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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business Review

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. If all you have is a hammer, then everything will look like a nail.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

One obvious and unsurprising trend in the chart is that overall educational standards have risen. The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin. Then McCabe went back to Scott Paper and Martin took over as chairman of a re-empowered Federal Reserve.

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Government is like a sledge hammer. Thanks Posted by: Marty Weasner | February 10, 2010 at 06:29 AM Chris, I have worked in the construction industry for a while and the trend there is to go green by complying with LEED guidelines for buildings. Just like wars, if a government can get people freaked out enough (i.e.