At any rate, the long-awaited BlackBerry Curve 8520 (which may or may not go by Gemini on T-Mobile) has finally found a dedicated landing page on its maker's website, and while the list of specifications aren't a surprise, there is one thing that caught our eye.

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But on May 15th the short-term yield curve turned positive for the first time in 16 months, usually an indicator that the market thinks enough easing has taken place.

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He may be right, but such curve-fitting reasoning is an example of confirmation bias.

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One of the other things that has been a steep learning curve for us - painfully so, I may add -is that we have come to have unanimity on the fact that security is a precondition not only for the political progress that we have just been talking about the last 15 or so minutes, but also for economic and social progress.

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In others it may be because central banks have rigged the yield curve, holding short-term rates artificially low and inducing banks to make money by buying longer-dated government bonds.

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That, too, may turn out to be an over-reaction - or at least behind the curve.

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This may be good, if not the best-timed, advice to entrepreneurs looking to get ahead of the curve.

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But the learning curve is steeper for audits in some sub-industries of financial services and specific expertise may be stretched in some geographies.

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Being ahead of the curve on new developments to retail such as mobile payments and app-based loyalty schemes also may allow Starbucks to adapt to quickly shifting consumer habits.

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