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The Ninth Circuit may soon be getting a new judge and it is likely to be Northern District of California Judge Lucy Koh, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Judge Koh, who we once dubbed the “most powerful woman in Silicon Valley,” is best known for presiding over the Apple v. Samsung trial, where she […]

If you want to protect your data, privacy, and communications from corporations, government snoops, or hackers, end-to-end encryption is a great way to start. It’s the type of encryption Apple and Google added to their mobile devices and smartphones over a year ago, leading to government claims that such encryption will be used to protect […]

According to a survey by Legal Workspace, only 13 percent of 240 responding law firms actually possess the required technology to process and maintain compliance with HIPAA. “For an industry that is traditionally hyper-concerned with protecting client information, legal is clearly not keeping up with business standards regarding technology and security,” said Joe Kelly of […]

You make sure contractors in your global supply chain keep private data secure. You take pains to ensure third party corruption compliance. You may even require suppliers to adopt social and environmental standards. But have you addressed slavery? There are more slaves today than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade over 300 years […]

The current melt-down of the world’s debt bubble is likely to continue in the course of the next months. The secular trend to expansion of credit has morphed into contraction and liquidation. It is my opinion that the new trend is now established and no action by any of the Central Banks (CB) that issue […]

The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Tunde Fowler has revealed that Nigeria earned N3.74 trillion out of a budget of N4.57 trillion for the fiscal year ended December 2014. This represents an 8% drop from a year earlier.  This will be the first time Nigeria will fail to meet its tax collection target […]

The National Bureau of Statistic has released its Q3 and Q4 2015 report on Capital Importation in Nigeria. The report showed that the total value of Capital imported into Nigeria in the Third Quarter of 2015 was $2,748.10 million, up 3.07% from the preceding quarter. This was followed by a total of $1,556.95 million in […]Read More

Submitted by Tony Sagami via MauldinEconomics.com, “At current spot rates, we would expect a significant impact to revenue and profit again in 2016.”—Martin Schroeter, CFO of IBM We’re in the middle of earnings season, and one of the themes I am hearing over and over from American companies is how the strong dollar is killing […]Read More

In the leadup to the financial crisis, lenders did some pretty silly things. The securitization bonanza and the attendant proliferation of the “originate to sell” model drove lenders to adopt increasingly lax underwriting standards. Put simply, the pool of creditworthy borrowers is by definition finite. That’s a problem because the securitization machine needs feeding. So what […]Read More

Via GEFIRA, The Bank of Japan’s unexpected rate cuts to negative are a desperate attempt to help out the FED and to support the dollar at the expense of the aging Japanese population. The negative market reaction to the FED’s rate hike of December shows that investors do not believe an economic recovery in the US […]Read More

The US military faces five “big challenges,” Ash Carter told the Economic Club of Washington on Tuesday. Those challenges are: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and ISIS. So essentially, the exact same “challenges” Washington has been trotting out for years to justify hundreds upon hundreds of billions in defense spending, only with one CIA pet […]

In mid-January, just as the market was crashing due to among other things concerns that the economy was prolapsing, we had a brief exchange with the Atlanta Fed asking them why they waited until the after the close of trading to report that its Q1 GDP estimate had crashed to the lowest yet, at 0.6% […]