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Category: Series 37 – Article
Leave In UK & US, poverty has flipped from Reason to Leave to Reason Not to Leave,despite widening opportunity gap between dynamic & struggling areas. Should policymakers re-vitalise poor areas? Or incentivize people to move? Fewer Americans moved States in 2017 than in any of the previous 50 years Guessed the Word? …
Apart World economies growing apart. GDP growth 2007 to 2018: US 17.1%, Europe 11.6%, Japan 6.7%. But US outperformed mostly due to problems elsewhere. What next? US lose momentum? Or rest of the world catch up? Will affect financial markets, trade wars, currencies, politics. What should investors do short-term & long-term? Guessed the Word? Series 37 (1/7) …
Tiffin Collect, deliver, return: 200,000 tiffins daily5,000 Mumbai dabba-wallas take hot lunch from home to school/ office by train, cart or bicycle for ₹500 rupees (£5 / $7) a month. Without computers or client phone numbers, they achieve Six Sigma competence level by scribbling alphanumeric codes on tiffins. Every tiffin changes hands >5 times on…
Insurgents Highly-skilled people from consulting firms have dispersed into insurgentsoffering dynamic, versatile & value-for-money services. Professional gig workers are thriving in stealth, snatching work from industry giants, who are more fragile than agile. >1/5th of UK projects, worth £2bn ($2.6bn) go to independent consultants. Global consulting = £180bn ($232bn) a year Guessed the Word? …
Counterfeit Big fines for counterfeit goods on Chinese e-commerce sites from 1 Jan 2019, up to 2m yuan (£228k, $295k). So fakers now hawking their wares on social messaging networks as ‘friend-to-friend’. Global trade in bogus goods 2013: £355bn, 2022 est: £764bn. China and Hong…
Eternity Cricket gives an idea of eternityTest matches last up to 30 hours. Fight, flair, grit, glamour, twists & turns keep average attendances in England rising: 52,850 (1980) to 77,420 (2017). Redeveloped venues provide great spectator experience. England had its 1,000th Test in 2018 and has been in >43% of all Tests ever played. Learning…
Rival Pincered by a rival: US lobsters face 8% tariff, but Canada lobsters get into Europe duty-free. A Maine lobster lands on a Beijing dinner plate in 2 days, via Canada – avoiding China’s 25% tariff on US live lobsters from 6 July. Until 1800’s, lobster was low-class food, eaten only by the poor. 2017 US live…