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Resilient Resolutions For The New Year
Dante Disparte
December 27, 2018
It seems fitting that a year as turbulent as 2018 ends at the edge of chaos. The month of December, a period where ...
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Culling Unstable Coins – Crypto Correction Or Market Crash?
Dante Disparte
December 18, 2018
If 2018 was the year blockchain came out of beta, it is also proving to be the year of the great crypto correction ...
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The Gilet Jaunes Movement Risks Becoming Europe’s Intifada
Dante Disparte
December 10, 2018
While Europe and France have a long history of popular manifestations, something feels different about the gilet jaunes movement, which has not only ...
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Whaling Wars: A $12 Billion Financial Dragnet Targeting CFOs
Dante Disparte
December 6, 2018
Since 2013, more than $12 billion has been unwittingly sent by 78,617 firms through the successful exploitation of CFOs and finance leaders in ...
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Economic Double-Jeopardy: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Hide
Risk Cooperative
December 6, 2018
The trajectory of the $87 trillion global economy seems to be on a collision course with economic variables that were once thought to ...
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Forget Black Friday, We Need a Day of National Resilience
Risk Cooperative
November 27, 2018
Credit-fueled consumerism is the grease that oils the U.S. economy. The economist Thorstein Veblen popularized the notion of conspicuous consumption, which explains why ...
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Paradise Lost: Coping With The Aftermath Of California’s Deadliest Fires
Risk Cooperative
November 21, 2018
Last year, California’s fire season was the worst on record, both in terms of loss of life and destruction of property. In keeping ...
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An Amazon Survival Guide Is Needed
Risk Cooperative
November 19, 2018
After much national fanfare, Amazon, the second firm to join the trillion-dollar club, has announced the new homes of its much sought after ...
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Californians usually rebuild after fires. That could change.
Risk Cooperative
November 19, 2018
For Californians — many of them inured to routine annual fires, mudslides and earthquakes — a key question is not whether to rebuild ...
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To Blockchain or Not to Blockchain
Risk Cooperative
November 13, 2018
Many would argue that the enthusiasm for blockchain and cryptocurrency is waning. Indeed, according to Gartner’s hype cycle, blockchain is tumbling into the ...
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What I Learned From 30 Blockchain CEOs
Risk Cooperative
November 5, 2018
I reached out to over 30 CEOs running blockchain startups across the world. I wanted to ask them a couple of simple questions. ...
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A Failed Decapitation Strike in the Divided States of America
Risk Cooperative
October 30, 2018
A failed series of coordinated mail bombs targeting the “liberal establishment,” including the Obamas, the Clintons, Joe Biden, George Soros, CNN, former CIA ...
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