Category: Business

Think about stepping up to the podium to speak, or going into a job interview, or having a difficult conversation with an employee. When you’re entering any stressful situation, the most difficult part is the beginning when your anxiety peaks.  That period of time is also the most critical because how you handle the first […]

Promotion for Neom, the upwards of $500 billion, 10,000-square-mile region under construction in Saudi Arabia, has always been a little off. There are the videos touting Neom’s 105-mile-long city, The Line; and the reality-defying renderings showing off a litany of luxury spaces including the golf resort Gidori. Now, though, it seems like Neom’s marketing team […]

The owner and manager of the cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse recklessly cut corners and ignored known electrical problems on the vessel, the Justice Department alleged Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to recover more than $100 million that the government spent to clear the underwater debris and reopen the city’s port. […]

Character, as they say, is what you do when no one’s watching. What’s been hard to ignore during the current election, however, is that character also seems to be what you do when only certain people are watching. Or when you think only certain people are watching, anyway. Ever since JD Vance became Donald Trump’s […]

People assign labels to other humans to help organize and personalize everyday life. Recent studies even show that we are not the only species on this planet to do so. Marmoset monkeys, bottlenose dolphins, and African elephants act in a similar manner. Things get hairy, though, when names are similar. In Hollywood, the Screen Actors […]

Boeing bosses are staring down the barrel. The twists and turns of the past week paint a picture of managers badly wrong-footed by the depth of fury among workers who tossed out a 25% pay rise deal and launched strike action. “They probably didn’t think that we had enough people for the strike,” Kushal Varma, […]

A weekslong court battle is playing out in Oregon right now that could determine the future of your grocery shopping—with one side arguing the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history will drive up prices, and the other side assuring it will benefit consumers. Next month marks two years since Kroger announced it would acquire […]

Financial influencers on TikTok and other social media platforms claim to have the secrets that “they” (professional money advisors) don’t want you to know. These videos go viral because we all want to believe that The Man is keeping financial secrets from us little people. Unfortunately, the most popular FinTok videos typically offer terrible advice, […]

Next week, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, goes to court as the U.S. government pushes to force the sale or shutdown of the popular app. One potential buyer, Frank McCourt, Executive Chairman of McCourt Global and former LA Dodgers owner, wants a different experience for TikTok’s 170 million users. For McCourt, the surveillance in tech has […]

In a world that produces “57 million tons of plastic waste every year” and in a nation with worsening home affordability for the past 20 years, millions of families are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve the dream of homeownership. Rising housing costs, coupled with high interest rates and limited inventory, have created an urgent […]