Researchers are studying solar geoengineering, the controversial proposal to spray aerosols into the upper atmosphere to block some of the sun’s rays and lower global temperatures. On this episode of Unsolvable, Bloomberg visits a Harvard lab that has built a tiny atmosphere for testing. Here is a direct video link.
Countries having their own free floating currencies has always been a critical part of restoring competitiveness, and re-balancing capital flows and economies in the world. But bankers and multi-national corporations that focus on incessantly increasing their scale, prefer more integration, less regulation and less geographical, cultural division. The trouble is that the ‘integration’ model has run to extremes and created a debt-laden, inefficient global mess that is holding back creative destruction, rebirth and the ebb and flow of free markets. Will Brexit destroy England? Of course not. Will it set off a chain reaction that may see other countries break out of the EU and common currency strangle hold on their economy? Of course. And that would be progress at last.
Bob Janjuah, senior independent client advisor at Nomura, discusses his thoughts on investing amid geopolitical risks and volatile markets. Here is a direct video link.
Donald Trump has spent the entire 2016 presidential campaign letting voters know how successful he has been as a real estate developer, casino mogul, and dealmaker. But Bloomberg View’s Tim O’Brien reveals that Trump’s business career has been anything but stellar. O’Brien knows a thing or two about Trump. He was sued by the presumptive Republican nominee a decade ago for a biography he wrote “Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald”. Here is a direct video link.
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