Here’s a simple rule for the second machine age we’re in now: as the amount of data goes up, the importance of human judgment should go down.The previous statement reads like heresy, doesn’t it? Management education today is largely about educating for judgment—developing future leaders’ pattern-matching abilities, usually via exposure to a lot of case studies and other examples, so […]
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Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]
Deirdre Breakenridge, Adjunct Professor at NYU and CEO of Pure Performance Communications, was part of the panel on PR and Big Data at the PRSA conference in Philadelphia in October 2013.With powerful monitoring and social media intelligence tools, pulling and analyzing large sets of data, “big data” is seen as the future of public relations. However, using the information to […]
Stock Market Euphoria During Troubled Times
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Nov 29, 2013 – 06:25 AM GMTBy: Stephen_Lendman
Major equity markets approach nosebleed levels. Experts disagree on whether bubble extremes approach. They’re not unusual. They happen often.The myth about markets reflecting reality is hokum. Keynes once warned about “enterprise becom(ing) the bubble on a whirlpool of (destructive) speculation.” […]
The Dow finally recorded its first close above the 16,000 mark yesterday driven by encouraging jobs data. The Nasdaq too finished in the green while the S&P 500 snapped its three-day losing streak. Meanwhile, annual inflation rate came in lower than the Federal Reserve’s target. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and a voting member of the […]
I grew up in and still live in the South. During the dog days of summer in July and August, when folks say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” believe me, it’s the heat AND the humidity.Everything wilts. People move more slowly. Business slows down a little, too. There’s a real and noticeable effect.The fixed-income markets — represented by […]
With shares of Pepsi (NYSE:PEP) trading around $85, is PEP an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let’s analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:T = Trends for a Stock’s MovementPepsi operates as a food and beverage company worldwide. The company is organized into four business units: PepsiCo Americas Foods, PepsiCo Americas Beverages, […]
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Michael Carney
Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and is inspired […]
