I believe in affirmative action, but it’s not meant for Clarence. That’s what Eminem taught us in his iconic semiautobiographical movie “8 Mile” in 2002, when a poor White boy from Detroit, just a few miles from where I grew up, schooled a rich Black boy from the suburbs in a rap ...
Whenever the price at the pump increases, so does the finger-pointing, but much of the blame game over high gasoline prices is neither accurate nor fair and, most important, won’t lead to real solutions. Here are several false targets of America’s anger at record prices: Gas Station ...
The term “shrinkflation” emerged in the business media during the summer of 2021. What is shrinkflation? According to Investopedia, “shrinkflation is the reduction in the size of a product in response to rising production costs or market competition.” For a company’s competitive ...
It may surprise you to learn that academic cheating — the business of gaining unfair or unauthorized advantage during a test or on a course assignment — is actually a business. Around the world, companies are making billions of dollars selling test answers, trading tests, hawking ...
There is a rough road ahead for the world, and our political class isn’t leveling with us. As Steve Odland, president and CEO of The Conference Board, one of the nation’s premier business research organizations, said in a television interview, inflation will continue at least until 2024, ...
The culture wars have taken their shots on Disney. It’s a direct hit! They’ve been forced to become a political voice against policies their consumers supposedly despise. Disney faces a tug of war over corporate values. It is taking a knee for opposing sides of the value equation. It’s ...