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JANUARY 26, 2023

Listen to article (2 minutes) Russia’s war on Ukraine has redrawn the global oil map, rerouting a fleet of skyscraper-size tankers on longer voyages as they shuttle crude shipments that are essential to the global economy. The Wall Street Journal analyzed data from the ship-tracking firm Spire Global that showed the paths of about 3,000 such vessels to find those leaving Russian ports across periods before and after the Russian invasion on Feb. 24.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

If your team is preparing to announce layoffs virtually, calculated preparation for your executive team is critical. This isn’t just another Zoom meeting; this is an announcement that affects people’s livelihoods and the future of your organization. With the proper preparation, though, you can effectively and compassionately address layoffs online. You’ll need to do the following: first, block out rehearsal time so you’re prepared.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Early retirement has become a popular financial goal. And well it should be. Even if you never retire early, just knowing that you can is liberating! And it may just be the strategy that frees you up to take on even bigger challenges in life. That can happen when you reach the point where you no longer have to work for a living. Can You Really Retire at 50?

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JANUARY 26, 2023

For many financial advisory firm owners, growth is often the primary goal in the early years of launching a business. However, at a certain point, initial business growth goals will have been met, leaving the business owner at a crossroads of deciding where to take the business next – should they maintain the firm’s current size or continue the growth trajectory and adapt to the firm’s growing needs to bring on more clients?

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JANUARY 26, 2023

One of the big news stories of last week was Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and the market’s response to that news was to push up Twitter’s stock price by almost 10%. That reaction suggested, at least for the moment, that investors believed that Twitter would be better off without Dorsey running it, a surprise to those in the founder-worship camp.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I apologize that this Water Cooler is so light; I’ve had a tiring couple of days. But you can talk amongst yourselves! –lambert Bird Song of the Day Alpine Thrush, Dhap Kharka, Nepal. * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick “So m

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JANUARY 26, 2023

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released state employment and unemployment data for December 2022, giving us a full picture of employment changes in the past year. Nationwide, the U.S. economy added 4.5 million jobs in 2022, the second-strongest year for job growth in the past 40 years (after 2021), and a testament to the success of pandemic relief and recovery measures.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Attacks on the market order are today being issued unabated, and with almost as much gusto from the political right as from the left. Fortunately, the wisdom and insight in classic works such as Adam Smith’s Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Limits of State Action , Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy , and F.A.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Seagate Technology — Shares of the data storage company surged more than 10% a day after Seagate posted beats on the top and bottom line for its fiscal second quarter. Seagate reported earnings of 16 cents per share on revenue of $1.89 billion. Analysts called for earnings of 10 cents per share on $1.83 billion in revenue, according to Refinitiv. related investing news Chevron – Shares of the energy giant popped 4% a day after the compa

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JANUARY 25, 2023

For decades, when companies learned their employees were considering unionizing, they followed a familiar playbook: do everything possible to fight and frustrate the unionization effort. Leaders often take a union drive personally, and see unions as a threat, failing to see the legitimacy of workers’ demands. But right now, with a tight labor market and rising worker organizing, companies should reconsider this approach, and opt for ones that lead to better outcomes for both workers and employer

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Are you trying to win the Mega Millions, but your numbers never seem to come up? It may be time to look for better ways to make money. Fortunately, you can earn extra cash without going and getting a “real job.” What are the best ways to avoid sitting in a cubicle all day? Some money-making strategies require an upfront investment, while others let you earn money in your free time with the help of apps.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

With the U.S. economy predicted by many experts to slow down in the near future, many people’s thoughts have turned to the prospect of a recession. And along with those expectations may come concerns for those still in the workforce about the possibility of layoffs, and needing to get by without income for an unknown period of time. Such periods can be fraught with anxiety, since beyond ‘just’ the fear of losing one’s livelihood is the realization that there is little way to control

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JANUARY 25, 2023

WeChat is the most popular communications platform in the world for Chinese speakers. It’s also a preferred vehicle for China’s Communist Party to steal data, censor, propagandize and spread disinformation in the U.S., where the app has an average of 19 million daily users. Congress banned the use of TikTok on government devices recently, and the Biden administration is reportedly seeking to go further by, for instance, limiting access to user data to mitigate the app’s dangers.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

At the start of every semester for as long as I can remember, I have invited people to sit in informally on my classes at NYU or take the shorter online versions on my website. After thirty six years of teaching, you would think I would be jaded, but I am not. As we get ready for the spring, I am excited, perhaps more so than usual, because I hope to finally be in a real classroom, instead of online, for my classes.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

The world’s two biggest shipping lines said they would end their vessel-sharing partnership in 2025, a move that would shuffle a lineup of global alliances as demand for trade is weakening. A.P. Moeller-Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Co. created the so-called 2M alliance in 2015 to help them reduce costs by sharing cargo on major ocean routes. Rivals formed similar partnerships , creating the Ocean Alliance and THE Alliance.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. As readers know, I stan for Covid nasal sprays, whether as prophylactics or vaccines (see here and here , plus many mentions in Links and Water Cooler). So I figured it was time for another look, because “science is popping.” I should say right away that the headline is a bit deceptive. The elephant in the room is that India’s Bharat Biotech, a major contract vaccine manufacturer, will be launching its own nasal vaccine, iNCOVACC (BBV154), tomorrow, January 26 ,

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JANUARY 25, 2023

In the early days of the COVID pandemic, the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world pulled out all the stops. Policy rates were yanked to Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) levels, facilities were extended to provide liquidity to firms having difficulty selling securities in the primary and secondary markets, and direct lending to individuals and firms reached never-before-seen levels.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Shoppers shop at AT&T in the King of Prussia Mall on December 11, 2022 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Mark Makela | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: News Corp , Fox — News Corp rallied 5.4%, while Fox news gained more than 2%, after Rupert Murdoch called off plans to merge the two companies. related investing news AT&T — The telecommunications giant rallied 5.4% after reporting more wireless subscribers than expected for the fourth quarter.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

CURT NICKISCH: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Curt Nickisch. We love to celebrate entrepreneurship. We love to celebrate great business leadership. But for all that attention and oxygen, it’s still an enigma. You know it when you see it, but what are the necessary traits of a successful founder? What is the decision tree that a compelling organizational leader follows?

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The 401(k) plan is the largest asset many investors own accounting for 36.2% of their total net worth according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Regularly checking your 401(k) account can help you stay on top of your investments, and make sure that your money is working for you in the best way possible. What is a 401k? A 401(k) is a type of retirement savings plan offered by many employers to their employees.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Welcome back to the 317th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today’s podcast is Jennifer Climo. Jennifer is the CEO and a Senior Advisor for Milestone Financial Planning, an independent RIA based in Bedford, New Hampshire, that oversees $360 million in assets under management for 225 client households. What’s unique about Jennifer, though, is how, after more than a decade of building her own successful solo practice, she intentionally decided to merge her

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Hong Kong publisher and democracy advocate Jimmy Lai faces up to life in prison for daring to speak the truth about the Communist Party. But U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak couldn’t manage even to utter Mr. Lai’s name in Parliament this month. Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith raised Mr. Lai’s plight during the Prime Minister’s Questions on Jan. 11. He noted that Mr.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Happy New Year, and I hope that 2022 brings you good tidings! To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. Those measures took a beating in 2020, as COVID decimated the earnings of companies in many sectors and regions of the world, and while 2021 was a return to some degree of normalcy, the

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JANUARY 24, 2023

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Varied Thrush, Snohomish, Washington, United States Media from this location Illustrated Checklist. “Natural vocalization. Song from a male bird perched on the top of a tall leafless deciduous tree. Spacing between notes much closer together than normal song; perhaps this is dawn song (though no such vocalization is described in BNA) or subsong.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Are chain stores and chain restaurants wrecking the world and turning our colorful, quirky, diverse world into a uniformly bland, corporatized dystopia, where every place looks like every other place, leaving every place with no sense of place ? Hardly. More chains might mean Minneapolis, Montgomery, Montreal, and Milan all resemble one another, but they resemble one another because they offer ever-expanding arrays of options for people looking to feed, clothe, entertain, and express themselves.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

A woman walks near a Bed Bath & Beyond branch on January 11, 2023 in New York City. Leonardo Munoz | View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Tuesday. Lyft — The ride-sharing app’s stock added 1.5% following an upgrade to overweight from sector weight by KeyBanc. The firm said cost-saving strategies such as layoffs and stabilizing demand could help the stock.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

If you want to advance but your boss isn’t invested in your professional development, it can be demoralizing and frustrating. I know because I’ve been there. In the early stages of my career, there was a phase where I felt invisible and like there were no opportunities to reach for. One summer, there was an extended period where my annual performance review was repeatedly cancelled on short notice.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

You can open an account in 3-5 minutes. Access investments from multiple financial institutions. Manage all of your accounts from a single dashboard. Simplified tax reporting with a single 1099-INT document. Cons You may be investing with less established FIs. No online bill pay or checking services available. Limited customer service is only available between 9 AM and 4 PM EST.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

An important truism about marketing is that to be effective, the marketer’s message needs to connect with the audience it intends to reach. Traditional forms of marketing used by financial advisors – including networking with one’s friends and family members, cold-calling, and paid advertising – have been effective at reaching a ‘typical’ client base of older, wealthy retirees.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Ideas that start on the progressive fringes have a way of becoming government policy these days, as President Biden’s $400 billion student loan cancellation shows. Lo, Democrats in Congress are now pressing the President to impose rent control nationwide. The White House is considering a series of executive actions that are ostensibly intended to protect tenants.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Leading into 2021, the big questions facing investors were about how quickly economies would recover from COVID, with the assumption that the virus would fade during the year, and the pressures that the resulting growth would put on inflation. In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bon

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Stanley Black & Decker Inc. appointed the chief financial officer of Fortune Brands Innovations Inc. to lead its finances as the tool maker works on substantial cost cuts. The New Britain, Conn.-based company on Monday said Patrick Hallinan will become CFO, effective April 6. Mr. Hallinan will join Stanley Black & Decker after a 17-year career at home- and security-products maker Fortune Brands.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Wood Thrush, Parc du Sanctuaire, Drummond, Quebec, Canada. “Grive des bois, chant: ‘a-a-iola tzzziiii, a-a-ioli tzzziiii, a-a-iola tzzziiii.’” Oh, so that’s what they’re saying! * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels” –Herman Melville, Moby Dick “

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JANUARY 23, 2023

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced last week that the federal government had reached the statutory debt limit and that her department had begun “extraordinary measures” to meet required spending obligations. It is estimated that by July these extraordinary measures will no longer be able to keep some spending obligations from being missed.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Reprinted from The Center Square Higher education is confronting a problem: its customer base is shrinking. High birth rates in the 1990s and early 2000s created large incoming classes. After reaching a peak in 2007, birth rates have steadily dropped. Births rose to 4.3 million in 2007, while this past year saw 3.7 million. Children born during the dropoff will soon be eligible for enrollment.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

The Spotify logo on a smartphone arranged in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Wayfair — Shares of the furniture retailer jumped 24.1% on Monday after Wayfair received upgrades from multiple Wall Street firms, include a double upgrade to overweight from underweight at JPMorgan.

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JANUARY 22, 2023

If you were to look at the inner workings of any successful company, you would notice an intricate web of departments — marketing, IT, HR, engineering, legal, etc. — in a constant give-and-take with the units they support. As business priorities change, certain parts of the company inevitably will command influence and visibility while others get sidelined.

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