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US Challenges China's Belt And Road With New Global Infrastructure Scheme: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-challenges-chinas-belt-and-road-new-global-infrastructure-scheme https://www.opic.gov/press-releases/2019/launch-multi-stakeholder-blue-dot-network Perhaps America should fix its own infrastructure first..
Italian FM calls for more business cooperation under BRI
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What Happened When Microsoft Tried A Four-Day Work Week: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-4-day-workweek/ - #Business #Economics #Health
Some results were predictable: Workers were happier and took 25.4 percent fewer days off during the month. There were also savings from spending less time at work. 23.1 percent less electricity was used and 58.7 percent fewer pages were printed. More importantly from a bottom-line standpoint, however, productivity went up 39.9%, as fewer and shorter meetings were held, often virtually rather than in person.
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Wie die US-Regierung den Widerstand gegen Libra aushebeln will - by Norbert Häring: http://norberthaering.de/de/27-german/news/1190-libra-g7
G20 kicks off debate to regulate 'stablecoins' in hit to Facebook's Libra: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-g20-stablecoin/g20-kicks-off-debate-to-regulate-stablecoins-in-hit-to-facebooks-libra-idUSKBN1WX2AH
G7 Working Group on Stablecoins. Investigating the impact of global stablecoins - by Bank for international settlements: https://www.bis.org/cpmi/publ/d187.pdf
The agenda outlined 20 years ago in "Total Information Awareness" is playing out. Highly nonsensical, fear driven and regressive tactics for advanced human farming.
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Das Ende der Wachstumsrevolution: https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Das-Ende-der-Wachstumsrevolution-4557775.html #Economics #ClimateChange #Politics
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China’s Shenzhen is using big data to become a smart ‘socialist model city’: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3035765/chinese-city-shenzhen-using-big-data-become-smart-socialist #Politics #Technology #Economics
Beijing tells southern technology centre to use ‘best modern governance practices that promote high quality and sustainable development. China will be the ‘world’s first modern powerhouse not built on the road of capitalism’.
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Who is behind the Libra Association and what is the goal of Libra? - A comment by Norbert Häring. Part 1: The Association: https://kenfm.de/who-is-behind-the-libra-association-and-what-is-the-goal-of-libra-part-1-the-association/ Part 2: The goal: https://kenfm.de/who-is-behind-the-libra-association-and-what-is-the-goal-of-libra-part-2-the-goal/ #Economics #Crypto
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Russia, China & India to set up alternative to SWIFT payment system to connect 3b people: https://www.rt.com/business/472016-russia-india-china-swift/ #Economics #Politics
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For the first time, there are more rich Chinese than Americans in the top 10%: https://www.schwartzreport.net/there-are-more-wealthy-chinese-than-americans-for-the-first-time/ #Economics #Politics
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Interview with Vandana Shiva: 'Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto'
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The Green New Deal: Putting the climate at the heart of global policy - interview with Jeremy Rifkin: https://www.amazon.com/Green-New-Deal-Civilization-Collapse/dp/1250253209 #ClimateChange #Economics
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Billionaire or Supervillain? https://catandgirl.com/billionaire-or-supervillain/
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Facebook’s Libra Currency Monetizes Identity and Threatens Privacy
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Dialogue: Interview with AIIB president Jin Liqun
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Vietnam's SOEs adopt Industry 4.0 as SMEs struggle to keep up with tech changes
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Today the average British employee spends more working (1.6k hrs each year) than English peasants did in the 14th century (1.4k hrs each year): #Politics #Economics
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"Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work": https://blogs.imf.org/2019/02/05/cashing-in-how-to-make-negative-interest-rates-work/ Post by the IMF on the implications of "E-money" (e.g. incoming Facebook, Google, Amazon crypto-dollar replacing traditional USD). #Economics #Politics
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"Economy of Permanence - A quest for a social order based on non-violence" - J. C. Kumarappa (with a foreword by M. K. Gandhi):
https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/economy-of-permanence.pdf
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Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20210791
Technology #Politics #Economics
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"How to Create a Thriving Global Commons Economy" - by @VasilisKostakis & @mbauwens : https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/how-create-thriving-global-commons-economy #P2P #OpenSource #Economics #Regenerative
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World's biggest firms foresee $1 trillion climate cost hit, report finds: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/06/04/worlds-biggest-firms-foresee-1-trillion-climate-cost-hit-report.html For comparison, the financial cost of the Iraq War is estimated at $2.4 trillion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War #ClimateChange #Economics
