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Facebook Acts As Reliable Barometer Of Market Mood, Good For Bulls

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Facebook is now a component of the S&P 500 index, but it has already been acting as a bellwether stock for several months. The company now sports an entire year of consecutive earnings growth and...
    






The Book That Predicted Obamacare’s Failure — And America’s Rebirth

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In three short months, Obamacare has exposed, with 200 proof concentration, the fundamental mismatch between government’s limited knowledge and its unattenuated power. The Administration is now “...
    






Ferocious, Weak And Crazy: The North Korean Strategy

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Editor’s Note: The following Geopolitical Weekly originally ran in January 2013. We repost it as recent turmoil in North Korea returns it to the spotlight. By George Friedman North Korea’s state-run...
    






Tech Takeover: Jack Dorsey Joins Sheryl Sandberg On Disney Board

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Silicon Valley is in high demand these days, even in the happiest place on earth. Today, Disney announced that Twitter and Square billionaire Jack Dorsey was elected to Mickey Mouse’s board of...
    






Twitter’s Jack Dorsey To Join Disney Board Of Directors

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Disney will be welcoming a new tech savvy Mouseketeer to its ranks. The Walt Disney Company today announced that Twitter founder and chairman Jack Dorsey has been elected to its board of directors...
    






Jeu De Paume Retrospective Shows How Erwin Blumenfeld Brought Avant-Garde Art To The Fashion Pages Of Vogue

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In 1937, the photographer Erwin Blumenfeld coaxed Carmen Visconti out of her clothes to model for his camera. It wasn’t her first time posing nude. More then fifty years before, she’d been the...
    






OK I’Il Tip You. But Only Because It’s Christmas.

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A Scrooge – what you might call a person who’s stingy around Christmas time. Personally, I’m the opposite. The Christmas season is when I lose the stinginess I carry during the other 50 weeks of the...
    






Why Debating Apple’s "Misunderstood" Ad Is An Amazing Holiday Gift

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Apple's latest television ad, “Misunderstood,” is leaving viewers with impassioned and conflicting interpretations. Giving Talmudic treatment to a short commercial might seem like overkill,...