About: William Holstein

I don’t normally comment about the Federal Reserve but it is contemplating a .50 percent increase in interest rates on Wednesday. It is doing this in response to the market’s view, and economists’ view, that the Fed must raise interest rates to counter inflation, which has reared its ugly head. But we have to ask […]…

This article is from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. CSET hosts some of the smartest people on the planet, in my humble estimation. The Euros have figured out to define “core platform services.” The EU’s New Digital Act Could Mean Big Changes for Tech Giants: On March 24, European Union leaders reached […]…

I have been involved in this grand debate since driving to Midland, Michigan in the mid-1970s to interview Dow Chemical CEO Carl Gerstacker, who argued that he wanted to buy an island not governed by any nation-state to domicile his company. He believed Dow should become independent of any government. Here’s where we are today: https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/covid-and-war-reshoring-america-inc/…

After a long silence, Chris Inglis, the nation’s first cyber czar, is emerging with a strategy to cajole, prod and otherwise force the American private sector to start doing what is necessary to defend America’s computers. The heart of the problem has been that defending those systems would require hiring more trained people and fixing […]…