Friday, November 11, 2022

The Hartford: The Future of Insurance: How AI & Machine Learning Are Shaping Underwriting & Claims

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Humans in underwriting and claims have embraced their AI and machine learning counterparts with open arms – here’s why. Read more here.

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Sunday, November 6, 2022

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Forbes: Gold Investors Go On Strike — Lowest Purchases In Almost 2 Decades

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Investors have gone cold on gold.

They are shunning purchases of the yellow metal like it’s gone out of fashion, new research shows. Read more here.

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #EU France, Timely stockpiling of natural gas for Winter '23.

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Listen here.

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Forbes: Britain Reinstates Fracking Ban Despite Buying U.S. Fracked Natural Gas

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Britain’s new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, reinstated the country’s ban on hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) on Wednesday. That means no UK fracking for oil and gas.

It’s not surprising, given that most British people likely don’t know they are already consuming literal boatloads of fracked natural gas from the U.S.

Yet here we are with Britain thinking it's doing the environmentally suitable thing by not fracking and at the same time benefiting from the fruits of this energy extraction technique. Read more here.

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