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Cum-ex affair: Tax with greed

In Germany, following the financial crisis, scandals around banks and financial institutions have almost become a norm. The cum-ex affair, for example, that was revealed a few years ago, overshadowed all previous controversies. It is reported that more than 100 banks are currently under investigation in Germany alone in relation to cum-ex deals. These deals involve illicit tax refunds which may have cost the government billions in lost revenue.

2022-04-17 16:15

Ecole 42: Learning how to learn

Ecole 42 is unlike any other school in France. When it first started, people laughed about it. Ecole 42 now has more than 15,000 students in over 25 countries with 42 campuses. It is ranked as one of the top coding schools in the world. Ecole 42 operates as a tuition-free, non-profit computer coding school.

2022-03-20 16:09

If Harvard were free to all

What if Harvard were free to all? To be specific, Harvard's tuition is literally free to students from low-income families. Harvard University renewed its efforts and announced the plan a decade ago that undergraduates from low-income families would pay no tuition.

2022-02-20 16:49

Leading for future: policy entrepreneurship

Last was an unforgettable year. The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us with a great deal of uncertainty. We're all different in how much uncertainty we can tolerate in life. Do our life and work situations look uncertain? Let's be honest. They always are. We need to look within ourselves to find the certainty we need.

2022-01-16 16:07

War on tiny screens

Five point five inches. That's the size that we're talking about as being the average size of a smartphone. It tends to grow by 0.1 inches each year. The boundary between smartphone and tablet devices might be blurring. The tablet market is seeing modest growth, as a tablet has a much longer refresh cycle than a smartphone, as newer models offer nothing more than minor spec upgrades lately.

2021-12-12 16:48

All in vain: building ability to adapt like Generation Flux

Questions you are asked make who you are. Questions you ask make who you lead. This is how the future of learning is defined. What we learn at school will have very different future consequences of how we live our lives. When the machines replace what we routinely do, we will have abundant freedom and control over our decisions on how to spend our time. We don't compete with the machines, but must figure out how to live with them.

2021-11-16 17:00

Taxing the rich: Would it work?

There is growing public debate on a wealth tax. Several market analysts reported that billionaires added more than $4 trillion to their wealth during the unprecedented pandemic. If you look at the other side of the coin, during the pandemic, the crash in the international tourism industry among the most severely hit industries caused a loss of $4 trillion.

2021-10-20 16:55

My data is mine in data economy

If you are not paying, you are the product. That is how social media companies make money by selling your behavior and preference data. To run a successful commercial campaign, you should start collecting first-hand data to build your audience first.

2021-09-12 15:04

Metaverse to boost creator economy in big way

Two unexpected by-products of “working from home” are the rising stock market and the growing demand for multiple or side jobs. I'm not saying that it is right or wrong, but the current COVID-induced economic uncertainty pushes people to look around for additional sources of income, concerned as they are about maintaining economic stability.

2021-08-18 17:00

Next legal counsel: artificial intelligence lawbot

As Artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply integrated into our day to day life, many jobs doing simple and repeated tasks might quickly disappear. Advanced jobs that require professional knowledge or experiences may be also replaced by the adaptive deep learning machine and only the top human elite might survive.

2021-08-01 15:29

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