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One of President Obama’s top economic advisers says the rest of the world may have too much faith in the U.S. recovery. “If your economic plan is to count on exports to the U.S. [to produce growth], that’s not a plan that I would support,” said Jason Furman, who heads the President’s Council of Economic…
Marin County is the odd hippie commune in the college that is the United States. You know what I’m talking about — that rundown house on the edge of campus which you would walk by only to get to the Arts Center, because passing by meant watching unwashed students spitting kombucha into each other’s mouths….
The best virtual plant-growing app seed capital can buy? (Ice Water Games) Soon, all you’ll need to enjoy the exciting experience of watching plants grow is an app. At least, that appears to be the idea behind Viridi, a project in development from Ice Water Games. The developer describes Viridi as “a meditative potted plant app”…
Andrew McMillan has an entertaining longread in Medium about the adventures of a Wikipedian named Giraffedata who’s dedicated his life to one specific type of edit to the world’s largest encyclopedia: eliminating uses of “comprise” as a synonym for “compose.” He has almost 50,000 pedantry-driven Wikipedia edits, all on this one point. But like so many…
Lax U.S. rules and real estate industry’s no-questions-asked approach make it easy for dodgy characters to funnel wealth through high-end Manhattan apartments. One day during Chen Shui-bian’s second term as Taiwan’s president, several people lugged what a witness described as “five or six” fruit boxes into the presidential residence in Taipei. Inside the crates, the…
In a country beset by increasing wealth and income inequality, few places are more economically disparate than New York City. Part of what drives income inequality in New York is that it’s an extremely attractive place for the global elite to live, or in many cases to park their vast fortunes. On Sunday, The New…
Obama lied, nobody died. Is it okay, then? Maybe don’t believe in the part about opposing gay marriage. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Eight years ago today, Barack Obama formally declared his presidential candidacy. He was opposed to gay marriage, a stance that his former adviser David Axelrodnow admitswas a sham. Obama privately believed in gay…
One57, on West 57th Street, where a penthouse is reportedly in contract for $90 million. (Photo: Rendering Courtesy of Extell Development) Additional reporting by Michael Hudson of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. PART I. THE BUYER The buyer, an Italian, was in town for a week, with a million or so dollars to spend….
back to all blog posts December 17, 2014Tagged / culture / culture change / how we work / by Mike Bland There were many things I appreciated about the Google development culture during my time at the company. The entire environment was set up to make it as easy as possible to share information between…
close shareTools BEIJING — China’s annual consumer inflation hit a five-year low in January while factory deflation worsened, underscoring deepening weakness in the economy and heaping pressures on policymakers to inject more stimulus to underpin growth. The risk of deflation is rising for the world’s second-largest economy as a property market downturn and widespread factory…