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Art and Design will be your best story tellers | Tricon Infotech Pvt Ltd
Every great story needs a great story teller to grab the attention of the world. Art and Design will be the best medium to drive people towards your brand.
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Skinner-box rats trained to predict currency market movements
Viennese artist Michael Marcovici's Rat Traders uses reward, punishment and selective breeding to create a strain of lab-rat that can predict the movement of international currency markets.
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Shares of South Korean contraceptive makers surge after court scraps adultery ban
South Korea's highest court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional a decades-old law banning adultery, triggering a surge in shares of condom makers and morning-after pills. The 1953 law aimed to protect women in a male-dominated society where divorce was rare, by making marital infidelity punishable with jail.
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Nobel Prize Economists Say Free Market Competition Rewards Deception and Manipulation
It’s “the economy, stupid!” said James Carville, campaign advisor to presidential candidate Bill Clinton in 1992. He wanted to stick it to President George H. W. Bush for an array of economic problems that were tied to the economic recession that started during the Bush presidency. Well, we have a different, broader interpretation of Carville’s statement: that many of our problems come from the nature of the economic system itself. If business people behave in the purely selfish...
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Legal marijuana sales forecast to hit $23B in 4 years
Marijuana is rapidly becoming a big, semi-legal business across the country, with $5.7 billion in sales last year and tens of thousands of people working and paying taxes as they cultivate, package and sell cannabis. Colorado, Alaska, Oregon, Washington state and Washington, D.C. have all legalized adult recreational use, and 23 states and the District of Columbia permit some form of medical use. That’s despite the fact that...
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Being Rich Doesn't Mean You're More Hardworking: Economist Says Markets Amplify Luck
Why do hardworking people with similar talents and training often earn such dramatically different incomes? And why, too, have these earnings gaps grown so much larger in recent decades? Almost no other questions have proved more enduringly fascinating to economists. The traditional approach to these questions views labor markets as perfectly competitive meritocracies in which people are paid in accordance with the value of what they produce. In this view, earnings differences result largely from individual differences...
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Slower Growth in Jobs Report May Give Fed Pause on Interest Rates
After two consecutive months of hearty jobs gains, hiring eased in August, with the government reporting on Friday that employers expanded their payrolls by 151,000 workers. The official unemployment rate, based on a separate survey of households, remained at 4.9 percent. Average hourly earnings grew slightly, bringing the 12-month increase in wages to 2.4 percent — a modest gain that still keeps most workers ahead of inflation.
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Batteries May Trip ‘Death Spiral’ in $3.4 Trillion Credit Market
Battery technologies starting to disrupt the electricity and automobile industries may also emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets, according to Fitch Ratings. A quarter of outstanding global corporate debt, or as much as $3.4 trillion, is linked to the utility- and auto-industry bonds that rely on fossil fuel activities, the ratings agency wrote in a report published Tuesday. Batteries have the potential to “tip the oil market from growth to contraction earlier than anticipated,” according to Fitch.
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This is what a long economic winter feels like
Leave it to an economist living in communist Russia to find a pattern in capitalist countries’ economies – a pattern that paints a chilling picture for the global economy over the next few years. In the 1920s, Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev (also spelled Kondratieff) developed a theory that prices, interest rates, foreign trade and coal and pig iron production in capitalist countries moved in long waves of 50-60 years. This meant that “great depressions” were a natural part of the capitalist system, and were followed by periods of recovery.
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China is selling its giant hoard of U.S. government bonds, even before Trump arrives
Donald Trump isn’t even in office yet, but the prospect of his presidency is already reshaping the complex flows of international capital. Take the U.S. dollar: It’s been rising fast since the businessman and reality-TV star stunned the world last month when he won in enough states to claim an Electoral College victory in the presidential election. The dollar has moved sharply higher and is now hovering at around a 14-year high.
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China is obsessed with Trump's presidency — and it's not just because of politics or trade
The unorthodox foreign policy views of incoming US president Donald Trump may have unsettled Chinese leaders who are still trying to make sense of the billionaire’s true intentions. But the mainland’s obsession with Trump’s presidency is not just about politics or bilateral trade. His domestic economic agenda, in which he champions tax cuts and deregulation to boost the economy and create jobs, has inadvertently fueled an already intense debate in China over the state and direction of the Chinese economy.
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Fears of a 'massive' global property price fall amid 'dangerous' conditions and market slow-down
Property prices have climbed to dangerous levels in several advanced economies, raising the risk of massive price falls if markets overheat, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Catherine Mann, the OECD’s chief economist, said the think-tank was monitoring “vulnerabilities in asset markets” closely amid predictions of higher inflation and the prospect of diverging monetary policies next year.
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Dow makes history: cracks 20,000 barrier
The waiting is finally over. Dow 20,000 – a milestone that seemed out of reach and had a science-fiction feel to it at the 2009 market low when the iconic stock index traded at 6,547 and 54% below its then-peak – is now a reality. In a historic moment on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average eclipsed the 20,000 level Wednesday for the first time in its 120-year history.
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RadioShack's Successor Preparing to File for Bankruptcy, Sources Say
General Wireless Operations, the RadioShack successor created by a partnership between Sprint Corp. and the defunct retailer’s owners, is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in all cash deal
Our live blog is tracking market reaction as online retail giant Amazon makes a massive play into the grocery sector.
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How Bridge Lenders Review Apartment Underwriting Opportunities - Bloomfield Capital
Bloomfield Capital has been particularly active in the apartment space in recent years, funding over $24 million in multifamily loans over the last 24 months. Market-rate multifamily bridge lending is becoming increasingly competitive across the country, as more and more sponsors and lending platforms target the asset class. The apartment landscape has been supported by …
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Nuclear nerves wipe $1 trillion off world stocks
The damage inflicted on world stocks this week by the escalating war of words over North Korea topped $1 trillion on Friday, as investors again took cover in the yen, the Swiss franc, gold and government bonds. With the tense mood pushing European shares down for a third day and Wall Street set to fall again, global stocks were on course for their worst week since Donald Trump won November's U.S. presidential election.
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Debt Clock | debtclock.pk
Pakistan Debt Clock calculates the current national debt by year. Everyone can view day by day live Real Time debt counter on latest federal government debt
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PRIME Institute (Policy Research Institute of Market Economy)
PRIME Institute is an Independent, non partisan, economic research think tank committed to build an Open, Free, and Prosperous Pakistan Market Economy.
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Commercial Real Estate Outlook
Read about economic conditions in the latest quarter for commercial real estate markets and what they mean for investment and financing.
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