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Investors yank billions out of market following Trump’s tax invoice decide up
As Congress moved the tax bill forward, investors pulled the highest amount out of equities funds in more than three years, suggesting some investors may see « tax cuts » as already priced in. According to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, redemptions from equities funds and ETFs totaled $14.5 billion, the fourth largest on record, and the…
UN imposes new sanctions on North Korea
The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to impose tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s latest missile test. The sanctions, passed on Friday, include a ban on nearly 90 percent of refined petroleum exports to North Korea. The restrictions, proposed by the United States, are designed to prevent Pyongyang from furthering its…
Interpreting the Catalan elections
The challenge of assessing the outcome of yesterday’s regional elections in Catalonia is that several actors in this crisis can claim different forms of victory – and are doing so – from different frames (majority in terms of seats neglecting share of votes, etc.). This, uncertainty and a strong component of post-truth politics in the…
High 10 causes to possess time the UN vote on Jerusalem
A resounding majority of UN member states has denounced the US’ arrogant decision to unilaterally declare Jerusalem « the capital » of the Israeli apartheid settler colony. The United Nations General Assembly voted 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions, for a resolution declaring the US move on Jerusalem « null and void ». Thursday’s vote came after the US…
Mexico: Renewed land dispute displaces 5,000 in Chiapas
San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico – Maria* said the bullets « fell like rain » onto the tin roof of her house when the masked gunmen arrived in her village in southern Mexico on the night of November 9. In tears and speaking through an interpreter in her indigenous Tzotzil language, she recounted the events that…
2017 laid the muse for faster, smarter AI in 2018
This might be a helpful time to clarify that AI is often a catch-all term for an assortment of different technologies. There’s artificial intelligence in our digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana and the Google Assistant. You’ll find artificial intelligence in software like Facebook’s Messenger chatbots and Gmail’s auto-replies. It’s defined as « intelligence displayed by…
The Rinspeed Snap explores future-proofing with a modular electrical automobile
The Rinspeed Snap is an autonomous electric vehicle that tries to address the problem of lifecycles and recycling. It consists of a passenger pod and a skateboard chassis. The pod is built to be durable, the skateboard is designed to work hard for a few years and then be recycled. Rinspeed ZF’s Intelligent Dynamic Driving…
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