The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
The Wall Street Journal, and (scroll down) Naked Capitalism, on compensation czar Kenneth Feinberg's ruling on executive pay at seven bailed-out financial firms:
Pay Czar to Slash Compensation at Seven Firms
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Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism is skeptical:
Pay Czar Decides to Collect a Few Scalps, a Sign of Weakness
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