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As 2020 starts, crystal ball shows financial trends likely to be moderate
By Albert Robinson
The United States
A round-up of forecasts by analysts and economists show the U.S. economy will likely grow moderately, with a 2.0% - 2.1% rate expected. That’s down on the 2.5% annual rate seen in 2017 and 2018.
Cash Isn't Dead Yet, But It's No Longer King
By Albert Robinson
The idea of a cashless society sounds very clean and tidy – paying by credit card, an app or even a microchip inserted into our hands. And in some countries, with Sweden being the prime example, the move to cashlessness has gone very far indeed.
Looking for certainty? Then you haven’t reached your tipping point
In the past five years or so, it has become fashionable to talk about "Tipping Points". In his book, The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big difference, author Malcolm Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point". It is, for example, the point at which a virus reaches critical mass, and turns from a manageable infectious disease into a full-blown epidemic.
Nostalgia may be comforting, but there's no looking back
They say that nostalgia isn't what it used to be, and that applies to journalism and communication in general as much as it does to any other trade. How do we research for news today as journalists? Does our dependence on the Internet make us lazy or more efficient? Are we part of a spoilt generation whose teachers would have scoffed at what they doubtless would have regarded as our over-reliance on electronic information systems?