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| 18:46 17/10/2019 |
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Deloitte BrandVoice: Enabling Your Employees To Become Change Makers When you look at your youngest employees, you’re peering into your companies’ futures and witnessing the real-time development of individuals who will someday lead —and potentially reinvent—your i... |
| 18:30 24/08/2019 |
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Would You Rather Have a Dollar Today or 89 Cents Ten Years from Now? On August 16, the yield on the Swiss 10-year bond fell to -1.132%. Consider the implications.... |
| 13:00 24/08/2019 |
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Death of the Hybrid Vehicle: GM and Volkswagen Say Goodbye GM and Volkswagen pulled the plug on hybrid cars. Ford and Toyota didn't.... |
| 10:00 24/08/2019 |
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MIB, Ron Williams, Aetna CEO This week, we speak with Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna. He joined the company when it was not doing well, and turned it around, making it profitable, eventually selling the firm to CVS. He is the author of Learning t... |
| 09:00 24/08/2019 |
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Vital Steps For Preventing Child Identity Theft Identity theft is a serious and very expensive problem that’s been affecting a great number of people lately. Unfortunately, it isn’t a problem that’s affecting only adults, as much as adults have Jedi ... |
| 07:30 24/08/2019 |
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10 Weekend Reads The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish blend coffee, grab a seat o a pool float, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • The month a shadow fell on Trump’s economy: A chaotic, contradict... |
| 03:00 24/08/2019 |
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The Weekend Quiz August 24-25, 2019 answers and discussion Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three! If you haven’t already done the Quiz from yesterday then hav... |
| 21:52 23/08/2019 |
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Trump Asks "Who is Our Bigger Enemy, Jay Powell or China's Chairman Xi?" Trump poses the question of the day. Let's conduct a poll.... |
| 21:00 23/08/2019 |
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Caroline Jones: Tough Guys Interesting song from a rising country star: Caroline Jones Caroline Jones – Guitar Talk (Behind the Scenes of Bare Feet) Caroline Jones – Tough Guys (Music Video) Live on Jimmy Fallon (rock ver... |
| 20:49 23/08/2019 |
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Mapped: The Dramatic Global Rise of Urbanization (19502020) Few global trends have matched the profound impact of urbanization. Today’s map looks back at 70 years of movement in over 1,800 cities. The post Mapped: The Dramatic Global Rise of Urbanization (1950–2020) a... |
| 18:39 23/08/2019 |
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Trump Retaliates with Tariffs on All Goods from China, Much at 30% In a major escalation of the trade war, Trump lashed out at China.... |
| 18:00 23/08/2019 |
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Succinct Summations of Weeks Events 8.23.19 Succinct Summations for the week ending August 23rd 2019 Positives: 1. FOMC meeting in Jackson Hole seems to be progressing well without POTUS complications 2. Index of leading economic indicators rose 0.5% in August, ab... |
| 15:48 23/08/2019 |
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The Future of 5G: Comparing 3 Generations of Wireless Technology See how 5G compares to older iterations of wireless technology, and why it's poised to change the way the modern world uses data. The post The Future of 5G: Comparing 3 Generations of Wireless Technology appeared first o... |
| 14:38 23/08/2019 |
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Trump Says "We Don't Need China" then "Orders" Businesses to Find Alternative After Beijing announced an additional $75 billion tariffs on the US, Trump demanded US Businesses find alternatives.... |
| 14:27 23/08/2019 |
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Black Hole Monetary Economics Economic nerds are converging on Jackson Hole for their (our?) annual meeting and the big story of the event will be a controversial opinion by Larry Summers, which he laid [ … ] The post Black Hole Monetary ... |
| 13:59 23/08/2019 |
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This Week In AI: Anti-Aging Startup Juvenescence Raises $54M, Tesla And Intel Debut AI Chips, Microsoft Acquires jClarity Hi there, Here’s what went down in artificial intelligence this week. Top Deals Construction Versatile Natures, a San Francisco and Tel Aviv-based startup that uses IoT sensors attached to construction cranes to co... |
| 11:30 23/08/2019 |
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Negative Yield Curves to Infinity and a Reader Question Regarding Fraud The entire German yield curve is negative for 30 years. Japan is poised to join the club.... |
| 11:00 23/08/2019 |
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Overstock Saga Ends With a Whimper . . . I never went looking for a fight with Overstock. It is not what I cover, and its weird collection of oddball employees, sycophants and various asshats holds no lure for me. In the mid aughts, I was writing about real est... |
| 09:00 23/08/2019 |
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Create A Meeting Agenda That Actually Works Productive meetings seem to be a bit of a myth for many, and if you ask pretty much any executive, they’ll tell you meetings are more often than not boring, unproductive and inefficient. Many times, you’ll le... |
| 08:20 23/08/2019 |
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The Prudence Principle: a new rule for fiscal policy Should the government run a budget deficit or a budget surplus? What size should the deficit or surplus be? Devising a rule which allows the public to assess the integrity of government is a major challenge in political ... |
| 07:45 23/08/2019 |
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10 Friday AM Reads My end of week morning train reads: • What a Yield-Curve Inversion Really Says About the U.S. Economy (Bloomberg Businessweek) • Taylor Swift is smart enough to not let her shows sell out (Quartz) see also ... |
| 07:00 23/08/2019 |
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1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider by Scaglietti What could be more lovely on a summer’s day? A V-12 engine, 2 valves per cylinder, 3 Weber carburetors, mated to a 4-speed manual transmission, making 240HP in a light (2,646 pound) spider equals a fun, fast ride. ... |
| 06:00 23/08/2019 |
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Digging a Hole to China Good news: The trade war is over. No, it’s getting worse. Or maybe it is ending but it could start again tomorrow.... |
| 03:00 23/08/2019 |
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The Weekend Quiz August 24-25, 2019 Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no…... |
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Biotech in Europe: A strong foundation for growth and innovation European companies have an opportunity to play a stronger role in the industry by focusing on three factors.... |
| 00:00 23/08/2019 |
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The invisible hand: On the path to autonomous planning in food retail It’s not news to food retailers: sometimes your stocks are too high, sometimes they’re too low. Advanced planning now gives them entirely new options for solving the expensive problem—and cuts costs in ... |
| 00:00 23/08/2019 |
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Building agile capabilities: The fuel to power your agile body To move your organization from targeted experimentation to driving agility at scale, it’s crucial to focus on agile capability building.... |
| 23:29 22/08/2019 |
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Sydney Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Event tomorrow Promotion for event in Sydney tomorrow – details overleaf. Sydney Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Event The Modern Money Australia NSW Branch is organising their first major event on August 24, 2019 in Sydney. Details... |
| 19:00 22/08/2019 |
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The Hidden Tribes of America In the process of assembling the morning reads (sign up here!), I come across lots of really interesting things. A perfect example is these sets of charts via More in Common (hat tip Brent X Donnelly). These show the &ld... |
| 18:07 22/08/2019 |
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Fed Baby Steps Coming: What's Powell Up To? The odds of a double rate cut in September plunged from 40% recently to 31% last week then to 0% today.... |
| 17:28 22/08/2019 |
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Animation: The 20 Largest State Economies by GDP in the Last 50 Years This animation shows how the largest state economies by GDP have changed over the last five decades of time, and what such a ranking looks like today. The post Animation: The 20 Largest State Economies by GDP in the Last... |
| 14:30 22/08/2019 |
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Making Sense of 100-Yr Bonds yielding 0% and 30-Yr Bonds With Negative Yield Over 50% of European gov't bonds have a negative yield. Globally there's $15 trillion in negative-yield debt.... |
| 14:28 22/08/2019 |
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US Real Estate Tech Market Map: How Startups Are Reinventing the Worlds Largest Asset Class While searching for home or rental listings online is easier than ever, transacting — encumbered by an army of brokers, lenders, insurers, and other bidders — remains largely the same. Consequently, the ... |
| 14:05 22/08/2019 |
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Market Map: The Top-Funded Artificial Intelligence Startups Artificial intelligence (AI) is spreading to more industries and is being applied across a wide range of applications. Facial recognition systems, for example, use AI to unlock consumer devices or authenticate paym... |
| 11:00 22/08/2019 |
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The Illusion of Explanatory Depth I am utterly fascinated by the concept of metacognition — how we evaluate and measure our own skills and abilities. This is the main idea underlying the Dunning-Kruger curve, the tendency for those with lower level... |
| 09:00 22/08/2019 |
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Get All Your Vitamins Without Taking A Single Supplement It can be a pain sorting out which vitamins to take. Do you need to take Vitamin C every day? What’s the best fish oil capsule? And for those who dislike or aren’t able to swallow pills, the struggle can be e... |
| 07:55 22/08/2019 |
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10 Thursday AM Reads My morning train reads: • Powell Faces Challenge Defining Doctrine Around When to Cut Rates (WSJ) but see Economists Are Bad At Predicting Recessions (fivethirtyeight) • Ask active fund managers to explain how ... |
| 05:12 22/08/2019 |
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Increasingly Angry Farmers Blame Trump, Not China Farmers are angry over crop reports, broken ethanol promises, tariffs, crop reports, Trump, and mounting debt.... |
| 00:00 22/08/2019 |
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Rethinking procurement in retail For retailers, procurement is no longer solely a matter of negotiating “A” brands. Private labels and verticalization are trending. Advanced approaches and tools help get procurement in shape for the future.... |
| 00:00 22/08/2019 |
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Unlocking market access for gene therapies in the United States Gene therapy holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases, but without changes, today’s payment system could limit the number of patients who benefit.... |
| 22:43 21/08/2019 |
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The EU pronouncement of a Greek success ignores the reality I keep reading ridiculous articles about Brexit in the UK Guardian. The latest was comparing it to pre-WWI Britain and suggesting there were no signs of a “Damascene moment remainers hoped for”. I thought tha... |
| 22:38 21/08/2019 |
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Tick Tock: Merkel Gives UK 30 Days to Solve Brexit Boris Johnson met Angela Merkel today. She gave Johnson 30 days to do the impossible.... |
| 22:35 21/08/2019 |
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Starbucks, monetary superpower I recently spent some time on Twitter discussing the monetary wonders of Starbucks. In this post I'll bring a bunch of tweets together into a single blog post.I don't go to Starbucks very often, so I only recently learnt... |
| 18:30 21/08/2019 |
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CEO of Israeli Spyware-Maker NSO on Fighting Terror, Khashoggi Murder, and Saudi Arabia This was utterly surprising to me; I assumed this was possible, but not nearly as specific and detailed as this reveals, via 60 Minutes: “Tonight we’ll take you inside the growing, shadowy global market of cy... |
| 18:04 21/08/2019 |
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Timeline: Every Billion-Dollar Artificial Intelligence Exit Artificial intelligence is a sector that attracts big investor checks: Q2’19 recently saw record quarterly funding to AI startups at $7.4B. This included several $100M+ mega-deals to companies like robotic process ... |
| 18:00 21/08/2019 |
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Pegasus: Hack Any Cell Phone This was utterly surprising to me; I assumed this was possible, but not nearly as specific and detailed as this reveals, via 60 Minutes: “Tonight we’ll take you inside the growing, shadowy global market of cy... |
| 17:13 21/08/2019 |
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Where the Worlds Banks Make the Most Money Last year, the global banking industry cashed in an impressive $1.36 trillion in profits. Here's where they made their money, and how it breaks down. The post Where the World’s Banks Make the Most Money appeared fi... |
| 15:09 21/08/2019 |
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Trump Proclaims Himself the "Chosen One" to Take on China "I am the chosen one" says president Trump.... |
| 15:00 21/08/2019 |
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Swinging for the Fences with Ivan Bebek “If you’ve won you know how to win… Experience pays well. Look for people that have a track record, and look for people that want to take big swings.” Ivan Bebek is one of the most dynamic and dr... |
| 14:22 21/08/2019 |
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BBRG: Stakeholder Capitalism Fails If Its Just Talk Stakeholder Capitalism Fails If It’s Just Talk Companies will have to prove they’re committed to goals beyond maximizing shareholder value. Bloomberg, August 21, 2019 For 47 years, the Bu... |
| 13:28 21/08/2019 |
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BLS Revises Payrolls 501,000 Lower Through March BLS annual revisions knocked off 501,000 jobs through March. Private jobs fell by 514,000 jobs.... |
| 13:22 21/08/2019 |
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Client Note: Apple Card Perks, Google & Enterprise Blockchain, Root Raises $350M, And More Fintech 1. WhatsApp brings payments to 100M users in Indonesia Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reportedly in talks to launch mobile payments to its 100M users in Indonesia, one of the messaging platform’s top glob... |
| 09:00 21/08/2019 |
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How To Fold Clothes Like Marie Kondo Help! You open the door and have to tiptoe your way through the room because there’s not enough space for you to walk freely. There are books upon books upon books on your desk, and your bed has several piles of cl... |
| 07:30 21/08/2019 |
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10 Wednesday AM Reads My midweek morning train reads: • Buying Municipal Bonds for Tax-Free Income (Penta) • Big-Box Rebound: How Target Packaged a Turnaround (Fortune) • The Trump vs. Obama economy — in 15 charts (Washin... |
| 07:00 21/08/2019 |
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Data Behind Fear of Yield Curve Inversions Source: FRED Blog FRED can help us make sense of the recent discussions about an inverted yield curve. But first, some definitions to get us started: The yield curve is the difference (or spread) between the yield... |
| 06:04 21/08/2019 |
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The rich are getting richer in Australia while the rest of us mark time Only a short blog post today – in terms of actual researched content. Plenty of announcements and news though, a cartoon, and some great music. I have been meaning to write about the household income and wealth dat... |
| 05:29 21/08/2019 |
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Ireland Backstop Serious Question: Who Will Enforce It? Mexico? The EU insists the backstop is non-negotiable. I happen to have a serious question.... |
| 03:29 21/08/2019 |
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Another Trump Trade Fiasco, This Time With Japan Hopes for a trade deal between the US and Japan have faded. Autos and Agriculture are the sticking points.... |
| 00:00 21/08/2019 |
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How customs agencies can help special economic zones succeed When agencies have a seat at the table and participate in areas such as governance and stakeholder relations, these zones have the best chance of promoting economic growth.... |
| 00:00 21/08/2019 |
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The evolution of healthcare-provider profit pools Why nonhospital-provider segments are primed for growth—and why that matters.... |
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How insurers should think about digital in distribution In this video, McKinsey partner Sumit Popli discusses the role bancassurance, digitization, and digital distribution have been playing in Asia and what this means for insurers.... |
| 00:00 21/08/2019 |
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Getting personal about change The need to shift mind-sets is the biggest block to successful transformations. The key lies in making the shift both individual and institutional—at the same time.... |
| 22:01 20/08/2019 |
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Germany Seeks Migrant "Coalition of the Willing" Repeating 2015 Mistake Germany's Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, marches down the same path that doomed Angela Merkel.... |
| 22:01 20/08/2019 |
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Germany Seeks Migrant "Coalition of the Willing" Repeating Merkel's 2015 Mistake Germany's Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, marches down the same path that doomed Angela Merkel.... |
| 18:37 20/08/2019 |
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Where Top US Banks Are Betting On Fintech US banks are future-proofing by actively investing in fintech startups. In 2019 YTD, US banks have participated in 24 equity deals to fintech companies. This follows a record 2018, where US banks backed 45 equity deals t... |
| 16:50 20/08/2019 |
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Italy's Gov't Collapses, Prime Minister Resigns: What's it Mean? What's Next? Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation in the Italian Senate ending the coalition government.... |
| 16:30 20/08/2019 |
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Startup Emirates: The Most Well-Funded Tech Startups In The UAE In One Infographic The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making headway as a significant incubator of technology startups. In fact, in recent years two unicorn companies valued at over $1B each were created in the UAE: the e-commerce website S... |
| 16:00 20/08/2019 |
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Corporate America & the Rules of Capitalism I jumped on MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the possibility of recession and the changes in the Business Roundtable views of “Shareholder Value.” CEOs say corporations need to change the rules of... |
| 15:23 20/08/2019 |
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Big Banks Win Again: Volcker Rule Gutted Regulators stripped down rules put in place following the Great Financial Crisis that restricted speculation.... |
| 15:22 20/08/2019 |
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Palladium: The Secret Weapon in Fighting Pollution The world is in critical need of palladium. It's a crucial metal in reducing emissions from gas-powered vehicles, and our secret weapon for cleaner air. The post Palladium: The Secret Weapon in Fighting Pollution appeare... |
| 12:59 20/08/2019 |
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These 9 Customer Relationship Management Startups Are Ripe For Acquisition Customer relationship management (CRM) systems have played a central role in business development for decades. However, what was once a system for records has evolved into a system of intelligence. Today, CRM systems are... |
| 12:09 20/08/2019 |
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Big Tech In Financial Services Primer: How Lending And Payments Contribute To Amazons Flywheel Amazon is the largest e-commerce player in the US, but the tech giant’s ambitions extend far beyond e-commerce to include areas like media, web services, and financial services. In the US, Amazon is primarily ... |
| 09:00 20/08/2019 |
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The Truth Behind The Autism Epidemic Are we facing an autism epidemic? Autism diagnosis have risen greatly since the start of the twentieth century. Are you aware of the causes behind this? Check out today’s infographic! First off, hold your horses. E... |
| 09:00 20/08/2019 |
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Here Comes the #TrumpRecession The #TrumpRecession Label Is Going to Stick Presidents usually get too much blame for economic slowdowns. This time is different. Bloomberg, August 15, 2019 Spend a decade or two writing about financ... |
| 07:30 20/08/2019 |
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10 Tuesday AM Reads My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • In shocking reversal, Big Business puts the shareholder value myth in the grave (Los Angeles Times) see also America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the Corporation... |
| 07:00 20/08/2019 |
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Vanguard Has Worlds 3 Largest Bond Funds Source: Financial Times via @NateGeraci Talk about burying the lede: In a longish Financial Times piece about Franklin Templeton’s star bond fund manager Michael Hasenstab, a graphic mentioned in pass... |
| 03:00 20/08/2019 |
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An intractable problem Incoming There’s a problem coming though it’s likely not what you’ve been told. In a previous article “The Real Reason For A Refugee Crisis In Europe” we looked at the actions taken by western govern... |
| 00:43 20/08/2019 |
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Inverted yield curves signalling a total failure of the dominant mainstream macroeconomics At different times, the manias spread through the world’s financial and economic commentariat. We have had regular predictions that Japan was about to collapse, with a mix of hyperinflation, government insolvency, ... |
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Decoding digital transformation in construction Few engineering and construction companies have captured the full benefit of digital. Five practices can help E&C companies move beyond isolated pilots and unlock digital’s value across their enterprises.... |
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Debate: Will delivery UAVs scale by 2030? Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are a hot topic of debate. McKinsey asked two professionals close to the issue to weigh in on whether they believe UAVs will gain traction and claim a significan... |
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Chemicals manufacturing 2030+: More of the same
but different A decade from now, chemicals plants may look similar from the outside. But the inside will be very different.... |
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The human side of digital supply chains On its own, technology won’t be enough to fix your supply chain.... |
| 20:34 19/08/2019 |
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Chicago Teachers Union Goes to Venezuela, Praises Maduro for Not Closing Schools Four Chicago Teachers Union representatives went to Venezuela, a failed nation, singing praises of its corrupt leader.... |
| 19:21 19/08/2019 |
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National Average Rent Inches Up by $3 Per Month The increase in national average rents slowed to a crawl in July but year-over-year rates are up 3.4%.... |
| 16:43 19/08/2019 |
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Corbyn's Laughable Referendum Strategy Portends a Johnson Blowout Election Win Jeremy Corbyn wants to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister but his election strategy makes no sense.... |
| 16:24 19/08/2019 |
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All the Worlds Coal Power Plants in One Map Today’s interactive map shows all of the world's coal power plants, plotted by capacity and carbon emissions from 2000 until 2018. The post All the World’s Coal Power Plants in One Map appeared first on Visu... |
| 14:13 19/08/2019 |
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Trump Cites Powell's "Lack of Vision" Seeks 100 Basis Point Rate Cut and QE Trump blasted Fed Chair Jerome Powell in a pair of Tweets today. Trump wants huge rate cuts and possibly some QE.... |
| 13:26 19/08/2019 |
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Client Note: Nikes Shoe Subscription, SmileDirectClub Files For IPO, UPS Invests In AVs, And More Consumer 1. Nike launches a subscription for kids’ shoes Nike announced the launch of Nike Adventure Club, a new sneaker subscription service targeted at kids. Insight: The shoe retailer joins a growing list ... |
| 13:00 19/08/2019 |
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MIB: Venturing with Capital into Basic Sciences Venture Capitalists seem to be focused mostly on software, apps, and technology. This dearth of entrepreneurship into the basic sciences created an opportunity that was capitalized on by Josh Wolfe and his partners at Lu... |
| 12:53 19/08/2019 |
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Deloitte BrandVoice: The Future of Tax & Legal - Embracing Change with Confidence Tax and legal professionals today face increasing complexity, risk, and ambiguity as technology, regulatory and business transformation converge.... |
| 10:00 19/08/2019 |
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How Online Retailers Are Leveraging AR/VR To Enhance Experiential Shopping While there is endless chatter about experiential shopping in-store, there is often a curious silence when it comes to experiential shopping online. The discrepancy isn’t surprising — retailers see in-store e... |
| 09:00 19/08/2019 |
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How Coffee Took Over America A few decades ago, coffee in America meant a big communal pot of acrid, filtered slush that was omnipresent in every office and barely drinkable. It’s almost hard to remember with our present reality of cold-brewed... |
| 07:45 19/08/2019 |
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10 Monday AM Reads My start your week morning train reads: • Low interest rates are often a cure. Now they’re also a symptom. (Christian Science Monitor) see also The Bond Market’s All-In On Its Recession Forecast (Capital... |
| 07:00 19/08/2019 |
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Fall 2019 China Tariff Plan Very interesting set of charts + analysis from Peterson Institute for International Economics on the current state of Tariffs and the trade war: Source: Peterson Institute for International Economics Source... |
| 00:30 19/08/2019 |
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What is Lithium Worth? How do you price lithium? Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has the method to price lithium for a new era in energy. The post What is Lithium Worth? appeared first on Visual Capitalist.... |
| 00:00 19/08/2019 |
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Asias energy transition The future of the energy sector in Asia will likely be driven by renewables and innovative energy technology.... |
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The diversity opportunity for new CEOs New McKinsey research has uncovered a fascinating correlation between gender diversity and corporate performance.... |
| 00:00 19/08/2019 |
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Innovating business models to boost Indias economy Many Indian companies need to transition from being founder-led to more effectively implementing professional processes, improving corporate-governance standards, and devising new business models.... |
| 23:38 18/08/2019 |
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German external investment model a failure I read an interesting research report recently – Exportweltmeister: The Low Returns on Germany’s Capital Exports – published by the London-based Centre of Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in July 2019. I... |
| 22:47 18/08/2019 |
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"No Recession in Sight": Translating Trump and Kudlow President Trump and his economic advisor Larry Kudlow have important announcements. I can help with translations.... |
| 19:48 18/08/2019 |
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Barron's Nonsensical Idea: Cut Rates Like Mad to Avoid Recession Barron's writer Matthew Klein proposes to stop the recession by cutting interest rates like it’s 1995.... |
| 15:11 18/08/2019 |
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UPS Quietly Using Self-Driving Trucks For Months UPS teamed up with TuSimple in May for autonomous delivery of cargo.... |
| 13:00 18/08/2019 |
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Transcript: Josh Wolfe The transcript from this week’s MIB: Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital, is below. You can stream/download the full conversation, including the podcast extras on Apple iTunes, Bloomberg, Spotify, Google Podcasts... |
| 09:00 18/08/2019 |
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How To Become A Human Lie Detector The truth isn’t always easy to come by. Sometimes people willingly tell it, and sometimes they blatantly lie. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to tell when the person across from you is being dishonest? Luckily... |
| 07:45 18/08/2019 |
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10 Sunday Reads My easy like Sunday morning reads: • WeWTF (Scott Galloway) • Men who do not work during their prime years: What do the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth data reveal? (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) &bul... |
| 07:00 18/08/2019 |
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The Dow Drops This is what happens when you put an amateur behind the wheel. Government is a professional job, and Hillary Clinton was demonized by the right for thirty years to the point where she could not win the election. Oh, don&... |
| 18:06 17/08/2019 |
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Trump Gives Huawei Another 90-Day Reprieve: Who is Desperate for a Deal? For the second time since May, Trump postponed an order that would block US firms from supplying Huawei.... |
| 14:49 17/08/2019 |
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Checkmate! Corbyn's Please Make Me "Temporary PM" Scheme Fails Already The Liberal Democrats and key Tories both rejected Corbyn's scheme to make him a caretaker PM to stop Brexit.... |
| 10:30 17/08/2019 |
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MIB: Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital This week, we speak with Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital. The venture firm was set up to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles in physical and lif... |
| 09:00 17/08/2019 |
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30 Creative Hot Dog Toppings For A Next-Level Cookout Bad reputation and a halo of mystery surround hot dogs. Whether it’s for the meat or the preservatives used, hot dogs have been in the center of the public eye over and over again. Still, who can say, in good consc... |
| 07:30 17/08/2019 |
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10 Weekend Reads The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish blend coffee, grab a seat o a pool float, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • The month a shadow fell on Trump’s economy: A chaotic, contradict... |
| 03:00 17/08/2019 |
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The Weekend Quiz August 17-18, 2019 answers and discussion Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three! If you haven’t already done the Quiz from yesterday then hav... |
| 20:26 16/08/2019 |
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The Topography of Mars: Visualizing an Alien Landscape What is the surface of the Red Planet like? This beautiful map helps to break down the topography of Mars in awesome detail. The post The Topography of Mars: Visualizing an Alien Landscape appeared first on Visual Capita... |
| 17:00 16/08/2019 |
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Succinct Summation of Weeks Events 8.16.19 Succinct Summations for the week ending August 16th, 2019 Positives: 1. POTUS saves Xmas! Ok, not quite, but fearing the deceleration of retail sales, the President postponed many tariffs until year end; U.S./China Trade... |
| 16:23 16/08/2019 |
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Gold is Not a Function of the US Dollar Nor is Gold an Inflation Hedge Swings in the US dollar have no long-term impact in the price of gold. Nor is gold an inflation hedge.... |
| 15:11 16/08/2019 |
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Which Countries Have the Most Wealth Per Capita? How do the rankings of the world's most affluent countries change when using different metrics to measure wealth per capita? The post Which Countries Have the Most Wealth Per Capita? appeared first on Visual Capitalist.... |
| 15:05 16/08/2019 |
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Housing Peaked May of 2018: Cycle Trends Suggest Long, Weak Recovery is Over Housing starts are down 4% in July. Permits are up 8.4%.... |
| 13:29 16/08/2019 |
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This Week In AI: WeWork Backs Construction AI Startup, Amazon Sets Sights On Cancer Diagnostics, NVIDIA Gives Language Processing A Boost Hi there, Here’s what went down in artificial intelligence this week. Top Deals Agriculture SomaDetect, a Canada-based startup that uses deep learning and computer vision to analyze nutritional indicators in cow mi... |
| 11:58 16/08/2019 |
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NCAA 2018 - Basketball Shot Visualisation The team at ItoWorld has animated the data from the 2018 NCAA Basketball season into this fun Basketball Shot Visualization video of all of the made baskets and where on the court the shots were taken.Fun Friday #Sportsv... |
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How to fix the Credit Ratings Agencies The Bond Raters Still Need to Be Fixed The reforms adopted after the financial crisis didn’t resolve the industry’s inherent conflicts. Bloomberg, August 14, 2019 Standard & Poor&rsqu... |
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