Less lost . Here is joel weber on tech loss . Here is a joel weber on tech lash. There in the zeitgeist right now, tech lash, one of the words of the week. People outraged at tech and the privacy issues. When we thought about that, this image resonated more than any other with us. It was this image that a company , joel steins story, he experimented with how to take back privacy in his own life and disable tech from encroaching in his world. He found a mask. The cover images creepy image is creepy. It is for facial recognition technology. It speaks to a larger thing. There is tech lash, in d. C. Especially. That is a theme. Antitrust is a theme. Those things feel out of your domain as an individual. This cover is an attempt for us to say, you as an individual, what can you do in your daily life that will still have a modest consequence . Asol it is not so easy joels story shows us, it is not so easy. He has been on gmail 15 years. The thing that is so part of his life. Its where he com
Hiding from silicon valley. Here is joel weber on tech lash. There in the zeitgeist right now, tech lash, one of the words of the week. There is this overarching theme of people outraged at tech and the privacy issues. When we thought about that, this image resonated more than any other with us. It was this image that a company, joel steins story, he experimented with how to take back privacy in his own life and disable tech from encroaching in his world. He found a mask. The cover image is creepy. It is for facial recognition technology. It speaks to a larger thing. There is tech lash, in d. C. Especially. That is a theme. Antitrust is a theme. Those things feel out of your domain as an individual. This cover is an attempt for us to say, you as an individual, what can you do in your daily life that will still have a modest consequence . Carol as joels story shows us, it is not so easy. He has been on gmail for 15 years. The thing that is so part of his life. Its where he communicated
Well tell you why his job is harder than he may think. Carol plus, our conversation with a ceo. Have a trade spats are affecting his company. Jason but we begin with joel weber. Lets start with the International Cover. Its a look about the bond market, debt, whats going on . Joel cheap money has been around for a decade now and it is having a profound effect in the Global Economy. We look at the ecb this week and negative rates, negative rates has been an untested policy tool that japan was using. And now its starting to spread. It was going to go away, and now its back almost, and its just a profound idea that a bondholder would invest in something that, if you hold that for duration, youre going to lose money. It just goes against the principles of investing. This is investing 101. Carol who wouldve thought we if you go back even a decade ago, that we would in this environment . Here we are. And it affects everything. Joel the idea of low rates was to spur growth. Thats not happened.
Escaped the populist movement we have seen around the globe. Megan what it has not escaped is an economic slowdown or perceived economic slowdown which is really affecting Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister who could do no wrong. His support has slumped a little bit and he is facing an angst among his people not too dissimilar from the populism wave of people saying canada needs to return to its roots. I will support in the heartland and the west parts of the country of particular. Julia he has had challenges. The Paradise Papers have been an issue. Politically there has been noises surrounding him that have not been very helpful. Megan he has had a few domestic scandals. His chief fundraiser and finance minister under scrutiny. The core concern is the have this 4. 5 growth, but as oil prices have declined in projections for growth are hovering around 2 he is facing pressure. People are facing the same amount of concerns about their wages, lack of wage growth, how they will afford thin
Murphy. The lead in the finance section is on bitcoin. We have been talking about the bitcoin so much in the last week. Over the past year, let alone several years, we have not ever seen so much moving in price. We have seen a volatile movements in price. This is a staggering statistic. Less than 1000 people hold 40 of the worlds bitcoin. With the market being as volatile as it is, the price going up so much, some of the people we know, when one of these big owners, it can cause an extreme drop in price because of the concentration of ownership in the hands of relatively few. What we are looking at with cryptocurrency, forget the broader debate about bitcoin. This is a real problem for the market transparency. A situation where people dont even know who the owners of the of bitcoin are. Its not similar to win a big shareholder sells off. Its exacerbating it. Julia we are going to see exchanges like the cme introducing futures on bitcoin. Will this increase transparency, liquidity and p