No, Inequality Isn't Preventing A US Economic Recovery
Stock markets and corporate profits are up, wage growth anemic. So Fed Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin is wondering whether the “large and increasing amount of inequality in income and wealth” is hampering...
View ArticleChipotle Is Really Getting Into The Booze Business These Days
Chipotle is really getting into the booze business these days.Along with launching their craft beer program and a house-made margarita, the fast-casual Mexican food company is collaborating with three...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists Slam Obama For Rules That Allow Oil Companies To Keep Their...
The Obama administration is still playing it cool with environmentalists. First it skirted the protracted battle over the Keystone XL pipeline, which could carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the...
View ArticleSHERYL SANDBERG: It's OK For Women To Cry At Work
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview published Saturday says it's ok for women to cry at work, share emotions and be honest about their femininity.Sandberg shot to...
View ArticleGen X And Late Boomers Face The Bleakest Retirements In History
Unless Gen Xers and late baby boomers are able to make big changes in their savings, spending and debt habits, they are on track to become the nation's first generations to fare more poorly than...
View ArticleThe 10 Countries With Notoriously Bad Tourists
When you travel the world, like it or not, you are a representative of your country, and your behavior—good or bad—can reflect on your nation as a whole.That’s why, while we’re all for spontaneity,...
View ArticleThe 5 Ways We Learn Languages — And Which Is Best For You
Have you ever been to a place where you didn’t know the language? Have you ever wanted to learn a language, but thought the process is too difficult, or takes too long?Sometimes it seems as if there...
View ArticleI Didn't Love Google Glass, But It Did Help Me Live In The Moment With My Kids
This weekend I attended a wedding where smartphones being used as cameras were everywhere.It really highlighted for me how people don’t live in the moment anymore. The idea of removing the barrier...
View ArticleNow You Can 3D Print Your Own Invisibility Cloak
Invisibility cloaks made of plastic can now be created at home using 3D printers, researchers show.The first clues that cloaking devices might one day become more than science fiction, a la "Star Trek"...
View ArticleThe World's Coolest And Most Romantic Hotel Bathtubs
At the Mio Buenos Aires hotel, the bathtubs are works of art: Argentine Mario Dasso personally selects only the most beautiful pieces of calden wood (naturally felled by fire) and carves them into...
View ArticleThe 11 Most Tech-Savvy Darlings Of Online Retail
What's luxury to you? Is it a couture Chanel gown? A shiny car with a roaring engine?Perhaps, it's a night of organic wine, artisanal pizza, and a bottomless well of on-demand British sitcoms. However...
View ArticleHow To Win The War For The Top Talent
You’ve heard it many times, and probably said it a few times yourself: A company is only as good as its employees. In fact, everyone seems to be saying it; that phrase, with slight variations, gets...
View Article25-Year-Old Saudi Arabian Woman Makes History By Reaching Everest Summit
Raha Moharrak has broken not one, but two records with her summiting of Mount Everest. The 25-year-old Saudi Arabian made it to the top of Everest — along with 34 other climbers from around the world...
View ArticleThis Week's Super Active Sun Could Disrupt Cell Phone, Radio, And GPS...
This week has seen the most active solar flares in this sun cycle, which began in 2008 and will last until 2019.Four high-strength flares occurred May 13 into May 14."Basically, this is as busy as the...
View Article7 Tips From Entrepreneurs On How To Have A Fearless Career
Everyone has a fear: heights, spiders, the ground opening up and swallowing you whole. (OK, maybe that's just me.)But fears at work can be particularly debilitating. What if I fail? What if I’m not...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Travel Sites On Tumblr
Reports this weekend from AllThingsD point to Tumblr being acquired by Yahoo for nearly $1.1 billion. Although popular, unlike Pinterest or Twitter it has yet to become a necessary part of any brand’s...
View ArticleFive And Seven Are Incredibly Powerful Numbers For Marketers
In previous posts, I talked about the power of being first to a position as well as the power of three in marketing.In this one, I’d like to extend the number sequence to 5 and 7. Why 5 and 7? They...
View ArticleThe World's Most Expensive Bottle Of Cognac Is Going Up For Sale In NYC
A high-end wine and liquor store in New York City has the only bottle in the United States of the most expensive Cognac in the world.Croizet Cognac Leonie 1858 is currently on display at Financial...
View ArticleSocial Context Can Make You Seem Like A Genius Or A Dunce
We’ve all been there: you feel especially smart and funny when talking to a particular person, only to feel hopelessly unintelligent and inarticulate in the presence of another.You’re not imagining...
View ArticleRestaurant Critic Reveals The Best Thing He's Ever Eaten
As a restaurant critic there's one question – other than "how do you live with yourself?"– that I'm asked more regularly than any other. It's this: what's the best meal you've ever eaten? If only all...
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