Bill Gates Supports Robot Taxation When Used To Replace Jobs
Feb 20, 2017 08:08 am UTC| Technology Law
Scientists have declared automation as being the biggest threat to jobs in the future. With research into smarter artificial intelligence and more efficient machines progressing smoothly, its expected that millions will...
How much does the Johnson Amendment curtail church freedom?
Feb 20, 2017 05:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
On National Prayer Breakfast day in early February, President Donald Trump repeated a pledge he had made several times on the campaign trail that echoed the 2016 Republican Party Platform: I will get rid of, and...
Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance?
Feb 17, 2017 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Law Technology
Wearing a fitness tracking device could earn you cash from your health insurance company. At first, this sounds lucrative for the people who participate, and good for the companies, who want healthier insurance customers....
Would you resort to bribery? Studies show many would
Feb 16, 2017 08:05 am UTC| Law
its notoriously difficult to gauge how often people are willing to offer someone a bribe to get what they want. A 2007 survey suggested that across a range of industrialised countries, two per cent of the public had...
Feb 16, 2017 07:05 am UTC| Digital Currency Insights & Views Law
Winklevoss Capital Management LLC, launched the Winklevoss Investment Trust, the first proposed bitcoin ETF more than three years ago. Consequently, as a matter of regulatory framework, the trusthad filed to trade on the...
Are fossil fuel companies telling investors enough about the risks of climate change?
Feb 16, 2017 06:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, there was a push to require oil and gas companies to inform their investors about the risks of climate change. As governments step up efforts to regulate carbon emissions, the...
Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer
Feb 16, 2017 06:09 am UTC| Real Estate Law
The insecurity of rental housing and unsatisfactory condition of many properties are receiving much-deserved media attention following the release of a national survey of tenants. However, the stock response to the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects