Trading Trading Psychology: The Power Of Patterns And PrinciplesForbes - Brett SteenbargerWe rise above challenges when we recognize patterns of success and failure and the principles linking them: Many years ago, when my wife and I first made a home together with three children by a prior
Science And Now, the Really Big Coal Plants Begin to Closescientificamerican.com - Benjamin Storrow, E&E News When the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona shuts down later this year, it will be one of the largest carbon emitters to ever close in American …
Pennsylvania State University Building Booms And Academic BustsForbes - Michael PoliakoffIn 2015, colleges and universities in the U.S. spent a record $11.5 billion on construction for 21 million square feet of new space. A Boston architect soberly calculated: "The space per student has in
Recession The Weird Economic Indicator One Economist Can't Ignore: Japanese WhiskeyInc Magazine - Graham WinfreyEditor's Note: This article is part of a series tracking the possibility of a recession through offbeat economic indicators followed by economists, entrepreneurs, and other financial experts. Alarm bells
Work-life Balance Death of the department store: don’t just blame the internet, it’s to do with a dwindling middle classLadders - Jason Pallant and Sean Sands Barneys, the iconic chain of upscale New York department stores established in 1923, has just filed for bankruptcy protection. Another of America’s …
Recession The world's biggest economies are facing a synchronized global slumpAxios - Mike Allen It was 20 months ago that we told you about the highly unusual dynamic of synchronized global growth — the world’s 10 biggest economies growing at …
World News The Inverted Yield Curve Looks Set to Go GlobalFortune - Masaki Kondo, Bloomberg The inverted yield curve looks set to be a global phenomenon, with major Asian debt markets primed to mirror the moves in Treasuries as fears grow …
Climate U.S. Farmers Plant Crops You Won't Eat in Climate Change FightBloomberg - Denitsa Tsekova In a tough year for farmers, North Dakota’s Dennis Haugen is a standout. And he may have climate change to thank for it. Haugen planted more radishes …
Investing Houston, We Have A Huge, Historical, ProblemSeeking Alpha - The Fortune Teller In case you've missed it, we live in a crazy world, and there's no better place to witness this than take a closer look at monetary madness around …
Tariffs U.S. Businesses Are Stuck in Trade War UncertaintyBloomberg - Michael R. Strain The tariff burden from the U.S.-China trade conflict is “falling almost 100 percent on China,” President Donald Trump’s senior economic adviser Larry …
Investing U.S. stocks recover some ground, boosted by Walmart and retail salesMarketWatch - By Clive McKeef U.S. stocks recovered some ground Thursday, boosted by a good earnings report from Walmart and data showing a jump in nationwide retail sales in …
Business DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach warns Fed rate cuts will not stop U.S. recessionReuters - By Jennifer Ablan(Reuters) - Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, warned on Wednesday that rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve were not going to stop a recession from happening and that "once the
Sweden How Sweden became more entrepreneurial than the USweforum.org - Fredrik Heyman There is growing concern that dynamism in the business sectors of western economies is slowing down. Decker et al. (2014) document a decline in the …
Viacom CBS and Viacom reach merger dealCNBC - Alex Sherman CBS and Viacom have agreed to merge, ending years of on-and-off talks. The new company will be called ViacomCBS, and Viacom's CEO, Bob Bakish, will be …
World Economic Forum How Big Food is responding to the alternative protein boomweforum.org - Aarti Ramachandran On average, humans slaughter over 70 billion animals for food every year. That’s 130,000 animals every minute. This scale is only possible because …
Startups Confidence: The currency of accelerationTechCrunch - Eric PaleyImagine you’re a billionaire starting a new company. You’re happy to bet your entire fortune on it. As a result, capital is no constraint. How fast should you burn money? You probably wouldn’t use the
Home This is What the Big Red Spheres Outside of Target Are Forfamilyhandyman.com - Alexa Erickson The second-largest retailer in North America, Minneapolis-based Target Corp. operates more than 1,800 stores and Target.com. Having revolutionized …
Viacom CBS and Viacom agree billion-dollar merger to challenge Disney and NetflixThe Guardian - Edward HelmoreUS media companies CBS and Viacom announced a merger on Tuesday in a bid to strengthen their position as they take on Netflix’s streaming insurgency and face up to the loss of “cord-cutter” viewers. The
Denmark This Danish Bank Is Offering ‘Negative’ Mortgage Rates—Here’s What That MeansFortune - Erik Sherman It sounds like the wind up for a joke: a bank offers negative interest rates mortgages and hopes to make up the losses with volume. But it's a …
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture The USDA Dropped a Corn Bombshell. What It Means for Deere and Other Stocks.Barron's - Al Root The U.S. Agriculture Department, or USDA, zigged on Monday when the market expected it to zag. The farming agency released its monthly world grain …
Marketing Scribe Books Is Disrupting Self-Publishing by Giving Away All the Secrets for FreeInc Magazine - Benjamin P. HardyCo-founder Tucker Max says that giving everyone access to the kind of info his rivals charge big bucks for is all part of Scribe's mission--and also gives the company a competitive advantage. For most
Personal Finance (UK) Danish bank launches world’s first negative interest rate mortgageThe Guardian - Patrick CollinsonA Danish bank has launched the world’s first negative interest rate mortgage – handing out loans to homeowners where the charge is minus 0.5% a year. Negative interest rates effectively mean that a bank
Schadenfreude The Most Useful Business Book I Have Yet To ReadForbes - Michelle GreenwaldThis is the first time I’ve been inspired to write a business book recommendation. Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Tony Saldanha, when I helped orchestrate a 1-day visit to New York
Internet of Things Why AIoT Is Emerging As The Future Of Industry 4.0Forbes - Janakiram MSVTwo trends that are dominating the technology industry are the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). But for industrial automation, these two technologies are much more than the buzzwords
Technology FCC approves another $137 million to expand rural broadband accessEngadget - Kris HoltIt'll bring high-speed internet to 36,579 homes and businesses over the next decade. The Federal Communications Commission has approved another $121 million in funding to bring broadband access to rural
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Corn futures fall after USDA forecasts bigger-than-expected US cropCNBC - Emma Newburger The U.S. corn harvest will be bigger than previously forecast, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday, as the government issued a surprise …
Hemp How much hemp is grown in the US?Quartz - Jenni AvinsYou may have noticed that CBD—the non-intoxicating cannabis-derived chemical compound—can now be found in drugstores, cafés, pet stores, bars, spas, and all over the internet. Farmers have also noticed,
U.S. Politics The US labor shortage, explainedVox - Alexia Fernández CampbellFor a record 16 straight months, the number of open jobs has been higher than the number of people looking for work. The US economy had 7.4 million job openings in June, but only 6 million people were
Startups Five Common Reasons Why Startups FailForbes - Young Entrepreneur CouncilAccording to the Small Business Association, approximately 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years of operation. Many experts will tell you that a business fails most often because it
