A historical collection of our writing.
What happened in yesterday’s market underlines the deep bind we now find ourselves in. We have politically precluded new revenues and have shifted our attention to deficit reduction at a time when we would need to invest. We have already had two rounds of quantitative easing and interest rates are […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I was already planning to write this post today before I knew that the markets would open down sharply (Nasdaq down almost 3% as of 11:30am Eastern). While we are still well off the 52-week lows this shakiness in the markets has very real reasons: Europe has been a mess for a while and the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Have you ever wondered why a bank charges an 18+% interest rate on credit card balances (regardless of credit history), but only pays depositors 1% on their balance? These are fantastic economics for bank management and bank stockholders, but not for borrowers or depositors. We believe it is a […] Read more
The question as to what should represent people online has has generated some mighty fine posts and comments recently. Here is a short list of people strongly supporting some form of pseudonymity or even anonymity: – Caterina Fake: Anonymity and Pseudonyms in Social Software- Andy Weissman: […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been struck recently by how much is being said and published by politicians and their supporters that is outright wrong. The latest attempts to rewrite slavery as a time of “family values” for African Americans is yet another example (see today’s New York Times). I am beginning to think that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In real life I am who I am. As Boon and Watt once wrote: “Real names be proof.”But does a name, a real name, an identity, capture the full richness of personal self-expression? I’m not sure it does – indeed I believe that one of the promises of the Internet is that online social networks […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
