Earlier this month, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised radical changes in the country’s approach to drugs if he was elected—namely, he was going to decriminalize them. He…
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Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, proposed an overhaul of the global financial system in favour of a stablecoin like Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra, today. He advocated…
Remember in January when Gillette launched an advertising campaign scolding men for their toxic masculinity? As it turns out, walking into the landmine that is social identity politics wearing…
The United States has had enough from bullshit robocalls that their government has actually gotten off their collective asses and called up their buddies in the major telecom companies…
Privacy is the price we all pay for living in advanced capitalism. The flipside of this argument is that while this new regime spells potentially terrifying new avenues for…
Alibaba Group Holding (BABA.NYSE) delayed opening it’s $15 billion listing in Hong Kong because of the ongoing political unrest. The company states that it’s eventually going to open there,…
Originally, Satoshi Nakamoto intended Bitcoin to act as a hedge against the greed and incompetence of central bankers, which he saw as central to most of the economic woes…
Ride hailing companies Uber (UBER.NYSE) and Lyft (LYFT.Q) are coming to Vancouver after a long wait beginning start month, but they’re coming with significant restrictions. Drivers working for ride-hailing…
It’s easy to point at our neighbours to the south and accuse them of behaving in ways common to abusive imperialists because they have a track record in trade,…
For the first time since 2008, the Fed cut rates by 25 basis points to boost economic growth. In a perfect world, a lower cost of borrowing would’ve made…