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UX Copy Favourites

Two years ago, I interviewed for the role of a UX copywriter. I read & researched, scribbled & slogged, and made other preparations that can be best described by alliteration.

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Three Reasons Why The Eurozone Recovery Will Be Poor

The Eurozone economy is expected to collapse in 2020.

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The Federal Reserve Gets Ready to Buy Corporate Bonds

A few years back, the question "should the Federal Reserve buy corporate bonds?" was a hypothetical.

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Global US Dollar Shortage Rises As Emerging Markets Lose Reserves

The pace at which emerging market economies are losing FX reserves is staggering.

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China’s Vanishing Trade Surplus

When you think of China, images of R95 face masks, deserted streets and makeshift hospitals no doubt come to mind.

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US Population Growth at Historic Lows

The 2010s are the slowest decade for population growth in US history, slower even than the 1930s.

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1957: When Machines that Think, Learn, and Create Arrived

Herbert Simon and Allen Newell were pioneers in artificial intelligence: that is, they were among the first to think about the issues involved in designing computers that were not just extremely fast at doing the calculations for well-structured problems, but in designing computers that could learn from their own mistakes and teach themselves to do better. Simon and Newell shared the Turing prize, sometimes referred to as thfe "Nobel prize in computing" in 1975, and Simon won the Nobel prize in economics in 1978.