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Cybersecurity 101: How to defend against cyber-attacks

Tom Spencer

Large organisations use technology to store data for accessibility and efficiency but because of this, can be brought to their knees and resort to using pen and paper after a deadly cyber-attack. If you are an IT company that creates software, hiring developers to check code can be a good defensive strategy. Zero-day exploits.

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IMF Chief Under Investigation in French Fraud Case; Meet David Lipton (an Obama Clone), Lagarde's Possible Replacement

MishTalk

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation by French magistrates for alleged negligence in a political fraud affair dating from 2008 when she was finance minister. Based on these principles, we examine a range of options for achieving redistribution efficiently.

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Blue River, which has raised more than $3 million in venture capital, also plans to develop machines to automate weeding – and eventually harvesting – using many of the same technologies. Still, there is much research and development to be done.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Growth of Fintech and Disruption of Brick-and-mortar Financial Institutions

Tom Spencer

The idea that technology can be configured to drastically improve the delivery and usability of finance began taking off following the financial crisis of 2008, when consumer distrust for traditional banks combined with the increasing popularity and functionality of smartphone apps.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). Inequity and discrimination result from failure, one person at a time, one action at a time (Greenleaf, 2008).

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"China Urbanization Growth Fallacy"; Trouble with Ponzi Schemes

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. For the newly converted, the risk is that they see the recent slowdown as a consequence of unexpected adverse developments, rather than as an expression of the underlying systemic problem with the growth model. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).