by Erik Kain on February 28, 2012
The big news today is that Google+ users only spend an average of three minutes a month on the site – a pretty shabby showing compared to Facebook or Pinterest, and one of the lowest time-scores of any social network. Compare Google’s 3 minutes to Facebook’s 405 minutes, or Pinterest and Tumbler’s nearly 100 minutes [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 22, 2012
The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is the latest effort by Congress to do something about the threat of cyber attacks and cyber crime. Fortunately, and perhaps thanks to the efforts to quash SOPA and PIPA, the Act is quite a bit more restrained in scope than its predecessors. You can read the whole thing here. [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 15, 2012
Media tycoon is angry and he’s not afraid to speak his mind. Not to be left in the technological dust, Murdoch took to Twitter to slam Obama and for their position on anti-piracy legislation currently being debated in congress. A fierce SOPA proponent, Murdoch is feeling the pinch as lawmakers begin to retreat from the [...]
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In June of 2010, Daniel Klein and Zeljka Buturovic published a study which they said proved that liberals and progressives were less enlightened about economic issues than their libertarian and conservative counterparts. Klein followed up with an Op/Ed in the Wall Street Journal explaining their methodology and results. As I wrote at the time, conservatives happily [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 28, 2011
Bank of America is reconsidering its plan to charge $5 monthly debit card fees after public outrage has caused several other large banks to drop their own plans to charge similar fees. Bank of America is reconsidering its controversial move to charge monthly debit card fees after a wave of other big banks have dropped [...]
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The Euro rallied Friday, hitting its highest point since 2009. Meanwhile, finance ministers and central bankers of the world’s twenty richest nations, the G20, have called on Europe to find a solution to the European sovereign debt crisis in the next week, in time for the October 23rd EU summit. With Italy and Spain both [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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