House-as-a-Service? The Unbearable Silliness of the 50-Year Mortgage
Not a day goes by in 2025 without some egregious display of incompetence, overtly contemptuous behavior, or general foolishness from
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Business & Economics
What Early GDP Numbers Are Saying
An unprecedented collapse in international imports in the second quarter meant that US consumers were … well, still spending plenty of money importing things from foreign countries!
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The Big, Beautiful Trade Deals That Aren’t.
Trump continues to tout the value of trade deals, even though we’re now paying billions more in tariffs– that we weren’t paying a year ago. It’s a sign of an increasingly chaotic environment of market information, and one that markets seem to be completely unfazed by. For now.
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Scent Marketing: We Want Your Business– And Your Olfactory Receptors
Humans like smells that remind us of nature. Can corporate-led fragrance chemistry convince our primitive brains that we’re actually in nature when we’re in a hotel lobby?
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Making Sense of the Tariff Cliff
The chaotic trade declarations coming out of the White House- which resembles less strategic public policy with a defined end goal, and more unstructured bloviating for the purpose of grandstanding, is doing weird things to markets and businesses.
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The Precarity of the Frothy AI Market
News broke over the weekend that a Chinese-developed, open-source large language model AI product is delivering comparable results to ChatGPT’s
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Nvidia: The Cards, The Hype, and the Cost-Effectiveness.
I spent part of the winter shopping around for a good computer setup that could handle the withering demands of
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The Weird New Political Age
Donald Trump has not yet re-taken the office of the presidency, and there are already fractures between him and co-president Elon Musk.
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Solidarity Is Unconditional, Even When The Context Is Iffy.
Harold Daggett, the multi-millionaire president of the International Longshoreman’s Association, drives a Bentley. He’s also buddies with Donald Trump. Does that mean we shouldn’t support striking workers?
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Book Review: Scaling People, by Claire Hughes Johnson
A good manager needs to be able to hire, lead, inspire, and deliver. It’s a tricky balance of often disparate skills and deliverables, but this book sheds a lot of light on how to do it.
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