Tag Archives for economy
Dying Television Networks?
Conglomerates are flailing. The real question is wether we’ll finally see advertising die… -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
China Collapsing
Good rundown of what’s going on in-country. Now, that bargain is breaking down. Exports constitute nearly 40 percent of China’s GDP–far too high a figure. (By comparison, in the U.S., exports account for about 10 percent of GDP most years.) … Continue reading
Brooks: The Young and the Scarce
Brooks has a good piece on scarcity. In other words, a generation that built the only functioning economy of abundance in history (online) is about to take power for 8-12 years, when shortages, firewalling, hoarding, and disconnectivity will be core … Continue reading
Credit Crash Britain
Anyone watching the BBC series ? -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
The Fed is Broke?
TOD has an interesting idea: The theory here is that the Fed has destroyed its balance sheet by taking on increasingly large chunks of non performing assets (the “toxic waste” made from mortgage-backed securities and the like) in exchange for … Continue reading