Leverage, Derivatives And Dog Food: How Wall St. Screwed Up
Following my post on the makings of the financial crisis, some folks noted that I didn't really discuss the issues of leverage and derivatives, and how they ended up screwing up Wall Street something...
View ArticleAndy Grove: Patents Are Like Mortgage Backed Securities
Intel co-founder and former CEO Andy Grove gave quite a speech this weekend at the National Inventors Hall of Fame, where he explained how patents are looking increasingly similar to the sort of...
View ArticleA Week After Feds Approve Movie Derivatives Market, Congress Bans It
Over the last few years, a few companies have been trying to set up financial markets for buying and selling movie derivatives. Effectively, it was a way to financially bet on the performance of...
View ArticleLobbyists Forge Letters To Pretend There's A 'Grassroots' Interest In...
This story actually comes from back in November, but I just found out about it due to a recent Planet Money episode all about the regulatory scramble to rewrite our banking rules. The whole podcast is...
View ArticleShould Creative Commons Drop Its NonCommercial & NoDerivatives License Options?
While we're big fans of Creative Commons in general, for many years, we've raised questions about some of the licenses/clauses -- with the NonCommercial one being of particular concern. Almost four...
View ArticleLeverage, Derivatives And Dog Food: How Wall St. Screwed Up
Following my post on the makings of the financial crisis, some folks noted that I didn't really discuss the issues of leverage and derivatives, and how they ended up screwing up Wall Street something...
View ArticleAndy Grove: Patents Are Like Mortgage Backed Securities
Intel co-founder and former CEO Andy Grove gave quite a speech this weekend at the National Inventors Hall of Fame, where he explained how patents are looking increasingly similar to the sort of...
View ArticleA Week After Feds Approve Movie Derivatives Market, Congress Bans It
Over the last few years, a few companies have been trying to set up financial markets for buying and selling movie derivatives. Effectively, it was a way to financially bet on the performance of...
View ArticleLobbyists Forge Letters To Pretend There's A 'Grassroots' Interest In...
This story actually comes from back in November, but I just found out about it due to a recent Planet Money episode all about the regulatory scramble to rewrite our banking rules. The whole podcast is...
View ArticleShould Creative Commons Drop Its NonCommercial & NoDerivatives License Options?
While we're big fans of Creative Commons in general, for many years, we've raised questions about some of the licenses/clauses -- with the NonCommercial one being of particular concern. Almost four...
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