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☆ This is the world’s rarest passport
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Lola Méndez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —The Sovereign Military Order of Malta – also known as the Knights of Malta – isn’t just a religious Catholic order with nearly 1,000 years of history. After World War II, the use of the diplomatic passport took on characteristics of passports used in other countries. Today, there are only around 500 of the diplomatic passports in circulation – making it the rarest passport in the world. robertharding/Alamy Stock Photo“The Order grants passports to members of their government for the duration of their mandate,” de Petri Testaferrata says. Once when I arrived at the Bangkok airport, a crowd of operators at passport control wanted to see my rare passport and take a selfie with it,” Balfour tells CNN.

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☆ The top U.S. city for expats is one of the worst in the world, according to people who live and work abroad there
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

New York City is among the worst global cities for expats, but it continues to have a strong hold on people seeking a new life abroad. Among the 10 worst cities for expats this year are Paris (41st), London (42nd) and Berlin (45th). "One main problem with the big cities is that expats are less and less able to afford them," says Malte Zeeck, CEO and co-founder of Internations. The top three best global cities for expats are in Spain: Malaga, Alicante and Valencia. Want to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life?

Persons: Malte Zeeck, It's, Arthur C, Brooks Organizations: New York, CNBC, Summit Locations: York City, expats, New York, Vancouver, U.S, York, Paris, London, Berlin, Spain, Malaga, Alicante, Valencia

☆ Expats are flocking to this European country for happier lives abroad—here's why
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The top three cities for expats to thrive in their new lives abroad are all in Spain, according to the latest report from the online community Internations. Overall, Spanish locales dominated the list of best cities on the 2023 Expat Insider report, which ranked 49 global cities this year. Meanwhile, expats especially enjoy Alicante's low cost of living, Valencia's robust travel opportunities, and Madrid's culture and nightlife. Want to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life? 1 global city where expats thrive

Persons: Malte Zeeck, InterNations, Warren Buffett Organizations: Madrid, European Union, — Locations: expats, Spain, Malaga, Alicante, Valencia, Barcelona, Spanish, — Malaga

☆ Everyone is going bankrupt
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . WeWork, the real-estate company that cosplayed as a tech startup, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut one Wall Street veteran believes WeWork will be the first of many companies to succumb to a similar fate. 3 things in marketsANGELA WEISS / Getty ContributorCan the stock market keep this momentum going?

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☆ AI booster Paul Graham complains of rise in web content that's 'AI generated SEO bait'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The rise of generative AI has been lauded by major figures in tech like Paul Graham. A rapid expansion of AI tools is affecting the way the web looks and is used. AdvertisementAdvertisementEven the tech industry's most noted figures are getting irked by the ways generative AI is capable of degrading reliable and quality content on the web. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe rapid proliferation of Generative AI tools since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT less than a year ago has created a number of problems and concerns. The issue of quality is also growing in importance, as AI tools tend to present incorrect information in an authoritative way.

Persons: Paul Graham, That's, Graham, I've, Graham griped, He's, Malte, Ubl Organizations: Google

☆ Wall Street is finding the silver lining on inflation, but how long will the 'good' times last?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But on Wall Street, a crisis is just a bit of financial engineering away from becoming an opportunity to make money. That's where inflation traders come in. The strategy of betting on the swings in consumer prices has exploded in recent years, with revenues from inflation trading going from $700 million in 2019 to $3.9 billion in 2022. And while inflation trading has the potential to generate some big returns, making your money back on hires like these might be a tall task if inflation has a short shelf life. More on where the top players in inflation trading are landing amid a heated war for talent.

Persons: Dan DeFrancesco, we've, Goldman Sachs, I've, Malte Mueller, Insider's Kaja Whitehouse, Kaja, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Elon Musk, Goldman, Citadel's Ken Griffin, Dara Khosrowshahi, Jeffrey Cane, Nathan Rennolds Organizations: Getty, Labor Statistics, Federal, Paramount, BlackRock, Tech, LinkedIn Locations: BlackRock, China, New York, London

☆ 'All Quiet on the Western Front' wins Oscar for best international film
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Director Edward Berger accepts the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for "All Quiet on the Western Front," of Germany, during the Oscars show at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 12, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaLOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Germany's "All Quiet on the Western Front," a World War One epic with nine Oscar nominations this year, won the Academy Award for best international film on Sunday. It is the first German-language adaptation of a 1928 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was also made into a best picture-winning film in 1930. The film was nominated in nine categories this year, including best picture. "All Quiet on the Western Front" beat out international film nominees "EO" from Poland, "The Quiet Girl," from Ireland; Belgian film "Close;" and "Argentina, 1985" from Argentina.

☆ More pain for the crypto industry means a chance for startups to pivot
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

After an awful 2022 that saw one of the industry's high-profile figures implode, the crypto market is looking for a bounceback. McDermott laid out to Insider's Bianca Chan and Dakin Campbell how tough times for crypto startups mean more realistic valuations and, in some cases, a reevaluation of the business model. Once of the most common critiques I hear about crypto is "It's a solution looking for a problem." The most recent crypto winter could force startups to be a bit more pragmatic about the specific problem they are looking to address. "If you can solve fraud in crypto, you can solve fraud in basically any part of finance," Meier told Insider.

Pliant is a Berlin fintech that provides businesses with corporate credit cards. The startup just raised a $28 million Series A, which was led by SBI Investment. Pliant is a Berlin fintech that offers small and midsize businesses corporate credit cards. The company now has a five-figure number of credit cards in circulation across more than 1,500 small and midsize businesses, Rau added. It recently raised a $28 million Series A financing round, which was led by the Japanese venture-capital firm SBI Investment.

☆ Not so quiet on the BAFTA front as anti-war remake tops the billing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Albrecht Schuch, Edward Berger, and Malte Grunert arrive at the world premiere of "All Quiet on the Western Front" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 12, 2022. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File PhotoLONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A German remake of anti-war classic "All Quiet on the Western Front" leads the contenders at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, the country's highest accolade for the industry. "Banshees", about two feuding friends on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and "Everything Everywhere" each have received 10 nominations. Bill Nighy ("Living"), Paul Mescal (Aftersun") and Daryl McCormack ("Good Luck to You, Leo Grande") complete the leading actor nominees list. BAFTA Chief Executive Jane Millichip said while Grozev would not attend the ceremony, the film's nominated producers would.

☆ Apple and Meta's cold war over privacy is coming to a head
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Do you know any marketing/ad execs who are figuring out how to use generative AI? But experts told my teammate Paayal Zaveri that Meta needs to entirely reinvent its advertising model to escape Apple. Microsoft's new ChatGPT-powered Bing loves to pick fights and sling insults — and people are sharing their wild, wild, wild experiences with the chatbot. Generative AI like ChatGPT can do these side-hustles for you. Freelancers are relying on generative AI to increase their productivity and take on more projects.

☆ Real-estate investing in a down market: Strategies to use, how far home prices will fall, cities where prices are falling the most, which markets to invest in, and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

That's bad news for current real-estate investors, and probably good news for prospective ones. On the other hand, it's potentially good news for prospective real-estate investors who have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for better deals. Below is a list of Insider stories to help navigate the current real-estate investing landscape as prices fall. They see US home prices falling another 6% in 2023, putting peak-to-trough declines at around 10%. Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesOne of the most common financing strategies real-estate investors use to build up a portfolio is the BRRRR method: buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat.

☆ Layoffs sweeping Big Tech are putting corporate diversity efforts at risk
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

For years, but especially after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, CEOs kept reassuring Americans that efforts around diversity, inclusion, and workplace culture weren't just window dressing. At least that's how things now seem, multiple people who work in corporate diversity told Insider. He said the layoffs hitting diversity departments would do "long-term damage" to corporate America and showed CEOs' "empty promise" to bring change to their companies. The layoffs sweeping Big Tech and unfolding in some other industries are hitting the departments designed to make American companies more diverse. This puts corporate America's progress in this effort at risk, people in DEI told Insider.

☆ Germany's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' revels in nine Oscar nods
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Claudia Doerries | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BERLIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Germany's reboot of the famous anti-war classic "All Quiet on the Western Front" landed nine Oscar nominations on Tuesday, including best picture, a haul that surprised its creators. "All Quiet on the Western Front" tells the story of young students who go to World War One blinded by right-wing propaganda and nationalist hate, something that Grunert says resonates with modern times. The movie is also nominated for best international feature film, adapted screenplay, cinematography, visual effects and production design. "Hollywood became a place of refuge for so many artists that had to escape from Europe," Grunert said. Additional reporting by Alicia Powell in New York; Writing by Mary Milliken Editing by Rosalba O'BrienOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Unlimited vacation is a scam unless managers fight burnout culture
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Unless managers encourage vacation, workers too often don't take the days they should. While the growth of unlimited PTO might seem like a big win for workers, research and commentary from workplace experts suggest unlimited vacation is often, well, limiting. Geoffrey James, a contributing editor for Inc. and author of several business books, called unlimited PTO "the scam of the century." "Unlimited vacation time is classic bait-and-switch," he wrote, explaining his experience with having the benefit. Some employers have learned about the shortcomings of unlimited vacation through experience and have walked back their policies.

☆ Southeast Asian venture capital firms expect to be pickier in 2023 than in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Venture capital-backed companies only raised $369 billion for the first three quarters of 2022, according to Crunchbase data. Malte Mueller | Fstop | Getty ImagesVenture capital firms in Southeast Asia will probably be pickier next year, with valuations plunging and economic headwinds slowing growth in 2022. Sequoia Southeast Asia raised a $850 million fund in June, East Ventures raised $550 million in July, and Insignia Ventures Partners raised $516 million in August. Indonesia-based e-grocery company HappyFresh ceased operations in Malaysia after seven years, while Grab discontinued its quick commerce service GrabMart Kilat in Indonesia. "The 15-minute model of quick commerce in Southeast Asia is very difficult because the unit economics are very negative.

☆ This Spanish city is the No. 1 place to live and work abroad―and it's about to get easier to become a digital nomad there
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Valencia, Spain, is the No. 1 city for expats to live and work abroad in 2022, according to a survey of more than 12,000 respondents from InterNations, an online expat community with more than 4.5 million global members. Among expats, Valencia earns the top spot for being "a safe place with an excellent climate, a vibrant nightlife and culture, a pleasant urban environment and great travel opportunities" while still being "fairly affordable," says InterNations founder Malte Zeeck. It could become the next big hotspot for non-European digital nomads to relocate, too. The Spanish parliament recently passed the so-called Startups Act, intended to boost entrepreneurship and diversify the economy, which includes creating a new type of visa for digital nomads expected to launch in January 2023.

☆ The top 10 cities to live and work abroad this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Workers looking for an outstanding quality of life and low cost of living are flocking to Valencia, Spain, which has been ranked the No. 1 city for expats to live and work abroad in 2022. It's pretty easy for remote workers from other European Union countries to move to Spain without applying for a visa or work permit, Zeeck adds. Expats in second-place Dubai, meanwhile, enjoy a thriving social scene as well as good job prospects and a creative business culture. Here are the top 10 cities for expats living and working abroad, and how residents feel about their home away from home.

☆ 5 former Amazon managers tell us what they loved about the company — and what they were glad to leave behind
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Katie Malone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Many other leaders do the same, the former Amazon leader said. the current Microsoft employee said. For instance, Microsoft gets the whole company together to do activities and donate to causes they like, which Amazon doesn't do, the current Microsoft employee said. Malte Mueller/Getty ImagesDrive for excellence, with burnoutBeyond teaching its own leadership tenets, Amazon isn't big on manager training, one of the current Google employees said. Without proper institutional support, constantly operating at such a high level can lead Amazon employees to burnout, a former Amazon leader who now works at Google said.

☆ Juicy Marbles: Can a meat-free filet mignon convert carnivores?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Tom Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

With its plant-based prime cut steak, Juicy Marbles thinks it’s mastered the art. The company has raised $4.6 million and its filet mignon was launched online in Europe and the United States earlier this year. It plans to begin selling in shops in the European Union, United States and United Kingdom in 2023. A cross section of a cooked Juicy Marbles filet mignon. Just 7% of the world’s soy — the main ingredient of Juicy Marbles’ product — is directly consumed by humans.

☆ My work is closing on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, and now I can't afford to eat
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Monday is a public holiday for the Queen's funeral, so many workplaces are closed for the day. Three people told Insider how this is adding to their struggle to afford food and electricity bills. Syd, 29, works full-time at a cinema and is losing a day of work on Monday as their workplace in Kent shuts down. It's offensive," they told Insider. He told Insider, "I don't have any savings, and I'm worried about rapidly falling into poverty due to the insane cost of living and lack of opportunity."

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