For the Global Economy, ‘All Roads Lead to Higher Prices and Slower Growth’
The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of many essential goods.
The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of many essential goods.
At the edge of a wildflower meadow sits an unassuming tan box with a pitched roof. But a closer look reveals the box is buzzing with activity — literally. The warmth of spring has awoken honeybees within this hive. Inside, a baby bee emerges from her wax cell, the first new bee of the year….
For the modern enterprise, the digital workspace risks descending into “coordination theater,” in which teams spend more time discussing work than executing it. While traditional tools like Slack or Teams excel at rapid communication, they have structurally failed to serve as a reliable foundation for AI agents, such that a Hacker News thread went viral…
There’s a version of the Lamar Odom story that ends in a Nevada brothel. It’s not hard to imagine the grand finale – the TMZ bulletin relating his fatal drug overdose, followed by emotional tributes to what was lost: a radical basketball prodigy of the New York tradition, a two-time NBA champion with the Kobe…
In this week’s Gossip With Celebitchy podcast, CB and I talked about the hate campaign which sprang up around the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s planned trip to Australia. Everything coming out about this trip from Team Sussex has been “we’re visiting Oz in a private capacity, we’re doing some charity work and some paid…
Books by Marie NDiaye, Daniel Kehlmann and Rene Karabash are among the shortlisted titles for the major award for fiction translated into English.
Maybe I’ll write up something quick this week asking Should the Los Angeles Rams move off of Stetson Bennett? Either way, if the Rams are planning on nabbing Kirk Cousins or Jimmy Garopollo as their backup, where does that leave Bennett? It’s not that Bennett is expected to beat out Cousins or Garopollo, longtime players,…
BRIAN KENNY: Welcome to Cold Call, the podcast where we dive deep into the groundbreaking ideas and Harvard Business School case studies. Today’s case drops us into the middle of a fast-growing cloud storage company that cracked a brutal market dominated by the likes of Google and Amazon. Revenues are climbing and the sales engine…
Four visiting senators urged Taiwan to break an impasse over a $40 billion budget proposal, highlighting concerns in Washington about the threat from China.
The government plans to pay TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion to pull out of offshore wind and focus on fossil fuels. But it can’t legally use taxpayer money without approval from Congress. After failing to stop multiple offshore wind projects from moving forward on the East Coast, the Trump administration is trying a new tactic: paying…