Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
February 3, 2017

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For years we’ve been told that soon, flying drones will deliver packages, tend farmers’ fields and even secure borders. But the only drones most of us see today are toys deployed by hobbyists at local soccer fields. And lately it

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Regardless of whether the policy remains in place today, one of Google’s most famous management philosophies has been the “20% rule”. Legend goes that especially in Google’s earlier days, employees were encouraged to spend 20% of their time working on

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As you’re surely aware, keeping up with the CFTC positioning data is mandatory these days. It’s kind of like Trump’s Twitter feed. You don’t want to watch it, but you have to if you hope to have a clue about

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So what do you do if you’re a European banking regulator faced with the task of maintaining a safe, sustainable financial system amid a concerning growth in bank leverage.Well, if you said sell down risk assets then you’re just being

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Novo Nordisk A/S NVO reported fourth-quarter 2016 earnings of 50 cents per American Depositary Receipt (ADR), missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 52 cents by 3.8%. Reported earnings, however, surpassed the year ago figure of 48 cents. Quarterly revenues were up 1.2%

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The second week of Trump’s presidency brought more controversy. Early in the week came a 120-day suspension of refugee admissions and a 90-day travel ban from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Friday brought comments suggesting the administration will do away with

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Factory orders rose 2.0% in December 2016 year-over-year (NSA), the fourth positive number in the last five months. In what is a perfect commentary on the sorrowful state of the economy, it was highest growth rate since September 2014. It

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The Federal Reserve’s independence is being threatened. The Fed brought this threat upon itself, because it did not trust Milton Friedman, but rather increased the wealth divide by pursuing QE instead. Had the Fed trusted Milton Friedman, it would have

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So today I’m going to leap all over the place and show you some some interesting things that’ve come across my desk in the last week. Why no full fledged blog? Well, if you didn’t notice, this week’s WOW on the “Trumpification” of US foreign

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