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Warren Buffett, Down $4.3B In A Day, Was Right To Downplay Berkshire's Apple Gains

It’s easier to lose billions on paper when you don’t brag about making billions beforehand

08 января 2019 4 мин. 10150

When A Billionaire Needs A Boss

The Story Of The Jimmy John's Sandwich Empire

04 января 2019 10 мин. 10836

The Center Left and Globalization

Popular uprisings across France are threatening to shatter the hope that so many had placed in French President Emmanuel Macron after his election in May 2017. With his party, La République En Marche !, having secured an absolute parliamentary majority, Macron promised to pursue difficult reforms not just in France, but also within the European Union. But now he is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency

03 января 2019 5 мин. 9072

Learning from China

Since beginning its reform and opening up 40 years ago this month, China has been a very good student. And now, after four decades of rapid development, the country is increasingly presenting itself as a teacher. As it commits more capital abroad, it has a strong interest in how countries where it invests are run. But is the world ready to learn from it?

29 декабря 2018 5 мин. 7911

Cutting Corners on Consent

On November 29, after two weeks of contentious negotiations at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 196 countries agreed to stringent rules on the use of so-called gene drives. Given the far-reaching consequences of a technology that causes a particular set of genes to propagate throughout a population – fundamentally changing or even eliminating it – such rules are badly needed. But are they enough?

28 декабря 2018 5 мин. 15397

Fintech - the future business development

The stagnation in the economies of Kazakhstan and Russia blocks the air for young enterprises. And the younger generation leaves their home countries to build business in states with a wider and more developed market

27 декабря 2018 6 мин. 12219

HIV and the SDGs

Thirty years ago, when the international community marked the first World AIDS Day, we thought we would never turn the tide against HIV. But after millions of deaths and years of fear, we now have effective strategies to prevent transmission and bring testing and treatment to those in need

26 декабря 2018 4 мин. 5171

To produce $1 of GDP Turkmenistan uses 43 times more water than Spain

I was invited to speak at the World Youth Forum-2018 this November. Although I was sharing the platform with such internationally esteemed co-panellists as Emmy-nominated environmentalist Philip Cousteau-Jr and Egypt’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Dr Mohammed El Aaty, I couldn’t possibly anticipate the level of interest our water-centric discussion ended up generating