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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman compares Tesla to bitcoin
Paul Krugman has compared Tesla stock to bitcoin, saying hype and faith underpin both assets' valuations, and joked he wouldn't trust Elon Musk to take care of his cat. Tesla stock skyrocketed more than 13-fold between the start of 2020 and its November...
The Three Key Ingredients Of Leadership You Need
When even a Stanford University professor like Jeffrey Pfeffer concludes that “the leadership industry has failed,” some critics are tempted to ditch the whole idea of leadership, as so much overblown nonsense. This would be a mistake. In a time of...
Anyone Can Learn to Be a Better Leader
When you’re an individual contributor, your ability to use your technical expertise to deliver results is paramount. Once you’ve advanced into a leadership role, however, the toolkit that you relied on to deliver individual results rarely equips you to succeed through...
Democracy Is “Messy,” Says American Retired 4-Star General
(Miss this week’s The Leadership Brief? This interview below was delivered to the inbox of Leadership Brief subscribers on Sunday morning, Nov. 8; to receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.) You...
Renowned Economist Paul Krugman Predicts Global Recession This 2019
American economist Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate in 2008 and one of the most influential economists in the United States, has gone out on a limb to predict a worldwide recession this year. Krugman said there’s a decent chance the world economy is headed for a...
These Could Be the World’s Biggest Economies by 2030
Seven of the world’s top 10 economies by 2030 will likely be current emerging markets. The prediction for a shake-up of the world’s gross domestic product rankings comes in new long-term forecasts by Standard Chartered Plc, which includes a projection for China to...
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote
lf we look into the world as it may be at the end of another generation, let’s say 2019 — that’s 35 years from now, the same number of years since 1949 when George Orwell’s 1984 was first published — three considerations must dominate our thoughts: 1. Nuclear war. 2....
This Morning Routine Will Save You 20+ Hours Per Week
The traditional 9–5 workday is poorly structured for high productivity. Perhaps when most work was physical labor, but not in the knowledge working world we now live in. Although this may be obvious based on people’s mediocre performance, addiction to stimulants, lack...
This 24-Year-Old Built a $5 Billion Hotel Startup in Five Years
Finding clean, affordable hotels in India can be a traveler’s nightmare. Too often, what looks good on a website turns out to be a roach-infested room in a crumbling building where water has to be schlepped to the bathroom in a bucket. Ritesh Agarwal’s solution is a...
Stocks decline as trade fears linger: Oil climbs; markets wrap
U.S. stocks fell to the lowest level since May and Treasuries rallied amid renewed concern that the Trump administration will crack down on Chinese investment. Energy producers surged with crude, while the dollar jumped. The S&P 500 Index erased gains that reached...