7 month ago
Linkorama : Goldman Sachs's GSTrUE - Regulatory arbitrage creates a solution for private equity. Credit markets will follow this pattern soon enough. And by then, regulation itself will adapt to close the loophole or fix the imbalance itself
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Network Strategies for Network Industries? - The leading firms building telecommunications and Internet infrastructure increasingly emphasize consolidation, hierarchy, and exclusive control, rather than collaboration and decentralization.
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - Krugman: The bottom line is that policy makers left the financial industry free to innovate — and what it did was to innovate itself, and the rest of us, into a big, nasty mess.
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20 month ago
Linkorama : Why cell phones are still grounded - The government's dirty little secret is that it cultivates uncertainty about the effects of phones in airplanes as a way to maintain the existing ban without having to confront the expense and inconvenience to airlines and wireless carriers of allowing th
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20 month ago
WillPate : Blog-Swarming Net Neutrality in Canada
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Only Connect - My claim is that there are two types of rules for communications networks: interconnection rules and non-discrimination rules. The distinction has never been fully appreciated, even though regulators have imposed both requirements many times. Non-discrimi
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Ken Lay and Wikis - Mayfield also said wikis provide greater transparency within the organization "that might provide a healthy check-and-balance to the decisions made at the executive level."
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41 month ago
Linkorama : Ten Years of Chilled Innovation - That's the fallout from the Supreme Court ruling on file-sharing technologies, says Creative Commons chair and law prof Larry Lessig
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42 month ago
plasticbag : A quick pass through the regulatory framework concerned with the distribution of Thorium - I don't know why this interests me so much, but there's something glorious and intricate in the form-filling and process. It's like coral...
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44 month ago
plasticbag : The Coming War on Blogs by James D Miller - "I can think of three areas in which the MSM might successfully change laws and regulations to hinder their blogger competitors..."
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