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How the Introvert Economy Is Shifting Consumer Behaviors

The pandemic has catalyzed a shift in consumer behavior, giving rise to what’s now termed the “introvert economy.” This shift sees consumers increasingly favoring the comfort of their homes over traditional social outings—a trend with significant implications for businesses across industries. Consumers are choosing to go out earlier, if at all, to then enjoy the […]

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Why Some Brilliant Geeks Do Stupid Things

Smart people can still do dumb things. That is one of Andrew McAfee’s key points in his latest book, The Geek Way. McAfee is the co-director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT and principal research scientist at the Sloan School of Management. The Geek Way is McAfee’s first foray into covering organizational […]

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Hedge Funds Bet Big on AI Weather Prediction

There’s an expression: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” New technology may not be making any inroads in controlling the weather. However, artificial intelligence is helping a select few understand it better and make money from the knowledge.  Venture capital firms are partnering with software engineers to train AI-driven machine […]

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Worth Magazine Survey: Blending Profit and Purpose

Worth, as a brand, is focused on embracing worth beyond wealth. Therefore, in an era where the intersection of wealth, social responsibility, and environmental stewardship is increasingly paramount, we look to further our understanding of high net-worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals in the realms of impact investing and philanthropy.  Thus we have created a […]

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How to Capitalize on the Booming Bond Market

Suddenly, investors can get real income from bonds again. Bonds had been moving up in price, and thus down in yield, for about 40 years—a trend that accelerated after the financial crisis in 2008. “There wasn’t much need for people to look at individual bonds,” says Kevin McPartland of Coalition Greenwich, a major benchmarking firm. […]

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Aging is a Treatable Condition, says Dr. Nir Barzilai

There is a split in the medicine of aging. It’s between the established practice of treating individual ailments, like diabetes or heart disease, and a theory that the entire aging process can be slowed, maybe even reversed. This is not a hard divide. So-called traditional doctors encourage patients to watch what they eat, exercise, not […]

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