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If you are an ESG purist, you will say that there are no such things as “ESG principles.” There are ESG risk factors. The principle of Approach-2, ESG-purist investing is “make as much money as possible, by considering environmental, social and governance risk factors in your investment decisions.” The only things that ESG purist investors consider are “pecuniary factors,” and they weigh them based on their prudent assessments of their impact on risk and returns over appropriate investment horizons. It’s just that they think that climate transition risk is a big pecuniary factor.

AMC’s APEs Might Stick Around

bloomberg.com

In reality, as long as the zaibatsu kept the factories running, the rail lines expanding, and the shipyards operating at capacity, the men in Tokyo didn’t trouble themselves too much with the details.

The Forgotten Mistake That Killed Japan's Software Industry - Disrupting Japan

disruptingjapan.com

Let’s say each one of your customers places a new order every day with a hundred line items. This is relatively frequent, but it is still probably less than a megabyte of data generated per day. In three years you would still only have a gigabyte, and it would take millenia to generate a terabyte.

MotherDuck: Big Data Is Dead

motherduck.com

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