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...Productivity-hype bubbles are usually separated by at least 25 years and usually form at the end of a secular bull market, when aggregate profits are coming under pressure, say Garthwaite et al....
...Greetings earthlings, As technology titans and world-changing entrepreneurs we have resisted explaining ourselves to lesser mortals....
...For the local guys in those two monster segments, the threat has always been that Uber, Amazon et al can simply come in and eat their lunch....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...many possible scenarios about Samsung’s structural shake-up, but the sure thing is that the value of Cheil, in which the Lee family owns the biggest holdings, will be maximised,” the local stockbroker E*...
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...A nurse presses its finger scanner, taps in a code and Abbie pops out a drawer with drugs for a patient. Mission accomplished, the robot trundles off – “departing now”....
...Occasionally, I did wonder whether some of the anniversaries might, in another time, have been allowed to pass unmarked....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Outside the EU, Russia, Turkey et al. are also vulnerable to “optimisation of risk-weighted assets,” to use the euphemism plastered all over eurozone banks’ Q3 results presentations....
...This trick is easier to pass off than it used to be. Increasingly, big institutions do not look like big institutions at all....
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...Several e-books on the downturn have already bypassed the ink-on-dead-trees model....
...Countrywide Financial Corporation, et al is ostensibly brought on behalf of purchasers of such CWALT, Inc. mortgage pass-through certificates, as well as various other mortgage-backed securities registered...
...I have always liked the design of Apple’s products but have eschewed their notebooks because of the poor way the OS handles MS Windows et al....
...As a result V-Secure has embraced the technology enthusiastically as an additional communications tool that supplements e-mail and traditional voice communications....
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