This first appeared in The Startup Record unemployment number s are announced and the market goes up. Rising death rates and news of community spread showing up in more places around the world , the market goes up. Alarming declarations that patients can get re-infected once pronounced cured and the…

Summary The Fed has been extraordinarily accommodative in the last 10 years, and especially now. A look at pension fund liabilities and return assumptions might be the smoking gun as to why. Pension liabilities should scare the Fed more than COVID-19. I do much more than just articles at The…

Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as coined by Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum’s founder and executive chairman. While the first three industrial revolutions produced fundamental and drastic changes in how we work and live, the current revolution moves beyond many people’s…

In the weeks since marriage and family therapist Shelley Hanson moved her sessions to video calls because of the Covid-19 pandemic, some of her clients—many of whom are sheltering-in-place with family members—have struggled to find private space to talk. Some couples have hidden out in their cars. A…

Vodka More Breadcrumbs Recipes Meal Drinks Cocktails Vodka Printer-Friendly Version Published: August 10, 2012 Last Updated: August 30, 2018 [Photo: Kelly Carámbula ] Note: This recipe makes enough basil syrup for about 8 cocktails. Excess syrup can be stored for up to one week in a covered…

Thousands of Californians flocked to open beaches during a heatwave Friday despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's pleas for them to stay home. The nation's most populous state recorded its deadliest day yet in the pandemic, with 115 fatalities in the 24 hours from Wednesday to Thursday. As of Thursday there…

Most of us don’t think much about fulfillment. We simply don’t spend time considering its benefits, or whether we could achieve more of it. These essential questions tend to be pushed aside in favor of a race to produce, manage collegial relationships and what it will take to get to the next level,…

A bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.Photograph: DEA/G DAagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images T he Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the last famous Stoic philosopher of antiquity. During the last 14 years of his life he faced one of the worst plagues in European history. The Antonine…

‘The … crisis we face is unparalleled in modern times,” said the World Health Organization’s assistant director, while its director general proclaimed it “likely the greatest peacetime challenge that the United Nations and its agencies have ever faced.” This was based on a CDC computer model…

The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Tens of thousands of Americans have died , and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts. Leaders must examine accumulated data to see what has…

A survey found that an overwhelming majority of minority groups in the United States supports a moratorium on immigration to help stop the spread of coronavirus. A USA Today/Ipsos poll conducted earlier in April found that 71% of non-white respondents support a ban on immigration as a means to fight…

Monikers have followed Martin Pichinson for his whole career, given his line of work. He winds down technology companies, selling off their assets in their final days. And so, in some corners, Pichinson has become known as the "Undertaker of Silicon Valley." It's a grim practice he has honed since…

Financial Services April 24, 2020 Global Sanjeev Khagram Social Share: Email Sanjeev Khagram April 24, 2020 Global Sanjeev Khagram Social Share: Email Sanjeev Khagram Contributor, The Economist Intelligence Unit Sanjeev Khagram is an expert in global leadership, the international political economy,…

Mother attempts to work from home on the computer and phone whilst her daughter copies her, makes a mess and throws the laundry around. Photographer: Belinda Howell/Moment RF Photographer: Belinda Howell/Moment RF An executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co. gets unapologetic messages from colleagues on…

This is the full-length version of this post. You can read the condensed version, which appeared as an opinion article in the Washington Post , here . The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus. The damage to health, wealth, and well-being has already been enormous. This is like…

Here Are The Key Dates As The World Reopens From The Coronavirus Coma by Fri, 04/24/2020 - 13:30 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print On April 16, the Trump administration released guidelines for reopening of the US. The Administration has suggested that Governors base their plans on criteria…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Sep 16, 2016 · 8 min read (Chapter in Skin in the game ) W hat we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic…

As work begins on a near-term aid package, no resource should be spared to support Americans in the fight against COVID-19. We will also face critical choices on the needed investments to bring tens of millions of people on unemployment back into the workforce. How will we decide to rebuild our…

Jamie Black-Lewis received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program for her two spas, Oasis Medspa & Salon and Amai Day Spa, in Washington state. Many of her 35 employees think they will make more money collecting unemployment benefits than from their regular paychecks. Jamie Black-Lewis Jamie…

An empty North Broad Street in Philadelphia is photographed March 24. HEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer Just two months ago, the discovery that two people infected with the coronavirus had no symptoms was such big scientific news that it was published in the New England Journal of Medicine . Now,…

You’ve probably heard of the Waffle House Index — an informal FEMA method for telling how bad a disaster is (“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That’s really bad.”) Well, with states like Georgia and Tennessee are getting ready to reopen for business, we’re looking at an alternate…

First responders evacuate sick crew members from two cruise ships, the Costa Favolosa and Costa Magica at the U.S. Coast Guard station at the Port of Miami in Miami, Fla., March 26, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Beware a second wave. A lthough there is still much we don’t know about the coronavirus,…

Angry and armed protesters shout down authorities and call for the imprisonment of a democratically elected leader. In a neighboring state, another irate gathering is marching on a capitol and demanding change, or else. I’ve seen episodes like these while reporting on conflict and unrest in…

By Ray A. Smith April 21, 2020 8:55 am ET Print Text Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is marking her 34th year in fashion , has seen the industry weather tough times. There was the AIDS crisis during the ’80s and early ’90s. The 9/11 terrorist attacks happened during New York Fashion Week in 2001. A…

Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before the coronavirus walloped the economy were among those receiving millions of dollars from a relief fund that Congress created to help small businesses through the crisis, an…

(© vchalup - stock.adobe.com) April 21, 2020 Shares 118 LOS ANGELES — Confirmed coronavirus cases only tell a portion of the story in any area, but a new study out of Los Angeles County has come to a startling conclusion. Based on the first round of antibody testing, 4.1% of the county’s entire…

0:59 1:10 AD 0:01 SKIP Airline options for flights to Hawaii are starting to narrow. The Department of Transportation granted the requests of two airlines Saturday night that want to cut service to the islands because of dropping demand in light of the coronavirus and a mandatory quarantine for…

F or the past four and a half years, Jack Dorsey has been living his best life. While the 43-year-old multibillionaire is one of the only CEOs on the S&P 500 who oversees two public companies, Twitter and Square, with more than 8,000 employees, and is an angel investor or adviser to start-ups, until…

Everett Digital As Yogi Berra once said, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” Yogi, shake hands with John Maynard Keynes . A Google search for “keynes” + “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” turns up more than 150,000 hits, including this one and this one , from…

‘We’re only down 15% from the all-time high of Feb. 19... it seems to me the world is more than 15% screwed up.’

Take a look at some contrasting sets of headlines. First, from planet earth: Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 5.425 Million, Raising Monthly Loss To 22 Million Due To Coronavirus ( CNBC ) Worst Case Fears Of 20%-Plus U.S. Jobless Rate Are Now Realistic ( Bloomberg ) Then from Wall Street: Private…

Below is a complimentary excerpt from a Demography Unplugged research note written by Hedgeye Demography analyst Neil Howe. Click here to learn more and subscribe. Millennials who came of age during the Great Recession are facing their second big economic crisis, and many of them aren’t prepared.…

I know you are probably like me. You go to a web service. What do you do? Free trial. Sign Up Now. The very, very last thing I am going to click is “Contact Me.” The last thing I want, as a web-centric small customer/user, is some sales rep selling me on some product I just want to try for 20…

Schmidt, who is technical adviser to Google parent Alphabet Inc. and teaches at Stanford University, was speaking to an eclectic group world-wide that included Oscar-winning actress Goldie Hawn, an executive from Square Inc. US:SQ , and restaurateurs. The topic, “Where we go from here: Predictions…

Never Quit If … 1. Never Quit If … You Have 10 Unaffiliated, Happy Paying Customers. And Aren’t Completely Out of Money. It’s almost impossible to get anyone to buy any new business web services. The last thing anyone needs is another CRM, another invoicing app, another quoting tool, another…

Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could also change the way we work and socialize long after COVID-19 by bringing the free-flowing, ad-hoc…

On January 29th 2020, I released my first EP for a new solo project of mine: Distorted Eyes . In this post, I will explain how the project started, why I used Basecamp Personal to track my progress and how I organized everything in this software to help me get things done! I’ve been playing music…

Small businesses that rushed in vain to tap $349 billion in emergency U.S. loans to survive the coronavirus crisis are facing a harsh reality: Some of the nation’s top banks lagged behind relatively tiny rivals in handling applications. As banking giants tried to automate the process, hundreds of…

Illustration: Zohar Lazar By Jason Gay April 17, 2020 11:40 am ET Share Text America Needs To Get Back to Work By A Cat Enough is enough. American business has taken a historic plunge over the past month. It’s time to consider a practical plan for protecting public health—while also allowing for a…

Home Platform Podcast Xvoyant Resource Library Podcast Guest Book Library 1-1 Worksheet Demo About Contact by Nico Chaparro Over the last six months, I’ve had the privilege to talk to over 1,000 sales leaders all over the world about their initiatives around sales coaching and improving their team…