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Landlords are increasingly shelling out concessions to renters in Manhattan as supply continues to outpace demand for ultra-luxury apartments.

The share of new leases with landlord concessions last month was more than double seen at the same time last year, according to Douglas Elliman’s latest market report. Nearly 11 percent of the new leases — compared to 5.3 percent in July 2015 — provided concessions to tenants. At the same time, the vacancy rate last month ... Читать дальше...

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When you're competing against the best athletes in the world, everyone's in great shape, having spent years crafting the perfect physique to perform at the top of their game.

But physical prowess will only get you so far. Many Olympians will tell you that success is also a product of their mindset and of their ability to not get intimidated by their opponents and crumble under pressure.

Everyone uses a different strategy. Business Insider combed... Читать дальше...

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When Elon Musk unleashed his "Master Plan, Part Deux" for Tesla a few weeks ago, we learned that the automaker intends to go well beyond building cars and crossover SUVs, the heart of its current lineup.

In the future, Tesla will construct a pickup truck, a bus, and most provocatively, a semi-truck. All this new "product," as it's called in the industry, set off a flurry of enthusiastic speculation. 

In theory, it all makes sense: Musk has a grand vision... Читать дальше...

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Call it the sharing economy, call it peer-to-peer commerce, call it collaborative consumption, but no matter what you call it, it's having a massive impact on how we do business and disrupting established industries at a breakneck pace.

I'm talking about the renaissance of people doing business with people — instead of giant companies — a movement facilitated by an ever-growing array of marketplaces and apps.

If we think back in time 200 years, almost all commerce was peer-to-peer, right? Читать дальше...

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(Reuters) - Gunshots were fired inside a crowded mall in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday afternoon and there were no immediate reports of injuries, police said.

Police placed the Crabtree Valley shopping center on lockdown and officers escorted the remaining shoppers out of the mall, Raleigh Police Department dispatchers said.

It was unclear what motivated the shooting or whether more than one shooter was involved, police said. There were no suspects in custody. Читать дальше...

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The best things in life may be free, but that doesn't mean they won't take time, sweat, and perseverance to acquire.

That's especially the case when it comes to learning important life skills.

To ascertain which talents are worth the investment, one Quora reader posed the question: "What are the hardest and most useful skills to learn?"

We've highlighted our favorite takeaways, as well as a few other skills we thought were important.

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A little under three million years ago, a massive star exploded in our galaxy about 300 light years away.

This supernova was so close to our planet that, depending on where it went off, our evolutionary ancestors might have seen it as a bright light in the sky.

As our solar system traveled through radioactive specks of stardust left over from the explosion, some of the dust broke through our atmosphere and rained down on our planet.

Now a recent find from deep within... Читать дальше...

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Five years ago, President Barack Obama signed into law what Todd Harrison, the director of defense budget analysis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says will be the biggest challenge for the incoming administration: the Budget Control Act of 2011.

In short, after taking the highest office in the land, the 45th President of the United States will have less than 300 days to strike a budget deal with Congress or see America's defense funds slashed.

Here's... Читать дальше...

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Steven Levitt, the University of Chicago economist who co-authored the book Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of Everything, says he’s long been fascinated by the social pressure against quitting, whether that means quitting a project, a job, or a marriage. “Behavioral biases tend to push the idea of not quitting, because you get the pain up front but the benefits down the road,” Levitt says.

So he was excited, he says, to do a “very different kind” of research project... Читать дальше...

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It's been a slow year for the initial public offering, or IPO, market — but things could start to really pick up soon.

That's what JPMorgan's global head of equity capital markets, Liz Myers, expects.

She said in a recent Bloomberg TV interview that JPMorgan has more than 20 IPOs slated for launch globally in September, and a "full pipeline" for 2017.

"It's a pretty broad swath of deals ready for launch," Myers said.

She also noted that... Читать дальше...

There's just no contest: Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian of all time. He's racked up 26 medals (22 of them gold) and shattered world records. He's gone into retirement and come back out. And now, at age 31, he's still dominating the competition in the pool. 

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Pricing a product can be a thorny issue.

Will customers interpret a low price as a bargain, or as a sign of a low quality?

Is allowing people to pay what they want for a product a profitable strategy? 

Despite Econ 101’s promise of finding the perfect price at the intersection of a supply and a demand curve, pricing advice accounts for countless books, management consulting projects, and Harvard case studies. 

But the most fascinating... Читать дальше...

Shaun White is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and winner of 23 Winter and Summer X Games medals. He's best-known for being a professional snowboarder and skateboarder, but he's also an entrepreneur. White recently launched a new clothing line called WHT SPACE, in partnership with Macy's.

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Rio officials are draining the green Olympic diving pool, perhaps bringing an end to the biggest, oddest mystery of the games.

The water in the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center mysteriously turned green earlier in the week, and despite promises from officials to return it to blue, the situation has remained unsolved.

It came to a head Friday morning when the pool was closed as the officials tried to treat the water. One diver famously said the pool smelled "like a fart."

According to the Associated Press... Читать дальше...

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With one shoe on and one shoe off, Ethiopia's Etenesh Diro raised a big cheer at the Olympics on Saturday with a gutsy finish in her 3,000-meters steeplechase heat.

Diro had led her heat before her right shoe became loose. She ended up throwing it to the side and finishing the last leg with one shoe.

Diro's finish intially put her outside the qualifying places, but she was rewarded — following a protest by three teams... Читать дальше...

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Shigenobu Nagamori, Nidec Corp.'s billionaire CEO, has something to confess.

The 71-year-old CEO thinks his employees are more important than investors, according to an interview with Bloomberg's Tom Redmond and Takako Taniguchi.

That's because he believes shareholders would ultimately benefit from an effective workforce in the long run.

Here's Nagamori (emphasis ours):

"When I'm asked by investors, I tell them they're No. 1, but it's not what I really think," he says. Читать дальше...

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The role of the economist—to point out the  unsuitability of central planning as a means to attain the level of welfare all countries seek—Mises characterized as a “thankless task, [as] most people are intolerant of any criticism of their social and economic tenets… [and] do not understand that the objections raised refer only to unsuitable methods and do not dispute the ultimate ends of their efforts” (Mises 1944, i).

But in circumstances such as the ones in Venezuela today... Читать дальше...

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The Marine Corps' variant of the F-35 Lightning II is almost ready for its combat debut.

"We're going to start to see that airplane deploy here overseas after the first of the year," Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, said on Tuesday.

The "jack-of-all-trades" aircraft was designed to replace the Corps' Harrier, Hornet, and Prowler aircraft but has had significant snags.

Lockheed Martin's F-35 is America's priciest weapons system, and... Читать дальше...

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You're driving down the turnpike. That painful pressure below your navel has grown too intense to ignore, but you've got another hour and a half left to go before you get home. A blue sign flashes through your headlights, a rest stop. You pull in, walk to the public bathroom, and wrinkle your nose. A row of stalls stretches from wall to wall. Which should you choose?

Most of us enter this situation armed with nothing but our eyes, noses, and intuitions. But science can help. Читать дальше...

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If you’re ready to take the leap to leave your day job and start your own business, the process may seem simple.

After all, you just need to quit your job and start working for yourself, right?

Not so fast. Although you may already have a side hustle, being a full-time entrepreneur is a whole new ball game.

To successfully transition from employee to entrepreneur takes a lot of work and planning.

Here are ten steps you can take to ensure a successful transition:

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BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - Torrential rainfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has caused "unprecedented" flooding in parts of Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards said on Saturday, while claiming at least two lives across the region.

The National Weather Service issued flood watches for parts of eastern Texas early on Saturday and extended its flash flood warning further west in Louisiana, according to its website.

It also maintained a flash flood watch and... Читать дальше...

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When Secretary of State Michele Reagan put her stamp of approval on petitions bearing 177,000 signatures in Phoenix on Thursday, Arizona became the fifth state to schedule a ballot measure for November on legalizing recreational marijuana—joining California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada.

Each of the measures calls for making it legal for people older than 21 to possess small amounts of pot, taxing the drug and allowing regulated stores to sell it.

Arkansas... Читать дальше...

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As tweets and headlines skip from crisis to crisis, the largest youth population in human history is coming of age in a steady, unstoppable wave.

While countries across Europe and East Asia are grappling with declining birthrates and aging populations, societies across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia are experiencing youth booms of staggering proportions: More than half of Egypt’s labor force is younger than age 30.

Half of Nigeria’s population of 167 million is between the ages of 15 and 34. Читать дальше...

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If you're waiting for a certificate from the government that says, "Congratulations: You are officially an adult," we are sorry to tell you that you will be waiting forever.

But fear not! There are plenty of ways to know if you're a real, live adult — beyond the fact that you've stopped growing and found a gray hair on your head. 

We've rounded up 19 non-obvious signs that you're no longer a kid, based on the Quora thread "What are some of the most useful skills to know?"... Читать дальше...