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How has the various topics and current events impacted the business world…

- - - - Tax havens (countries or regions)
      - Switzerland, Panama, Luxembourg, The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, The British Virgin Islands and Netherlands are known as some of the world’s top tax havens.
      - A country or independent area where taxes are levied at low rates.
      - Countries that offer foreign businesses or individuals at minimal or no tax reliability for their bank deposits in politically or economically stable environments, are considered tax havens.
- - - - Scientists
      - Different ways to use black balls as a weapon for war (e.g nuclear weaponry, man made viruses etc.)
      - attempt to find the causes of these events and try to prevent them or use them as a weapon.
      - Scientists constantly attempt to find a way to predict what may happen to prevent black balls.
    - - Nick Bostrom
      - Different black balls
      - Different ways to prevent those black balls
      - Situations taken if a black ball was pulled out of urn
  - - - Lead to world destruction
      - Lead to humans being almost or totally annihilated
      - If used correctly could be used to improve/save humanity.
      - Lead to further development of technology
- - - - China
      - • Furthest developed country in quantum physics
      - • Spent over 13 times more than money than the U.S
      - • Developed the first quantum communication system
    - - Countries
      - • Spend a lot of money
      - • First country wins
- - - - Different type of fuels
      - • Biofuel / in the end, have to cut down large number of trees which decreases the circulation of o2 and co2
      - • Fossil fuels / burning minerals to release energy i.e coal, petroleum and natural gases
    - - Countries
      - • Want to eliminate greenhouse gases
      - • Some want to switch to safer energy
      - • Some use solar or wind
    - - Existing infrastructures
      - • India / energy source = 70% coal
      - • China / energy source close to 70% coal
- - - - Russia
      - Conflicts with everyone
      - Getting ready for war
    - - All countries
      - Longer wait time in the Bosporus straight
      - Better flow in transportation
    - - )The people
      - 1/5 of fresh water reserved gone
      - Land gone
      - Opinion doesn't matter
      - No say in anything that occurs
  - - - Could cause conflicts involving war, and including the major international countries such as U.S.A or any other international connections
      - Russia occupying all the space in order to stop any other international powers to enter the black sea
      - The government arrested the generals for opposing the canal because they seemed threatening towards the construction of the canal.
- - - - The product being Reprogrammed
      - It may lead to different variations of the product
      - Endless amount of the product if genetically duplicated properly
      - Unsafe/unknown result by changing it genetically
    - - Ginkgo
      - Biotech research
      - Sees biology like programming
      - “Biology can do amazing things, we just don’t understand what the code means”
  - - - Unknown side-effects
      - High demands of the product
      - Ruining the sales of the product if its being known to have a excessive amount in stock
      - Less gases with built in fertilizer with bacteria on the roots of plants which also pulls more nitrogen
      - Less jobs for people growing or producing the product
- - - - Possibly being auctioned on the black market for investors

Supply Chains

Consequense

No long-term agreements with container liners and most deals are done by spot prices

It is becoming harder to estimate shipping costs and do financial planning

The global supply chain has become so fragile, that even a little incident can cause a huge disruption