09-16-2016, 10:52 PM
Big Problems/Big Thinkers features acclaimed journalist Terre Blair interviewing an extraordinary group of leaders to find solutions to some of the most urgent challenges facing humanity: global climate change, financial mayhem, nuclear attacks, cyber threats, political paralysis. Terre asks Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, Madeleine Albright, and others if a framework of ethics and values can help solve these grave threats to our future. What she discovers is sobering, thought-provoking, and ultimately, hopeful.
Big Problems/Big Thinkers With Terre Blair: The Most Urgent Challenges Facing Humanity
Investors spent the summer piling into technology and financial stocks as the economy showed signs of improvement, leading to speculation that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates this month. Barclays Capital Plc. this week advised investors to put their money into safer stocks that will maintain their value as the market loses momentum. Disappointing economic data and the approaching presidential election have quelled any possibility of a rate hike before December.
Barclays: 33 Stocks That Will Help You Survive Weakening Economy
While Wall Street is focused on whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates or not, rising yields in the long end of the U.S. bond market in recent sessions have been directly related to the negative yield and bond-buying policies of both the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan.
Why everyone needs to pay attention to the bond market
Scientific literature has long suggested a possible link between serious dehydration and decreased cognition. This might be intuitive: When we’re very thirsty, water becomes a matter of survival, and our bodies simply have more pressing concerns than reading reports and filling out forms. But recent studies suggest we don’t need to be crawling through the desert for dehydration to hinder our brains’ functioning. Even mild dehydration—just enough to make us feel a bit parched—can hurt our ability to reach peak productivity.
Drinking Water Can Make You More Productive - Bloomberg
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allegedly once shot dead a justice department agent with an Uzi submachine gun while serving as mayor of Davao. The allegation was made by Edgar Matobato, a self-confessed former death squad member, before a Senate inquiry on extra-judicial killings. Mr Duterte, he alleged, ordered him and others to kill about 1,000 criminals or political rivals over a 25-year period. One government minister called the allegations "lies and fabrications" Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said Mr Matobato was "obviously not telling the truth" while presidential spokesman Martin Andanar said investigations into the president's time as mayor had gone nowhere.
Philippines President Duterte 'once killed man with Uzi'