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Adrian Wooldridge, managing editor at The Economist, discusses the role of central banks in the global economy and their ability to handle individual nations’ economic pressures.  Here is a direct video link.

Danielle was a guest this week with Kerry Lutz on The Financial Survival Network talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets.  You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.

Fake emission readings, fake financial results, fake trades in security markets, fake economic data, fake reports, fake eyeballs on line…fraud is currently a leading business model. Buyer beware.

Increasingly, digital ad viewers aren’t human. A study done last year in conjunction with the Association of National Advertisers embedded billions of digital ads with code designed to determine who or what was seeing them. Eleven percent of display ads and almost a quarter of video ads were “viewed” by software, not people. According to the ANA study, which was conducted by the security firm White Ops and is titled The Bot Baseline: Fraud In Digital Advertising, fake traffic will cost advertisers $6.3 billion this year. Here is a direct video link.