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Two books have come out in the last few years that seem especially relevant to those baby boomers now experiencing a variety of ailments correlated with age: dementia, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, Parkinson’s, strokes, heart disease, cancer and so on. David Sinclair, a genetics professor at Harvard and...
Here’s who’s better at making money in financial markets. Artificial intelligence (AI) has now closely matched or even surpassed humans in what were previously considered...
Marketers, manufacturers and even the media have been keeping tabs on all things related to logistics like never before. Coverage of supply chain matters practically doubled...
There is more than one way to inhabit a city,say these authors. As the future of work is changing, we now find ourselves at a stage where demand for quality, convenience and...
Inflation is skyrocketing in practically the entire world. Central banks are getting scared and beginning to announce the end of expansionary measures, also known...
Does air quality enhancement lead to higher house prices and rents? Our recent study, which is published by Energy Policy (this article is a media summary of the full article of...
Originally published October 2021. The founder of modern economics, Adam Smith, was no fan of the merchants of his time. He regarded them as among the most responsible for how...
We are in the midst of the next evolutionary cycle. Enforced mass home-working caused by the pandemic has viscerally demonstrated that in today’s tech-infused world,...
Inflation in the United States was over 7% in 2021. This is dramatically higher than just a couple of years ago when it was less than 2% per year. Why did it go up? The most...
Originally published October 2021. A decade to be optimistic? Somewhere amid the carnage of the retail sector, the existential navel-gazing of the office sector and the...