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Annual Growth Figures for American Craft Brewers

By Samurai Artist | Featured on newschoolbeer The Brewers Association (BA), the trade association representing small and independent1 American craft brewers, has released 2015 data on U.S. craft brewing2 growth. Even with more breweries than ever and increased competition and buyouts from the macros, small and independent craft brewers have still continued to grow and capture 12% of the market share.

Fed’s Williams Sees ‘Huge Impact’ on U.S. From China, Brazil

Article Featured on Bloomberg News Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said the global economy, particularly China and Brazil, was having a significant impact on measures that U.S. policy makers watch to determine interest rates. The world’s largest economy is doing “quite well,” Williams said Monday in an interview on CNBC, citing stable […]

ValueAct Pays a Price for Its Supporting Role at Valeant

Article Featured on New York Times | By Andrew Ross Sorkin Bill Ackman gets a lot of ink and a lot of criticism as one of the largest investors behind the crisis-ridden Valeant Pharmaceuticals. But another activist investment firm with a much larger role in Valeant’s activities has largely gone unquestioned: ValueAct, a San Francisco based investor […]

Latest Updates On the Technology Sector in 2017

The year 2017 was very eventful for the Technology sector as there was something new better and more advanced coming up every month for the tech savvy people that made things better for them. There have been more than 2000 different additions in the technological world starting from lifestyle, medicines, luxury, cars, security, construction and […]

Oregon’s at the Forefront of a Global Cider Revolution

Portland Hosts CiderCon—and Embraces a Growing Cider Culture Article by Brian Yaeger | Featured on Portland Mercury | Image Credits: Portland Mercury or Otherwise Indicated STEVE JONES, Portland’s most celebrated cheesemonger, cuts off a sliver of Ferns’ Edge Mt. Thielson, a Comté-style goat cheese. Swirling a Wandering Aengus’ Bloom—the Salem cidery’s sweet but not treacly cider—in his […]

China’s Bumpy New Normal

Article by JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ | Featured on Project Syndicate SHANGHAI – China’s shift from export-driven growth to a model based on domestic services and household consumption has been much bumpier than some anticipated, with stock-market gyrations and exchange-rate volatility inciting fears about the country’s economic stability. Yet by historical standards, China’s economy is still performing well […]

What’s Eating Silicon Valley

Article Featured on Quartz turtix / Shutterstock.com Like most people, I look up to and admire the heroes of Silicon Valley (the real ones, not the ones from the TV show). They’ve given rise to services (e.g., Google, Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Airbnb) that we use every day and make the world a better place. They’ve […]

IRS Restores E-filing Services

Article By Paul Bonner | Featured on Journal of Accountancy The IRS’s tax return e-filing system was back in operation Thursday afternoon, a day after a computer hardware failure knocked out it and other IRS system services. According to the IRS, taxpayers do not need to take any additional steps or action due to the outage. […]