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World Economic Forum: Top Stories Of The Week
This week The World Economic Forum are highlighting 4 top stories:
- What is hyperinflation,
- the impact of climate change on the Alps,
- a record breaking super computer and
- the world’s first autonomous ship.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – June 13, 2022
Columns
UP AND DOWN WALL STREET
Inflation Is Hot, and Stocks Are Cold. Now the Fed Needs to Rethink Its Rosy Projections.
Randall W. Forsyth
TECHNOLOGY TRADER
Apple Needs ‘One More Thing’—and It Will Have to Be Big
Eric J. Savitz
THE TRADER
Companies Are Still Buying Back Stock. Ones to Favor, and Ones to Avoid.
Ben Levisohn
STREETWISE
There’s No Miracle Cure for Obesity—or Is There?
Jack Hough
THE ECONOMY
A Break in Inflation Is on the Way, but It’s the Wrong Break
Lisa Beilfuss
INCOME INVESTING
Debt and Dividends Can Co-Exist. Here Are 5 Names That Shouldn’t Wilt.
Lawrence C. Strauss
Views: Snowdrops From The Caucasus, Georgia
Khatuna Jakeli loves snowdrops. Not only because they’re pretty, but because they provide her with an income. Every year in April and May, she treks through the Caucasus mountains of Adjara and collects the wildflower bulbs. The bulbs are then sold to the Netherlands, from where they are shipped to flower stores throughout Europe.
The Caucasus delivers 22 million snowdrops to the Netherlands every year, including 15 million wild snowdrops. A lucrative business, from which little remains for Khatuna Jakeli. Yet it is her most important source of income. A report by Juri Rescheto.
Preview: The Economist Magazine – June 11, 2022
Artificial intelligence’s new frontier
The promise and perils of a breakthrough in machine intelligence
Jun 9th 2022ShareGive
Picture a computer that could finish your sentences, using a better turn of phrase; or use a snatch of melody to compose music that sounds as if you wrote it (though you never would have); or solve a problem by creating hundreds of lines of computer code—leaving you to focus on something even harder. In a sense, that computer is merely the descendant of the power looms and steam engines that hastened the Industrial Revolution. But it also belongs to a new class of machine, because it grasps the symbols in language, music and programming and uses them in ways that seem creative. A bit like a human.
The “foundation models” that can do these things represent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, or ai. They, too, promise a revolution, but this one will affect the high-status brainwork that the Industrial Revolution never touched. There are no guarantees about what lies ahead—after all, ai has stumbled in the past. But it is time to look at the promise and perils of the next big thing in machine intelligence.
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – May 30, 2022
Barron’s Magazine – May 30, 2022
Crypto’s Future Is Nothing Like You Imagined. Here’s What Lies Ahead.
Panelists at our inaugural cryptocurrency roundtable offer bold predictions for Bitcoin, stablecoins, blockchain, and more.
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – May 23, 2022
The S&P 500 indexrefuses to fall into a bear market—but that doesn’t mean it’s found a bottom just yet.
Not that it wasn’t a painful week. The S&P 500 dropped 3% and has now fallen 18.7% from its Jan. 3 all-time high. A slide of 20%, which it touched Friday before bouncing back, signifies a bear market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 2.9%, its eighth consecutive week of losses, matching its longest losing streak since 1932. The Nasdaq Composite, already in a bear market, slid another 3.8%, and is down 28.2% from…
World Economic Forum: Top Stories Of The Week
This week The World Economic Forum are highlighting 4 top stories – green steel that could help save the planet, a device that allows you to feel the Metaverse with your bare hands, a wind turbine that fits in your backpack and jet packs for paramedics on mountains.
Timeline: 00:15 Green Steel 02:09 Feeling the Metaverse 03:10 Backpack Wind Turbines 04:46 Jet Packs for Paramedics
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – May 16, 2022
Barron’s Magazine, May 16, 2022 – How Workers Gained Leverage, and Why They Won’t Lose It Soon
Employees in many industries have seized on the pandemic’s upheaval to score higher pay, better benefits, flexible schedules, and more. While some gains will fade, a number of economic and demographic forces suggest workers have the edge.
Aviation: Are Electric Air Taxis & Planes Ready Yet?
The aviation industry is keen to reduce its carbon footprint, and big money is being spent developing battery-powered aircraft. Last year, investors poured around $5bn into companies seeking to get manned electric VTOLs – vertical take-off and landing craft – airborne. The technology is improving, but as the FT’s Charlotte Middlehurst reports, there are still major hurdles to overcome.
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