There’s been much reported on the aggressive efforts Big Oil made at the recent COP27 to obfuscate the issue of climate change and delay any action on it. Today’s “Big Read” in the Financial [...]
The fact that technology is changing the jobs landscape is nothing new, and government and social norms have learned to moderate the sharpest edges of such changes in the past…as well as adapt to [...]
I was struck by Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent mea culpas for driving their respective companies into the ground, like it was sincere or that it mattered. Zuckerberg’s apology [...]
My name is Jonathan and I’m an Amazonaholic. It’s taken a while for me to admit my addiction because it was years in the making. As a book lover, the premise that I could get pretty much any [...]
The world’s leading ad groups are forecasting increased spending on consumer branding as economies slow and costs go up. They couldn’t be more wrong. The claims, articulated in a recent Financial [...]
Intel plans to fire thousands of employees later this month around the same time it announces likely disappointing 3Q22 earnings. Its stock is worth less than half of what it was at the start of [...]
“We’ve heard the rumors that accounting is nerdy and boring,” says an unnamed trade group on its website, as reported in the Financial Times. Yup, it sure looks that way. The numbers don’t lie [...]
The EU is struggling to balance its green policies with the exigencies of feeding its citizens and keeping them warm. Isn’t it strange that no big company admits to such difficult choices?
Accounting giant Ernst & Young (“EY”) is reportedly close to splitting its audit and consulting functions into two separate companies. It could change how the industry functions, though I’m not [...]
NASA is sending an experimental, highly innovative, totally risky rocket to circle the Moon later this month that could change the course of history. And nobody cares. NASA has been breaking my [...]
