This post contains fabulous longform articles categorised under Economy and Business. These are handpicked articles over the course of years for CAT Aspirants. This post contains articles I had shared in 2018 and 2019.
Every Article will have a blurb, either written by me or an extract from the original post (mostly the latter) followed by the link to reach the article.
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Article 101
Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market
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Article 100
Why is China’s inflation rate low compared to the US, Europe and Britain?
Article 99
The head of Instagram has a vision for using Web3 to shift power from tech platforms to content creators—which he says will ultimately benefit both.
Article 98
A tempor‘The casino beckons’: my journey inside the cryptosphere
Article 97
“DAOs Are Coming For The Movies
Web3 collectives want to disrupt filmmaking. Can they?”
Article 96
“America’s culture wars distract from what’s happening beneath them
When it comes to economic questions, there’s more agreement between culture war opponents than you might think”
Article 95
“The Real Potential of NFTs
Amidst the scams and bubbles, credible scarcity and authenticity will unlock real value in digital markets”
Article 94
“Is the pizza tax absurd?”
Article 93
“‘The shops are gone’: How Reliance stunned Amazon in battle for India’s Future Retail”
Article 92
“Could mining gold from waste reduce its great cost?”
Article 91
Has India Tech’s Golden Decade Arrived?
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Article 90
“How economists have botched the promise of widely distributed prosperity—and why they have no intention of stopping now”
Article 89
“Setting aside the decade or so lead that Netflix has on its rivals for everything from viewing data to its catalog, pretty much every move Netflix makes is driven by making its streaming service as addictive as possible, which, again, costs money.”
Article 88
“In today’s Finshots we see why Tesla is yet to make its debut in India”
Article 87
“Oakland, California is piloting a program to provide all residents with basic access to mobility”
Article 86
“This unequal society is a staple of “Cinderella” stories in which protagonists are displaced into poverty and abused by those with wealth and power until they regain their place.”
https://bit.ly/3D7H5ea
Article 85
“When I first met him he was in his early forties: tall, confident, handsome. The son of a Jamaican immigrant father and a schoolteacher mother, he had been educated at Harvard and Stanford Law School. He had hosted on MSNBC, and worked at McKinsey and Goldman Sachs. Ozy’s backers were some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley, including the reclusive billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs. If you met Watson you understood why: he was intoxicating.”
https://bit.ly/3o0keuC
Article 84
“A precarious job market and student debt has recent grads feeling hopeless”
https://bit.ly/3bA7IMy
Article 83
“Modeled after the cricket league, the program is engineered to boost productivity during the Diwali season.”
https://bit.ly/2Y0jpZQ
Article 82
“Overworked and underpaid developers are helping fuel Istanbul’s mobile gaming bonanza.”
https://bit.ly/3G3TWzF
Article 81
“The CBC interviewed myself and other Canadian Shoppers about the unilateral decision to slash batch earnings, the lack of communication, the “defective” ratings system and tip theft just to name a few.”
https://bit.ly/3oYorB6
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Article 80
“The expected expansion of cities in the developing world poses a number of challenges, including the necessity of generating decent jobs for their growing populations and providing them with adequate urban services in terms of housing, water and sanitation, transportation, electrification, nutrition, education, and health care.”
https://bit.ly/3lpx8Ce
Article 79
“I Asked Experts Why Carmakers Can’t Just Transition To Newer Chips In Stock. Here’s What They Told Me – It’s a classic case of two industries that have conflicting needs but still have to work together.”
https://bit.ly/3FjYbHg
Article 78
“What’s striking is how much riskier bitcoin is to all of the other currencies with the exception of the Venezuelan bolivar. Bitcoin is about four times riskier than the Brazilian real, and a similar order of magnitude as the bolivar.”
https://bit.ly/3kqa85D
Article 77
“International students are also the product of a system that has blurred the lines between immigration and education in an unofficial, ad hoc arrangement meant to appeal to potential immigrants while avoiding any responsibility for their settlement. It’s a system that is quietly transforming postsecondary institutions, which have grown dependent on fees from foreign students and therefore on the shadowy world of education agents who deliver them. And it’s a system built on attracting teenagers like Kushandeep from small villages across the world, taking their money, and bringing them to campuses from small-town Nova Scotia to suburban BC with lofty promises for the future but little regard for what actually happens to them once they arrive.”
https://bit.ly/2XsmXmL
Article 76
“Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System
Around the world, previously invisible delivery personnel have achieved a new prominence in popular consciousness as “frontline workers” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As the emergency has highlighted both the importance and the dangers of delivery work, strikes over working conditions have occurred alongside public displays of appreciation.”
http://bit.ly/3BVRj00
Article 75
“The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out”
http://bit.ly/3nw8q4P
Article 74
“Cryptoassets as National Currency? A Step Too Far”
http://bit.ly/3zMqniD
Article 73
“”This Is Going to Change the World”
As the new millennium dawned, a mysterious invention from a charismatic millionaire became a viral sensation—then went down in flames. Ever since, I’ve wondered: Was it all my fault?”
http://bit.ly/3kMOwiI
Article 72
“Why has the gig economy been a disappointment?
Maybe because traditional companies still have a good reason to exist.”
http://bit.ly/3ygSLYw
Article 71
“The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
On first blush, it sounds boring. Worse, it’s a bit hard to explain because you haven’t used anything like it before. It’s a communications application, based on the system they created while building Glitch. It’s called Slack.”
http://bit.ly/3z2eRzh
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Article 70
“The ‘customer is king’ motto has invisibilised the food delivery rider
The ‘customer is king’ motto has resulted in the invisibilisation of an entire community of people who form the backbone of the food delivery enterprise: delivery riders.”
https://bit.ly/3s4X4F2
Article 69
“The man who stole a hotel: How Timothy Durkin took control of Sooke Harbour House
A fugitive from the US started fresh on Vancouver Island—then bilked new victims out of millions of dollars while law enforcement refused to act”https://bit.ly/3AituP3
Article 68
“Karen Russell: A Brutally Honest Accounting of Writing, Money, and Motherhood”
http://bit.ly/3xgS3Kq
Article 67
“First It Was An Assassin’s Creed Expansion, Now It’s Ubisoft’s 8 Year Nightmare
It’s a classic case of mismanagement for eight years,” said one former developer. “Instead of adding layers of value we kept running around in a loop.”
http://bit.ly/3hURAt1
Article 66
“The Headache of ‘Crypto Colonialism’
Blockchains can’t rebuild roads or end sectarian violence, famine or natural disasters.”
http://bit.ly/36DrJ27
Article 65
“Fired by Bot at Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the Machine’Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.”
https://bloom.bg/2U5kaip
Article 64
“Riches in space
Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources – and duck a direct hit”
https://bit.ly/3hb5PJD
Article 63
“The Future of the Economy is Even More Dystopian Than You Think
The Economy Barely Survived Covid. It’s Not Going to Survive What’s Next.
You don’t get to be a billionaire by having a functioning soul or mind — you have to kind of be a sociopath in the first place.”
http://bit.ly/3jqMO7J
Article 62
“Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me
An American family’s struggle for student loan redemption”
http://bit.ly/3qp3s9c
Article 61
“The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back
Fanhouse wants to keep sending 90 percent of payments to creators”
http://bit.ly/3cwuKF5
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Article 60
“Can we make the future worth the fight?
“Our greatest glory is not in ever falling but in rising every time we fall!” – Batman.
As the pandemic rages on and the whole world tries to dig deep and exhibit resolve in surviving and overcoming this deadly virus, I have been taking solace in comics.”
https://bit.ly/3vT9sJv
Article 59
“India’s Super Rich Want Ordinary Citizens to Donate to Their COVID Fundraisers
While some appreciate wealthy celebrities’ efforts to raise money for COVID-19 relief, some others are calling them out for contributing a tiny fraction of their vast bank accounts.”
https://bit.ly/3fc48tx
Article 58
“What a Gambling App Knows About You
Sky Bet, the most popular one in Britain, compiled extensive records about a user, tracking him in ways he never imagined.”
https://nyti.ms/3vSNMfN
Article 57
“Modi’s Grand Insurance Scheme Prioritises Profit Over Farm Losses
Over 3 years to 2020, as India’s farm crisis deepened, 18 insurance companies running Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s crop-insurance scheme rejected nearly a million claims. As pandemic and pestilence devastated farms, we reveal how the scheme’s complex fine print frustrates farmers and disregards individual loss”
https://bit.ly/2R2o8Gk
Article 56
“The Mystery Monk Making Billions With 5-Hour Energy”
https://bit.ly/3sIruvC
Article 55
“High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification
Using ratings, competitions and bonuses to incentivise workers isn’t new – but as I found when I became a Lyft driver, the gig economy is taking it to another level.”
https://bit.ly/2Pu87ZD
Article 54
“These Mothers Wanted to Care for Their Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now They’re Suing After Being Fired”
http://bit.ly/3eky4Vy
Article 53
A wonderful take on reading fiction by Christine Seifert. A must read for all MBA Aspirants.
“The Case for Reading Fiction
The quality of our reading stands as “an index to the quality of our thought.” If we want better thinkers in the business world, we have to build better readers.”
https://bit.ly/3aybt5B
Article 52
“How a real-life monopoly made Monopoly the world’s biggest board game
On New Year’s Eve, Monopoly celebrates the 85th anniversary of its patent. Its publisher, Hasbro, can toast the occasion knowing that its prized board game is more popular than ever. In 2013, Euromonitor pegged Monopoly’s annual revenues at ~$400m.”
http://bit.ly/2Z78RVq
Article 51
“YouTube’s Spammy Sex Bots Make a Ton of Money
Here’s how scammers turn those ubiquitous, meaningless comments into profits”
http://bit.ly/2MKcUo2
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Article 50
“The Government Has $3 Trillion of Economic Grift on Its Hands
While a quarter of America is behind on rent, the shareholder class has experienced an explosion in net worth”
http://bit.ly/2YBV2y0
Article 49
2 articles today on one important, recent phenomenon where David beat Goliath in the stock market (at least for a very short span of time).
How social media moves markets: Analyzing GameStop (GME) using social listening data.
GameStop: how Redditors played hedge funds for billions (and what might come next)
http://bit.ly/3iWSELP
http://bit.ly/3cskoa5
Article 48
“What’s Next for Parler? Ask the Porn Industry.
The ‘free speech’ site isn’t the first to lose its web hosting. Here’s how the adult industry works around similar sanctions.”
https://bit.ly/3qHdelY
Article 47
“A person with a chain saw can cut 10 times as many trees in the same time as a person using older methods. Logging companies did not use this invention, however, to shorten the workweek by 90 percent. They used it to cut 10 times more trees than they otherwise would have. “Lashed by the growth imperative, technology is used not to do the same amount of stuff in less time, but rather to do more stuff in the same amount of time,” Hickel writes. “In a system where technological innovation is leveraged to expand extraction and production, it makes little sense to hope that yet more technological innovation will somehow magically do the opposite.””
http://bit.ly/2Y5TTi9
Article 46
“Xbox: The Oral History of an American Video Game Empire
The original product was ungainly, over-budget and nearly canceled. Here’s how it became a hit and reshaped an industry.”
http://bloom.bg/3oihDep
Article 45
“Inside India’s booming dark data economy
Thanks to lax privacy laws and high consumer demand, details on everything from how you shop to who you date are all for sale.”
http://bit.ly/2Lq9Z30
Article 44
“Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good
The privately controlled corporate market has, in the precise words of the late economics writer Jonathan Rowe, ‘a fatal character flaw – namely, an incapacity to stop growing. No matter how much it grew yesterday it must continue to do so tomorrow, and then some; or else the machinery will collapse.’”
https://bit.ly/3m3k5mW
Article 43
“The Big Lessons From History
There are two kinds of history to learn from: One is the specific events. What did this person do right? What did that country do wrong? What ideas worked? What strategies failed? It’s most of what we pay attention to, because specific stories are easy to find. But their usefulness is limited.”
https://bit.ly/2JwuPNs
Article 42
“The Ad-Based Internet Is About to Collapse. What Comes Next?
The web as we know it relies on advertising, but that model is headed for a crash. Fortunately, we can build something better from the wreckage.”
https://bit.ly/32IozZA
Article 41
“Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
In a landmark antitrust complaint, the Justice Department is targeting a secretive partnership that is worth billions of dollars to both companies.”
https://nyti.ms/2HCfdXH
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Article 40
“What’s Really Holding Women Back?
Ask people why women remain so dramatically underrepresented, and you will hear from the vast majority a lament—an unfortunate but inevitable “truth”—that goes something like this: High-level jobs require extremely long hours, women’s devotion to family makes it impossible for them to put in those hours, and their careers suffer as a result. We call this explanation the work/family narrative.”
https://bit.ly/2TkZkHy
Article 39
“Why we should bulldoze the business schoolThere are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years. By Martin Parker”
https://bit.ly/3kmQ95w
Article 38
“The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.”
https://bloom.bg/3hqH6hC
Article 37
“The notion of ethics in business can be traced back to the earliest forms of bartering, based on the principle of equal exchange. Countless philosophers and economists have examined the topic, from Aristotle and his concept of justice to Karl Marx’s attack on capitalism. But the modern concept of business ethics dates back to the rise of anti-big business protest groups in the United States in the 1970s. ”
https://bit.ly/3a0mfiW
Article 36
“A rocker’s guide to management
Bands are known for drink, drugs and dust-ups. But beyond the debauchery lie four models for how to run a business. Ian Leslie explains”
https://bit.ly/3hWJuOk
Article 35
“Cryptocurrency Will Not Die.
You thought you successfully avoided ever having to learn how crypto was going to take over your life? Well, too bad: It’s back and maybe stronger than ever.”
https://bit.ly/2NwXZL7
Article 34
“Mukesh Ambani Won the World’s Most Expensive Sibling Rivalry
Being the brother of Asia’s richest man is harder than you think.”
https://bloom.bg/2YAcDGw
Article 33
“‘If one of us gets sick, we all get sick’: the food workers on the coronavirus front line.
Low-paid women in US poultry factories are leading the struggle for fair conditions and basic safety. As Covid-19 rips through plants across the country, they have a fight on their hands”
https://bit.ly/2Mxkz5C
Article 32
“The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook
Patrick and John Collison have democratised online payments – and reshaped the digital economy in the process”
https://bit.ly/3dlYLpm
Article 31
“For a generation, Americans have been outsourcing work to India, where companies like Infosys grew bigger than Facebook and Google combined and created a new middle class. It seemed as though the boom would last forever.”
https://bit.ly/2LMlDSK
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Article 30
“My zits didn’t show up with much esprit de corps until I was in my twenties, but in an effort to get ahead of embarrassment, my mom ordered Proactiv—the “easy three-step system that works for all ages and all skin types”—for my brother and me one lazy afternoon when we had the TV tuned to the infomercial channel. It was a whole ordeal. Someone over eighteen had to call a 1-800 number, and the phrase “check or money order” was involved. When the bottles arrived, I used the system once and got a rash in the shape of a beard around my jawline, an early but indelible lesson that anything describing itself as a “system” will come with some measure of pain.”
https://bit.ly/2W8VFPw
Article 29
“Since Uber launched in Argentina in 2016, taxi drivers have come out in force, torching ride-share cars, beating drivers, and shaming passengers. And they’re still angry.”
https://bit.ly/2wXTfta
Article 28
“The 1918 calendar reform was an abrupt, one-off change, designed to signal the irreversibility of the leap from the ancien régime to the new. Undoing the revolution would now mean literally turning back time—which is what some upper-crust characters attempt to do in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s 1929 novella Memories of the Future when they ask the inventor of a time machine to take them back to the days of serfdom.”
https://bit.ly/2XbLI4J
Article 27
“It is said India reforms only in crisis. Hopefully, this otherwise unmitigated tragedy will help us see how weakened we have become as a society and will focus our politics on the critical economic and healthcare reforms we sorely need”
https://bit.ly/3dXIUhv
Article 26
“Even before the latest shock, gas operators were reeling from self-inflicted wounds. They had taken on too much debt and drilled so many wells that they had flooded the market with gas, sending its price into a tailspin.”
https://nyti.ms/2x2sDXZ
Article 25
“None of us ever expected to be emergency workers; the idea of an ‘essential worker’ is a totally new concept that no grocery store bag boy considers when they drop off an application,” a current Whole Foods worker who prefers to stay anonymous told me. “There’s all of this rhetoric around how we’re just as important as the doctors, and yes, that’s true, but we’re getting paid way less, and medical workers have a little bit more of an idea of the risks that they are setting themselves up for. . . . We’re not used to this shit.”
https://bit.ly/2JGVZxX
Article 24
“Throughout all this, Neumann was being Neumann. His private jet trips may have involved some incidental transportation of marijuana across international borders, his wife may have fired employees for their bad vibes, and the company may have ended a meeting announcing layoffs with a performance by a member of Run-DMC.”
http://bit.ly/2QiQbhv
Article 23
“Today, China uses almost half the world’s concrete. The property sector – roads, bridges, railways, urban development and other cement-and-steel projects – accounted for a third of its economy’s expansion in 2017. Every major city has a floor-sized scale model of urban development plans that has to be constantly updated as small white plastic models are turned into mega-malls, housing complexes and concrete towers.”
http://bit.ly/2VvFBYa
Article 22
“Javier’s father jokes that once his son leaves home, he’ll be stuck with only women. “And, God willing, my last remaining son will pass the border safely,” the elder Hernandez says. “I’ll be left with pura mujeres (only women at home).”
In the decade since I met the Hernandez family, their modest hacienda-style home — several tin-roofed rooms scattered around an inner courtyard — has improved thanks to the buying power accrued through remittances sent from the U.S. Erika, one of the three Hernandez sisters still living in the area (the fourth immigrated), gives me a tour, saying that a new room will be added there, where now the ox and sheep are tied to a post.”
http://bit.ly/3afx5QU
Article 21
“In technology and software, the employees are the company. They are the intellectual property. There’s no machinery. The people are both the labor and the capital. And so, if the employees want to go a certain direction and they are united, well then, I don’t think there’s a CEO in the world that could defy their entire employee base.”
http://bit.ly/2v9buem
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Article 20
“Prices of voice calls had started drifting lower from 1999 itself. From 16 rupees a minute to 6 rupee a minute to 2 rupees a minute to virtually zero by 2016-17 after the new big player Jio entered the market, voice, which was the bedrock of profitability of telecom companies, started contributing almost nothing towards revenues from 2017. Data became the principal contributor of revenue. Yet, the Average Revenue Per Unit (ARPU), which was about Rs. 1600 in 1998 got down to only Rs. 72 per month in March 2018. Profitability of the telecom companies tanked.”
http://bit.ly/2upYOPP
Article 19
“Hurrying across the marble floor of Hospital Angeles, I approached a receptionist and explained that my husband needed ankle surgery. She gave me the names and office numbers of two different orthopedic specialists who happened to be in that day. I could just drop in, she said; a hospital staffer would get a wheelchair and bring my husband up once I made my selection. At that moment, I felt like we were part of the 1%, getting the best health care available in a country where we weren’t even citizens.”
http://bit.ly/2V4TMTL
Article 18
“It is a case of capitalism at its most hyperactive and brazenly inventive: take a freely available substance, dress it up in countless different costumes and then sell it as something new and capable of transforming body, mind, soul. Water is no longer simply water – it has become a commercial blank slate, a word on to which any possible ingredient or fantastical, life-enhancing promise can be attached.”
http://bit.ly/37TkHp9
Article 17
“To understand what has gone wrong, we need to start first with the centralised nature of the current government. Not just decision-making but also ideas and plans emanate from a small set of personalities around the Prime Minister and in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). That works well for the party’s political and social agenda, which is well laid out, and where all these individuals have domain expertise. It works less well for economic reforms, where there is less of a coherent articulated agenda at the top, and less domain knowledge of how the economy works at the national rather than state level.”
http://bit.ly/36hg1rP
Article 16
“While China is the biggest consumer of both products, the United States follows close behind as the world’s second-largest consumer of oil and the third-largest user of sand. Depending on its market price, crude oil is often the first or second most exported good in the world by value. Today’s relatively low prices put crude oil exports in second place, after automobiles. At the end of 2015, the U.S. government rescinded a forty-year ban on the export of crude oil from the States, and since then the country has aggressively reentered the global oil market, becoming the world’s third-largest exporter of petroleum and its refined products, behind Saudi Arabia and Russia.”
http://bit.ly/35bvUiU
Article 15
“The bank was searching for a way to escape this bind, and found it in Janklow. “We were in the poorhouse when Citibank called us,” the governor recalled in a later interview. “They were in bigger problems than we were. We could make it last. They couldn’t make it last. I was slowly bleeding to death; they were gushing to death.””
http://bit.ly/37hMTlF
Article 14
“Today’s global economy has an insatiable need for raw materials. That’s as true for China’s rise as it is true for the maintenance of America’s economy. With China exporting some 40% of its GDP, Americans need to understand that behind that Made in China tag at Wal-Mart is a mutually reinforcing death spiral. We are beginning to overwhelm our host.”
http://bit.ly/31nnym5
Article 13
Short but brilliant read on student debt.
“For Walsh, ballooning tuition didn’t leave much time to consider such questions. The average cost of attendance at public, four-year universities has increased more than threefold since 1987, with much of that increase occurring after the year 2000. This has spawned a vast, all-consuming student finance industrial complex, replete with numerous financial products that emerged like rats from a trash heap to help families pay for their children’s education. In addition to 529s, there are direct private and federal parent PLUS loans.”
http://bit.ly/2Orrkbk
Article 12
“Boris Johnson will kiss hands the next day, not elected by us, not with our consent, no “one nation” unifier but leader of a dysfunctional, disunited kingdom. He will get the usual goodwill poll bounce: May and Gordon Brown had theirs. Skipping spring-heeled across the Downing Street threshold, full of vacuous optimism and “let the sun shine in” self-intoxication, he may bring smiles to the faces of admirers.”
http://bit.ly/2LWn5Dp
Article 11
““My input costs shot up from 4,000 to 15,000 rupees [$62 to $235],” remembers Manam’s brother Veeranjaneyu, who still works as a farmer. “The yield increased a little, but not nearly enough to cover the increase in input costs. And my crops sold for less money than before. I was forced to take out six lakhs [$9,412] in loans from private moneylenders. The loan has been a horrible burden on my life.”
“The system now pits human against human,” says Manam, arguing that capitalism reduces the world to competition and cruelty. “People should always be kind and loving to others. People should help one another, whether that person is family, a neighbor, friend, or complete stranger.””
http://bit.ly/2XKlALI
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Article 10
Much detailed version of Anil Ambani’s Journey. Worth reading.
http://bit.ly/2HzF9lc
Article 9
“Anil Ambani – whose surname is so powerful in India that when Ambani sneezes, the who’s who in India catches cold – was asked by the top court of the land to clear his dues or risk going to jail. In a country, where the rich and powerful rarely follow the rule book especially when things go wrong, the Supreme court’s decision is both ground-breaking (for the masses) and earth-shattering (for the classes).”
http://bit.ly/2EONDCz
Article 8
” Even with training, some said, it is exceedingly easy to revert to the original biases.
“In the moment of stress, we tend to forget our training,” said Mark Atkinson, the chief executive of Mursion, which provides a simulation platform for training workers in skills like interpersonal interactions.”
https://nyti.ms/30L95BT
Article 7
“Brands like Glossier and Milk have garnered impressive cult followings, thanks to their social media-friendly packaging and refreshing approach to beauty. But, by and large, most brands seem to be all about finding the next trendy ingredient, featuring it in their products and convincing us that their formula is better than the others on the market.
The fact is, certain products don’t work for certain people. We’re all unique, with different skin types or hair types, and have different goals for what we want to achieve. Most beauty brands aren’t selling products tailored to individual consumers. Instead, they’re selling a brand, a luxury, a lifestyle or some product that will magically work on every skin type and solve every skin problem.”
http://bit.ly/2RnCTBz
Article 6
“The following is from an old article from 2015. The article is not just factual, but also opinionated. One can expect to see similar articles in the CAT.
Right to buy is a zombie policy – an idea that’s intellectually dead and widely accepted as harmful, but one that politicians keep trying to revive. Keen for an easy vote winner that essentially amounts to bribing voters in social housing with eye-watering discounts of up to £103,000, the Conservatives have proposed extending right to buy to Britain’s 1.2m housing association homes.”
http://bit.ly/2GelN2n
Article 5
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.
http://bit.ly/2Gh0xt0
Article 4
“The United States cannot win its tariff war with China, regardless of what President Donald Trump says or does in the coming months. Trump believes that he has the upper hand in this conflict because the US economy is so strong, and also because politicians of both parties support the strategic objective of thwarting China’s rise and preserving US global dominance.
But, ironically, this apparent strength is Trump’s fatal weakness. By applying the martial arts principle of turning an opponent’s strength against him, China should easily win the tariff contest, or at least fight Trump to a draw.”
http://bit.ly/3aBbnYU
Article 3
The world of work is undergoing a massive shift. Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries and the Information Age that followed in the last century has the scale of disruption taking place in the workforce been so evident. An oft-cited 2013 study from the University of Oxford predicted that nearly half of American jobs—including real-estate brokers, insurance underwriters, and loan officers—were at risk of being taken over by computers within the next two decades. Just last fall, the McKinsey Global Institute released a report that estimated a third of American workers may have to change jobs by 2030 because of artificial intelligence.
http://bit.ly/3aAJn7E
Article 2
Neat article that pokes around with questions that are supposedly Common sense. Talks about how spending culture has lead to the America being where it is now, and why it is important for the old to retire and let the young take on the reigns.
““Look out for China.” “Look out for robots.” Robots? The robots have yet to appear, as Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute has pointed out. (If they were here, productivity would be accelerating, he has said, but that isn’t happening.) Toe-to-toe, it’s the elderly and not the robots who are taking jobs from the young. Too many workers are showing up. In a sense, millions of new elderly workers are gushing into the workforce—simply by staying put.”
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Why is it difficult to invest in China? Does the government mechanism strong-arm western investors just with their policies in-to “Forced” technology transfer? Read on to know. Informative read. “China’s main official argument is that, as a developing country, domestic firms are at a disadvantage vis-à-vis foreign investors, which possess advanced technologies that the local companies do not understand. But while this argument may hold water in some of the less developed countries that use it to justify restrictive FDI regimes, China’s technological capabilities have exploded over the last couple of decades.”
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