Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Each week, we break down international news into our four quadrants of risk and present ways to mitigate those risks. Operational and pHysical Risks: - Last last week, the Zimbabwe Nurses Association has announced that nurses and support staff at public hospitals will join the ongoing doctors’ strike. - Per reports this month from Malaysia, at least 2,000 Chinese shops and 400 Indian-Muslim and banana leaf restaurants shut down in 2017 due to a lack of workforce. - In Venezuela this month, residents of Barinas, Merida, Portuguesa, Tachira, Trujillo, and the Apoori have reported both power outages and water shortages. market and economic risks: - The European Commission is ready to present a three-pronged digital tax as early as this week. It aims to target revenues rather than profits and calls for countries to be strict with cases of tax avoidance by tech companies especially in France, Germany, and Great Britain. - Last week, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa opposed the signing of 27 cont