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The West made great strides because of it’s institutions based on the six killer apps. Let’s enhance these here in the U.S. and around the world. Watch Niall Ferguson explain the 6 killer apps of prosperity… Transcript: Let’s talk about billions. Let’s talk about past and future billions. We know that about 106 billion people [...]
Welcome to the fourth webisode of the MBA Drive, watch and learn about my experience at NYU. In this webisode: Group Presentation for Economics, Statistics Exam (Regression and Multiple Regression). Starting two new classes: Global Economics and Foundamentals of Finance (the latter taught by ex-JP Morgan Investment Banker….
Yes I was a doubter of this stat too when NYU Stern School of Business stated it in our Global Economy class. I believe all of my classmates doubted that too. But Prof. Zin followed up with the following information. According to The World Gold Council, the best estimate of the amount of gold that has been [...]
I recently learned about the two cows of economics. Apon further research I learned that the “You have two cows” theme is based on jokes originated as a parody in introductory-level economics courses. The parodies featured a farmer who uses the cows he owns to trade with his neighbors. Enjoy. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour. SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. [...]
Why is the Webisode called MBA Drive, watch and learn… In this webisode: info about the classes we’re taking, Sirius XM case study, Ethics, Marketing and more.
Worker shortage, hard to believe in this 10% unemployment rate environment. We could have a 5-6 million worker shortage according to recent report from MetLife Foundation and Civic Ventures, a think tank on boomers, work and social purpose. In a report Barry Bluestone, dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern [...]
I recently read John Zappe‘s feature on the $33M for an Army recruitment video game. GameSpot reported that $33M was spent over 10 years (year-by-year budget summary is below in Chart 1). Taking a deeper dive into the story, I learned that the military combined spent about $700 million on recruitment advertising during the President Bush years. $33M amounts to [...]
Here’s an example of a new business and green jobs being created. The US needs innovation and new businesses. Solar power when the sun goes down? A Santa Monica, Calif., company called SolarReserve has taken a step toward making that a reality, filing an application with California regulators to build a 150-megawatt solar farm that [...]
Jobs Jobs Jobs are the focus of The Whitehouse Jobs Summit. The Summit will focus on three main areas: Green Jobs Infrastructure Small Business financing Green Jobs focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, jobs in renewable energy (wind, solar, biofuels, etc), but also can include logistics jobs and “green” products made from recycled material etc… [...]
Twitter is bursting at the seams in terms of unique visitors, subscriber growth, buzz, VC financing and valuation. TechCrunch published reports that Twitter had projections of 1 Billion users by 2013. The thing that many question, is the revenue model, which Twitter apparently doesn’t have or is not revealing. Many Twitter outsiders have speculated about the revenue model. Only C-level Twitter [...]
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