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Consultancy Accenture has a history of creating its own corporate language. Its name, intended as a derivative of “accent on the future”, was ridiculed when it was adopted in 2001 after the business, Andersen Consulting, broke ties with accounting group Arthur Andersen and was forced to change its name. The rebrand was reported to have cost $100mn.

Accenture’s market capitalisation surged to more than $260bn during a boom in demand for consulting services following the Covid-19 pandemic, but has since fallen to about $150bn as the sector faces a growth slowdown.

Why I don’t own any Gold

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So where does this idea come from? The problem isn’t the size of America’s economic pie, or its portion of the global pie, but the way it’s shared between Americans. Globalization has had a grievous effect on US manufacturing jobs that has stoked inequality. This isn’t populist myth-making; it’s been a five-alarm fire for economists, politicians, and Main Street for well over a decade. Most notoriously, Angus Deaton and Anne Case coined the term “deaths of despair” to diagnose an acute social crisis and its income effect.

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Biases in decision-making By Tim Koller

Why governments are 'addicted' to debt | FT Film Developed economies around the world are loaded up with debt. That was less of a problem in the era of free money but inflationary pressures are back and str...

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Ashesi University presents its 2023 Annual Report -https://www.ashesi.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AUF_2023-Annual-Report.pdf

From new Nobel Laureate…..think the challenge we have in Ghana and sub-Sahara

Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail MIT News - March 23, 2012It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while o...

Connecting to the BeeHive

Mexico Is Building a $7.5 Billion Trade Route to Compete With Panama Canal The Panama Canal isn’t as reliable as it once was and Mexico is racing to build a new corridor connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that would help fill the gap. WSJ explores whether it will lead to faster or cheaper shipping.

It’s hard to wear your principles if someone else paid for the suit.

Everything is known, not according to itself, but according to the capacity of the knower.