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It’s been almost two decades since the last major trustbusting case in the United States. When will regulators come for the new Silicon Valley giants? Tim Wu, in his book The Curse of Bigness, which is a cool 160 pages…
The day that Maggie Robinson Katz found out that her father had terminal cancer, she also found out that her family was broke. Her father, Terry Robinson, was a prosperous businessman. He was proud of his success, and of his…
“A photograph is a secret about a secret,” Diane Arbus said. In the case of Vivian Maier, the photographer was a secret, too. From the nineteen-fifties until a few years before she died, in 2009, destitute at the age of…
US Energy Secretary Rick Perry attended the signing ceremony during his tour of Western and Central Europe; the Trump cabinet member is promoting Washington’s energy partnership with the region and US exports of liquefied gas and coal. Poland’s main gas…
The bank’s experts claim that despite a number of benefits offered by the creation of a new digital currency, the main purpose of such a move is to maintain the public’s access to the central bank’s liability, and this particular…
Much has been made of the possible geopolitical motivations behind the decision to price the $5 billion Russian-Indian S-400 deal in roubles, and Moscow and Beijing are eyeing another rouble/yuan-based trade compact. However, Sputnik has discovered that there’s also a…
