This Is Why You're Fat

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Published on Dec 6, 2018

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What are the most common factors that are making you gain weight? Are you at fault for being fat? What can you do to lose weight?
Global obesity rates are on the rise, and despite popular opinion, not just in the United States. As processed foods become more popular and technology makes our lives easier and more convenient, our population is becoming heavier. While there are plenty of exercise guides out there and warnings on how to avoid gaining weight, what are some underlooked factors that might be making you lose the battle of the bulge?
Welcome to another episode of The Infographics Show-
These are the reasons why you are getting fat!
Each year the world spends $579 billion in fast food, which is more than the entire total gross domestic product of Sweden at it speak in 2013 and 2014. In the US alone fast food sales topped at $200 billion in 2015, an incredible climb from just $6 billion in 1970. And as fast food becomes more popular around the world, these figures are only set to rise.
It can be easy to look down on these figures, but the modern high-stress lifestyle often leaves individuals with little time for personal home-cooked meals- so let's look at some other factors that can help you mitigate some of the pounds you're putting on.

Here's What's in Store for Fintech in 2019

Good Question: Where has this money been put? ...."Digital Challenger Banks" growing in the million$$$$$$

The End of the Old Order? Impact on Alliances

The greatest issue is....

Published on Dec 7, 2018

Dec.06 -- President and Chief Executive Officer of Nakasone Peace Institute Ichiro Fujisaki and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty speak with Bloomberg's Isabel Reynolds at the Bloomberg The Year Ahead summit in Tokyo.

President Xi Wraps Up Europe and Latin America Tour

Published on Dec 6, 2018

In the past couple of days, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid state visits to Spain and Panama and attended the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also visited to Portugal, which is the very last stop of his nine-day international tour.
How is China shaping its multilateral approach?

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From Axios: Blow-Back For FaceBook > In-Your-Face

Here it is: 2 Direct Hits Today 06 December 2018
Source: axios.com  

1 big thing: Facebook's New War

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told Facebook officials that the company is at war. He's right, Axios' Felix Salmon writes:

• Facebook is facing a new kind of existential threat, not from competitors, but rather from an adversary who can neither be acquired nor competed against: governments, particularly in Europe.

The decision by Damian Collins, a British lawmaker, to publish highly sensitive, unredacted internal Facebook emails is aggressive, uncompromising, and further intensifies the European battleground — an arena where Facebook has little to no political support.

• Facebook has faced such threats domestically, and has responded by hiring attack dogs in D.C. It also has on its side Facebook-friendly senators like New York's Chuck Schumer. Europe has few equivalents.
• The emails published by Collins could not be published in the U.S., where they are under a court-ordered seal. But Collins is not subject to U.S. jurisdiction, and happily sent the U.K.'s Serjeant-at-Arms to demand the material. The gambit was legally dubious, but it worked.
• The lesson, for Zuckerberg: Foreign adversaries do not play by U.S. rules.

Facebook was already facing a formidable threat in the form of Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner.

• After all, Facebook already comprises half of a duopoly controlling 75% of the digital advertising market, and it's growing fast.
• Calls to break it up are being taken increasingly seriously.

Internally, Facebook considers itself to be a business, acting as businesses do. Mark Zuckerberg's defense, in large part, boils down to "Running a development platform is expensive," in a world where Facebook needs to make money.

• But the company is grappling with a growing trust deficit with its users — the people who elect politicians like Damian Collins. Facebook's sheer size and influence over global communication has made governments want to check its power.
• In the U.S., such behavior can be defended as healthy, red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalist competition.
• To European eyes, however, it looks anti-competitive.

There's a fundamental difference in how regulators view monopolies (and duopolies) on either side of Atlantic.

• U.S. antitrust law evaluates monopolies in terms of potential direct harm to consumers, such as rising prices as a result of a firm's dominance. Simply being a monopoly is not illegal.
• In Europe, regulators act to preserve competition, whether or not there is evidence of direct consumer harm.

The bottom line: Zuckerberg has made an enemy of European lawmakers, who have a fearsome arsenal.

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2. What we learned from the Facebook docs

The Facebook documents released by a British lawmaker yesterday portray the company as a ruthless corporate giant that will do whatever it takes to squeeze out competitors and increase user engagement with its products, Axios' Sara Fischer reports.

• Why it matters: Some analysts began downgrading Facebook stock in the wake of yesterday's drama.
• Facebook says the provider of the documents "cherrypicked" the evidence as part of a lawsuit years ago.

Be smart: While the documents give important context into how Facebook executives operate and make decisions, it's unclear whether they expose any illegal practices.

What we learned from the docs:

1. Naïveté about data leaking: An email shows a former Facebook VP of product management saying he was generally skeptical there was as much strategic risk in data leaks between developers (like what happened with Cambridge Analytica).
2. Whitelists: The documents show that Facebook gave some companies like Netflix and Lyft access to data that Facebook stopped giving broad access to beginning in 2014-2015 after it changed its data policies.
3. Value of friends’ data: Facebook executives discussed requiring developers to buy ads in order to access users’ personal information as an opportunity to monetize their developer relationships.
4. Call and text history on Android: Facebook executives emailed about the PR and legal risks of accessing a record of Android call and message history. Emails make it seem like the company wanted to collect the data as discretely as possible to avoid such risks.
5. Targeting competitor apps: An email exchange shows Mark Zuckerberg approving a decision to shut down Vine's access to friends via Facebook for the purposes of undermining its success as a video competitor.

From Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page:

• "I understand there is a lot of scrutiny on how we run our systems. That's healthy given the vast number of people who use our services around the world, and it is right that we are constantly asked to explain what we do."
• "But it's also important that the coverage of what we do — including the explanation of these internal documents — doesn't misrepresent our actions or motives."

 

From Bloomberg: Icons + Innovators 2018

Courtesy Bloomberg Businessweek

The Bloomberg 50 lists the icons and innovators who've changed the global business landscape in measurable ways over the past year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-bloomberg-50/

2018's icons and innovators

 Here are the politics honorees:

• Chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen
• Britain's Gavin Barwell, chief of staff to Prime Minister Theresa May
• California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
• Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland
• China's Liu He
• Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario
• White House's Mick Mulvaney, acting director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• The new populists (Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.)
• Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
• The Parkland activists
• Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
• The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund founders (Tina Tchen, Roberta Kaplan, Hilary Rosen, and Fatima Goss Graves)

A look at the people in business, entertainment, finance, politics, and technology and science whose 2018 accomplishments were particularly noteworthy. Some who made the list are familiar faces up to new tricks, such as actor-producer Reese Witherspoon; others, like Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, are just starting to make their mark.

Once you’re done with 2018, go to the bottom of the page to find out which 20 people you might be reading about in 2019.

 

Opportunity Zones: Press Release From the Local Initiatives Support Corporation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 5, 2018
LISC Taps Innovative Entrepreneur to Spearhead Opportunity Zone Strategies, Investments
Contact: Colleen Mulcahy
312.342.8244Email Colleen 
LISC has named George Ashton as its new managing director for strategic investments. He plans to lead LISC’s work on Opportunity Zones with a clear-eyed view of the potential for community gains—focusing not just on how much capital can be raised, but on deploying it in ways that fuel lasting benefits for residents. “We are going to drive opportunities that make sense for places we are trying to serve and the systems that we are trying to change,” noted Maurice A. Jones, LISC president and CEO.
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NEW YORK (Dec. 5, 2018)— A national social enterprise that has invested nearly $20 billion in underinvested American communities has named a top investment executive to lead its work on Opportunity Zones—driving ambitious plans to fuel growth and raise standards of living across the country.

This week, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) named George Ashton as its new managing director of strategic investments. Ashton will pursue a range of high-impact investments that create jobs, fuel small businesses, revitalize commercial areas, improve housing, expand local incomes and make communities safer and stronger.
LISC has been providing capital and expertise to communities for nearly 40 years, working through local program offices in more than 30 metropolitan areas and a rural investment program that touches thousands of counties. LISC has invested capital in every state in the country.  Opportunity Zones, enacted as part of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act, create a powerful new incentive for new capital to flow into communities.
“Opportunity Zones could prove to be one of the most powerful community investment tools we’ve ever seen from the federal government, and we are assembling a first-rate team to direct our strategies at both the local and national levels,” noted Maurice A. Jones, LISC president and CEO. “We are going to drive opportunities that make sense for places we are trying to serve and the systems that we are trying to change. That’s why George is so compelling. He has spent his whole career doing just that.”
“With its (LISC) deep local footprint and decades of community investment experience, LISC is uniquely positioned to connect impact investors with projects that deliver significant quality-of-life gains for residents and promising returns to investors,” Ashton said. “We can help ensure Opportunity Zones live up to their promise and at the same time prove the value of community investing to a whole new class of investors.”
Ashton recently served as co-founder and president of Sol System, a Washington, D.C.-based renewable energy investment firm. There, he worked closely with multinational banks, insurers and energy providers on innovative funds and financial structures, deploying more than $1 billion in tax equity, cash equity and debt over the last decade into renewable energy. The firm was named one of the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies™ in the United States for six consecutive years.
Previously, Ashton worked as a senior account executive at Fannie Mae, where he structured and traded mortgage portfolios, and prior to that he was a senior financial consultant at Arthur Anderson, building new financial models to save the Medicare system in Puerto Rico. He also founded a private investment group, HOPE Investments, to provide capital, management and strategic support to entrepreneurs of color.
That depth of experience will prove vital as Ashton manages a multi-dimensional Opportunity Zone effort that ranges from raising capital to managing third-party funds to collaborating with city and state officials on ways to maximize the long-term impact of this new source of capital, Jones said.
“George understands how to manage new and complex investment structures. He has deep experience with housing investments. And he knows how to catalyze small businesses, having grown one himself,” Jones explained. “All of those sectors are critical to our Opportunity Zone strategy; all of those are critical to the urban and rural communities where we work.”
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Ashton is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, with a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics. He earned his MBA from the University of Maryland.
He can be reached in LISC’s Washington, D.C. office at (202) 785-2908 or at gashton@lisc.org.
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Source: LISC/Our Stories 
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