Brandon Giella

Lawmakers in the United States are debating options for the country’s national debt, or more specifically, the debt ceiling. It goes like this. Imagine you’re in high school and you’re already committed to going to the spring dance. Unfortunately, it costs $50 to go, the money helping

Today marks the official launch of my company Giella Media. Here’s the skinny. Values Giella Media aims to be the most efficient marketing firm by embracing simplicity, speed, and smarts. Your dollar goes farther because we’re faster. Efficiency matters because markets and customers’ needs are changing at a

During a press conference Wednesday, Fed leaders agreed to raise interest rates again. This has been happening for months now, so that’s not news. But what is news is that they implied they may soon stop raising rates. Why? Because high interest rates are destabilizing the financial system and

Writing good takes practice. Does that sentence strike you as odd? Shouldn’t it have been writing well takes practice? Writing is an art and a craft. As such, it, like jazz, combines classic rules with subjectivity and personality. Good writers know to bend the rules to get your attention.

Knowledge workers will increasingly work for themselves and not as an employee for a traditional company. The reasons are legion, but among them are flexibility, focus, and finances. One company making a big bet on this future is A.Team, a marketplace of high-caliber talent tackling big, complex problems for

Some things are more expensive than others, especially the things you want. That’s because other people want those things too. Supply and demand, being what it is, dictates that the price goes up. A higher price sends a signal to the rest of the economy that this thing is

If you watch productivity videos on YouTube—like this one—you’ll often see gurus seeking the “one” “ultimate” “system” that makes them successful, earns more money, and saves the most time. I like productivity videos. I like the apps, the journals, the videos’ aesthetic. I recently bought the Ultimate

A few years ago, a group of us at work were discussing politics when someone asked a question that stumped me for years. I forget what the topic was, but the group, being more politically progressive than I am, was proposing more regulation, laws that would inhibit whatever behavior we