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Need to Know: Irrational exuberance? Why last year’s stellar returns may have been a reversal of ‘excessive pessimism’

On the first working day of 2020, lets take a moment to appreciate the virtues of a vice: laziness. Say what you will about new years resolutions, but last year, letting a boring old S&P 500-tracking index fund do its work was one of the best investment …

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Paris

France protests: Longest strike in decades stuck in deadlock

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The strike caused major disruption over the holiday period France's transport strike against pension reform has entered its 29th day, making it the longest rail workers' strike since May 1968. Industrial action against …

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

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We are poles apart – welcome to the 2020s. Australia’s apocalypse. Plus mutant Davos delegations.

Grüezi! Im Adrian Monck and welcome to a LinkedIn newsletter from the World Economic Forum, with 7 things that made us think this week. 1 The science behind todays polarized world Whats tearing us apart, and how can we stop it? Put down your light sabre f…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Recycling

Start the new year right by recycling your old iPhone, iPad, MacBook and more

I don’t know what your New Year’s resolutions are, but most people are at least a little interested in decluttering their lives. Now that the 2019 holiday season has passed, there’s a good chance you have some old devices laying around that might need recycli…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Matteo Salvini

Is Italy’s Government on the Verge of Collapse?

In August, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte offered his resignation following the collapse of his coalition government, but was later re-appointed as prime minister to lead a second coalition between the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party, which…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Super Heroes

Doctor Strange 2’s Mystery Marvel Character Should Be Clea | CBR

As Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige recently announced, a mystery character will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. While the identity of the character is still a complete mystery, Feige hinted that Ma…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Yellow Vests

Captain America actor Mollie Fitzgerald arrested after mother stabbed to death

Mollie Fitzgerald, an actor who starred in the 2011 Marvel film Captain America: The First Avenger, has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing her mother to death. The victim, Patricia Fitzgerald, was found dead at her home in Olathe, Kansas, on 20 December,…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Orangutan

Nature and forests through 2019: The year of uncontrollable rain forests fires all over the world

Mongabay- IndiaJan 02, 2020 14:17:41 IST 2019 closed out a lost decade for the worlds tropical forests, with surging deforestation from Brazil to the Congo Basin, environmental policy roll-backs, assaults on environmental defenders, abandoned conservation co…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Drones

Mystery drone squadrons flying over Colorado and Nebraska

For the last couple weeks, residents of Colorado and Nebraska have reported squadrons of large drones flying overhead. The drones are large, with a reported 6-foot wingspan, and their operators and purpose remain a mystery. The Federal Aviation Administration…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Palestine

Israel: A model for the far right

On December 15, Brazil opened a trade office in Jerusalem and announced that it would soon relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to the contested city. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his appreciation by declaring Israel has "no better frien…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Need to Know: Irrational exuberance? Why last year’s stellar returns may have been a reversal of ‘excessive pessimism’

France protests: Longest strike in decades stuck in deadlock

We are poles apart – welcome to the 2020s. Australia’s apocalypse. Plus mutant Davos delegations.

Start the new year right by recycling your old iPhone, iPad, MacBook and more

Is Italy’s Government on the Verge of Collapse?

Doctor Strange 2’s Mystery Marvel Character Should Be Clea | CBR

Captain America actor Mollie Fitzgerald arrested after mother stabbed to death

Nature and forests through 2019: The year of uncontrollable rain forests fires all over the world

Mystery drone squadrons flying over Colorado and Nebraska

Israel: A model for the far right

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