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Closing the Racial Inequality Gaps
The Economic Cost of Racial Inequality in the U.S. In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Today, more than at any time since Dr. King’s assassination,...
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Negative Interest Rates
Where Is the Real Limit to Cheap Money? At some point along your life journey someone has probably given you a nugget of financial wisdom like ‘make sure you put some money in the bank for a rainy day”. Even the magazines at the supermarket checkout have articles on personal finance with flashy titles giving...
Global Growth -
ePrivacy & Data Protection
The Complex Web of Data Privacy and Its Influence on AI Ethics, Competition & Tech Evolution At a conference I attended a few years ago one of the presenters posed the question “Do you own your digital identity?” Most people in the room thought if they didn’t already, they definitely should, but at the very...
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Technology at Work v5.0
The New Normal of Remote Work And just like that, working from home is a real thing. With the coronavirus spreading, and lockdowns ordered, many office workers suddenly became ‘work from homers’. If you were lucky, you grabbed a few things off your desk on your last day in the office in case you had...
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Oil Markets are Worsening at a Faster Pace than Ever Before…
… and the Recovery Should Usher in a New World of Petroleum Oil prices have now fallen into negative territory for the first time in history as demand continues to fall faster than supply and storage capacity remains limited for inventory. The global economic recession brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic will likely slow the...
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5G and Mobile Operators
Is Virtual Becoming Real? 5G offers improvements in reliability, ultra-low latency that decreases the time lag to transmit data, and device synchronization, which allows data to be transmitted without losing any information. The eventual explosion of more advanced IoT devices could be better supported by 5G networks. Factory robotics, security/delivery drones, and logistics networks, for...
Technology & Innovation