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Opinion: Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards

June 10, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

She Exposed the Truth About ‘Dirty Money’: It’s Everywhere By Mark Schoofs Mr. Schoofs is the editor in chief of BuzzFeed News and a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Last Thursday, President Biden vowed to make global financial systems more transparent so that individuals … [Read more…]

How Big Banks Became Our Masters

September 27, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Well said, Rana Foroohar in the Sept. 27th NYT opinion piece which can be read here.

A New Calculating Machine.

February 13, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Daily Alta California, 13 February 1857 We read in the Moniteur – “M. Thomas, of Colmar, has lately made the finishing improvements in the calculating machine, called the arithmometer, at which he has been working for upwards of thirty years. Pascal and Leibnitz, in the 17th century, and Diderot at a later period, endeavored to … [Read more…]