{"id":1905,"date":"2020-01-24T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:00:40","slug":"curated-reading-list-for-cat-economy-business-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/cat-reading-list\/economy-business\/curated-reading-list-for-cat-economy-business-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Curated Reading list for CAT – Economy & Business | 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Article 101<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 100<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Why is China\u2019s inflation rate low compared to the US, Europe and Britain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 99<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The head of Instagram has a vision for using Web3 to shift power from tech platforms to content creators\u2014which he says will ultimately benefit both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 98<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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A tempor\u2018The casino beckons\u2019: my journey inside the cryptosphere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 97<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“DAOs Are Coming For The Movies
Web3 collectives want to disrupt filmmaking. Can they?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 96<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cAmerica\u2019s culture wars distract from what\u2019s happening beneath them
When it comes to economic questions, there\u2019s more agreement between culture war opponents than you might think\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 95<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“The Real Potential of NFTs
Amidst the scams and bubbles, credible scarcity and authenticity will unlock real value in digital markets”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 94<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“Is the pizza tax absurd?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 93<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“‘The shops are gone’: How Reliance stunned Amazon in battle for India’s Future Retail” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 92<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cCould mining gold from waste reduce its great cost?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 91<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Has India Tech’s Golden Decade Arrived?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 90<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“How economists have botched the promise of widely distributed prosperity\u2014and why they have no intention of stopping now”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/bit.ly\/3uBRiOo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 89<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 88<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“In today’s Finshots we see why Tesla is yet to make its debut in India”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 87<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“Oakland, California is piloting a program to provide all residents with basic access to mobility”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 86<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“This unequal society is a staple of \u201cCinderella\u201d 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<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 85<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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\u2019s 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<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 84<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“A precarious job market and student debt has recent grads feeling hopeless”
https:\/\/bit.ly\/3bA7IMy<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 83<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Modeled after the cricket league, the program is engineered to boost productivity during the Diwali season.”
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Article 82<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“Overworked and underpaid developers are helping fuel Istanbul’s mobile gaming bonanza.”
https:\/\/bit.ly\/3G3TWzF<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 81<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“The CBC interviewed myself and other Canadian Shoppers about the unilateral decision to slash batch earnings, the lack of communication, the \u201cdefective\u201d ratings system and tip theft just to name a few.”
https:\/\/bit.ly\/3oYorB6<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 80<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 79<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 78<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWhat\u2019s 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.\u201d
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Article 77<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cInternational 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.\u201d
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Article 76<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cDelivery Workers, Trapped in the System
Around the world, previously invisible delivery personnel have achieved a new prominence in popular consciousness as \u201cfrontline workers\u201d 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.\u201d
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Article 75<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world\u2019s 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\u2019t work out\u201d
http:\/\/bit.ly\/3nw8q4P<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 74<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cCryptoassets as National Currency? A Step Too Far\u201d
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Article 73<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201c\u201dThis Is Going to Change the World\u201d
As the new millennium dawned, a mysterious invention from a charismatic millionaire became a viral sensation\u2014then went down in flames. Ever since, I\u2019ve wondered: Was it all my fault?\u201d
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Article 72<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cWhy has the gig economy been a disappointment?
Maybe because traditional companies still have a good reason to exist.\u201d
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Article 71<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe Most Fascinating Profile You\u2019ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup
On first blush, it sounds boring. Worse, it\u2019s a bit hard to explain because you haven\u2019t used anything like it before. It\u2019s a communications application, based on the system they created while building Glitch. It\u2019s called Slack.\u201d
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Article 70<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe \u2018customer is king\u2019 motto has invisibilised the food delivery rider
The \u2018customer is king\u2019 motto has resulted in the invisibilisation of an entire community of people who form the backbone of the food delivery enterprise: delivery riders.\u201d
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Article 69<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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\u2014then bilked new victims out of millions of dollars while law enforcement refused to act”https:\/\/bit.ly\/3AituP3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article 68<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cKaren Russell: A Brutally Honest Accounting of Writing, Money, and Motherhood\u201d
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\u201cFirst It Was An Assassin\u2019s Creed Expansion, Now It\u2019s Ubisoft\u2019s 8 Year Nightmare
It\u2019s a classic case of mismanagement for eight years,\u201d said one former developer. \u201cInstead of adding layers of value we kept running around in a loop.\u201d
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Article 66<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe Headache of \u2018Crypto Colonialism\u2019
Blockchains can\u2019t rebuild roads or end sectarian violence, famine or natural disasters.\u201d
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\u201cFired by Bot at Amazon: \u2018It\u2019s You Against the Machine\u2019Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email\u2014even when they have done nothing wrong.\u201d
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Article 64<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cRiches in space
Asteroids could pay for so much space exploration. We just need to mine those valuable resources \u2013 and duck a direct hit\u201d
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Article 63<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe Future of the Economy is Even More Dystopian Than You Think
The Economy Barely Survived Covid. It\u2019s Not Going to Survive What\u2019s Next.
You don\u2019t get to be a billionaire by having a functioning soul or mind \u2014 you have to kind of be a sociopath in the first place.\u201d
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Article 62<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cBeen Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me
An American family\u2019s struggle for student loan redemption\u201d
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Article 61<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe creator economy is running into the Apple Tax \u2014 this startup is fighting back
Fanhouse wants to keep sending 90 percent of payments to creators\u201d
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Article 60<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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.”
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Article 59<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cIndia\u2019s Super Rich Want Ordinary Citizens to Donate to Their COVID Fundraisers
While some appreciate wealthy celebrities\u2019 efforts to raise money for COVID-19 relief, some others are calling them out for contributing a tiny fraction of their vast bank accounts.\u201d
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\u201cWhat 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.\u201d
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\u201cModi\u2019s Grand Insurance Scheme Prioritises Profit Over Farm Losses
Over 3 years to 2020, as India\u2019s farm crisis deepened, 18 insurance companies running Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s crop-insurance scheme rejected nearly a million claims. As pandemic and pestilence devastated farms, we reveal how the scheme\u2019s complex fine print frustrates farmers and disregards individual loss\u201d
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Article 56<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe Mystery Monk Making Billions With 5-Hour Energy\u201d
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Article 55<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cHigh score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification
Using ratings, competitions and bonuses to incentivise workers isn\u2019t new \u2013 but as I found when I became a Lyft driver, the gig economy is taking it to another level.\u201d
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\u201cThese Mothers Wanted to Care for Their Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now They\u2019re Suing After Being Fired\u201d
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A wonderful take on reading fiction by Christine Seifert. A must read for all MBA Aspirants.
\u201cThe Case for Reading Fiction
The quality of our reading stands as \u201can index to the quality of our thought.\u201d If we want better thinkers in the business world, we have to build better readers.\u201d
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\u201cHow a real-life monopoly made Monopoly the world\u2019s biggest board game
On New Year\u2019s 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\u2019s annual revenues at ~$400m.\u201d
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Article 51<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cYouTube\u2019s Spammy Sex Bots Make a Ton of Money
Here\u2019s how scammers turn those ubiquitous, meaningless comments into profits\u201d
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\u201cThe 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\u201d
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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)
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\u201cWhat\u2019s Next for Parler? Ask the Porn Industry.
The \u2018free speech\u2019 site isn\u2019t the first to lose its web hosting. Here\u2019s how the adult industry works around similar sanctions.\u201d
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\u201cA 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. \u201cLashed 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,\u201d Hickel writes. \u201cIn 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.\u201d\u201d
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\u201cXbox: The Oral History of an American Video Game Empire
The original product was ungainly, over-budget and nearly canceled. Here\u2019s how it became a hit and reshaped an industry.\u201d
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Article 45<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cInside India\u2019s 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.\u201d
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\u201cPrivate 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, \u2018a fatal character flaw \u2013 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.\u2019\u201d
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\u201cThe 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\u2019s most of what we pay attention to, because specific stories are easy to find. But their usefulness is limited.\u201d
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Article 42<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe 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.\u201d
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\u201cApple, 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.\u201d
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\u201cWhat\u2019s Really Holding Women Back?
Ask people why women remain so dramatically underrepresented, and you will hear from the vast majority a lament\u2014an unfortunate but inevitable \u201ctruth\u201d\u2014that goes something like this: High-level jobs require extremely long hours, women\u2019s 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.\u201d
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\u201cWhy we should bulldoze the business schoolThere are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That\u2019s 13,000 too many. And I should know \u2013 I\u2019ve taught in them for 20 years. By Martin Parker\u201d
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\u201cThe Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn\u2019t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.\u201d
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\u201cThe 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\u2019s 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. \u201d
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\u201cA rocker\u2019s 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\u201d
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Article 35<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cCryptocurrency 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\u2019s back and maybe stronger than ever.\u201d
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Article 34<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cMukesh Ambani Won the World\u2019s Most Expensive Sibling Rivalry
Being the brother of Asia\u2019s richest man is harder than you think.\u201d
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Article 33<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201c\u2018If one of us gets sick, we all get sick\u2019: 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\u201d
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Article 32<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook
Patrick and John Collison have democratised online payments \u2013 and reshaped the digital economy in the process\u201d
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Article 31<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cFor 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.\u201d
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Article 30<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cMy zits didn\u2019t 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\u2014the \u201ceasy three-step system that works for all ages and all skin types\u201d\u2014for 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 \u201ccheck or money order\u201d 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 \u201csystem\u201d will come with some measure of pain.\u201d
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Article 29<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cSince Uber launched in Argentina in 2016, taxi drivers have come out in force, torching ride-share cars, beating drivers, and shaming passengers. And they\u2019re still angry.\u201d
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Article 28<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe 1918 calendar reform was an abrupt, one-off change, designed to signal the irreversibility of the leap from the ancien r\u00e9gime to the new. Undoing the revolution would now mean literally turning back time\u2014which is what some upper-crust characters attempt to do in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky\u2019s 1929 novella Memories of the Future when they ask the inventor of a time machine to take them back to the days of serfdom.\u201d
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Article 27<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cIt 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\u201d
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Article 26<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cEven 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.\u201d
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Article 25<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cNone of us ever expected to be emergency workers; the idea of an \u2018essential worker\u2019 is a totally new concept that no grocery store bag boy considers when they drop off an application,\u201d a current Whole Foods worker who prefers to stay anonymous told me. \u201cThere\u2019s all of this rhetoric around how we\u2019re just as important as the doctors, and yes, that\u2019s true, but we\u2019re 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\u2019re not used to this shit.\u201d
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Article 24<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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.”
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Article 23<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“Today, China uses almost half the world\u2019s concrete. The property sector \u2013 roads, bridges, railways, urban development and other cement-and-steel projects \u2013 accounted for a third of its economy\u2019s 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.”
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Article 22<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“Javier\u2019s father jokes that once his son leaves home, he\u2019ll be stuck with only women. \u201cAnd, God willing, my last remaining son will pass the border safely,\u201d the elder Hernandez says. \u201cI\u2019ll be left with pura mujeres (only women at home).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the decade since I met the Hernandez family, their modest hacienda-style home \u2014 several tin-roofed rooms scattered around an inner courtyard \u2014 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.”
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Article 21<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“In technology and software, the employees are the company. They are the intellectual property. There\u2019s 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\u2019t think there\u2019s a CEO in the world that could defy their entire employee base.”
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Article 20<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“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.”
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Article 19<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“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\u2019t even citizens.”
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Article 18<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt 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 \u2013 it has become a commercial blank slate, a word on to which any possible ingredient or fantastical, life-enhancing promise can be attached.\u201d
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Article 17<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“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.”
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Article 16 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“While China is the biggest consumer of both products, the United States follows close behind as the world\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s third-largest exporter of petroleum and its refined products, behind Saudi Arabia and Russia.”
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Article 15 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“The bank was searching for a way to escape this bind, and found it in Janklow. \u201cWe were in the poorhouse when Citibank called us,\u201d the governor recalled in a later interview. \u201cThey were in bigger problems than we were. We could make it last. They couldn\u2019t make it last. I was slowly bleeding to death; they were gushing to death.\u201d”
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Article 14 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Today\u2019s global economy has an insatiable need for raw materials. That\u2019s as true for China\u2019s rise as it is true for the maintenance of America\u2019s 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.”
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Article 13 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Short but brilliant read on student debt.
\u201cFor Walsh, ballooning tuition didn\u2019t 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\u2019s education. In addition to 529s, there are direct private and federal parent PLUS loans.”
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Article 12 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Boris Johnson will kiss hands the next day, not elected by us, not with our consent, no \u201cone nation\u201d 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 \u201clet the sun shine in\u201d self-intoxication, he may bring smiles to the faces of admirers.”
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Article 11<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“\u201cMy input costs shot up from 4,000 to 15,000 rupees [$62 to $235],\u201d remembers Manam\u2019s brother Veeranjaneyu, who still works as a farmer. \u201cThe 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.\u201d
\u201cThe system now pits human against human,\u201d says Manam, arguing that capitalism reduces the world to competition and cruelty. \u201cPeople should always be kind and loving to others. People should help one another, whether that person is family, a neighbor, friend, or complete stranger.\u201d”
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Article 10 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Much detailed version of Anil Ambani’s Journey. Worth reading. 
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Article 9 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Anil Ambani \u2013 whose surname is so powerful in India that when Ambani sneezes, the who\u2019s 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\u2019s decision is both ground-breaking (for the masses) and earth-shattering (for the classes).”
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Article 8 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

” Even with training, some said, it is exceedingly easy to revert to the original biases.
\u201cIn the moment of stress, we tend to forget our training,\u201d said Mark Atkinson, the chief executive of Mursion, which provides a simulation platform for training workers in skills like interpersonal interactions.”
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Article 7 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“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\u2019t work for certain people. We\u2019re all unique, with different skin types or hair types, and have different goals for what we want to achieve. Most beauty brands aren\u2019t selling products tailored to individual consumers. Instead, they\u2019re selling a brand, a luxury, a lifestyle or some product that will magically work on every skin type and solve every skin problem.”
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Article 6 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“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 \u2013 an idea that\u2019s 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 \u00a3103,000, the Conservatives have proposed extending right to buy to Britain\u2019s 1.2m housing association homes.”
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Article 5 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.
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Article 4 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“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\u2019s rise and preserving US global dominance.
But, ironically, this apparent strength is Trump\u2019s fatal weakness. By applying the martial arts principle of turning an opponent\u2019s strength against him, China should easily win the tariff contest, or at least fight Trump to a draw.”
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Article 3 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014including real-estate brokers, insurance underwriters, and loan officers\u2014were 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.
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Article 2 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.

“\u201cLook out for China.\u201d \u201cLook out for robots.\u201d 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\u2019t happening.) Toe-to-toe, it\u2019s 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\u2014simply by staying put.”
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Article 1 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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. \u201cChina\u2019s main official argument is that, as a developing country, domestic firms are at a disadvantage vis-\u00e0-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\u2019s technological capabilities have exploded over the last couple of decades.\u201d
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