The 4-day week: does it actually work? – The Financial Times
Five years ago, Wyatt Watts arrived for his first day of work at Platten’s in Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk, east England. “It felt like a challenge,”...
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Employers Try to Hold Line on Wages, With Mixed Success – WSJ
There is a tug of war between employers and workers over wage increases, and the outcome is critical for the inflation outlook. Average wage growth...
PODCAST: How Not Having Student Loans Affects Your Financial Future
The effects of holding student loans on people’s personal finances can be measured against the financial outcomes of those who didn’t take them out in...
Football’s VAR is a lesson in flawed technology
Technology may well deliver increased accuracy, but at what cost? Traditionalists complain that VAR has put the sport’s values at risk by wasting time, undermining...
Why the Fed may finally loosen its grip – CNN
I don’t know about y’all, but I could use some hopeful news today. So here’s what I’ve got: Inflation appears to be — really, this...
Lagarde Leads a Chorus Warning That Inflation Has to Be Anchored – Bloomberg
The global economy may be headed for a new era of volatile inflation, making it even more crucial to anchor expectations for where prices are...
Has private equity avoided the asset-price crash? – The Economist
Babies lacking object permanence—the understanding that things they cannot see continue to exist—love the game of peekaboo. An adult hides their face from sight, then...
To make money, avoid these common mistakes – CNN
No matter how smart or well educated you are, and no matter how successful professionally, when it comes to investing you still might not make...
Why central banks are stockpiling gold – The Economist
In 1968 the London Bullion Market closed for two weeks. The world’s largest precious-metal market had run out of gold, drained by a five-month run...
COP15 will shine a spotlight on nature-related risk
While all eyes were on the UN’s Climate Change Conference, or COP27, in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt earlier this month, another COP is on the horizon...