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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

This is what we are preparing them for!

Today at about 1pm the Associated Press twitter feed put out a simple message

Breaking New: Explosion at the White House and Barack Obama injured.
1.9 million followers
5K retweets later
The stock market goes down 14 points in three minutes.


The stock market tanked based on trading algorithm not humans.

Details here  graphic Look at the market. It the a recession or it's a tweet

More details here

This is what was are raising our students for. A world we cannot image. Maybe they cannot image with 72 characters goes around the globe and crashes markets!!

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