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Tech Stocks
A collection of 55 issues
Personal Reflections on Tariffs and the Law of Unintended Consequences
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood. Nobody in our area had much money, except for a few people who might have been connected to organized crime, and I assume they did what they could to hide evidence of prosperity and to obscure the provenance of any alleged ill-gotten gains.
Reviewing Beneficiaries of GenAI Datacenter and Infrastructure Spending
Getting It Right on Intel
I’ve heard there was an election in the United States.
You will find an abundance of commentary on the election results elsewhere, but don’t look for any of that prattle here. Almost everybody who provides a post-mortem on election results will attempt an analysis through a prism of
AI Infrastructure Spending Gives Tech Investors a Halloween Fright
LNG Oversupply? With Tech’s Ascension, There’s No Such Thing as Enough Energy
A few years ago, if you flew across North America on a clear day, preferably in an aircraft, you would sometimes see natural gas flares burning below you at ground level. Natural gas often is found in proximity to oil, so while the oil was extracted and transported for processing
Robotaxis, Faux Robo PR, Robo Content Moderation, Kong’s New Valuation, Canadian Quantum, and Tech-Industry Lobbying
Why Intel’s Future is Unlikely to Include an Acquisition by Qualcomm
Large parts of the technology industry would like to think of themselves as apolitical. Many denizens of the technology world might have no use for politics, but politics, especially of the geopolitical variety, unquestionably has use for many of them.
As geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China intensify,
Why Tech Employment is Not What It Used to Be
When major new technologies arise, the expectation is that prosperity will follow. What’s more, most observers reasonably assume that the wealth will be shared, not evenly – because that never happens – but at least broadly.
For the most part, these expectations and assumption were realized in past information-technology booms, including