By Carmen Raluca Stoian | February 22, 2019 Ever since the EU referendum of 2016, well-known companies have announced decisions to relocate outside of the UK. Electronic giant Panasonic has gone to Amsterdam, where Sony will soon follow. Ferry company P&O will shift registration of its vessels to Cyprus, while the engineering firm Dyson is moving… Read More »
(NewsUSA) | February 22, 2019 So much for fancy cars, houses and jewelry. Eighty-one percent of Americans believe their “most valuable asset” is their family, according to a new survey by Edward Jones and the nonprofit consumer-education organization Life Happens. And one quarter of respondents in the national sampling of adults confessed that their biggest fear… Read More »
By Kevin Judge | February 5, 2019 In a NY Times op-ed today, Senators Charles Schumer and Bernie Sanders came out with a brilliant idea. They propose that we should limit, by law, stock buy backs to socially responsible companies that meet government specified wage and benefit requirements! Stock buy backs are when a public… Read More »
By Richard Brody | February 4, 2019 On a recent vacation, in Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic, I noticed, the cost of gasoline, at the service stations. In a nation, where incomes are relatively low, it struck me, how high, gas prices were. In that nation, I wondered, how, anyone could afford, paying the equivalent of about,… Read More »
By Nisha Bellinger and Byunghwan Son | February 4, 2019 Democracy is at risk worldwide. And the economy may be, too. Seventy-one out of the world’s 195 countries saw their democratic institutions erode in recent years, according to the 2018 year-end report by democracy watchdog Freedom House, a phenomenon known as “democratic backsliding.” Signs of backsliding… Read More »
By Kevin Judge | February 1, 2019 Spectacular job and wage report this morning! For the second month in a row new jobs are 80% higher than the consensus forecast. Anyone betting on a recession this year has got the wrong horse. I have a close friend who’s a senior manager are a major Financial… Read More »
By Richard Brody | January 25, 2019 Regardless of one’s personal preferences, most should be willing to admit, we are undergoing a period, unlike any, in recent memory, in many ways! The level of antagonism, lying, blaming, and complaining, combined with, having a President, who seems unwilling, to, either cooperate, or seek a meeting –… Read More »
House Democrats will finally have a say in economic policy. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Steven Pressman| November 7, 2018 Perhaps the biggest surprise in the midterm elections was that, unlike 2016, there wasn’t one. Polls and pundits expected Democrats would take control of the House and Republicans would keep the Senate, and that’s exactly what… Read More »
By Anthony Hussenot | October 23,2018 When we talk about the jobs at risk, artificial intelligence is often seen as the main threat. However, this technology is still at its very beginning, while a lot of jobs are already transforming and even disappearing. Conversely, other jobs seem to resist, even if technologies already exist… Read More »
By Craig Spain | October 15, 2018 If you are a business owner then this list of the top 10 business podcasts is a must for you. As a business owner/ entrepreneur, we all know that maintaining and growing a business can be extremely difficult and taxing at times. In order to keep growing and moving… Read More »