The financial sector in 2030

Via Business Insider: …two 2030 growth scenarios. The first is the “continued growth in the wealth management business” that is “driven by independent advisors, online tools and advice companies, and emerging international markets.” The...

First Bitcoin ATM in Canada

Via Business Insider: The first Bitcoin ATM in the world is believed to launch in Canada next week.  According to reports from CBC, Mitchell Demeter, co-founder of Vancouver bitcoin trading company Bitcoiniacs and part-owner of Robocoin, has invested in five such...

Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs

Via Newgeography.com: With Twitter’s high-profile IPO, the media and much of the pundit class are revisiting one of their favorite themes: the superiority of the brash, young urban tech elite, who don’t need to produce much in the way of profits to be showered with...

Gartner’s dark vision for tech, jobs

Via Instapundit and Network World: Science fiction writers have long told of great upheaval as machines replace people. Now, so is research firm Gartner. The difference is that Gartner, which provides technology advice to many of the world’s largest companies,...

The Perils of Premature Deindustrialization

Via Instapundit, American Interest, and Project Syndicate: Most of today’s advanced economies became what they are by traveling the well-worn path of industrialization. A progression of manufacturing industries – textiles, steel, automobiles – emerged from the ashes...