SoftBank poured $100 billion into start-ups that use armies of contractors, upending the lives of drivers, hotel operators and real estate agents around the world
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The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether - Part 1
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Most billionaires are people who run very important tollbooths in the economy
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If Universal Basic Income would be introduced, how would you stop prices from rising uncontrollably?
This question has been going through my head for quite some time. UBI has been talked about quite a bit now, and usually the question is if it should be introduced and if yes, how much should...
This question has been going through my head for quite some time. UBI has been talked about quite a bit now, and usually the question is if it should be introduced and if yes, how much should everyone get?
But how would you stop UBI from inflating the economy? If everyone suddenly gets 1000€/month purely because they exist, how do you stop rent from suddenly going up 1000€/month? How do you stop it from going up gradually?
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Far from the spotlight, a Boeing partner feels the heat
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I got access to my secret consumer score. Now you can get yours, too.
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It's time to break up Disney: Part one
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Iceland has become the world's leading miner of digital currency – then the crypto-crooks showed up
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Why Americans hate taxes, and why some people want them to
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'They're madly checking their payrolls': The ugly truth of Australia's underpayment epidemic
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More than 50,000 people are set to get a basic income in a Brazilian city
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Bank of Canada holds at 1.75%, warns economy's resilience to be 'tested'
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Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan?
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H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental
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Why palladium is suddenly a more precious metal
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Financial incentives are weaker than social incentives but very important anyway
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Tether: The story so far
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Riding the unicorn—Peloton accidentally built a fitness cult. A business is a little more complicated.
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Economists are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization
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Why Costco is cheaper than Amazon
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The value of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, grew to a record ten trillion Norwegian crowns ($1.09 trillion) on Friday
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Twitter stock plunges 20% as company blames ad-targeting problems for earnings miss
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What does it take to build the world's best pension systems? Ask the Netherlands and Denmark
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Congressional hearing - An examination of Facebook and its impact on the financial services and housing sectors
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SoftBank to take control of WeWork at a pre-funding valuation of $7.5B - $8B, according to sources
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TechCrunch published Snap's earnings almost 10 minutes before they were released
@alexeheath: TechCrunch appears to have published a prewritten Snap earnings story before the numbers actually went public. Post has been taken down but was up for a few minutes https://t.co/ZlxmDSvHo5
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Introducing the Gulfstream G700
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Financial Bubbles are the Gnostic Heresy: The Voegelin-Minsky Synthesis
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The not-com bubble is popping—The unicorn massacre unfolding today is exactly the opposite of what happened in 2000
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The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint could be good for US businesses, despite opposition from state attorneys general and consumer advocacy groups
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What randomization can and cannot do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
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Over US$40,000 in Bitcoin stolen by trojanized Tor Browser
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FATF – Iceland could land on a gray list of countries which have failed to take sufficient measures to combat money laundering and the financing of acts of terrorism
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What the health care debate still gets wrong
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Domino's Pizza will pull out of three Nordic countries and Switzerland after sustaining significant losses
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Opulence
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Algolia raises $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and over 8000 others
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US Federal Communications Commission formally approves T-Mobile/Sprint merger
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America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon
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Finland said that demands for a EU budget worth 1% of the bloc's combined GDP as well as the EU Commission's proposal for 1.11% were both unrealistic
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Sweden central bank governor Stefan Ingves calls Facebook's Libra a 'catalytic event'
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The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer
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Meet the rich kids who want to give away all their money
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SoftBank seeking to take control of WeWork through financing package
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The 'glass floor' is keeping America's richest idiots at the top
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A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions
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Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
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US Securities and Exchange Commission files emergency action and obtains a temporary restraining order to halt Telegram's cryptocurrency token offering
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Facebook’s Libra association crumbling as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and others exit
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Denmark's gender pay gap among lowest in the world for self employed – Danes rank second in the world behind only Estonia
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