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Global Power Struggle: US On Shaky Ground

7 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket

“I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded… We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner...

The Right to Information Act of India: Why is it important?

4 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

The Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005 is a privileged feature for the citizens' queries. It has become common practice to quote the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005 when reporting on political, financial, social, and various matters connected to...

Awfully Basic Complex Creatures

21 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cMasta

So I was thinking about buying some land for a house and, at the suggestion of my father (whom I was surprised opened up to this idea at all), I decided to look up the zoning laws in my jurisdiction. The zoning laws turn out to be very vague and extr...

Advantages GPS based toll collection brings

23 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Bala

A few days back I wrote an article about how the toll collection in India is improving and how they are planning to use GPS for toll collection. In this article, I'm going to discuss the advantages of toll collection with the help of GPS. Before we g...

Keynote: Critical Infrastructures Are Under Attack From Aggressive Nation States

19 Feb 2024 1 minute read 19 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Critical Infrastructures are under attack from aggressive nation states! Governments must step forward to help protect these crucial sectors and the services they provide to citizens. My cybersecurity keynote from the InCyber North American conferen...

Where Goes Coinbase, So Go the Rest of Us?

16 Feb 2024 2 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti

The digital finance world was knocked off balance a little bit today when word came out that not only did Coinbase make a very tidy revenue this latest quarter, the American crypto exchange pummeled analyst expectations as a publicly-traded entity an...

Elizabeth Warren and Turbotax (Newsweek -TurboTax Under Pressure Over Tax Breaks)

15 Feb 2024 4 minute read 3 comments SeventyFourSeventyFive

I don't like politicians at the national level. I don't mean I don't like one certain party or I dislike most of them. I mean, I don't care for them individually, or as a whole.  I just want to get that out of the way. This article, the one mentioned...

SEC Twitter Hacked, Surprised?

9 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti

So, in the category of, "I can't make this stuff up," the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) was hilariously hacked online with spoof approval of a Bitcoin ETF. For weeks now, consternation and expectation has been swirling about the federal g...

A U.S. Tax Law Passed in 2021 is Making Crypto Tax Reporting Hell in 2024

5 Jan 2024 5 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

Back in 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was passed as a response to help the country recover from COVID, inflation, and economic stagnation. And, of course, tax changes were buried in that omnibus law package, intentionally written t...

Can We Agree to Agree? The Consent of the Governed

2 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Herschel

This short story is read during the podcast: https://commercialherschel.substack.com/p/another-dream-objectivity And there is some expounding on political agreement. Can we agree to agree that the divisiveness in the US been engineered? Has this eng...