John Wunderlich & Associates, Inc

01/12/2022

... former OECD chief economist, Catherine Mann was decidedly pessimistic about the long-term future of the US economy. She saw the US as a chronically a low investment and low productivity economy with high inequality and with little prospect of post-COVID of becoming one that is more equal and characterized by higher investment, strong labour markets and better productivity. “What if the boom from policy choices does not catalyze sustained private sector activity, will inflation spiral? If so, policies will need to retrench, leading to a bust.”, she warned.

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/01 /12/assa-2022-part-one-the-mainstream/

3 posts published by michael roberts during January 2022

06/29/2021

A website reported to be based in Russia is once again live streaming unsecured home and business security cameras after the federal privacy commissioner and other international authorities demanded it stop. But websites that stream unsecured cameras aren't illegal.

06/28/2021

As useful as all those add-ons can be, don't get complacent when it comes to making sure they're also secure.

06/28/2021

Most of us know that our personal data is being collected, stored and analysed. But are we really aware of the full extent of the privacy invasions into our daily lives?

06/27/2021

Researchers found a novel class of DNS vulnerabilities in AWS Route53 and other DNS-as-a-service offerings that leak sensitive information on corporate and government customers, with one simple registration step.

06/26/2021

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The delta between the rich and the poor is the result of vaccine apartheid. While this inequity persists, none of us will truly be safe.

06/26/2021

Interoperability, Privacy, and Security in Healthcare: CyberPrivacy, HIE, XDS, mHealth, Provenance, Patient, Directory, FHIR, Consent, Blockchain.

06/26/2021

June 25, 2021 18 Comments Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Intern...

06/26/2021

Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising.” From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and da...

06/25/2021

VICTORIA — The use of facial recognition technology by the Liberal Party of Canada as part of its process to pick candidates in the next federal election could result in a privacy investigation in . . .

06/25/2021

The relentless drive by technology companies and bureaucracy to eliminate actual humans from the decision loops about humans. Tech utopia = human dystopia https://buff.ly/3gDks8u

06/25/2021

What will be the impact on mental health of being under surveillance by your health apps?

Analysis of 20,000 mobile apps that ask for sensitive information shows that some track users across different platforms