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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

In this short article, we will provide a brief history of today’s global monetary system, explain why central banks aim to produce consumer price inflation, and consider some of the potential consequences. In the early 1970s, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries agreed to set oil prices in US dollars.

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Such costs are expected to quadruple again by 2019, to in excess of $2 trillion. Today most organizations are data-driven to one degree or another.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “ The judgment won’t be paid off until 2019 at the earliest; by then, the total cost will have grown to $53 million. The city has a very?—?well,