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New Study Predicts Gloomy Economic Times Ahead For Americans

The Horizons Tracker

Walk away and default on the mortgage, with all of the credit rating implications. Retain the home and try and rent it out, which would impact any deposit they could put down on a home in their new region. “Our study highlights an important cost of home ownership,” the researchers explain.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

What effect does it have if we innovate? Economy Entrepreneurship Managing uncertainty' Bullock and Warren Persons of the Harvard Economic Service, who are almost completely forgotten now but briefly wielded global influence. He’s just a trend analyst. Fisher doesn’t think trends are important at all; instead he believes in causation.