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Labor Day: UBI versus Job Guarantee
Albert Wenger – Sep 2, 2019
The majority of the 2020 presidential candidates on the Democratic side support a Federal Job Guarantee with Andrew Yang being the lone voice in favor of a Universal Basic Income. Both of these policies are aiming to address the changes [...] Read more
Labor Day: UBI versus Job Guarantee
Albert Wenger – Sep 2, 2019
The majority of the 2020 presidential candidates on the Democratic side support a Federal Job Guarantee with Andrew Yang being the lone voice in favor of a Universal Basic Income. Both of these policies are aiming to address the changes [...] Read more
Entering the United States to Study
Albert Wenger – Aug 28, 2019
Thirty one years ago, in 1987, I landed at Boston Logan Airport with an F1 student visa to attend Harvard. I was full of excitement and not the least bit concerned about getting into the country. I had been here [...] Read more
Is Ethereum the AOL of Crypto?
Albert Wenger – Aug 26, 2019
Of course Ethereum is not a walled garden the way AOL was. Anyone can write and deploy a smart contract, whereas adding functionality to AOL required a contract and a custom implementation. What I means instead is that much of [...] Read more
WeWork IPO and Quantitative Easing
Albert Wenger – Aug 23, 2019
There are many terrific analyses of the WeWork IPO filing out there. One thing I have not read is someone pointing out how there is a possibility that this all works, despite the hokum language and the eye popping capital [...] Read more
The Purpose of a Corporation
Albert Wenger – Aug 21, 2019
On Monday of this week the Business Roundtable, an organization which “represents chief executive officers (CEOs) of America’s leading companies,” published a new statement on the purpose of a corporation. The new statement, which was signed by 181 executives, explicitly [...] Read more
Email Reset
Albert Wenger – Aug 19, 2019
Earlier this morning, I marked some 65,000 emails as read. Many of these are various kind of junk, but I am sure they contain some gems of opportunity and some important asks for help. They definitely include some instances where [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 4: What to Do?
Albert Wenger – Aug 12, 2019
So far my climate crisis posts have been about declaring an actual emergency, the encouraging youth movement and joining the global climate strike on September 20th. Now I want to turn to the question of what to do. Today’s post [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 3: A Global Strike
Albert Wenger – Aug 2, 2019
This is the third post in a series on the climate crisis. Post 1 declares the crisis. Post 2 is about the rising youth movement. Today’s post is about what to do next. The first and most urgent step everyone can take is [...] Read more