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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Like they have for extreme weather and natural disasters, companies can begin to establish international protocols and standards to govern AI not just within their own walls, but also to put in place processes to work with other companies, insurers, and policymakers. AI Insurance Products and Services. They should.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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Seven Charts Explain Why Chicago Bonds Rated Junk

MishTalk

By some calculations, the city is on the hook for as much as $63 billion when pensions, long-term notes, and health insurance obligations are included. Chart #2: Growing Payments While the current state of the city’s balance sheet is dismal, the real problem relates to what is expected to develop over the next decade.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Herein, as with all insurance, is where the concept of utmost good faith is laid bare.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Ritholtz on Gold and on.

MishTalk

Barring some new developments — like all the gold in Fort Knox becoming irradiated — I do not expect to see a resumption of the 2001-11 uptrend. If there was ever a time when monetary insurance was needed, it is today. The charts below show two different ranges where gold can find a footing and rally.

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Laughable Eurozone Banking "Non-Union"; Expect Disorderly Breakup

MishTalk

Throughout the talks, Germany and other rich euro-zone countries such as Finland made clear that they didn''t want their taxpayers to pay for problems that had developed in other countries'' banks in the past. Munchau asks " Would you call it insurance if the payout depended on whether the German parliament voted in favour?

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business

In my view, that is rightly seen as the core of the issue, that banks would make loans and take gambles that, if they paid off, got profits for the owners of the banks and management, but if they failed big-time got bailed out by public deposit insurance or direct government bailouts.

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