Bitcoin had been a bit player as people designed their financial portfolios. Investors would ask ‘is this a scam and am I chasing the latest shiny object?’ But today it seems as if cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology that undergirds it is getting newfound respect. The second Trump Administration has passed The Genius Act and …
Many of us are unwitting victims of the private equity industry. Some by virtue of being employed by companies they have bought whose future success or failure may have no impact on the private equity firm’s ability to profit from the leveraged buyout of those companies. In her new book, “Bad Company: Private Equity and …
It is said that we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Thus, we have taken some steps to protect endangered species–but clearly not enough. And while the stories we usually tell ourselves about global warming tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising …
It can be hard to explain how the actions of the top .01 percent have severe consequences for the rest of us, but in his book, “Burned by Billionaires,” Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies, lays it out chapter and verse. He demonstrates through words and charts how the rest of us …
America has many challenges in the health industry. And while our guest, who came to America as an immigrant, wanted desperately to be part of what he considered to be ‘the best medical system in the world’ back in 1975, he no longer holds that view. He says that our system has become too politicized, …
While the ideal of the American woman was to be skinny, now they need to be skinny and have a glow acquired through some combination of daily yoga, vegan makeup and mushroom coffee or tea. Gwyneth Paltrow’s company, GOOP, in many ways best exemplifies this growing industry which rakes in about $5.6 trillion a year …
Refrigeration is considered to be the most impactful invention in the history of food and drink. And while we focus on our personal refrigerators there is an entire ‘cold chain’ of cold storage warehouses, shipping containers, trucks, and display cases, keeping foodstuffs fresh until we can purchase them. It’s a labyrinth never documented in the …
Diane Ravitch, Ph.D, is a historian of education. For decades now, she has written, lectured and been interviewed about her views on a range of subjects related to education reform, including standardized testing, vouchers, charter schools and accountability. Early on, she was a proponent of all of the above. She was part of the leadership …
While we might think that ambulances are always involved in step on the gas exercises–get the paddles out, extricate from a car wreck or save from the effects of a heart attack, in truth there are many folks in the ambulance because they’ve run out of luck and have no one to call, excepting 9-1-1, …
Tim Bakken, a civilian professor, and the longest-serving law professor in West Point’s history, filed a lawsuit recently in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging a new U.S. Military Academy policy regulating faculty speech, which he alleges violates the First Amendment. You may recall that Professor Bakken was on …