By Ven Ram, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategistWho’s to blame for all the turmoil in the UK’s financial markets? While the popular refrain pins the blame on Downing Street, a careful scrutiny of the events of the past few days…
As the CEO of a professional employer organization, I spend a lot of time talking with small business owners. These conversations often center around strategies that will help leaders ensure that their organizations are more efficient and more profitable. Growth is…
We are exposed to an ever-increasing torrent of alarming climate news, with pictures of extreme weather events and destruction delivered on an hourly basis. We should still pay attention — clearly, the warnings on hurricanes like Ian need to be heard.…
There are few books, shows or other tools to help parents and teachers talk to preschoolers about global warming. “Octonauts: Above and Beyond” is one of the first to try.Four-year-old Francis Gaskin, who lives with his family in Houston, has a…
SWIFT is a payments colossus. It operates across more than 200 countries, has 11,000-plus financial institution clients and transmits some 8.4 billion financial messages every year. It is the global leader in cross-border bank-to-bank payments and recently played a key role…
Lauren Sato, CEO of Ada Developers Academy When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping millions of Americans of our fundamental right to critical health care, I was having breakfast with a group of female executives at a strategy…
The billionaire founder of the world's largest hedge fund is (finally) stepping down as co-CIO.Having initiated his succession plan in 2010, 73-year-old Ray Dalio“This was the natural progression of events; as soon as we were ready, we went ahead,” said Dalio,…
Tuesdays are all about academic (and practitioner) literature at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at how inflation affects asset class returns. Quote of the Day "These days, most market scholars believe that stock market…
Max Firsau is co-founder and CEO at Accel Club. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in eCommerce. The work culture at your company is everything. With the increased use of mobile devices, employees are now more…
In another reality, Bill Noble would be just another guy in a suit behind a big desk at the Fed or the SEC, probably murmuring negative incantations like “crypto is bad.”He’s certainly got the track record for it: JP Morgan, UBS,…
by Calculated Risk on 10/04/2022 10:06:00 AM From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary The number of job openings decreased to 10.1 million on the last business day of August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires…
After an unexpected (and sizable) decline in July, August's Factory Orders data for US was expected to be unchanged and indeed it came in right in line.This pushed the YoY rise in US factory orders down to +11.2% - the lowest…
Alexander Pershikov, the transportation evangelist, founder of GetTransfer.com, serial entrepreneur and a metaverse visionary. A few decades ago, if you wanted to go anywhere by taxi, you had to call a transportation company, order a cab and wait to be picked…
Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has partnered with Unstoppable Domains to help users simplify cryptocurrency payments — a move the company says could strengthen the wider adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi) products and services. Under the partnership, 1inch wallet users can enter “human-readable…
By Rachel Premack of FreightWaves,KeyBanc’s Todd Fowler and Carney Blake, who are the group’s airfreight and logistics analysts, wrote in a Thursday note that freight activity has been “seasonally weak.” There’s been “limited indication” of the typical peak season activity that carriers…
Robin Gagnon is the Co-Founder of We Sell Restaurants, a business broker franchise focused on the sale of restaurants. The labor crunch is widespread. Although it’s affecting many industries, it’s particularly pronounced in restaurants. This shortage, particularly of roles like chefs,…
Agency Principal | Owner at Simantel | Marketing Sweats Podcast Host | Advertising & Marketing Independent Network Worldwide Board Member “Never give up.” It’s a phrase we hear all the time in our personal and professional lives. But oftentimes, committing to…
Bangladesh's national power grid collapsed Tuesday afternoon, plunging 140 million people, or nearly everyone in the country, into darkness, AFP reported. #UPDATE About 140 million people in Bangladesh were without power on Tuesday afternoon after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts, the…
RUNE price could be ready to break out from the downtrend as price gears up for a short-term recovery creating more bullish sentiment. RUNE looks strong on the low timeframe. The price of RUNE attempts to break and hold above 8…
Asaf Darash is the founder and CEO of Regpack, an online payment management platform. He holds a Ph.D. in New Media. The “Great Resignation,” rising inflation and growing concerns over another recession have rocked the talent market, especially in the technology…
The story of Ripple XRP has taken several twists over the past two years. Lots of opinions have risen following its ongoing legal battle with the SEC. The lawsuit with the US SEC started in December 2020 when the regulator declared…
Public blockchains can be accessed and read by anyone, but creating meaningful insights from this data is no easy feat. Millions of transactions are recorded across a variety of chains and layer-2 protocols, creating petabytes of data daily.Services like Google transformed…
Dylan Ogline is serial entrepreneur and author known as a pervader of work and lifestyle optimizations. He is the founder of Ogline Digital. Most people don’t like contradictions. They’re at their happiest when there’s a clear right way and a clear…
The first crop damage estimates are in for Florida's citrus groves following Hurricane Ian last week, and they point to utter devastation in certain parts of the state, sending orange juice prices Monday to almost six-year highs. Bloomberg spoke with Ray Royce, executive…
Also, a group of regulators put together after the financial crisis weighs on how risky digital currencies are to the economy.The Kardashian rule for crypto promoters.Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWhat did Kim do wrong? Kim Kardashian’s $1.26 million crypto-related…
The value of Tornado Cash is decreasing, not due to market factors but because of recent controversies. The Office of Foreign Assets Control recently added Tornado Cash to its list of Special Designated Nationals. That means no one from the United States may…
Jacob Kupietzky is President of HealthCare Transformation, a company dedicated to providing hospitals with experienced interim executives. Being a healthcare leader today is tougher than ever. There's always something that needs your attention whether it's a patient, a staff member or…
Belinda Parmar OBE is the CEO of The Empathy Business and a corporate campaigner and can be found on LinkedIn here. Difficult workplace conversations are rarely pleasant, and the reality is very few of us are very good at them. Similar…
Authored by Lance Roberts via The Epoch Times,Is this the “Superbubble’s Final Act?” Such was a fascinating piece of commentary recently from Jeremy Grantham, famed investor and co-founder of GMO, who wrote:“Only a few market events in an investor’s career matter; among the…
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The UK and Europe's solar trade associations have announced plans to develop a comprehensive corporate sustainability standard aimed at boosting the sustainability, transparency, and accountability of the industry's rapidly-growing supply chain. The Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI), co-launched this week by Solar…
Hiring the right candidate can be difficult, especially when you receive a large number of resumes from a pool of talented individuals. Often, businesses simply don't have the resources to spend a long period of time sifting through resumes to find…
Russ Lidstone, Group CEO at communications group The Creative Engagement Group, Mentor, RSA Fellow, Advisor, Bloom Ambassador & Chair Significant business "events" such as acquisitions, innovations and mergers would be deemed by many to create unwanted disruption, a lack of alignment,…
With so many companies competing for consumers' attention on social media, creating compelling, unique advertising campaigns is a great way to stand out. On Facebook in particular, there are a few key strategies that can help you target your audience effectively.…
Yesterday's furious rally, which following a miserable September and Q3, was the best start to a quarter since 2009 and the best start of a Q4 since 2002 according to Bespoke ...Today is on pace to be the best start to…
Naver has gained a sizable foothold in North America’s secondhand retail market with its new acquisition, the company’s largest to date.The South Korean internet giant Naver has agreed to buy Poshmark, a popular secondhand retailer based in the United States, for…
More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes. Often, it is never re-used. This could be your multiple near-identical images held on Google...
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: David McRaney on Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including the podcast extras on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, YouTube, Bloomberg, and Acast. All of our earlier podcasts…
A new advisory group will help guide the Biden administration’s efforts to promote economic equality.WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is deepening its effort to focus on reducing racial inequity with the formation of a new advisory committee that will help the…
by Calculated Risk on 10/04/2022 08:00:00 AM Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for August. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for July. The CoreLogic HPI is a three-month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA).From CoreLogic: Annual…