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Emergence of Formal Behavioral Insights Teams and Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

I recently ran into a short video by the New South Wales government which does a great job of introducing the notion of behavioral insights and application in the governmental space. For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy.

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France Seeks Another Tax on Facebook, Google And YouTube, to Finance "French Culture" Cinema

MishTalk

RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion France''s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture. billion ($1.8

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Marc Faber on Investment Strategies, Government Idiocies, Gold, Safe Havens

MishTalk

On the debt ceiling debate in Washington, Faber said, "It''s basically a dysfunctional government that we have that is far too large that is essentially wasting money left, right and center. Link if following video does not play: Faber on Investment Strategies and Gold. It is a huge waste. The problem is that I don’t see a solution.".

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

Well, the way the Fed expands its balance sheet is by buying financial assets: US government securities, agency securities, mortgage backed securities. Governments around the world should address rising debt levels by instituting a debt jubilee. Free market capitalism is about increasing the stock of productive capital over time.

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Bond Market Misconceptions, Facts, and Fallacies; Bond Market About to Collapse?

MishTalk

For example, please consider Will the Last Person to Leave the Treasury Market Please Turn Out the Lights? If the Fed were not buying $45 billion each month of our government bonds, investors both foreign and domestic would require a much higher rate of return. by Michael Pento as presented on Yahoo!Finance.

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29 Page Memo Proves Greek Parliament is Puppet Government Run by Germany; Devil Details and EU Guarantees

MishTalk

Puppet Government The Financial Times reports Memo Reveals Extent of Control Bailout Monitors Will Have on Greece. The memo covers damn near every aspect of Greek finances, effectively making the Greek parliament a puppet government of Germany. He said: "The Greek finance minister… says more or less the same thing.

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Smart Debt Engineering: Markets Giddy Over Greek Debt Proposal; ECB Nixes Plan Already; Party On Dudes

MishTalk

Smart Debt Engineering The markets are giddy today over a Plan to End Debt Standoff released yesterday by Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. Varoufakis said the government would no longer call for a headline write-off of Greece’s €315bn foreign debt. Yes, I have a video tribute for that. The euro rose.015