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Germany is set to trial a Universal Basic Income scheme
Starting this week, 120 Germans will receive a form of universal basic income every month for three years.The volunteers will get monthly payments of €1,200, or about $1,400, as part of a study testing a universal basic income. The study will compare the experiences of the 120 volunteers with 1,380 people who do not receive…
Read MoreWhy You Should Pick a Time for Your Tasks
A simple and very effective technique, to ensure that you will have enough time to do your work, is to schedule time on your calendar for your tasks. Schedule Enough Time – You may say that you don’t have room on your calendar for your tasks. That is a big warning sign, in itself. If…
Read MoreConstructive criticism: how to give and receive feedback
Whether in our personal or professional lives, we are constantly giving and receiving feedback. Some of the feedback is subtle, often unconscious, and some of it is proactive. Being able to receive and to offer constructive feedback is an essential skill in building meaningful social relationships. Be specific and realistic. There is nothing worse than…
Read MoreThis Mindset Matters as Much as Intelligence and Grit for Success
Will intelligence help you get ahead in life? Sure. Will determination help you reach your goals? Absolutely. But, as we all know, it’s possible to be both smart and gritty and still end up banging your head against a wall of failure year after year. So how do people keep going? A new study says the…
Read MoreWhy Is Gold Rising?
Real interest rates are falling. This makes the most intuitive sense. Gold doesn’t yield anything because it doesn’t produce any income or profits. But bond yields in developed countries across the globe aren’t much better than the 0% yield in gold. The dollar is falling. Gold is its own animal as an asset class…
Read MoreThe Greatest Danger Investors Face
Benjamin Graham described Wall Street as a “madhouse” and said the stock market “resembles a huge laundry at which institutions take in large blocks of each other’s wash without true rhyme or reason. ”The problem with our industry, Graham insisted, is not speculation per see; speculation has always been part of the market and always…
Read MoreWhen it comes to brand value, it’s hard to topple Big Tech.
When it comes to brand value, it’s hard to topple Big Tech. On Forbes’ 2020 list of the 100 most valuable brands, the top five are the same as last year: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook. And while the first four have maintained or increased their pace of growth, Facebook has fallen. In fact,…
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