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Small Business Optimism Begins Its Downswing

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are less optimistic about the national economy, with economic outlook dropping for the fourth month in a row, according to analysis from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Even so, the NFIB noted that levels of optimism among small business owners remain historically strong. 8) said entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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Why U.S. Corporations Remain Optimistic Amid So Much Uncertainty

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corporations from remaining optimistic, according to the New York Times. Reports this week highlighted the National Federation of Independent Business’s (NFIB) latest optimism index, which recently reached new highs. The White House’s corporate tax cuts, however, are boosting earnings and bumping up ROIs.

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The Predicament Of C-Suite Fraud And Government Cyberattacks

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new reports from The New Yorker this week dove into how the current CFO of the National Rival Association (NRA) allegedly embezzled funds from his last company, employee benefits consulting firm the Wyatt Company. Tax time in particular is like Christmas to cybercriminals,” he said. In the U.S.,

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Putting “identity” on the “blockchain”. Part 1: Find a problem

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Then it becomes a simple problem of authentication and we have a variety of strong authentication mechanisms available to us (even without some proper National Entitlement Infrastructure as I have long called for). In any of these cases I would be faced with the necessity to provide my financial identity all over again.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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Links to every Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter. Rather than getting too caught up in the price or recent movement of a stock, Buffett says, instead think about buying into a company that makes great products, that has strong competitive advantages, and can provide you with consistent returns over the long-term.

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The Coming Millennial FinTech Crisis

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This research is extraordinary — and extraordinarily insightful — because it did something that no one else has ever been able to do: link income patterns across generations. Chetty and his team did that by gaining access to the anonymized tax returns of people in their mid-30s over a 40-year period between 1940 and 1980.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. A source tells Light Reading that AOptix’s hybrid radio-FSO units were expensive, selling for up to $80,000 a link.

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