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If you’re focused on Amazon’s competition, you’re missing the future

by John Tamny | Apr 13, 2022

“You have to be kidding me.” Those were the words uttered with obvious incredulity to Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, the original founders of Tesla Motors. They were at a...

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Ukraine war: inside the complex web of Russia’s warring intelligence agencies

by Stephen Hall | Apr 12, 2022

Russian intelligence chief Sergey Beseda and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, were placed under house arrest on 9 March. Beseda and Bolyukh oversaw the foreign intelligence...

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The battle for 1.5° of warming is already lost, so what’s Plan B?

by James E Hanley | Apr 11, 2022

Climate activists’ current stated goal is to limit global warming to 1.5° Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this goal, according to the latest IPCC report,...

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Tony Soprano’s critique of identity politics

by Robert E. Wright | Apr 7, 2022

Tony Soprano, the eponymous fictional antihero of HBO’s iconic series about organised crime syndicates in northern New Jersey, tends to evoke images of cigars, strip clubs and...

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Why not one China and one Taiwan?

by Christopher Lingle and Dean Peng | Apr 6, 2022

At the end of February in 1972, US president Richard Nixon visited Beijing to mark the beginning of a dramatic shift in attitudes and policies affecting the destinies of the...

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Ukrainian Heroes Street: the ideology behind street name changes

by Seraphim Alvanides, Isabelle Buchstaller and Malgorzata Fabiszak | Apr 5, 2022

Across Eastern Europe, the addresses of Russian embassies are being changed as a form of protest against the war in Ukraine. In the Latvian capital, Riga, the section of...

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The truth about the ‘great resignation’

by Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Alex Clymo and David Zentler-Munro | Apr 4, 2022

Who changed jobs, where they went and why. The great resignation is a buzzphrase that first appeared in May 2021 and has struck fear into the hearts of employers ever...

The Historian

From British tea to Russian vodka

by J Mark Powell | Mar 31, 2022

A brief history of boycotts. From government bans to customers pouring it in gutters by the gallon, Americans are saying “nyet” to Russian vodka, expressing their anger over the...

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Zero-Covid policy threatens Hong Kong’s status as an international financial hub

by Dorothy Chan | Mar 30, 2022

Hong Kong’s implementation of draconian Covid policies threatens its status as an international financial hub. This is seen through Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s...

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Valuations and Write-Downs: Notes from a recent private meeting of USA real estate investors, thinkers and operators

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