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Commercial Awareness – what is it and how do I get it?

Tom Spencer

There are videos that use cartoons to explain how a transaction works, video courses in finance featuring “Fault in Our Stars” author John Green (his series of Crash Courses is both amusing and informative) and there are vloggers dedicated to easing you into the scary world of commerce.

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Carl the Robot Bartender Mixes Drinks and Chats With Customers

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Writing on the bars website, Mr Schaefer said his company aims to make humanity in humanoid robots closer to reality and show that scenes as in science fiction films are quite possible. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. The integrated circuits are manufactured on rolls of one micron thick plastic film, making them easily scalable and cheap to produce. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93).

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China Fooled the World (But It Cannot Last)

MishTalk

Now, for BBC Two''s award-winning strand This World, Peston reveals what has actually happened inside China since the economic collapse in the west in 2008. Well in the autumn of 2008, after the collapse of Lehman, there was a sudden and dramatic shrinkage of world trade. Why do I say that?

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Red Pill, Blue Pill, Cognitive Dissonance, Pavlov's Dogs

MishTalk

On one hand, any observer with historical perspective knows not only that the overvaluation from this kind of speculation inevitably ends in tears, but also that the heavy issuance of new speculative and low-quality securities during the bubble finances and enables unproductive malinvestment that leaves the economy far worse off in the end.

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