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GARY SHILLING: There Are 6 Realities We Live With In This Age Of Deleveraging
In Part III of my series of reports from the 10th annual Strategic Investment Conference, presented Altegris Investments and John Mauldin, the question of how to invest during a deleveraging cycle is...
View ArticleMale Execs Are Afraid To Mentor Young Women, And It's Holding Them Back
In Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, “Lean In“, she suggests that part of the problem facing women in the workplace is reluctance from male executives to mentor younger female employees.She may be right. A...
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Foreign Entrepreneurs Are Creating Tons Of US Jobs, But Americans Still Hate...
SHAYAN ZADEH, the co-founder of Zoosk, a popular online-dating service based in San Francisco, is worried.In the current debate on immigration, few realise that foreign-born entrepreneurs create jobs...
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Are All Telephone Calls Recorded And Accessible To The US Government?
The real capabilities and behavior of the U.S. surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the U.S. government, it operates...
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China's New President Should Scare The Crap Out Of The Rest Of The World
IN 1793 a British envoy, Lord Macartney, arrived at the court of the Chinese emperor, hoping to open an embassy.He brought with him a selection of gifts from his newly industrialising nation.The...
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Why Architecture's Biggest Prize Is No Longer Relevant
The Pritzker Prize had idealistic beginnings: recognising achievement within architecture, a profession that had long lost its status in public opinion. Pritzker ‘seamed’ this fragmentation, celebrated...
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Americans Need To Stop Complaining And Learn To Love Jury Duty
How can one appreciate an obligation? This is a question approximately 30 million Americans don't ask every year when they receive their jury summons because they are too busy grumbling about this core...
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Mobile Advertisers Are Being Way Too Complacent
Mobile advertising is booming in the UK but despite all the celebration around it hitting £536m in 2012, we have a long way to go to catch up with actual consumer behaviour.Earlier this month, IAB UK...
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Why No One Can Afford To Skip Out On Renter's Insurance
Homeowner’s insurance, car insurance, health insurance—for most Americans, these policies are no-brainers, and renter’s insurance should be too.But according to a recent Rent.com survey, 60 percent of...
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Advertisers' Branded YouTube Videos Are Losing Their Cool Factor
In the many annual fake-out April Fools videos produced by Google this year, one practical joke involved some humor that probably hit a little too close to home for many video content producers: the...
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The World's Coolest Tree House Hotels
Want to go out on a limb for your next vacation—literally?Once the sole province of young boys and Ewoks, tree houses offer adventurous travelers (read: unafraid of heights) a unique travel experience...
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Here's The Right Way To Quit Your Job Without Putting Your Paycheck At Risk
At some point or another, quitting your job can seem like the best option. You might not be getting much out of your current position and want to explore other career options.Or, you might want to...
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Elite English Schools Are Frantically Setting Up Campuses Across Asia
CRICKET, boarding-house names reminiscent of Harry Potter's Hogwarts and ancient and peculiar customs are among the hallmarks of Britain's leading private schools.Now they can be found in Singapore and...
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What Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's 3 College Friends Tell Us About Teenagers
As the public focuses on allegations that three college friends of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took his laptop and backpack containing fireworks out of his dorm room, many people may be...
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5 Ways To Save On Prom Without Looking Cheap
From tickets to dresses and tuxedos to shoes, hair appointments, a limo, and dinner, the costs of prom continue to rise.A new study by Visa reveals that American families are paying an average of...
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25 Apps That Will Keep Your Life Organized
If we had a nickel for every time we’ve heard “man, the folks at Groove are great AND devastatingly attractive”, we wouldn’t have any money. Nobody’s said that to us (yet).BUT if you gave us a nickel...
View Article3 Ways Being A Bad Listener Hurts Your Career
The way you listen is telling, a compass that points to the true focus of your attention.For good listeners, that needle points to the person talking.For bad listeners, that needle points to...
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The Chinese Are Freaking Out About A Sudden Drop In Housing Prices
ASK ordinary people about their own Chinese dream, and you find owning a home is high on the list.But years of rising house prices have put that dream out of reach of many. A slowing economy appeared...
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Now Americans Are Hunting Wild Pigs And Eating Them
ON THE downside, America's 6m or so feral pigs are dangerous pests armed with sharp tusks, short tempers and large appetites.A single herd, or "sounder", can wreck a corn crop or leave a meadow looking...
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The World's Top Models Describe What Their First Apartments Were Like
The mere mention of the words “model’s apartment” could set a young man’s heart racing.Aesthetically speaking, though, an interior designer might consider the first big-city flat of most budding...
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