Best wishes to you and yours. JibJab nailed my resolutions for the year!
Looking forward to a great 2016!
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Google is good for a lot of things. Watching the auto-complete choices is often fun. According to this, PDF might be the fourth most popular religion.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- How Machines Learn (And You Win). (HBR)
- How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor. (Bloomberg)
- Forget Humans vs. Machines: It’s a Humans + Machines Future. (Singularity)
- The 5 Biggest Rip-Offs Consumers Face Today. (Fortune)
- Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s. (The Atlantic)
- Goldman Sachs Bought a $21 Million Stake in HFT Network Company. (Bloomberg)
- U.S. System Designed to Prevent Financial Crisis ‘Likely to Fail,’ Say Experts. (MarketWatch)
- Wall Street is Under Attack from Hackers. (Business Insider)
- Short Interest: Dispelling Another Market Myth. (See It Market)
- Stop Listening to These Clowns: Economists’ Bad Ideas Have Been Damaging Our Economy for Years. (Salon)
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Google is good for a lot of things. Watching the auto-complete choices is often fun. According to this, PDF might be the fourth most popular religion.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- How Machines Learn (And You Win). (HBR)
- How an F Student Became America’s Most Prolific Inventor. (Bloomberg)
- Forget Humans vs. Machines: It’s a Humans + Machines Future. (Singularity)
- The 5 Biggest Rip-Offs Consumers Face Today. (Fortune)
- Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s. (The Atlantic)
- Goldman Sachs Bought a $21 Million Stake in HFT Network Company. (Bloomberg)
- U.S. System Designed to Prevent Financial Crisis ‘Likely to Fail,’ Say Experts. (MarketWatch)
- Wall Street is Under Attack from Hackers. (Business Insider)
- Short Interest: Dispelling Another Market Myth. (See It Market)
- Stop Listening to These Clowns: Economists’ Bad Ideas Have Been Damaging Our Economy for Years. (Salon)
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Just like Ben Carson theorized …
via Bizarro.com.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- How to Scale Things That Don't Scale. (Buffer)
- Fifty years of Moore’s Law. (Timeline)
- Singularity or Civil War? The Future of Artificial Intelligence. (Breitbart)
- How to Never Get Angry: 3 New Secrets From Neuroscience. (Time)
- The Dark Side of Empathy. How caring for one person can foster baseless aggression towards another (The Atlantic)
- The 40 Most Exciting Innovations of the Year – Tech Insider. (TechInsider)
- Skype Co-Founders Prep Self-Driving Robot Package Delivery. (USAToday)
- Google Says It Could Make Drone Deliveries Happen by 2017. (MarketWatch)
- The Psychology of Risk and Reward. (Farnam Street)
- The Stock Market is a 'Dangerous Casino' That's Disconnected from the Real Economy. (Business Insider)
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Just like Ben Carson theorized …
via Bizarro.com.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- How to Scale Things That Don't Scale. (Buffer)
- Fifty years of Moore’s Law. (Timeline)
- Singularity or Civil War? The Future of Artificial Intelligence. (Breitbart)
- How to Never Get Angry: 3 New Secrets From Neuroscience. (Time)
- The Dark Side of Empathy. How caring for one person can foster baseless aggression towards another (The Atlantic)
- The 40 Most Exciting Innovations of the Year – Tech Insider. (TechInsider)
- Skype Co-Founders Prep Self-Driving Robot Package Delivery. (USAToday)
- Google Says It Could Make Drone Deliveries Happen by 2017. (MarketWatch)
- The Psychology of Risk and Reward. (Farnam Street)
- The Stock Market is a 'Dangerous Casino' That's Disconnected from the Real Economy. (Business Insider)
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving weekend. Times may change, but human nature doesn't. There is a lot to be thankful for anyway!
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- CEOs On Their 'Best Mistakes'. (Business Insider)
- The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners. (HBR)
- How AI is Transforming Business [Infographic]. (Deloitte)
- How Salad Can Make Us Fat. (NYTimes)
- Research: Life Is Different For People Who Think In Metaphors. (Psych)
- Jack Bogle: Greatly Diminished Stock Returns Ahead. (CBS)
- U.S. Dethroned as World's Billionaire Capital. (CNBC)
- IMF Seen Approving Yuan As "Reserve Currency". (ZeroHedge)
- The Man Accused of Spoofing Some of the World's Biggest Futures Exchanges. (Bloomberg)
- These Numbers Explain Why Amazon Wants to Give So Much Free Stuff to Prime Members. (BI)
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving weekend. Times may change, but human nature doesn't. There is a lot to be thankful for anyway!
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- CEOs On Their 'Best Mistakes'. (Business Insider)
- The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners. (HBR)
- How AI is Transforming Business [Infographic]. (Deloitte)
- How Salad Can Make Us Fat. (NYTimes)
- Research: Life Is Different For People Who Think In Metaphors. (Psych)
- Jack Bogle: Greatly Diminished Stock Returns Ahead. (CBS)
- U.S. Dethroned as World's Billionaire Capital. (CNBC)
- IMF Seen Approving Yuan As "Reserve Currency". (ZeroHedge)
- The Man Accused of Spoofing Some of the World's Biggest Futures Exchanges. (Bloomberg)
- These Numbers Explain Why Amazon Wants to Give So Much Free Stuff to Prime Members. (BI)
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Don't ask how I know, but, never laugh at your wife's choices. Remember, you are one of them.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- 6 Ways Work Will Change In 2016. (FastCompany)
- What Peter Drucker Had to Say About Automation. (HBR)
- Japan is Building a “Robot Taxi” Service, With Thousands Planned for the 2020 Olympics. (QZ)
- Is Classical Music Irrelevant? Can It Survive The Death Of Its Listeners? (TM)
- Pretty Scary – How Close Did We Come to a US-Soviet War During the Cold War? (BI)
- Hedge-Fund Priest: Thou Shalt Make Money. (Wall Street Journal)
- When Botox Meets Viagra: Allergen & Pfizer in Merger Talks. (LATimes)
- Even If Only for a Moment, Someone Leapfrogged Gates as World's Richest. (ValueWalk)
- Money Managers Go on Offense Against Speed Traders. (Bloomberg)
- The Trust Machine: The Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Transform How the Economy Works. (Economist)
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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Don't ask how I know, but, never laugh at your wife's choices. Remember, you are one of them.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
- 6 Ways Work Will Change In 2016. (FastCompany)
- What Peter Drucker Had to Say About Automation. (HBR)
- Japan is Building a “Robot Taxi” Service, With Thousands Planned for the 2020 Olympics. (QZ)
- Is Classical Music Irrelevant? Can It Survive The Death Of Its Listeners? (TM)
- Pretty Scary – How Close Did We Come to a US-Soviet War During the Cold War? (BI)
- Hedge-Fund Priest: Thou Shalt Make Money. (Wall Street Journal)
- When Botox Meets Viagra: Allergen & Pfizer in Merger Talks. (LATimes)
- Even If Only for a Moment, Someone Leapfrogged Gates as World's Richest. (ValueWalk)
- Money Managers Go on Offense Against Speed Traders. (Bloomberg)
- The Trust Machine: The Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Transform How the Economy Works. (Economist)
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Map Showing the Aging of the World’s Population
It isn't hard to predict the number of 18-year-olds in 2030. You start by counting the 3-year-olds today.
Likewise, certain huge macro-economic forces are easy to see.
The chart below shows the aging of the World's population. The small image at the top shows the current snapshot. The larger image shows the world in 2050.
via BofAML.
Countries with a low birth to death ratio will continue to get older and suffer the consequences of attempting to pay for the care of the many through the efforts of the few.
Based on this, you can start to get a sense of where the more promising emerging markets will come from.
