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Commercial Observer (June 1)

2023/ 06/ 02 by jd in Global News

“For the illiquid world of private credit — which provides debt for commercial real estate projects -– and that of private equity, the recent upheaval in the U.S. regional banking sector and issues plaguing downtown office space has sparked questions surrounding the type of returns CRE can generate for investors. The primary question being: Is a golden moment possible in the darkest of times?”

 

Washington Post (February 8)

2023/ 02/ 10 by jd in Global News

To summarize the state of the nation, “considering all the recent upheaval, it could be a lot worse. Yet it remains deeply divided, and that is itself a long-term threat to U.S. prosperity.” While much as been accomplished, “approximately two-thirds of Americans think the country is on the ‘wrong track.’”

 

The Economist (February 1)

2020/ 02/ 03 by jd in Global News

“Two things explain why a new infectious disease is so alarming. One is that, at first, it spreads exponentially…. conjuring speculation about a health-care collapse, social and economic upheaval and a deadly pandemic. The other is profound uncertainty. Sparse data and conflicting reports mean that scientists cannot rule out the worst case—and that lets bad information thrive.”

 

Bloomberg (April 10)

2019/ 04/ 10 by jd in Global News

“India has so far been spared the kind of populist revolt that’s testing many rich Western democracies. It’s far from immune, however.” Whoever wins the upcoming election should “recognize that many of the conditions for a similar upheaval are in place — and that the best way to avoid it is to promote growth and opportunity through economic reform.”

 

Time (December 18)

2017/ 12/ 19 by jd in Global News

“It became a hashtag, a movement, a reckoning. But it began, as great social change nearly always does, with individual acts of courage.” They have toppled titans and brought hope, yet we are only in “the beginning of this upheaval,” and have yet to learn how far its ultimate impact will reach. “For giving voice to open secrets, for moving whisper networks onto social networks, for pushing us all to stop accepting the unacceptable, the Silence Breakers are the 2017 Person of the Year.”

 

Bloomberg (November 24)

2016/ 11/ 26 by jd in Global News

“Youthful optimism can be hard to find in Japan, where millennials rank as the gloomiest of those in the world’s biggest economies.” Less than 40% of Japan’s millennials are optimistic about the future, “making them the most pessimistic in 18 countries surveyed by ManpowerGroup. They’re even more downbeat than young Greeks, who have suffered Great Depression-like conditions and political upheaval in recent years.”

 

Washington Post (April 19)

2015/ 04/ 20 by jd in Global News

For fifty years Moore’s Law has shown remarkable resilience in predicting the growth of computing power. It has also served as “a quiet rebuke to those who think we control our destiny. The historical reality is that technological, commercial and intellectual upheavals — often unforeseen — set in motion forces that create new opportunities and threats. We struggle to master what we haven’t anticipated and often don’t understand.”

 

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