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Twitter ticker tape investments4/10/2023 I would not have picked it up otherwise as I do not have a very high opinion of the famous US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. This year there have been several books that I have re ad o nly because of friends' r ecommendations. Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara That we could be the generation that kill our languages is a frightening one.ĥ. T hat this could be the fate of languages we call our mother to ngue s literally kept me awake at night. It can d isappear at worst or become a degraded language used only for daily interactions without complex thought. Languages often don’t evolve and disappear slowly: they can remain unchanged for centuries – for example, Amir Khusr u’s writings of a thousand years ago are still intelligible to us but it takes only one generation of children growing up without a certain language as their first language for that language to deteriorate. It also explains a critical fact about languages that at least I wasn’t aware of. It almost like a necessary and sufficient condition to classify a language as coming from the Indian subcontinent. It is about the evolution of South Asian languages and has fascinating nuggets like what is the one thing that is common across all South Asian languages and which does not exist in other related languages. This book was both illuminating as well as disturbing in parts. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants – The story of India through its languages by Peggy Mohan T his results in not just inconvenience and unfairness for half of humanity but pretty drastic consequences for women's health and even their very lives when for example, they sustain worse injuries in car crashes because the cars aren’t designed for them or their heart attack symptoms are ignored as they aren’t part of the standard protocol. W omen have to simply adapt themselves to this reality. This is a book that shocked and angered me - that for virtually everything in the world, from urban planning to the design of seat belts or smart phones to testing of pharmaceuticals, the default human being in the world is always a man ! I nvisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez Īs the recent crypto burst shows, the lessons never grow old!ģ. “ All financial innovation involves, in one form or another, the creation of debt."Īfter the inevitable burst, the lynch mobs look for villains but refuse to hold speculators and the markets accountable, but they should shoulder the blame too. “There can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance. As a sampler:īubbles are a feature of financial markets. īesides the recounting of many past bubbles from Tulipmania and the South Sea Bubble to Wall Street in 1929, the real value of the book is setting out the framework or template for understanding the euphoric episodes or bubbles. Wonderfully well-written! One can quote from virtually every page of it. A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith Unlocking opportunities in Metal and MiningĪlso read: Global inflation and the perils of making forecastsĢ. Life Insurance Made Simple Pharma Industry Conclave.Interview Series Business In The Week Ahead.
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