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Last week, the Department of Labor released its latest data on unemployment insurance claims. The weekly claims increased by 7,000, which is good news for the Fed: It means their policies are working. However, at around 198,000, jobless claims are still near below the pre-pandemic 2019 average

Commentary on AI and the four-day work week often underestimates the point made in the famous poem by William Carlos Williams called “The Red Wheelbarrow.” so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens In the latest example I read from an

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

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

A video created by Indeed called “Who is underpaid?” starts with a social experiment. A participant opens with this: “The fact that women only get 81 cents to the dollar, like, that’s a fact. Everyone knows that.” Then a narrator begins, “Turn your camera off if you make over

In 1513, an Italian politician named Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a treatise to help the newly appointed ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici, the grandson of Lorenzo the Great, gain and maintain power. The elder statesman Machiavelli sought to teach the young duke everything he knew about how to be a