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Super Heroes

Toy Tuesday: The Endgame of ‘Avengers’ Toys

Iron Man. Captain America. The Hulk. The Black Widow. Hawkeye. That quintet of heroes has been at the core of the massive mechanism known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But will all that change by the end of the Russo Brothers’ second half, as they face th…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

NKorea leader Kim to visit Russia for summit with Putin…

(Updates with date and location of summit) By Joyce Lee and Vladimir Soldatkin SEOUL/MOSCOW April 23 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Thursday in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok to discuss…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg attributes her ability to focus on climate change to her Asperger’s

Greta Thunberg is the Swedish teenager whose climate change school-strike spread around the world, leading to her addressing the COP24 conference, the World Economic Forum, and many other forums where she has distinguished herself with her brilliant oratory a…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

What We Get Wrong About the American Heartland

If you were to buzz at bumblebee height over flyover country this month, you would find spring unfurling petal by petal, the crocuses, daffodils, tulips, forsythia and even the indomitable dandelion blooming noticeably earlier than several decades ago. But if…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Trade War

Trump threatens EU trade war after Harley-Davidson sees profit decline

Some of the thousands of Harley-Davidson riders enter Wenceslas Square in the heart of Prague, Czech Republic. (Photo: Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Struggling with fallen demand for motorcycles, and higher costs from global trade wars, Harley-…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Greta Thunberg

A Sanders candidacy would make 2020 a referendum on the future, not a referendum on Trump

One thing that immediately struck me in Lauren Gambino's excellent analysis of the Democratic nomination campaigns in The Guardian: a quote from GOP never-Trump political consultant Rick Wilson, who counseled Democrats not to select Bernie Sanders and make th…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Putin

North Korea’s Kim and Russia’s Putin to meet on April 25

MOSCOW (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Russian eastern city of Vladivostok on Thursday, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on Tuesday. The leaders will discuss political and diplomatic effo…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Korean War

Avoiding Disruption Requires Rapid Decision Making

To thwart possible disruption, pundits give legacy companies such advice as disrupt yourself before you get disrupted or put frontline employees in charge of strategy and execution. This counsel is of little help. Military history offers a much better way to …

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Alibaba

The Wall Street Journal: SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son reportedly lost $130 million of his personal fortune with bitcoin

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of SoftBank Group Corp., made a huge personal bet on bitcoin just as prices for the digital currency peaked, losing more than $130 million when he sold out, according to people familiar with the matter. Son, who launche…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Recycling

5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste

Can you remember what you were doing on New Years Day, 2018? Celebrating or perhaps nursing a hangover? What happened that day created a significant change in global recycling. China, the worlds largest scrap importer, stopped accepting recycled plastic, uns…

bubmagApril 23, 2019

Toy Tuesday: The Endgame of ‘Avengers’ Toys

NKorea leader Kim to visit Russia for summit with Putin…

Greta Thunberg attributes her ability to focus on climate change to her Asperger’s

What We Get Wrong About the American Heartland

Trump threatens EU trade war after Harley-Davidson sees profit decline

A Sanders candidacy would make 2020 a referendum on the future, not a referendum on Trump

North Korea’s Kim and Russia’s Putin to meet on April 25

Avoiding Disruption Requires Rapid Decision Making

The Wall Street Journal: SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son reportedly lost $130 million of his personal fortune with bitcoin

5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste

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