The holiday shopping season has commenced. As an employer, you want to get your team a gift, but you don’t know what to get them. How about coming up with solutions that make their lives easier at the office? People spend a large portion of their lives at work, and making working conditions more comfortable…
How to Schedule Your Business During the Holidays
The holiday season is an exciting time of year for businesses. However, the holiday rush stretches their resources thin as some businesses try to meet the high demand. For others, work has slowed down considerably and won’t pick up again until spring. Whether your workload rises or falls this holiday season, scheduling out your business responsibilities…
Powell Faces Much Tougher Challenges in His Second Term
Commentary Pity Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell. He faces a vastly different economic tableau in what will be his second term than he did for most of his first term. The policy options to fulfill the Fed’s dual mandates—maintaining price stability and full employment—are more at odds now than they have been at any time…
Is Retail Therapy Causing You to Overspend for the Holidays?
December 4, 2021
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for buying gifts. And while you’re at it, you might as well buy something for yourself, right? We’ve all been there. Remember in Friends when Monica bought those super expensive leather boots on impulse? She ended up regretting it because they really hurt her feet. Womp, womp! Listen,…
US Companies Are ‘Hostages’ to China
Commentary Foreign firms doing business in China should be aware of the costs of transacting with a totalitarian regime that controls everything in society and can easily bend any company to its will. Heads of U.S. corporations don’t dare to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) even in private settings. They know Big Brother is always…
Even More Questions From Women
I’ve speculated before that most of the readers of my column are women. And that conjecture is based on the fact that I seem to get many more emails from them than I get from men. That’s why, for example, in the past month, I’ve written two columns targeted to my female readers. But I…
Dimon’s CCP Walk Back an All Too Familiar Reality
December 3, 2021
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Commentary JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Simon said out loud what many business leaders know, but are afraid to say. At a late November industry conference in Boston, Dimon said “I’ll make a bet that we last longer [than the CCP.]” He continued by joking that “I can’t say that in China. They are probably listening…
Buttigieg To Consumers: Fight Inflation By Spending Tens of Thousands To Buy An Electric Car
December 2, 2021
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Commentary Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whom some Democrats see as President Joe Biden’s successor, told MSNBC over the weekend that thanks to “incentives that make it more affordable to buy an electric vehicle” in the Build Back Better bill, “families thinking about getting an EV … once they own that electric vehicle, will never have…
Powell: Fed ‘Not at All Sure’ Inflation Will Fade Next Year
December 2, 2021
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WASHINGTON—In a fresh sign of his growing concerns about inflation, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the Federal Reserve can’t be sure that price increases will slow in the second half of next year as many economists expect. Powell told the House Financial Services Committee that most economists regard the current price spikes, which have…
Abysmal Black Friday Numbers a Sign of Things to Come?
News commentary Are the days of Black Friday producing black eyes coming to an end? New data from Sensormatic Solutions revealed that traffic at retail stores on this year’s Black Friday tumbled 28.3 percent compared to the same time in 2019. But foot traffic at brick-and-mortar establishments was up 47.5 percent from last year when many…
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