Ross Rant | October 2, 2017

I am sad to report carnage has landed on the Las Vegas Strip. 

At least 50 people are dead and more than 200 are wounded after a shooting late Sunday night at an outdoor music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.  The shooter attacked attendees of the Route 91 Harvest Festival music concert from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel located across the street from the venue. This is a developing story and will no doubt dominate American news and politics for days.

Trump was in rare form this weekend on the Twitter machine.

The conventional wisdom inside-the-beltway is that Trump is the mad tweeter - his actions on the Twitter machine are unrehearsed, unplanned, and untested. The conventional wisdom is wrong.

If you believe what Trump does on the Twitter machine is not planned or scripted than you believe Jimmy Fallon writes all his jokes.

Catalonia's disputed referendum on independence from Spain descended into violence on Sunday as leaders of the recalcitrant region claim voters overwhelmingly backed independence. Will independence be declared?

Uber is the General Hospital of Silicon Valley, but I still love the service.

The Engaging Eight - Top Stories from Caracal Business Insider

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The Engaging Eight = Last week's top stories from the Caracal Business Insider community: 

ESPN: The step-by-step process of how the words 'corruption' and 'fraud' came to college basketball
https://goo.gl/PuybeQ

Report: 3D printing: a threat to global trade
https://goo.gl/4fUkdr

FT: Trump, Cambridge Analytica and how big data is reshaping politics
https://goo.gl/iSkj82

BOF: How Adidas converted the cool kids
https://goo.gl/D19oZ4

Economist: Psychology beats business training when it comes to entrepreneurship
https://goo.gl/weLxzN

PBS: How you can help hurricane victims in Puerto Rico
https://goo.gl/uqz1pS

Nikkei: Xi silences once-powerful youth league and former president's protege
https://goo.gl/kicbwc

Fortune: Inside China’s Endurance Sports Empire
https://goo.gl/TqHePB

What is the Global Business Matrix?

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The Global Business Matrix was created by Marc A. Ross for Caracal Global to help multi-national organizations, nation-states, and global investors analyze market moving events shaped by public affairs, political events, and/or regulatory policies.

It is important to note these market moving events may have an immediate impact or financial result. However many of the topics could be issues, challenges or opportunities that will be years in the making. Regardless, items identified in the matrix are deemed to be market moving events that will create wealth for some or lose wealth for others.

Designed on a weekly basis, the Global Business Matrix serves seniors executives of multi-national organizations, diplomats of nation-states, and individual global investors seeking to ensure appropriate resources are allocated to maintain or expand marketing, investment, public affairs, government relations and management assets. 

Big Noise - Big Deal (upper right) = Market moving events shaped by an overwhelming number of factors often involving the full spectrum of public affairs, political events, and regulatory policies. Many items listed in the quadrant are evident to the most experienced global investor and top-flight global business executive.

Little Noise - Big Deal (upper left) = Market moving events shaped by a few factors often involving two or three elements of public affairs, political events, and regulatory policies. Many items listed in the quadrant are not evident in the short-term and generally, should occupy the most attention for medium and long-term planning and management purposes.
 
Little Noise - Little Deal (bottom left) = Market moving events shaped by a few factors often involving one or two elements of public affairs, political events, and regulatory policies. Many items listed in this quadrant are interesting and should be on the radar in the short-term. Items listed here generally secure limited news coverage and should serve as a guide to consumer market and/or political trends.

Big Noise - Little Deal (bottom right) = Market moving events shaped by a few factors often involving one or two elements of public affairs, political events, and regulatory policies. Many items listed in this quadrant are not unusual and should be on the radar in the short-term. Items listed here generally secure breaking news coverage, however, could be potentially distracting to more important developing consumer market and/or political trends.

For the latest version of the Global Business Matrix by Caracal Global click here.