A Loss of Confidence in Central Banks?
The Markets Are Going to Be Mauled by the Bear says David Stockman. Former OMB Director David Stockman discusses the volatile markets, central banks' policies, and China. He speaks on "Bloomberg ‹GO›." Published Feb 10, 2016 on Bloomberg.com - see also: Bear Market Descends on Global Stocks - Bloomberg Business
Greet the bear | Authers Note - published Feb 11, 2016 - FT.com's John Authers on the day when world stocks slipped into their first bear market in five years. Sweden's Riksbank also cut its benchmark interest rate further than expected, to minus 0.5%--more negative interest rates.
Flatter and lower | Authers' Note - John Authers reports as the US yield curve flattens and the Japanese 10-year bond yields go negative. Published Feb 10, 2016
James Kynge, the FT’s emerging markets editor, explains why investors are fleeing emerging markets and how this reverberates across the world, with developing countries accounting for more than half of global economic growth. Published Feb 11, 2016
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2014-01-28
ICANN, new gTLDs, internet access, developing countries
Won't do any good to buy a new gTLD in the developing world until affordable internet access becomes available (see excerpt below). Wonder if anyone at ICANN thought about that before their explosion of new gTLDs --
In Developing Countries, Google and Facebook Already Defy Net Neutrality | MIT Technology Review: "... Internet access is expensive in developing countries—exorbitantly so for the vast majority of people ... “In the United States it’s practically free for you to get on Google and Facebook, as Wi-Fi is almost everywhere or cheap relative to income. Here, that’s not the case,” he says. “It’s a different relationship to the Internet when you only get it on your phone, and you don’t have a traditional Internet connection at home or work.”..."
Of course, if you're ICANN you can do anything and get away with it since ICANN is not accountable to anyone but itself.
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In Developing Countries, Google and Facebook Already Defy Net Neutrality | MIT Technology Review: "... Internet access is expensive in developing countries—exorbitantly so for the vast majority of people ... “In the United States it’s practically free for you to get on Google and Facebook, as Wi-Fi is almost everywhere or cheap relative to income. Here, that’s not the case,” he says. “It’s a different relationship to the Internet when you only get it on your phone, and you don’t have a traditional Internet connection at home or work.”..."
Of course, if you're ICANN you can do anything and get away with it since ICANN is not accountable to anyone but itself.
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