After writing for years about the benefits of certificates and short-term credential programs, especially for working learners, I had begun to feel inauthentic, like a self-help guru who doesn’t take her own advice. So I finally enrolled in one this spring: Google’s “career certificate” program in data analytics, available online through Coursera for $39 a […]
Big Tech
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What Really Happened to Silicon Valley Bank
The hubris of Big Finance and Big Tech, the Fed dropping the ball, and the stupidity and greed of SVB were behind the crisis.
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The New Political Economy
In the immortal Federalist No. 10, James Madison wrote, The most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like […]
