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I was asleep when I heard the door rattle against the frame. My eyes flashed open and I sprung upright in my under-desk sleep space. Was it all over? Had someone come to work early? I peered over my desk, afraid of what I might see. The morning sun burned through the chicken-scratch graffiti of…
*That is to say, its ruthless efficiency as an engine of inequality This Chart WIll Restore Your Faith in Capitalism* — The Nib — Medium.
The future is looking bright The Sharing Economy is Extremely Good — The Nib — Medium.
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First Look: U.S. Dollar Substitute to Go Public on Oct 20th? 04.23.2015 BY Kelly Brown, Stansberry Research IMF headquarters in Washington D.C. expected to release huge money announcement Oct 20th Learn more… The International Monetary Fund is one of the most secretive and powerful organizations in the world. They monitor the financial health of more than 185…
With the Nasdaq sitting at new highs having finally eclipsed the previous record of 5,048 set in March of 2000 and with consumers not-so-eagerly awaiting their chance to get in on the supposed wave of the wearables future by purchasing their very own Apple Watch, we learn that the fate of the tech bubble now…
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. If you think the widening chasm between the rich and the rest spells trouble for American democracy, have a look at the growing gulf between the information-rich and-poor. Earlier this year, a Harvard economist’s jaw-dropping study of American’s beliefs about the distribution of American wealth became a viral video. Now…
Julie Zeveloff/Business InsiderNew York’s hottest, most exclusive neighborhood is Rikers Island. The most expensive neighborhood in New York City isn’t TriBeCa or the West Village. It’s Rikers Island. The city spent an average of $167,000 per inmate on its jail system in 2012, according to a new report from the city’s Independent Budget Office. That’s nearly…
Photo In Brooklyn, signs for demonstrators seeking higher wages are stored along Flatbush Avenue. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters Some 15 years ago, searching for a consistent way to compare wages of equivalent workers across the world, Orley Ashenfelter, an economics professor at Princeton University, came upon McDonald’s. The uniform, highly scripted production methods used throughout the…
In 1998, Carnegie Mellon researchers warned that the internet could make us into hermits. They released a study monitoring the social behavior of 169 people making their first forays online. The web-surfers started talking less with family and friends, and grew more isolated and depressed. “We were surprised to find that what is a social…