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High-Speed Trades Imperil Economy; Transparency for Better Governance; CEO: Abolish School Boards
Derailing the High-Speed Trading Bullet Train Before It Crashes Our Economy. High-frequency traders, relying on computers programmed to make trades at speeds measured in the millionths of seconds, accelerated a stock freefall by withdrawing from the market en masse. Four years after they caused the “Flash Crash,” those speed demons still rule our financial markets.
Transparency Camp Creates Solutions For Better Governance. TransparencyCamp is an “unconference” for opengov, an event where, every year hundreds of people gather to share their knowledge about how to use new technologies and policies to make our government really work for the people—and to help people work smarter with our government.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: Abolish Elected School Boards. Elected School Board member Alturrick Kenney and Milwaukee Teachers Union President Bob Peterson respond to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings call to abolish elected school because they impede charter school growth.
Sources: Popular Resistance, Real News Network, Truthout.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
