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Warren Buffett credits his extraordinary life to two strokes of luck

Janet Guyon Quartz Everyone wants to learn how to be successful. Among the most successful, of course, is Warren Buffett, […]

TEDxNewWallStreet – Sean Gourley – High frequency trading and the new algorithmic ecosystem

By TEDx Talks, YouTube Video Link Speaker Bio: Dr. Sean Gourley is the founder and CTO of Quid. He is […]

Why Interstate Health Insurance Won’t Fix Obamacare

By Patrick Watson, Connecting the Dots  Congress has a new healthcare plan to replace Obamacare. It may go nowhere since many […]

Map Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Health Across US

Sara G. Miller Staff Writer LiveScience.com Map Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Health Across US Climate change is poised […]

The World’s Fastest Growing Economies

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, We have updated with the latest 2017 estimates and 2018-22 average annual forecasts and ranked […]

Emerging Markets Offer Access to the World As It Grows

 From Calamos Investments,   http://www.calamos.com/ourway/  

The Amazon Effect

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, But still lots of room for growth:  https://macromon.wordpress.com/2017/01/29/the-amazon-effect/

Where Your Tax Dollars Go

By Macromon, Global Macro Monitor, More than half of every dollar went to health care, military last year – MarketWatch […]

10 questions and answers about America’s “Big Government”

The ongoing debate over the Trump administration’s plan to freeze federal hiring has thus far involved arguments and “alternative facts” […]

The World’s 31 Mega-Cities

The share of the world’s population living in cities is steadily increasing. A majority of the world’s population has lived […]