Finance Topic

So I’m going to do another short post on his thinking on work and workers. I think he does podcasts but I actually read the transcripts and he usually pick really interesting topics to talk about with his guest speakers. I think I have a couple more posts centered on his topics coming up. This…

A quick post before the 4th of July celebration gets started in earnest. So, it seems like Janet Yellen managed to get an agreement on a common global tax of 15% on multinational corporations. If Biden can get that through Congress, this might actually be huge because then companies will no longer be able to…

While I need to keep this post short because I’m trying to focus on getting a series of tasks done, I do want to mention that there has been a lot of news about labor shortage. Republicans say that the benefits are making workers lazy and living a life of leisure with the $300 per…

McKinsey does a lot of writing on various business topics which I happen to read occasionally. A few weeks ago, an email came out on the topic of stakeholder capitalism which kind of surprised me. As a consulting firm considered the premier consulting firm, I would imagine that a lot of their consultants came from…

It’s been a while since CEO of Gravity Payments raised everybody’s wages to the minimum of $70K – what he thought was a living wage for his area. And the company is still around and succeeding, despite all of the naysaying. There’s been a lot of news lately about the labor employment/unemployment rate from the…

Well, this is HUGE. And coming from Forbes magazine which I regard as ultra capitalistic in philosophy – cut taxes, don’t raise minimum wage, let the free market do its stuff. “For the first time, employees are considered companies’ most important stakeholders for long-term success—three times more important than shareholders.” “Employees Are More Vital To…