Gongol.com Archives: February 2016
February 18, 2016
Apple fights the FBI over cracking the San Bernardino shooter's phone
People who try to over-simplify the case are going to do harm to our public policies -- it requires nuance to address privacy issues like whether a phone-maker should let police agencies get a back-door skeleton key to the data stored on those phones. Regrettably, media attention is gravitating towards the reaction of one simplistic, reductionist, un-curious bozo running for the Presidency, and that's turning the debate over the issue into a disaster.
ISIS/ISIL/QSIL/Daesh hits a cash crisis
Starving the beast is one way to defeat it -- but don't be surprised if the beast lashes out when it's injured
The gasoline market may be foretelling a summer recession
Timing a recession is really hard to do, because they usually depend upon unpredictable triggers. But there are lots of conditions currently in place that should give us concern that a recession could happen.
Left-wing economists rebuke Sanders campaign for unreasonable economic promises
When even the people inclined to side with you say your assumptions (like growth in excess of 5% a year even under greater burdens of regulation and taxation), then it's time to stop playing Santa Claus and get real about causes and effects. You can promise some things under socialism -- but ultra-fast growth rates are decidedly not among them.
Time is running out to resolve the South China Sea conflict
It's mostly an academic or diplomatic conflict at this stage -- but there's plenty of dry tinder waiting to ignite into a conflagration. Time is running out.
