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Jason Schenker’s Views on 2014 Economic Events

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The purchasing manager indices clearly show that last year we had a bottoming out, and we are now breaking through 50, which shows growth moving in the right direction. Credit ratings for states like California and Illinois are at A, and muni rates have gone down in many states. growth next year. China is at about 7.7

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[INFOGRAPHIC] AI Technologies: The Role of Humans & The Application in Logistics

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Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go. We have adjusted to their presence very quickly, haven’t we? Will they make all of us obsolete someday?