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Read More »Outside the Box: 4 crucial trends involving China that investors risk getting wrong
In this exceptional year, much of our collective attention span was spent on the pandemic, the U.S. election, geopolitical tensions, and social media paroxysms. When it came to US-China in particular, there simply wasn’t enough “China” as the bilateral dynamic was regularly filtered through the prism of the pandemic and the U.S. …
Read More »Why polls get the ‘Latino vote’ so wrong
One major takeaway from the presidential election even before all the votes have been tallied: Despite pundits’ and pollsters’ discussion of the “Latino vote” or “Hispanic vote” — it was never a unified block for one candidate to win. The U.S. Census Bureau defines a Hispanic or Latino person as …
Read More »Key Words: Some of the people who literally helped write Facebook’s community standards say Zuckerberg is wrong on Trump posts
Nearly three dozen former Facebook Inc. employees, dismayed with Mark Zuckerberg’s hands-off policy on President Donald Trump’s posts and his defensive posture on the matter, forcefully pushed back in a stinging letter released Wednesday. “We grew up at Facebook, but it is no longer ours,” the 33 former employees, who …
Read More »NewsWatch: Hulbert: My stock market forecast for June is likely wrong — but watch out for August
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE The March lows of the coronavirus crash could still be tested, writes Mark Hulbert. See full story. Ohio governor urges people to wear face masks: ‘This is not about politics’ “This is one time when we truly are all in this together. What we do directly impacts …
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