Social Security apparently believes more than 1,000 US jobs for “sack repairers” exist. It denies disability benefits based on 1977 categories. Eye-opening in WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Social Security apparently believes more than 1,000 US jobs for “sack repairers” exist. It denies disability benefits based on 1977 categories. Eye-opening in WaPo: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Ports are clear. Freight rates have plunged. Retailers are awash goods. Supply chains are back to normal. Smart piece by coworkers on WSJ
A deep dive into the new Trump tax data by the people who know his taxes better than anyone (except presumably his accountants). Worth reading even if you’ve read excellent coverage elsewhere. nytimes
CEOs running the biggest companies are pretty down about the economy in the next 6 months — but investors & mid-sized CEOs are positively rosy, a new survey suggests. Not what I’d have guessed. My latest in the WSJ.
Endgame: A secret call to Bob Iger. Jim Cramer’s text. A disastrous board meeting. This is the full account of Disney’s epic power struggle, brilliantly told by my coworkers at the WSJ:
Good piece from the WSJ’s Ruth Simon, whose coverage of small business is always worth reading: Many small businesses that received federal pandemic aid are now on the hook for repayments, and some say the timing couldn’t be worse www.wsj.com
America’s in an opioid crisis. Can lessons from the nation’s jails show a way out? Great piece by WSJ’s Julie Wernau (@littlewern on Twitter): www.wsj.com/articles/…
More than two years before a supervisor shot and killed six workers at a Chesapeake, Va., Walmart, company executives investigated employee workplace complaints against him, according to former and current employees. www.wsj.com $WMT
Tensions grew between Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor months before last week’s announcement that Mr. Taylor would exit, people familiar with the executives said
Layoffs hit white-collar workers, scrambling how slowdowns usually hit the job market: a ‘Patagonia vest recession’. My latest piece in the WSJ: www.wsj.com/articles/…
Happy Fibonacci Day! 11/23, at least in the U.S.
A major outside shareholder in News Corp and Fox Corp. opposes a plan by Rupert Murdoch to recombine the companies and wants other alternatives considered, including a breakup of News Corp: www.wsj.com/articles/…
Want to feel like a fly on Disney HQ’s wall? Here you go – fascinating piece: Soon after he took the top Disney job in 2020, Bob Chapek was at odds with Robert Iger, who remained as executive chairman, and complained he had been undermined from the start t.co/gCay4JLmo…