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Four Things to Know About Your Collectibles and Homeowners Insurance
The market for collectibles has exploded in recent years, as investors increasingly view collectibles as a steady element of their p...
The construction industry must adapt to survive in an era of economic instability
The construction industry must adapt to survive in an era of economic instability27 Sep, 2024 By Carl Oliveri
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Small Business customer using an AI chatbot How to Reduce the Risks of Using Chatbots-And Ensure They Align With Brand Values
Can you give your AI chatbots your company's real core values and brand voice? With the White House and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cracking down on companies’ use of chatbots, businesses are under new scrutiny to ensure that their AI-powered chatbots aren’t leaving customers in a dreaded doom-loop of non-answers and evasions. Building a chatbot that meets regulators’ (and customers’) expectations requires CTOs and CMOs to ensure that chatbots are trained with the same diligence and values as human employees.
Private Capital Can Save America's Crumbling Roads and Bridges
Even with the landmark $1.3 trillion 2021 infrastructure bill under its belt, the Biden Administration returned to Congress this summer to ask for more money to repair Maryland's critically damaged Francis S...
Florida's long-term economic growth depends on embracing Live Local Act
Florida's economic future is under threat from a severe affordable housing crisis. The state's rapid growth is phenomenal, but we cannot become a victim of our own success. Without affordable housing for Florida's workforce, we will cripple...
A Dramatic Tax Pounding Come 2026
It's a matter of debate as to whether or not the future of democracy is at stake in this year's presidential election. But the future of your tax bill certainly is. And the differences for successful business owners could be drama...
Venture capital drought leads to cap table chaos
After more than two years of venture capital retrenchment, startups that survived the battle are emerging as real busines...
Best Way to Unite America Is to Grow America's Economy
Uniting America starts with sparking economic growth, remembering when we fuel the economy it means there's plenty for everyone. When people have equal access to opportunities, education, jobs, and housing, they can make positive contributions...
Provenance Plays a Vital Role in Car Collecting
George Foreman in December closed out a highly successful auction of more than 50 automobiles collected over the former heavyweight champion’s career, both as a boxer and a home appliance entrepreneur. The auction was extremely lucrative for the ex-champ, vividly illustrating how important provenance — the history of who has owned something — can be in car collecting.
How AI Can Guide Introverts to Success in Professional Services
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, might be able to help introverts sell with less social discomfort and higher effectiveness, offering help for a challenge many accounting and law firm partners suffer with.
And just in time, too: This r...
Are Bill Gates' energy expectations for AI optimism or realism?
As both a major funder of climate change initiatives as well as one of the largest economic beneficiaries of Open AI, Bill Gates' claim that climate-focused concerns of AI energy usage are being overblown has been understandably met with some s...
A Private Equity Fund Bought Your Accounting Firm: Now What?
With one in three accounting firms set to be at least partially owned by private equity funds, it's likely that changes are coming to the accounting industry. And as new management shakes up how these firms operate, clients may find themselves...
What to Do When the IRS Audits You
The IRS has been dropping a new press release with an explicit threat to the bank accounts of successful Americans every other month or so. Their messaging sounds increasingly political, and high-income taxpayers would be foolish to ignore...
Rethinking Dam Infrastructure: Lessons From Minnesota Floods
If there's one lesson to be learned from Minnesota's recent floods, it's that it's time for the nation to begin rethinking its approach to critical infrastructure. In addition to physical improvements to high-risk infrastructure, technolo...
How to Thrive as an Entrepreneur Despite the Stress
Making the jump from a secure corporate job to entrepreneurship in our unpredictable economy is frightening. It can bring waves of anxiety, a restless mind at 3 a.m., self-doubt and a barrage of unanswerable questions about your choices and prior...
Are Hedge Funds Worth the Risk Today?
Michael Sonnenfeldt, the chairman of “ultra-high-net-worth” network Tiger 21, has declared that hedge funds are "dead as a doornail," as his members’ allocation dropped to just 2% — down 10 percentage points from 2008.
Are We About to Experience AI-Created Bionic Patent Trolls?
Facing a patent claim against its Auto Shift technol...
Politicizing ESG Investment Strategy Undermines Its Legitimacy
Political populism poses a fundamental threat to ESG investing, with laws being passed and battles being fought in multiple states that would...
If the AI Industry Doesn't Establish Methods to Protect Private Data, Someone Else Will
Whistleblowers from within the cloistered artificial intelligence community are sounding alarms. For example, a gr...