Tuesday, October 25, 2016

David B. Nast: Hire The Workforce That Works For You

I placed 523 CEOs in my career. I’ve hired and trained 43 recruiters. As a Certified Interview Architect, I’ve designed countless interviews and selection processes.


Most hiring practices center around the candidate’s briefcase– what’s on their resume...

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Toasters and Europe: The EU is reviewing the policy that makes its appliances so energy efficient

EARLIER this year David Coburn, who sits in the European Parliament for the UK Independence Party, came up with a rather unusual argument for leaving the European Union: the quality of his morning toast. He claimed that EU regulation meant toasters had only “the power of one candle or s...

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Money has fled Ukraine for decades

IT IS an accepted fact that Ukraine suffers from a high level of “capital flight”. The term refers to a process by which people pull money out of a country and buy foreign assets instead. Ukraine is highly corrupt. If you make money in Ukraine, you often want to get it out of ...

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The world economy: System says slow

IS THERE a global economic crisis on the horizon? Probably not. Is the world in danger of falling into recession? Not soon. Yet the IMF’s latest update of its forecasts is nevertheless resolutely downbeat. Speaking this week in Washington, DC, its chief economist, Maurice Obstfeld, o...

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Italian banks: Spectral forms

Will they Passera?

FROM the mists of Italian banking, new shapes are emerging. One is at last becoming flesh: on October 15th the shareholders of two lenders, Banco Popolare and Banca Popolare di Milano, approved a merger that has been months in the making. The substance of another—Banca M...

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Corporate governance in America: The fight for better boards

NEW regulations are emerging from Congress in response to the meltdown in the financial industry. Yet their impact, likely to be felt by every public company in America, may weaken rather than strengthen corporate governance.
It was the glaring weaknesses exposed in the boards of Wall Street...

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DuPont reports steep drop in quarterly profit

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DuPont products are shown for sale in a hardware store in National City, California, December 9, 2015.


Chemicals and seeds producer Dupont’s quarterly profit was nearly wiped off after the company took charges related to employee severance and asset...

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Obama: We have no idea who carried out huge cyberattack

The U.S. government is still trying to figure out who carried out the massive cyberattack that crippled popular websites around the globe last week.
“We don’t have any idea who did that,” President Barack Obama said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late Monday.
...

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AT&T and Time Warner plot a blockbuster media future

A DEAL worth $85.4bn is by any standards a blockbuster. The agreement by wireless and pay-television giant AT&T to buy Time Warner, owner of Warner Bros, HBO and a trove of hit films and TV shows, is the biggest bet yet that the future of media will be dictated by massive companies...

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Tesla, once beloved by critics, ranks near bottom of new Consumer Reports survey

A Tesla Model X at the Paris auto show last month. (REUTERS/Benoit Tessier)
Tesla, the upstart all-electric automaker that once landed Consumer Reports’ best-ever performance rating, has now achieved a far less impressive feat, with a ranking from the reviewer that labels it one the...

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When George W. Bush changed course

(Backgrounds by Craig & Karl for The Washington Post; Photo by Amy King/The Washington Post)
In the newest episode of the Presidential podcast, we examine how George W. Bush’s presidency marked the beginning of a new chapter in American history.
Our guests are Mark Updegrove,...

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Why the next president may have more power than usual

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the final presidential debate in Las Vegas on Oct. 19.  (Gary He/European Pressphoto Association)
It’s the season to make big promises. With the presidential election fast approaching, candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are pledging to lif...

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Technology: From not working to neural networking

HOW HAS ARTIFICIAL intelligence, associated with hubris and disappointment since its earliest days, suddenly become the hottest field in technology? The term was coined in a research proposal written in 1956 which suggested that significant progress could be made in getting machines to...

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Trading down: Making sense of the Wallonian veto

IF CLEVELAND were given the right to veto any potential trade agreement between American and another country, how many trade agreements would ever be enacted? One reasonable guess is: none. If the federal government then deprived Cleveland of the right to veto trade agreements, would that...

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Now, RBI takes complete charge of monitoring debit card data breach

The Reserve Bank of India has taken complete charge of monitoring and to prevent further damage to the banking system as the data of 3.2 million cards have been compromised.


In a meeting convened by the regulator and attended by senior officials of banks, National Payment Corporation of...

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Neiman Marcus Rolls Out $3.2 Million Worth of Fantasy Gifts

Halloween is nearly here, and Thanksgiving is probably only a glimmer in the eye of your most organized family member. Here at Entrepreneur’s New York office, we’ve just come off a week of humidity and temps in the 70s and 80s, so Christmas still seems pretty far away. But...

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How to Pursue the Perfect Virtual Reality Experience

Even in today’s tech-driven, gadget-filled world, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who isn’t completely enamored with virtual reality. Just the concept of strapping on a pair of goggles and being whisked into a different world awakens the dreamer in all of us.
Related: Why Virtual Realit...

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3 Keys to Meeting Today's Talent and Tech Challenges

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3 Compelling Reasons to Adopt Agile Marketing

Is “agile marketing” on your to-do list for the coming year? If not, it’s time to get up to speed: According to a 2016 survey by Workfront and MarketingProfs, 41 percent of marketers either already use or plan to use an agile approach over the next few years.
Workfront defines agile marke...

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6 Tips for Improving Customer Retention

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Businesses have a lot to gain by maximizing their customer retention. Yet, merchants often focus too intently on earning new customers while taking retention for granted.
Why Customer Retention is Important
Studies show maintaining loyal customers...

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In Your Creative Element: The Formula for Creative Success in Business

How Can You Boost Your Team’s Creativity?

With the UK creative industry worth £71.4 billion per year, with its 2.62 million workers contributing more than £8 million per hour to the UK economy, it’s an attractive career path for many (Department for Culture Media & Sport, 2014). But can...

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Using Your Existing Capital and Skills to Earn More Money

In the current economic climate, everyone is looking for quick and easy ways to make money. Everyone dreams of earning lots while working few hours (preferably from home). However, few pursue their dreams for fear of failure or lack of will.
Below we run through some of the best ways to...

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Ukraine Crisis Pushes Poland Toward The Euro

Ukraine’s crisis means that Poland needs to reconsider its skepticism toward adopting the euro, said Marek Belka, the neighboring country’s centra…
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5 Organizations Helping Minority Startup Founders Succeed

From the White House’s Tech Inclusion Pledge to Apple’s and Google’s annual diversity reports, players across the tech world have been expressing concern about the industry’s infamous diversity problem. According to CB Insights research in 2010, only one percent of venture capital­funded star...

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A Chilly Reaction to AT&T-Time Warner Deal

“We don’t yet know enough,” Michael Nathanson, one of Wall Street’s more circumspect media analysts, wrote in a research note, putting the odds of AT&T winning regulatory approval at 50-50 — essentially a coin flip.

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Sarah Peterson: The 5 Words That Changed My Content Marketing Strategy

You know those times where you read a book and one line seems to stop you in your tracks and pierce your mind?



“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” -The Road




“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them...

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There"s Still Hope For Canada-EU Trade Deal: Freeland

OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland came out swinging against her domestic political opponents Monday as she ratcheted up pressure on European lawmakers to twist the arm of the lone Belgian holdout blocking their free trade deal.
Freeland held firm to the g...

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Monday, October 24, 2016

MetLife Again Faces Off With Regulators Over Its Too-Big-to-Fail Status

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President Obama signing the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010. The law empowered a group of regulators to designate some nonbank firms as so-called systemically important financial institutions.

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FBI headquarters decision delayed until next year

FBI Director James Comey wants a new headquarters. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
A decade into a push for a new headquarters in the Washington suburbs, the FBI will have to wait a little longer.
On Monday, the General Services Administration, which is handling the headquarters project, said it ...

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Dot Earth Blog: News Coverage of Coal’s Link to Global Warming, in 1912

Various updates | Scientific analysis pointing to a human role in warming the climate through burning fossil fuels goes back to 1896, with Svante Arrhenius’s remarkable paper, “On the Influence of Carbonic Acid [Carbon Dioxide] in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground.”
Starting in the l...

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Too Good to Be Ignored: Women Who Reached the Top in Sports

Some didn’t dwell on being the only girl to compete; others started by tucking their ponytails under hats or adopting masculine names. To see a portrait of a woman like Fanny Bullock Workman, who scaled Himalayan peaks dressed in the heavy, ankle-length skirts of her Victorian era, or the b...

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Organic farming culture brings burgeoning business for Fiji islanders

The remote Fijian island of Cicia has launched a novel business in organic produce that could prove to be a template for other developing communities around the world. The island declared itself chemical free and fully organic eight years ago and is now producing food that’s attracting...

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Jim Fannin: Champions Love the 4th Quarter

With two minutes to go in the game, the quarterback narrows his focus and executes a perfect pass to his receiver cutting across the middle. Touchdown!


The basketball game is tied in a tough, seesaw battle of wills. The star of the team wants the ball. With the tension thick and...

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Saturday, October 15, 2016

21 Dainty Jewelry Options For Foul-Mouthed Ladies

For ladies who truly love to curse, it isn’t just a habit; it’s a lifestyle. For you, there’s nothing better than the feeling of a well-deserved F-bomb rolling off your tongue. And though others may judge you for your sailor mouth, you know the truth: They’re just jealous of your impressive v...

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Washington state’s carbon tax: Of wood and trees

ASK an economist how best to reduce pollution, and the chances are that they will recommend taxing carbon emissions. And with good reason: doing so should encourage markets to find the least costly way to reduce pollution, something governments will struggle to discover themselves. In...

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Mexicans are getting more cash -- thanks to Trump

Mexicans are getting more cash from friends and family in America — in part because of Donald Trump.
Cash transfers sent from the U.S. to Mexico — remittances — are up 25% so far this year compared to the same time a year ago. That is, if you count in...

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China’s economy: Romance of the three quarters

“THE empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.” This famous opening from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, a classic Chinese novel, refers to the inevitable ebb and flow of dynasties over the centuries. The same principle, in less dramatic fashion, applies to the ups and do...

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Indian banking: Of banks and bureaucrats

BANKS are usually reliable barometers of the health of the economies they help finance. So news in recent days that India’s lenders have lost over 200 billion rupees ($3 billion) in the most recent quarter sits oddly with zippy growth in GDP of 7.9%. A revving economy may help the banks o...

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Schumpeter: Corporate constitutions

“REVOLUTIONS” can take place in surprising places. The past decade has seen nothing less than a revolution in the command centres of capitalism: corporate boardrooms. The ancien régime of club ties and long lunches has been swept aside, and replaced by a new order based on transparency and a...

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U.S. bans Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from air travel

WASHINGTON Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone devices will be banned from aircraft in the United States starting on Saturday at noon EDT (1600 GMT) under an emergency order, regulators said on Friday after numerous reports of the devices catching fire.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS)...

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Trump campaign fact check: Armrests in first class seats did move

Donald Trump’s campaign has cited the immovability of arm rests between first class seats on the old Braniff Airways planes to refute an allegations of a 1979 sexual assault on a woman by the candidate.
But the armrests did move.
Jessica Leeds was among the first women in...

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Charred chaebol

WHEN Samsung Electronics announced on October 11th that it would discontinue its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 7, one crucial event in the history of the world’s second-biggest technology company by revenues (after Apple) sprang to mind. In 1995 Lee Kun-hee, then its boss, ordered 1...

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is officially banned from airplanes

The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is officially on the no-fly list. (Elaine Thompson/AP)
The Department of Transportation said Friday that airline passengers are no longer allowed to bring the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on a plane — whether it’s turned on or not — starting Saturday, Oct. 15 at n...

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Michelle Obama’s epic New Hampshire speech was a master class in speaking from the gut

At an Oct. 13 Hillary Clinton campaign event, first lady Michelle Obama grew emotional while talking about allegations of sexual assault against Republican nominee Donald Trump. (Youtube/Hillary Clinton)

Michelle Obama’s epic speech Tuesday in New Hampshire should be required...

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen: Question everything

Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen speaks at a conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Oct. 14.
 
Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen on Friday questioned some of the most fundamental principles of economics, including the nature of inflation and the influence of ...

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Scientists create 'floating pixels' using soundwaves and force fields

A mid-air display of ‘floating pixels’ has been created by scientists.

Researchers at the Universities of Sussex and Bristol have used soundwaves to lift many tiny objects at once before spinning and flipping them using electric force fields.
The technology — called JOLED...

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Daily chart: Which gaming company will dominate the virtual-reality market?

WITHIN a decade, virtual-reality (VR) technology is expected to transform the way businesses interact with customers. Immersive, 360-degree experiences, complete with touch and temperature sensations, should become the norm. As early as 2020, spending is forecast to reach $7.9 billion on...

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The quest for Brexit allies: German business lobbyists will not stop tariffs against Britain

MANY Britons worried about a “hard Brexit” are clinging to a reassuring thought. Germany, the most important country in Europe, trades so much with Britain that it would suffer from a messy divorce between Britain and the European Union. So even if countries such as France want to teach Bri...

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FinMin to issue rules for norms under BEPS

The finance ministry will issue rules and guidance to address some concerns and ambiguity over mandatory reporting norms with respect to transfer pricing for multinational companies whose consolidated annual revenue is over Rs 5,000 crore.
The government is also stepping up administrative...

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How to Find Your Purpose in Life

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Sometimes we feel we don’t know what our purpose is when in fact, it’s lingering within us. 
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Your Swag Is Not Your Company

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HBO’s series “Silicon Valley” offers viewers an irreverent look at life inside a startup, through the eyes o...

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1 Entrepreneur's Journey Striking Gold, Striking Out, Then Striking the Right Balance

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How to Build a Personal Brand Online

The distinction between the brand of a business, and that of the person or people that run that business, is growing ever thinner. As smaller, more specialized businesses grow out of individuals’ laptops and garages, what sets these concerns apart at the point of impact is their impression o...

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5 Basics to Success When Starting an Ecommerce Business

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Apparently, one of the biggest benefits the Internet has brought into the world (and even our lives) today is the ease o...

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Top Tips on Setting Up Lighting in Your Home Office

When it comes to a day at the home office, productivity, efficiency and a positive attitude are all vital assets to a successful working day. How can clever use of lighting help you achieve that? The interior design experts at OKA have developed a useful infographic all about choosing the...

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Off the Shelf: Three Excellent Books on Long-Term Investing

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It is easy to forget personal investing fundamentals when stock prices hit new highs one week, fall sharply the next and then rise again in no reliable pattern, as they have been doing...

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Is The Most Successful Airline In America Also The Most Hated?

Spirit Airlines inspires a special kind of wrath among the American traveling public: It’s the industry leader in customer complaints by a wide margin. Over the last five years, Spirit’s rate of complaints to the Department of Transportation was three times higher than other U.S. airlines, ac...

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How Bootstrapping and Growing Slowly Helped This Company Succeed

Max Fishko started working in art fairs when he was 14. Now, at 33, he’s running a profitable business that’s turning a seven-figure revenue.







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Seth Meyers on which 'Game of Thrones' character he is

Seth Meyers has made a name for himself as one of the most outspoken political satirists in late night, so he probably felt right at home in D.C. this week.
Meyers, the host of NBC’s “Late Night,” just wrapped a week long stint of shows from the nation’s...

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Stocks eke out gain

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Friday, October 14, 2016

Palantir Faults Labor Dept.’s Data in Discrimination Suit

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Palantir engineers at company offices in Palo Alto, Calif.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Palantir, a large and secretive Silicon Valley start-up recently sued by the U...

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The U.S. government just made its biggest clean energy purchase ever

The Mesquite 3 solar array in Arizona. (Sempra Energy)
On Friday in Maricopa County, Ariz., the U.S. government will hit a clean energy milestone: What officials are calling the largest procurement ever of renewable energy by the federal government, in this case from a desert solar...

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‘Desus & Mero’: No Suits. And No Canned Sketches.

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Desus Nice, left, and the Kid Mero on the set of their new late-night show on Viceland.

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This past Tuesday afternoon, in a conference room on the third floor of...

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5 Ways To Increase Your Chances Of Surviving A Plane Crash

The odds of getting into a plane crash are low. Very low. In fact, your odds are only 1 in 8,357 of dying in an “air and space transport incident,” as the National Safety Council calls it. In fact, you are more likely to die from a lightning strike than to face an aircraft...

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Robert Harrow: Should You Use a ROBS (Rollover as Business Startup) to Start a Business?

If you’re thinking about starting a business, one of your first major decisions will be choosing where to get funding. Many new business owners will turn to a bank or alternative lender, such as OnDeck, to get funding. Others may borrow money from family and friends or charge expenses...

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Jose Vasquez: 4 Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup Incubator

Startup incubators seem exciting, but you’ll want to ask these questions before you dive in.


Things look glamorous when you’re an entrepreneur. You’re excited about your idea, eager to make new connections and learn new things, and be a part of this “golden...

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Fertile discussion: World climate talks address agriculture

Organic, locally sourced and woefully inefficient

SINCE the 1960s farm production has risen fourfold in Africa. But the continent still lags far behind the gains seen in South America and Asia. The extra food has appeared largely because more land has been planted or grazed, rather than...

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Stumpfed

Retired hurt

WHEN you consider the hundreds of billions of dollars of losses and fines that the banking industry has made or incurred over the past decade, the affair that has just ended the career of John Stumpf, the boss of Wells Fargo, may at first seem innocuous. In September Wells...

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Emerging markets: The unloved bounce

IT IS not easy to have faith in the rally in emerging-market currencies that has taken place since February. The ones that have risen most in recent weeks are typically those—the rouble, the real and the rand—that had lost most ground since May 2013, when the emerging-market sell-off began ...

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Reforming Indian banks: Bureaucrats at the till

INDIA’S biggest banks tend to have official-sounding names, worthy of a central bank. There is State Bank of India, Union Bank of India, Bank of India and even Central Bank of India (the actual central bank is called the Reserve Bank of India, or RBI). That is because, starting in 1969, t...

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Principle before profit: Principle before profit

BUSINESS people love to talk about corporate social responsibility. But how many of them are actually willing to sacrifice profit for principle? When pressed, most of them simply argue that they are doing good by doing well, which prompts the question of why they bother to talk about CSR in...

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Wells Fargo CEO steps down in wake of sham accounts scandal

John Stumpf, chief executive of Wells Fargo & Co., swears in to a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
Wells Fargo announced Wednesday that its longtime chief executive and chairman, John G. Stumpf, is...

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Widespread computer problem at United delays travelers for hours

Travelers flying United late Thursday reported hours of delays after the airline was hit by a widespread computer problem.
United (UAL) said it experienced an issue with its weight reporting system that was later resolved.





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Will the Fed greet the next president with a recession?

IT WAS just a few months into the presidency of Barack Obama that America crept out of the Great Recession and into the current expansion. With just three months to go in his second term, Mr Obama seems likely to pass that expansion on to his successor. But what are they odds that she will...

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Verizon just raised a big warning flag for Yahoo

(Jin Lee/Bloomberg)
Verizon on Thursday signaled that Yahoo’s massive data breach disclosed three weeks ago was a significant event that could halt the telecom giant’s $4.8 billion purchase of the tech firm’s core business.
“I think we have a reasonable basis to believe r...

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The unusual change Wells Fargo made to its board as it tries to move beyond the fake accounts scandal

A historic stage coach in the window of a Wells Fargo branch office on New York Avenue in downtown Washington, DC. in 2012. ( Photo by Jeffrey MacMillan )
Incoming chief executive Tim Sloan is not the only new leader taking over at Wells Fargo as the embattled bank tries to turn the page o...

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Here’s how legal pot changed Colorado and Washington

What we can learn about legal marijuana from Washington, Colorado and Oregon. (Daron Taylor,Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post)

Marijuana has had little impact so far on various public health measures in states where it has been legalized, according to a report from the Drug Policy Al...

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Technology in China: Insanely virtual

Better reality

AT THE heart of an emerging technology cluster in London’s Shoreditch lies the Stage, a big mixed-use building complex that is being developed by Vanke, a Chinese real-estate company, among a few others. A potential Chinese buyer of one of the flats in its 37-storey r...

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A canny bluff: Nicola Sturgeon’s consultation on a new Scottish independence referendum gets her out of a tight spot

DELEGATES and journalists arriving in Glasgow today for the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference had one big subject on their minds: the political puzzle that has been hanging over Nicola Sturgeon since June 23rd. In Britain’s referendum on leaving the EU, every single area of Scotland ...

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Gujarat govt bars internet use for clerk exam, then revokes order

The Gujarat government on Thursday decided to suspend mobile Internet services for four hours on October 16 during the clerk-level competitive examination in a bid to prevent adoption of any unfair means by candidates but revoked the order hours later.


Earlier in the day, Gujarat...

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Distance Is No Barrier to a Strong Company Culture

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From Ancient Mesopotamia to the Gig Economy: 3 Ways the Internet Has Changed Entrepreneurship

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4 Steps to Build Contacts and Cultivate Relationships

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Online Marketing Agencies: Love 'Em or Leave 'Em?

On HGTV’s hit show “Love it or List it,” unsatisfied homeowners are given the chance to move to a new house or to renovate the one that they currently have. Some participants on the show choose to sell even after renovation, but many are surprised to find that their current home r...

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3 Interior Decorating Tips for a Productive Home Office

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Wealth Matters: Making Financial Management Both Spouses’ Job

“I didn’t need to be involved before, and I was thankful for that,” she said. “But that moment when you have all your ducks in a row for retirement, how are you going to handle all of the stock options but also all of the other stuff? How are you going to prepare for the next step — that fixe...

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This Businessweek Cover Is Making Econ Geeks Swoon

Thomas Piketty was just crowned the King of Pop(ular economics). Exhibit A:


This is the debut cover for Bloomberg Businessweek’s new creative director, Robert Vargas, according to a Bloomberg spokeswoman. Vargas succeeded Richard Turley, who helped revamp the magazine’s image,...

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The Best Ways to Attract Clients for Your Medical Claims Billing Service

The following excerpt is from Start Your Own Medical Claims Billing Service. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes
While landing that first client can be the hardest part of the medical billing business, there are ways to nab that first doctor, and the one after that, and the ...

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Stephen Bollenbach, Who Spared Donald Trump From Personal Bankruptcy, Dies at 74

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Danielle Sabrina: Treating Your Business Better Than Your Body Could Mean Less Profits

It’s been occurring to me for a while now: I take better care of my business than I do my own body.


The moment something isn’t functioning right in my business, I address it immediately.


And it’s not just my business that I take excellent care of – it’s...

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Alaska Airlines Boots Passenger After He Catcalled A Flight Attendant

An Alaska Airlines flight attendant was demonstrating how to use a safety vest when a passenger started making lewd comments at her.
The carrier swiftly kicked the man off the plane — and drew praise online for standing up against sexual harassment.

Passenger Amber Nelson was s...

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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Deutsche Bank Is Said to Begin Companywide Hiring Freeze

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Escalating feud over stadium design threatens D.C. United’s plans

Has D.C. United submitted a poor stadium design or are surrounding property owners trying to squeeze the team? (D.C. United)
Months from beginning construction on its new stadium, D.C. United has run into stiff opposition to the project’s design from real estate developers who own nearby p...

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Books of The Times: Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession

In “Crisis of Character,” for instance, Gary J. Byrne, a former uniformed Secret Service officer, writing with Grant M. Schmidt, mentions Mrs. Clinton’s “obscenity-laced tirades” on the first page of his introduction, and the opening sentence from the first lady includes a hearty expletive. I...

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Donald Trump Threatens to Sue The Times Over Article on Unwanted Advances

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Donald J. Trump threatened to sue The New York Times for libel on Wednesday night...

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Help for a Business Idea Trying to Catch Fire

Within months of entering the program, Ms. Smith competed against 100 other teams and was awarded some $30,000 in 2014. Since then, she has increased her business’s sales exponentially.
Her business, now called Simple Mills, has products in more than 5,000 stores and her company has raised $...

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David B. Nast: Growing and Refining Your Business

The economy is up and so is job-hopping. How can you attract superior talent to grow and improve your business while holding onto your top performers to refine your business?


85% of employees leave their job because of their manager (SHRM). Over 66% of CEO’s say that...

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Daniel DiPiazza: From Inside the Trenches: How Social Media (Really) Works and The New Rules For Winning It All

Last year, my Instagram account blew up–to put it mildly. I grew from 0-100,000 followers in less than 6 months.


I attribute a lot of my recent successes — growing Rich20Something, getting a major book deal, acquiring Under30CEO — to the rapid surge in relevance that...

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Oil supply: Rigonomics

IN THE wilds of western Texas, a flicker of life has returned to the fracking, or hydraulic-fracturing, industry. In the past four weeks nine idled oil rigs have been put back to work in the Permian basin, the richest of America’s shale-oil provinces. That is only a tiny fraction of the 4...

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Why Clinton might lose Ohio

Charlie Saltkield won’t vote for Hillary Clinton in November for one reason: She badmouthed coal.
Saltkield doesn’t even work in the coal industry. He owns Charlie’s Cycles, a motorcycle shop in southern Ohio, about an hour south of Columbus. He’s exactly...

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Global impact: Nowhere to hide

SOME OF THE finest infrastructure to be found between Singapore and Dubai lies in the south of Sri Lanka, close to the crashing waves of the Indian Ocean. Broad highways connect a deep-sea harbour to a silvery, angular convention centre and, further inland, to an elegant airport terminal...

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The Economist explains: The Federal Reserve system

WHEN the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) decides whether to raise interest rates at the meeting starting on June 14th, representatives of the Fed’s regional branches will cast half of the ten votes. Unlike Janet Yellen, the Fed’s chair, Stanley Fischer, her deputy, or three o...

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European corporate governance: Cleaning the Augean tables

WHEN Cesare Geronzi took over as chairman of Generali, an insurer, last year, many investors shuddered. Mr Geronzi’s past has long been under scrutiny: prosecutors demanded in March that he go to prison for his alleged role in the bankruptcy of Cirio, a food company, in 2003. As...

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Obama Regulators Want To Let Factory Farms Label Their Meat 'Humanely Raised'

Obama administration regulators have proposed allowing meat and chicken products to be marketed as “humanely raised” even if the animals in question were subjected to procedures that cause substantial suffering ― including unanesthetized castration, debeaking, dehorning and prolonged extre...

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Facebook and Google are building a huge undersea cable to China

Facebook and Google are teaming up to build a huge Internet cable under the Pacific Ocean to China.
Both companies are blocked in mainland China. But they’re plowing money into an 8,000-mile ultrafast link between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, a special Chinese territory where...

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A yen for cheapness

Best-sellers from Tokyo to Texas

IT HAS become a staple story in the local American press: a Daiso store opening near you. Last month it was the turn of Plano, Texas, to get a branch of the Japanese chain of shops where everything costs ¥100. (In America it actually charges $1.50 per item, ...

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Why Obama thinks about cybersecurity as fighting a pandemic

 
(Olivier Douliery/European Pressphoto Agency)
After facing an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks against private and public organizations during his presidency, President Obama thinks about digital threats like a public health crisis, he said in a Wired Magazine interview published W...

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Only one of the 10 best-performing CEOs in the world runs a U.S. company

Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., holds the Project Shield, an Android-based gaming handheld device, at a news conference before the 2013 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)
Quick: Guess one CEO of an Ame...

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She wore a message to a Trump rally: ‘Grab my p—-. I dare you’

Anna Lehane shows off her homemade shirt as she prepares to attend a rally for Donald Trump on Monday in Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of Anna Lehane.)
The first time it happened, Anna Lehane was 15. She was walking to the movie theater in her Pennsylvania town when a man rolled down his...

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Education and policy: Re-educating Rita

IN JULY 2011 Sebastian Thrun, who among other things is a professor at Stanford, posted a short video on YouTube, announcing that he and a colleague, Peter Norvig, were making their “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” course available free online. By the time the course began in Oct...

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Parliament rules, not OK?: The government rejects MPs’ demands for a vote on the Brexit process

THE answer to the question whether Parliament should exert democratic control over the process of leaving the European Union ought surely to be obvious. Yet in a statement and, later, a full debate this week David Davis, the Brexit secretary, rejected repeated demands by MPs that...

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New food norms to open up value-added market

The Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is drawing up guidelines on fortifying rice, milk, wheat flour, edible oil and salt.
Existing food standards require salt to be fortified with iodine. According to the draft guidelines circulated among stakeholders, 850-1,100 parts...

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3 Ways to Create Successful Proprietary Tech

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Want to Make 6 Figures From Your Amazon FBA Business? Here's How.

If you want to grow your business to six figures, it must be scalable, regardless of the business model. The advantage of a Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) business is that you don’t have to warehouse products or handle the picking, packing and shipping. This is part of what makes an FBA busi...

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3 Ways to Help Remote Employees Grow With Your Company

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Remote workers are a growing trend in modern business, but an off-site team adds a layer of complexity to the age-old pr...

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6 Tactics Successful Startups Use On Twitter

Today, Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networks. The platform has become a marketing tool for many businesses looking to build a loyal following of their target audience. Businesses are using Twitter to build relationships, gain exposure and increase their sales and revenues in...

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The Color Wheel of Relationship Selling

Greg graduated sales school at the top of his class and was eager to start his new career in Tennessee. His strength was his ability to connect with people, and much was expected from his sales manager.
He met with a prospect in Birmingham, Alabama that wanted a presentation on why his...

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How Amazon's Recent Changes Could Affect Your Business

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In online business, building on someone else’s platform always comes with some risks.
This topic is often discussed in en...

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You Want To Generate Profits? Learn Why Your Business Is Bleeding Money!

Business and profits go hand in hand. You may be able to absorb some losses in your business, but at some point, the lack of finances would become unsustainable. After all, you are in business to make money, right? Otherwise, what would be the point of working so hard?
So when you try to...

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Michael Drew: This Call May Be Monitored for Quality Control

Funny how everyone talks about how important workers are to companies, but no one seems to do anything about it.


You’d think this was something difficult to achieve. But it’s not a difficult concept: treat people well, value their contributions, praise them, let them have a...

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Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Start a Business or Just Buy a Business?

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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is out

by Matt Egan, Jackie Wattles and Cristina Alesci   @CNNMoneyInvest October 12, 2016: 7:31 PM ET









Embattled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will retire effective immediately, the company announced Wednesday, marking a stunning downfall for one of the banking ...

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Harley Finkelstein: Tina Roth Eisenberg on Picking Winning Projects

Tina Roth Eisenberg is known to many as swissmiss after her wildly popular design blog. She’s since become known for many other creative projects including a browser-based to-do app called TeuxDeux, and a temporary tattoo line for children and adults alike called Tattly. She also...

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Wall St holds steady after Fed minutes

The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average indexes held their modest gains on Wednesday after U.S. Federal Reserve meeting minutes did little to clarify expectations on the timing for its next interest rate hikes. Roselle Chen reports.







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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Wells Fargo Chief Abruptly Steps Down

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The scandal engulfing Wells Fargo toppled its chief executive on Wednesday, as John G. Stumpf announced his...

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Trump: Make America great again (and stay at my hotel!)

When Donald Trump kicked off his presidential run at New York’s Trump Tower last summer he not only announced his candidacy but his intention to build “one of the world’s great hotels.”
“It’s gonna be the best hotel in Washington, D.C.,” Trump said of the Old Post Office pavilion, the 1899-er...

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This is how you create a record-breaking hurricane

A satellite image from October 2015 shows Hurricane Patricia (L) as it approaches the coastline of Mexico from the Eastern Pacific.  (EPA/NOAA)
It may very well be the strongest hurricane, for wind speeds, that human beings have ever been able to measure.
In October of last year, Hur...

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Books of The Times: Review: In ‘News of the World,’ Unlikely Companions Bond on a Perilous Journey

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Paulette Jiles was a poet before she became a novelist. And it certainly shows. Her new novel, the 2016 National Book Award nominee “News of the World,” has invited comparisons with bot...

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She's recycling CO2 to reduce oil dependence

Carbon dioxide gets a bad rap.
Out of all the waste gases produced by human activity — manufacturing, agriculture, electricity production, transportation — carbon dioxide is the biggest byproduct and is fingered as the leading culprit behind global warming.
In fact, it...

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Belle Beth Cooper: 14 Tools to Create Engaging Infographics and Images for Social Media Posts

It’s no secret that images are increasingly important for social media success.


It wasn’t long ago that Twitter added inline image previews to its official apps, and it’s including even more image focus in the latest redesign.


At Buffer, we’ve done tests on our ow...

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Ask Rod: How Can We Take On Big-Box Retailers?

A small business is never going to beat Walmart, Target and other big-box retailers on price. So how can they convince customers to stick with independent retailers instead?


And your best customers can also be your best marketers. What does it take to have them spread the word?


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Marty Zwilling: A Positive Business Strategy Is Key To Success Today

Does your business have a visible positive strategy, or do your customers and employees still see your primary focus as closing more sales and killing competitors? Certainly that has been the strategy of many companies, and has worked in the past, but today’s customers and workers are...

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Still a green, if less pleasant, land: Amid political turbulence, support for Britain’s climate policies continues

“HOWEVER we choose to leave the European Union, let me be clear, we remain committed to dealing with climate change,” declared Amber Rudd, Britain’s secretary of state for energy and climate change, on June 29th. A day later her words were seemingly supported, as the latest “carbon budget” ...

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Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom win the Nobel prize for economic sciences

SUPPOSE that you and I are interested in opening a lemonade stand together. We agree that I will bring the materials we need (cups, stand and so forth) while you will make the lemonade. I’ll do the pouring while you mind the cashbox and at the end we will split the proceeds fairly. A doubt ...

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The Economist explains: Why is world trade growth slowing?

GLOBAL trade is in a grim state. Between 1985 and 2007 trade volumes shot up at around twice the rate of global GDP; since 2012 the rate of growth has barely kept pace. Things appear to be getting worse. On September 27th the World Trade Organisation slashed its forecast for growth in...

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Investment banking: Diving into the mire

WHEN Wells Fargo’s competitors were spending fortunes building up big investment-banking operations in the 1980s and 1990s, the bank’s chief executive at the time, Richard Kovacevich, refused to follow suit, joking that the business would be a good one to get into were it not for all the pe...

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Corporate governance: The doofus factor

UK Only Article: 
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How to save the euro
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Corporate governance
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The Ultimate Freelancer’s Guidebook

Freelance writer, internet marketer, and mobile entrepreneur Yuwanda Black specializes in helping young freelancers build a business and “live the freelance life,” and in The Ultimate Freelancer’s Guidebook, she gives you the tools you need to be successful in the...

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Samsung's Note 7 crisis is wiping out billions in profit

Samsung’s decision to kill off its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphone is already hurting its profits.
The world’s biggest smartphone maker on Wednesday slashed billions of dollars off its sales and profit estimates for the three months to Sept. 30. The move came a day...

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Flash Crash Bang Wallop

Philip Coggan joins host Simon Long to explain what’s next for the pound in the light of the latest flash crash in its value. Also: Ryan Avent delves into the work that won the latest Economics Nobel prize and Patrick Foulis lays out why Elon Musk’s finances might be as...

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How Obama brought capitalism to outer space

President Obama tours the commercial rocket processing facility of SpaceX along with chief executive Elon Musk at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in 2010. (Photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls)
In 2010, nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy called for the United States to send a man to the moon, P...

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This might help explain why corporate boards are still an old boy's club

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Companies with the highest percentage of female directors have been shown to outperform on return on equity, return on sales and return on invested capital. They pay less to gobble up other firms. They have lower stock price volatility. And those with more women at the top h...

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Trump spoke more in the second debate. Why it seemed like Clinton did.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shake hands after the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis on Oct. 9. (Julio Cortez/AP)
During the second presidential debate, both candidates tried to press...

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Ethics: Frankenstein’s paperclips

AS DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS go, it does not sound terribly frightening. The “paperclip maximiser” is a thought experiment proposed by Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University. Imagine an artificial intelligence, he says, which decides to amass as many paperclips as possible. It devotes al...

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The pound and the fury: Brexit is making Britons poorer, and meaner

THESE are exciting times for Britain’s currency, and not in a good way. On the eve of the vote on whether to leave the European Union, back in June, a pound bought you $1.48. Sterling has since declined by more than 16% against the dollar, to $1.22. Nearly half of the drop has occurred in t...

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Mumbai-Nagpur super expressway: Villagers up in arms over land acquisition

The Rs 40,000-crore Mumbai-Nagpur super expressway, the dream project of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has hit a roadblock, as villagers are mobilising against the acquisition of land for the project. They have objected to acquisition under both the land pooling route and the one-time...

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How to Use Healthcare Benefits to Out-Recruit Rivals

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Employee medical benefits are withering. Although most companies still offer health plans as part of their compensation ...

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How a Healthy Lifestyle Can Give You an Advantage in Business

In this animated video, Entrepreneur Network partner Peter Voogd explains the importance of health in life and business. 
When you’re healthy and full of energy, your influence and impact increase. You become more productive and have the ability to perform better. You’re able to b...

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3 Ways to Marry Music and Technology to Grow Your Startup

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The creative spirit of Nashville, Tennessee, home to the Grand Ole Opry and the legendary Music Row, embodies more than ...

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Skip the Emojis: Your Small Business' Text-Messaging Campaign Should Be All About the Deals

More than 90 percent of all text messages are opened and read within five minutes or less. And tons of small-business owners are ready to write their Short Message Service (SMS) success stories. 
Let me give you a piece of advice: If you’re stuck on old-school methods, you’ll stru...

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The Haggler: A Bean Bag Blowout, and Then a Deafening Silence

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In this episode, a Haggler intervention and then a pair of updates about previous columns. There is a lot of ground to cover and consumer justice to dispense. So let’s go.
Q. In August of last year, I p...

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Dov Charney Is Exactly Where He Wants To Be On Businessweek"s Cover

Dov Charney landed right where he wants to be on this week’s cover of Bloomberg Businessweek.


The magazine hitting newsstands Friday morning pictures the ousted American Apparel CEO, infamous for his salacious behavior, photoshopped into the cleavage of a woman wearing a dark red top. T...

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How to Set Yourself Up for Venture Success

IrishAngels is an angel investor group focused on seed and early-stage investments in the most promising ventures affiliated with the University of Notre Dame. Since its inception in September 2012, the firm has invested more than $5.5 million in seed and series A capital across a variety of ...

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Samsung’s Passive Response to Note 7’s Overheating Problem Draws Criticism

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Samsung’s Twitter feed for Galaxy products.


After Samsung Electronics halted production of its high-end smartphone, the Galaxy Note 7, it posted a statement on its website telling owners of the phone to power it down immediately and contact the o...

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Arianna Huffington: Failure "Is A Stepping Stone To Success"

Arianna Huffington knows a thing or two about failure. The trick, she says, is not letting it stop you.


The editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group discussed the relationship between success and failure in a recent interview with eCommerce site Shopify, as part of its Build A...

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Mike Ettling: Sixteen Percent of Companies Report Being "Ready" to Take on Digital Transformation - Are You One of Them?

One of the reasons many of the executives I know, including myself, embrace leadership today is because of the changes to both the workplace, and the workforce, brought on by the digitalization of our world, and the need for business to rapidly transform.


As exciting as that can be,...

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Red Lobster Gets $575M Deal From Thai Company Accused Of Slavery

ORLANDO, Fla. — Red Lobster is getting a $575 million investment from a Thai seafood exporter of shrimp that The Associated Press found last year came from supply chains tainted by slavery.
A joint statement by the companies Monday says Thai Union Group wants to build a d...

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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Samsung, Unable to Pinpoint Galaxy Note 7 Problem, Kills Its Production

As of this week, hundreds of Samsung’s testers were still unable to reproduce explosions for the replacement devices. By then, it was too late. On Tuesday, in an unprecedented move, the company said it was killing the Galaxy Note 7 entirely.

Continue reading the main story

The move does n...

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Books of The Times: Review: Elena Ferrante Wants Privacy. Her New Book Implies Otherwise.

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This month, an article by the Italian journalist Claudio Gatti was published, offering a theory about the identity of the real writer behind the pseudonym Elena Ferrante, based on “a m...

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The Man Musicians Call When Two Tunes Sound Alike

Mr. Oxendale’s reticence to discuss ongoing cases — he won’t even show journalists his office in case they stumble across notes — is evidence of one truth about the world of music copyright: There can be a lot of money involved. Mr. Oxendale takes on around 450 cases a year in which musicia...

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Don't give up! A simple fix to save a failing business

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Roger Bryan: 5 Simple Digital Marketing Strategies That Can Help Your Business Grow

Digital marketing is essential in today’s world. With both competitors and potential customers constantly online, digital marketing is the only way to stay ahead. When you’re a small business owner the online world can seem intimidating. Here is a list of five simple digital...

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How To Turn $1,000 Into $66 Million

Real-estate mogul Barbara Corcoran takes a look back at her early days as an entrepreneur….
Read more: New York Real Estate, Barbara Corcoran Real Estate, Barbara Corcoran Shark Tank, Real Estate Investing, Corcoran Real Estate, Small Business Video, You"ve Got, Shark Tank, Barbara...

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Tom Daly: The Small Business Health Insurance Roller Coaster - What is Next?

I have spent my entire 24 year career helping employers shop for, buy and manage their employee benefits. In that time, the vast majority of large employers (50+ employees – for this discussion) have offered (and plan to continue to offer) their employees health insurance. In 2010,...

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Pollution: Beijing v belching chimneys

SOMETHING has been amiss recently in the city of Tangshan, the source of about one-tenth of China’s steel output and (literally) eye-watering levels of pollution. Through much of May and June, no smoke billowed out of the mills near the railway station, two hours east of Beijing. In the s...

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Trump? Clinton? Who cares? Market focused on Senate

This fact may get lost in all the noise about Donald Trump’s comments on female genitalia and Hillary Clinton’s email purges, but Americans are actually voting for more than just the next president in a few weeks.
The makeup of the House and Senate is also in...

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Banks: Breaking bad

THE VIDEO PANS from the empty lot outside the factory to the interior, where metal parts lie in a heap, detritus of a bankrupt steel company. Playing cards litter the ground. Over the desolate scene, soft piano music plays and a narrator describes the floor plan and location: “An e...

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German banks: Turn of the screw

If only rates were as buoyant

BANKS the world over are groaning under the burden of low, even negative, interest rates. The gripes from Germany are among the loudest. In March, when the European Central Bank cut its main lending rate to zero and its deposit rate to -0.4%, the head of the...

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Government spending: Costly contractors

HOW could it possibly cost more for a government agency to hire a private consulting company with its own headquarters, executives, support staff, shareholders and so forth to prepare a bid for a project, compete for the contract, execute the project, compile reams of data proving what a...

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Zymergen Raises $130 Million in New Round of Financing

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Samsung's $10 billion choice: Ditch the Note 7?

Samsung’s exploding phone debacle just keeps getting worse.
The South Korean firm has warned customers to stop using all versions of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone just weeks after promising it was safe. The stock plummeted 8% Tuesday in response, wiping about $17 billion off the...

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Airlines are to cough up for cross-border flight pollution

CIVIL aviation accounts for perhaps only 2% of man-made carbon emissions. Add in other pollutants, such as contrails and nitrous oxide, and the industry’s overall contribution to climate change might be twice that figure. That may not seem much. But the sector is growing rapidly. Since the ...

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It’s been a terrible few weeks for Yahoo. Is it Marissa Mayer’s fault?

Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer is seen in 2014. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
Marissa Mayer has faced plenty of scrutiny since becoming Yahoo’s chief executive in mid-2012. But two recent incidents at Yahoo have some industry analysts again questioning Mayer’s judgment.
First, Y...

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Even in response to a question about 'discipline,' Trump showed none of it

Both Trump and Clinton respond to a question from CNN’s Anderson Cooper about whether Trump has the ‘discipline of a good leader’. (The Washington Post)

If ever there was a moment that neatly summarized Donald Trump’s problem with impulse control, it came Sunday n...

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Harvard, MIT professors win Nobel in economics for research on contract theory

The winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is announced. (Reuters)

Harvard’s Oliver Hart and MIT’s Bengt Holmström were awarded the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on ...

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Geolocation: Addressing the world

LAST year, a brush fire threatened the home of Ganhuyag Chuluun Hutagt, who lives in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar. Instead of giving the fire brigade his address, though, Mr Ganhuyag had to guide them to the blaze by describing a series of landmarks along the way. That was because, like ...

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The Economist explains: What is the difference between a “hard” and “soft” Brexit?

THERESA MAY, Britain’s prime minister, promised the Conservative party conference this week that she would invoke Article 50 of the European Union treaty, the only legal route to leave the EU, by the end of March 2017. She also said that, after Brexit, she wanted a deal that gave British c...

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IIP contracts for the second straight month

Industrial production contracted for a second straight month in August, raising doubt over manufacturing recovery and justifying the policy rate cut by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) last week.
However, a good monsoon and early onset of the festive season have raised hope of revival in...

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4 Lessons About Handling Stressed Customers That I Learned From Being a Mover

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