JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University’s BlueSky Tennessee Institute, a pivotal partnership with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, has been highlighted by Google. A blog is live on Google Cloud, a recognition of Google’s collaboration as an industry and learning partner. View the blog here. “We are proud of our partnership with BlueCross… Source link
Read More »Inflation cushioned by bigger bank accounts: Bank of America Institute
U.S. households — particularly low-income ones — are still sitting on a healthy pandemic nest egg, cushioning them for now against steep price increases on food and energy. That means that even with consumer prices forecast to have risen 8.4% in March, shoppers shouldn’t be running out of cash. That’s the finding of a new Consumer Checkpoint report from the Bank of America Institute, which showed debit and credit card spending rose 11% last month, or 6.7% on a per-household basis. The… Source link
Read More »The 401(k) is ‘just now reaching full maturity’ but still not ‘a true retirement plan’: TIAA Institute head
Then-President Jimmy Carter signed a law in 1978 that changed retirement forever by introducing the 401(k), but one expert believes the benefit is “just now reaching full maturity.” “We’re just now starting to see large numbers of people who may have been covered by a 401(k) over their entire working life,” says Dave Richardson, the head of the TIAA Institute, the research arm of one of the country’s leading providers of retirement plans. The 401(k) has become ubiquitous with an… Source link
Read More »Ex-Google scientist Gebru opens AI institute year after tumultuous exit
Dec 2 (Reuters) – Timnit Gebru, the computer scientist whose disputed exit from Google’s (GOOGL.O) artificial intelligence research team prompted debate across the tech industry about diversity and censorship, said on Thursday she has launched a small lab to continue her work freely. The Distributed AI Research Institute has raised $3.7 million from foundations and aims to critically study services from big tech companies as well as propose AI-based solutions to issues such as food insecurity… Source link
Read More »Stock market correction is likely in 12 to 36 months: CFA Institute
TipRanks Oppenheimer: These 2 Stocks Have Triple-Digit Gains in Sight When the best talk, people listen. It works in all walks of life, but especially the stock market. Investors are keen to read the latest stock reviews from Wall Street’s professional analysts, but knowing who’s the best is the place to start. Covering the markets for investment firm and brokerage Oppenheimer, Colin Rusch has built a reputation that puts him at the top of the Street’s analyst corps. He’s currently… Source link
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