(NewsUSA) | February 13, 2019 The current startup business environment today is full of opportunities for investors who want to get in on the global economy. At the upcoming Global Startup Summit, a free online event, startups from around the world can network with each other and with investors for mutual benefit. The 7-day online event… Read More »
Andrew Graham | February 13, 2019 As Canada’s federal government starts looking for a replacement for its failed payroll system and the Ontario provincial government launches yet another major shake-up of its health-care system, it’s useful to remind decision-makers of a long history of failures in major public sector implementations. Research from around the world… Read More »
By Michel A. Bell | February 11, 2019 When you go to the doctor, he or she will not prescribe a solution to your symptom without a diagnosis. Similarly with businesses–large, small, start-up, or established. To identify underlying issues, we must perform a diagnosis. First, what does struggling mean? The particular symptom could be insufficient sales, poor quality,… 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 Thomas Gilbert | January 31, 2019 The Federal Reserve policy equivalent of a sharp 90-degree turn. On Jan. 30, the U.S. central bank signaled that it was done raising benchmark interest rates after two years of aggressive rate hikes. As such, the Fed held its target rate steady at a range of 2.25 percent… Read More »
January 30, 2019 President Donald Trump plans to deliver an “aspirational” and “visionary” State of the Union address on Feb. 5, calling on Congress to work with him on bipartisan issues like infrastructure and health care. The speech was delayed by a week after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi disinvited Trump until he ended… 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 »