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“The bottom line remains: forecasts and predictions are exercises in marketing. Outrageous and wrong forecasts are typically forgotten, and when one randomly happens to come true, the guru is lauded as the next Nostradamus.”
– Barry Ritholtz, Bloomb...
DATE: Jan 07, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
Hmmmm. It is now day five of brand new year 2019. You’ve just experienced another hectic year-end deadline at your job; you may have children and you’ve shopped and spent to meet the holiday expectations; you’ve laid out the red carpet for all the re...
DATE: Jan 05, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
The year was 1995. Then computing expert and 20-year internet user Clifford Stoll published an article in Newsweek magazine outlining why the internet would not live up to the growing sense of hype.
It was titled “The internet? Bah! — Hype alert: Why...
DATE: Jan 04, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Denis Pitcher
A long time ago, or should I say “once upon a time”, while there was yet darkness in the lands, simultaneously there existed the brightness of a hope for a better day.
The 1940s saw a band of newly educated persons pushing in the areas of education, ...
DATE: Jan 04, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Two more nights left in the UK and I’m writing this with a large glass of wine and some chips by my side.
There’s also been a box of Millionaire’s Shortbread this afternoon (yup, the whole box.)
It was gluten-free, dairy-free, organic — that practic...
DATE: Jan 04, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
New Year’s Eve for Russian people is the most important holiday of the year.
The table in each household is crammed with food, drinks and treats. Russian women start preparing for this celebration weeks in advance. We think about what delicious dish...
DATE: Jan 03, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
Many thousands of dollars are paid out yearly for gardens to be maintained, but what should garden maintenance actually cover?
People with contracts for garden maintenance usually have more visits in the active growing months than in the off-season,...
DATE: Jan 02, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Malcolm Griffiths
With the fireworks and glitter now behind us, a part of moving from one year to the next, thoughts turn to a disturbing reality that something is happening to America where it pertains to the leadership of a nation billed as the most powerful on the ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
As we know, Christmas Eve is traditionally one of the busiest days in any country. With Bermuda being no exception, locals are focused on: shopping, visiting, bar-hopping and domestic duties.
Those duties include cooking, changing curtains, washing d...
DATE: Dec 28, 2018
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
I’m back in the stairwell office, clinging on to a golden thread of internet connection in a far-flung corner of Somerset in the UK. It’s Boxing Day, which after all the excitement of Christmas, is giving me a Sunday-evening kind of anxiety.
Known as...
DATE: Dec 28, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
