In the Headlines – March 3, 2017

In The Headlines Mobile Apps Are Changing the Business of Repair Field service problems are something everyone is familiar with. At the worst time imaginable, your washing machine starts making noises it should not and then stops working completely. You carve four hours out of your day to await a technician, [...]

2017-02-28T14:21:46+00:00February 28th, 2017|Weekly Update|Comments Off on In the Headlines – March 3, 2017

Defusing the Ticking Tax Time Bomb

“The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS” –Dr. Dre Assuming that you do not define patriotism by the amount you pay in tax, what follows should be useful. If you’re one of the 53% of Americans who pay federal income taxes, then it is likely you [...]

2017-02-21T21:21:32+00:00February 21st, 2017|Uncategorized, Weekly Update|Comments Off on Defusing the Ticking Tax Time Bomb

In the Headlines – February 24, 2017

In The Headlines How Demographic Shifts May Drive Big Changes in Spending If you are a job seeker, you have probably got more of a chance walking dogs for a living than teaching kids in the labor market of the coming decade. That is one of the implicit messages in a [...]

2017-02-21T09:57:37+00:00February 21st, 2017|Weekly Update|Comments Off on In the Headlines – February 24, 2017

In the Headlines – February 17, 2017

In The Headlines Will the Growth of Electric Vehicles Disrupt Oil Markets? The growth of battery-powered cars could be as disruptive to the oil market as the OPEC market-share war that triggered the price crash of 2014, potentially eliminating hundreds of billions of dollars from the value of fossil fuel producers [...]

2017-02-14T11:52:37+00:00February 14th, 2017|Weekly Update|Comments Off on In the Headlines – February 17, 2017

In the Headlines – February 10, 2017

In The Headlines Inside Outsourcing: The End of the Employee? No one in the airline industry comes close to Virgin America Inc. on a measurement of efficiency called revenue per employee. That is because baggage delivery, heavy maintenance, reservations, catering, and many other jobs are not done by employees. Virgin America [...]

2017-02-08T11:05:04+00:00February 8th, 2017|Weekly Update|Comments Off on In the Headlines – February 10, 2017

In the Headlines – February 3, 2017

In The Headlines A Gray Tsunami May Swamp China’s Plans for Long Term Growth The world’s most populous country is turning gray at an accelerating pace. That aging has big implications for China’s economic growth, which could be undermined as the labor force declines sharply from 2021 to 2030. It also [...]

2017-02-03T15:20:42+00:00February 3rd, 2017|Weekly Update|Comments Off on In the Headlines – February 3, 2017
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