Posts Tagged ‘ privacy ’

Thomas Jefferson: Crypto-Rebel?

Dec 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Encryption is the process of coding and decoding information to ensure its privacy. Encryption means that law enforcement and national security are losing surveillance capabilities, like wiretapping, upon which they have depended for decades. Government can still access well-encrypted communication, but they cannot decipher it into useful information; secure emails ...read more

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Move Your Money Out of America and Soon

Apr 3rd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, International, Personal Investing
Things are getting uncomfortable for individuals and corporations looking to deposit their money in tax havens around the world. Just recently, Congress introduced the so-called “Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act,” which is designed to do away with the privacy afforded by doing business or investing outside the U.S. and to ...read more

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Welcome to the Machine, Part II

Feb 27th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
Welcome my son, Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's all right -- we told you what to dream… -- Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine (Wish You Were Here, 1975) There’s this friend of mine… He works in the financial industry, lives in a well-appointed, relatively new home in an idyllic suburb of ...read more

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