By Matthew Korfhage | Featured on WWeek Portland distiller House Spirits has sold Aviation Gin to a New York marketing firm called Davos Brands. House Spirits will still make Aviation Gin, but now it will be as a contracted distiller, not as its owner.
Article by Patricia Hurtado, Keri Geiger, & Matt Robinson | Featured on Bloomberg A JPMorgan Chase & Co. intern had poor grades at the Wharton School. His supervisor in Asia told colleagues that “he’s not really built” for investment banking. He had “attitude issues,” had trouble “following basic rules” and was a prolific napper. Yet […]
Article Featured on Reuters | Hadrian / Shutterstock.com Amazon.com Inc may be a “buy” for the vast majority of analysts, but it was a “sell” for a lot of investors on Friday. Few of those investors would have been disappointed, though. While Amazon’s stock fell 4.5 percent to $781.67 in morning trading, it had risen […]
Article Featured on Insurance Journal Ransomware attacks against businesses will be four times higher in 2016 than last year, with a growing number of ransom-seeking hackers demanding bitcoin rather than money, according to a report by specialty insurer Beazley.
Article Featured on Insurance Journal | Ransomware attacks against businesses will be four times higher in 2016 than last year, with a growing number of ransom-seeking hackers demanding bitcoin rather than money, according to a report by specialty insurer Beazley. The Beazley Breach Insights report is based on the insurer’s client data breaches in the […]
By Carmel Crimmins and Olivia Oran | Article Featured on Reuters | Faiz Zaki / Shutterstock.com It wasn’t just Deutsche Bank that was grappling with big questions about the future at the International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington last week. The German bank is scrambling to overhaul its operations as it faces a multi-billion dollar fine […]
By RABAH AREZKI | Article Featured on Project Syndicate Oil prices have plummeted by about 65% from their peak in June 2014 (see chart below), and there is now intense debate about why. One thing we know for sure is that the oil market has undergone structural changes, thus making this latest episode different from previous dramatic price […]
Article By Nicolas Cole | Featured on Inc.com Life lessons are full of wisdom because they often have to be learned the hard way. However, the hardest part about that process is realizing that sometimes not every opportunity lasts forever. You finally “get it” long after the fact. If possible, it’s best to learn these […]
Article by Kemal Dervis & Zia Qureshi | Featured on Project Syndicate Over the last decade or so, productivity growth has slowed considerably in most major developed economies, even as impressive advances have been made in areas like computing, mobile telephony, and robotics. All of these advances ostensibly should have boosted productivity; and yet, in […]
Article Featured on Bloomberg News Here’s the latest uncertainty facing China’s currency: sky high house prices. A runaway boom in the largest cities will push investors to look for cheaper alternatives overseas, draining money out of China and putting downward pressure on the yuan in the process, according to analysis by Harrison Hu, Chief Greater […]