Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay. Who Needs the Stock Market? Yes, the future that is here now is investing the same way you buy over-stocked tube socks.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

The ability to copy and disseminate banned ideas undermined repressive regimes from Poland to Iran to the Soviet Union. Our financial systems (banks, stock market, credit cards, mortgages, etc.) One of the most effective weapons in the Cold War was the mimeograph machine and the VCR. exist as bits.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’m sure the head of the Federal Reserve Bank could spook the market or the heads of state of the US, China or Iran could. I wonder whether LinkedIn’s stock market plunge in January 2016 might have a similar effect (to a lesser magnitude because the underlying company is still great).

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management.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 7, 2012

Standard Chartereds stock drops on Iran allegations. Stocks gain on hopes for central bank action. Posted in: Arrogance , Conviction , Entrepreneurs , Humility , Leadership. Join the Conversation. Most Popular. The PC looks like its dying. Pfizer settles foreign bribery charges. The painful new trend in Medicare.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think about this: The investment banks and trading houses across the globe have invested billions of dollars in computing equipment and staff in order to process news that affects stock prices milliseconds before the rest of the market can process & transact on this same information.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Our own government in the US regularly looks for cases of racketeering, crack down on the drug trade, try to prevent illegal sex trafficking, looks out for insider trading on stocks, tries to stop child pornography and so forth. China has already made moves to massively curtain Bitcoin activities so that should be a clue of what is to come.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2016

An opinion piece by Zakaria on why the US shouldn’t take sides in the Saudi / Iran conflict where the tension has gone up since Saudi killed a Shiite cleric and dissident. Another segment was on China’s declining stock market, why it’s happened and what consequences it may have on the world economy. Today’s show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So I think it's good to take stock of what has happened. And one of the first things that you saw is that you had daily cases being exported from Italy, especially from Italy but also from Iran but especially from Italy, to all the corners of the Earth.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

According to CFD brokerTradeFW.com , the Forex market has been affected by the Iran sanctions, when President Trump decided to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal. This division created a rupture in the U.S.’ relationship with the Middle East, but it also undermined the dominance of the U.S.

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