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Dec 10, 2024 | 
mandg.co.za | Michael Cook
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M&G Global Equity Fund: Celebrating five years of AI investing
This month, we’re marking the 5-year anniversary of the launch of the pioneering Global Maxima Strategy, which underpins the M&G Global Equity fund.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Kurt Mahlburg |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
In mid-2022, I began to speculate that we were nearing “peak woke” — and I had more than a few anecdotes to back my case. As the months ticked on, more evidence accumulated. Then, late last year, Harvard University’s Claudine Gay scandal made global headlines. It was an event that I believe marked the high tide of wokeness in its most distilled essence: the DEI campus bureaucracy. Now, it appears that nothing can stop the bleed.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Mathew Otieno |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently made a minor splash in the international news when, towards the end of last month, it sent Apple a letter bearing a series of questions regarding the company’s possible usage of conflict minerals from the country’s benighted east.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
The war in Gaza has given new strength to arguments about the evils of Western colonialism. True, conquering armies have done terrible things in the lands that they conquered. They also brought improvements. How do we measure the overall impact of colonialism? In this controversial but entertaining video, Michael Knowles points out that most nations and cultures have experienced colonisation and conquest.
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May 15, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Christopher Garbowski |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
In his recent book The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism of 2023, political philosopher John Gray claims to be writing a requiem for liberalism which he argues has currently betrayed itself. An atheist who has respect for religion, Gray adroitly combines the Hebrew scriptures and the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, author of Leviathan, a hugely influential analysis of state power.
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May 13, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Louis March |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
The West has long been obsessed with China. In the 19th century, the Middle Kingdom was dominated and debauched by Western trading companies, backed by Western militaries, pushing drugs into China. Remember the Opium Wars? Those uppity Chinese had the effrontery to destroy the British India Company’s opium and try to eradicate addiction. That was China’s century of humiliation. Now the shoe is on the other foot. China has roared past the collective West in so many metrics.
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May 13, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Steven Tucker |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
It emerged in late April that residents of Trump Plaza, a 40-storey skyscraper in the New York suburb of New Rochelle, had a real problem with their address: it was named after Donald Trump. As Trump is considered by all right-thinking American voters to be The Most Evil Man Who Has Ever Lived, some tower-dwellers think association with his name is pushing the potential value of their property down.
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May 12, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Rob Henderson |Michael Cook |Gabriel A. Andrade |James Parker
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson | Forum, 2024 | 304pp Even as far away as Sydney, the tent cities on the campuses of elite American universities are front-page news. People watched in amazement as demonstrators occupying buildings at Columbia demanded bottled water and meals as a basic humanitarian aid.
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May 12, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | James Bradshaw |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaBy Rick Perlstein. Scribner. 2008. 896 pages. It is election year and one candidate divides Americans like nobody else. Reviled with an intense fury by many, he is adored as a protector by many others aghast at developments being pushed by social radicals. His previous — and graceless — fall from power was accompanied by assurances from the great and good that his career was over and that he could never return.
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May 9, 2024 | 
mercatornet.com | Kurt Mahlburg |Gabriel A. Andrade |Michael Cook |James Parker
Boy Scouts of America announced this week that it will rebrand itself as ‘Scouting America’ in a bid to reflect “the organisation’s ongoing commitment to welcome every youth and family in America to experience the benefits of Scouting”. “Though our name will be new, our mission remains unchanged: we are committed to teaching young people to be Prepared. For Life,” the group’s President and CEO Roger Krone said in a press release.
