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ABC's cancellation of Roseanne – another example of extended CSR?

A sitcom TV show will be cancelled in the US because the star is spreading controversial and mean messages on social media: "US television network ABC has cance...

In economics Marx was not a pioneer – nothing to celebrate here

People have been celebrating the 200th birthday of economic philosopher Karl Marx. Controversially, EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker joined the company of the world...

Social media companies have become fragile and distorted from the ideals of internet

Bloomberg reported about the paradox of YouTube: this financially successful company is said to be having "its worst year ever" what comes to content. The artic...

Liberal bias in Silicon Valley does not represent consistent diversity

A report by Lincoln Network says that Libertarians and Conservatives (the most free market friendly groups) feel the most job-related dissatisfaction in Silicon...

The house always wins – except in the ICOs

One of the fundamental reasons behind financial regulation is the attempt to protect small, non-institutional investors with lesser professional knowledge of th...

Making sense of blockchain, cryptos and decentralization

This is my first attempt to classify different phenomena around blockchain, cryptocurrency ecosystem and decentralized mentality. I find these three elements ce...

Quality over quantity content on society, economics and cryptos

When I joined Steemit last year and made my first introduction post, I was not able to accurately foresee what my presence on this platform would bring. I am a ...

Taleb on Bitcoin: an insurance policy against Orwellian future

Nassim Taleb, a world-famous philosopher, statistician and the author of Black Swan and Antifragile writes big thoughts about bitcoin in a way that you cannot h...

Taking Jordan Peterson debate on wage gap to universal income equality

Clinical psychologist and professor Jordan B Peterson visited Channel 4 News and had a debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism. He was a...

Public discussion about bitcoin reveals economic illiteracy

The biggest cryptocurrency has gained notable attention lately, and as the technical and social foundations of the blockchain-based currency seem very uncertain...

Trust technology like blockchain may introduce new uncertainties

Blockchain systems and especially public and distributed ledgers are often called "trust mechanisms", "trust networks" or "trustless systems". All these labels ...

Crypto investments are not a question of economic rationality

...or irrationality. The famous quote from (otherwise personally not that admirable) economist John Maynard Keynes says: "The market can remain irrational longe...

South Korean crypto ban plans make no brakes for the crypto train

Developments of bitcoin and cryptocurrency universe have been a growing part of the mainstream finance news already. Today South Korea's government announced it...

"Forget cryptocurrencies, Invest in Platforms"

Seeking Alpha published an interesting article by Lynn Sebastian Purcell who is indeed contributing to our sensemaking of the currently chaotic or rapidly devel...

Financial Times starting to realize the wider cryptocurrency ecosystem

Last week I wrote that the ecosystem beyond bitcoin still awaits to be realized and understood. Now I am surprised how little I had to wait to see that a more c...

Challenges of realizing cryptocurrencies: significance of the ecosystem beyond bitcoin

Today was the first time in history when the market capitalization of bitcoin (circulating supply market price) fell below 1/3 of the whole cryptocurrency ecosy...

The case against CEO as a moral compass

Related to the recent Nordic Business Forum, this internationally recognized topic of "CEO as a moral compass" has just reached Finland. The original discussion...

China bans ICOs - a couple of thoughts

One hour ago CNBC announced that China bans companies from raising money through ICOs. Cryptocurrency investors may take this with mixed feelings. A big nation ...

"Fake news" is not a joke

It seems that the dust has started to settle around Google Memo case. Further discussions still go on, as there seems to be no turning point for underlying soci...

The case against diversity targets (not a viable performance driver)

Google Memo and firing of engineer James Damore continue to provide us with numerous heated discussion topics. It seems that the other extreme is actively denyi...