Tag: mexico
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Trudeau touts technological innovation during MIT campus visit
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remembers asking his father why the stereo and other gadgets he had as a boy were made in Japan — not in Canada. The answer he eventually got from other people over the years was that Japan is a small country without a lot of natural resources, one…
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IF BORDERS WERE OPEN THE $78 TRILLION FREE LUNCH
Yes, it would be disruptive. But the potential gains are so vast that objectors could be bribed to let it happen A HUNDRED-DOLLAR BILL is lying on the ground. An economist walks past it. A friend asks the economist: “Didn’t you see the money there?” The economist replies: “I thought I saw something, but I…
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Medicina digital é uma realidade para startup investida
Tyler Crouch (à esq.), Jason Bellet e Connor Landgraf, fundadores da empresa Eko Devices Ele poderia estar surfando em Cabo San Lucas, no México. Mas Tyler Crouch passou as férias do verão de 2013 criando um estetoscópio digital, e pensando: “Tomara que isso valha a pena”. Ele tinha 21 anos e era estudante de engenharia…
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The world’s most powerful economies in 2030
PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world’s largest professional-services firms, just released its predictions for the most powerful economies in the world by 2030. The report, titled “The long view: how will the global economic order change by 2050?” ranked 32 countries by their projected global gross domestic product by purchasing power parity. PPP is used by…