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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Evslin submits: Antitrust law needs to be updated to include "too big to fail" as a criterion for dismemberment. The alternative is pervasive regulation and/or government ownership of institutions, which control huge swathes of the economy. Financial regulation is, as we've seen, a chimera: whether or not you blame Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) for being a partial cause of the...
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
As expected, the FCC said today it will take up the issue of creating yet another wireless network, and set rules on cable pricing and programming, at its Dec. 18 meeting. As commenter Tom Evslin pointed out, the alternative wireless broadband network proposed is slow, will likely be filtered and will deliver yesterday’s technology in [...]
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VoIP (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
"shit happens and all the regulation in the world can't prevent or predict it"... (Tom Evslin) I do not agree. Shit happens daily and we should be used to it. Where I disagree is that we WERE used to shit happening somewhere else than in a Bank. That is the reason why so many people trusted their own bank. And they were right to do so. Because USUALLY Banks were supposed to be, if not entirely...
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BuzzMachine (Free subscription) | yesterday
... go about it (and in many cases are going about it). At the New Business Models for News Summit , Tom Evslin made a point of saying he’s not a journalist and then did a wonderful job presenting network economics in a way that opened many eyes. At Davos last January, I ran a session with newspaper editors and technology CEOs (John Chambers, Reid Hoffman, Joe Schoendorf) who slapped the Eeyoreing...
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VoIP (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
That is what Tom Evslin is writing today and I couldn't agree more than what I do. Helping the economy is wrong as much as it is doing something AGAINST it. Economy has its rules, just as life has. The weak dies and the strong (of course strong doesn't mean powerful because corrupted) survives, while the weak dies. And weak includes also the ones who are too corrupted or unable to play the roles...
