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Recently Noted – the future of bitcoin and blockchain technologies – UPDATED

January 17, 2018 Comments Off

UPDATE: IBM does blockchain….Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies are subject to the same control by the rich and corporations as our existing financial and business sectors. These technologies are embedded in the socio-economic structures of capitalism. Concentrations of power dominate the existing capitalist world and they will dominate these new “disruptive” technology entrants. —>> read more –>>

Creating Segregated America in the 20th Century – Government in Action

July 12, 2017 Comments Off

Government, Federal, state and local took affirmative actions to set up and sustain segregation that is clearly unconstitutional and illegal. The de jure nature of the history then puts the burden on the government, our government, to remedy the situation. —>> read more –>>

Wall St – not about investing but fixing the game

July 9, 2013 Comments Off

An article in the NY TImes today reports [2]Regulators Examining Early Sales of Financial Data http://nyti.ms/12hDF3t that NY Attorney General Schneiderman is pursuing various information providers, Thomson Reuters in the immediate case, for their practices —>> read more –>>

High Frequency Trading and Deeper Questions about Capitalism

March 27, 2012 Comments Off

A recent PBS Newshour report by Paul Solman on Thursday 3/15/12 in his series “Making Sense of Financial News” gave pause concerning the role of high frequency traders (HFT) on Wall St. (and doubtless on —>> read more –>>