - and other cryptocurrencies - costs rather more than going out and mining for real...
Berkshire Hathaway Buys Back Stock As Warren Buffett Can’t Find Anything To Spend The...
If we were to believe the likes of Robert Reich and Elizabeth Warren then Warren Buffett's recent actions at Berkshire Hathaway would be tolling...
Amazon India’s Losses Mount – Showing Why It Pays So Little Tax
Amazon India is losing money hand over fist in its marketplace section. That's the part where other third parties use the infrastructure to reach...
Facebook Producing Insufficient Tractors
In the Telegraph yesterday:
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is now under fresh pressure to provide evidence on fake news and ads after politicians in...
Facebook’s Profit On WhatsApp Ads Should Be Around The 99% Or More Level
To no one's surprise at all WhatsApp has let loose the news that it will indeed be placing ads on the app, in the...
Crawshaws Butchers Goes Bust – Behold The Power Of Capitalism To Make Us Richer
Crawshaws Butchers has just gone into administration - the polite way of saying gone bust - putting 600 jobs on the line. Which is...
GM Isn’t Firing 18,000 Bureaucrats, More’s The Pity, Just Offering Buyouts
Hope springs ever eternal to be dashed against the rocks of reality. As with this news that GM is to get rid of 18,000...