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How Markets Are Reacting To Saudi Arabia's Detentions

In Saudi Arabia this weekend, a torrent of big news events, including the detention of several high ranking officials, has raised questions, and, the public markets were a useful place to judge local and global perception

08 ноября 2017 0 6070

Fake News and Biased News

Interviews are always tricky. If an unscrupulous interviewer is looking for a particular answer or claim, they have the power to edit, manipulate, or even rewrite their subject’s words to that end. That is why I have long taken pains to check carefully quotations attributed to me by the media. But, when it comes to television or radio interviews, it seemed to me that such distortions would be more difficult to pull off. I was wrong

07 ноября 2017 0 7488

Why Would Any Supplier Want To Work With Tesla?

It’s been said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. By that definition any supplier that works with Tesla may be downright bonkers

06 ноября 2017 0 7195

3 Questions CEOs Never Get Asked During Earnings Calls But Should

Since payroll is often a firm's largest expense, investors need to know how firms are managing their human capital

03 ноября 2017 0 5701

Preempting the Next Pandemic

Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge. But the sheer diversity, resilience, and transmissibility of deadly diseases have also highlighted, in the starkest of terms, just how difficult containment and prevention can be

02 ноября 2017 0 8546

How Azerbaijan, Georgia, And Turkey Subverted Russia And Isolated Armenia With New Railway

After many years of anticipation and delays, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) rail line has ceremoniously gone into service

01 ноября 2017 6 мин. 9073

Dealing with Damaging Institutional Inertia

Deeply rooted, credible, accountable, and effective institutions have long been deemed crucial for a society’s lasting wellbeing and prosperity. They shield countries from frequent and unsettling volatility, be it economic, political, or social, and they reduce the risk of costly shocks. But, nowadays, key political and economic institutions are being pressured by unusual fluidity in their operating environments and the effects of a cumulative loss of trust on the part of their constituencies

31 октября 2017 0 5859

NASA Says Dwarf Planet Ceres Likely Harbors Salty Mud

Ceres - the enigmatic dwarf planet that lies between Mars and Jupiter --- likely harbors briny mud at the base of its crust, or some 40 kilometers beneath its surface, says NASA