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"There is a tremendous squeeze these days," said Arnold Kaufman, editor of Standard & Poor's Outlook newsletter, which tracks dividend trends. "Profits are no longer high enough to pay for dividends at many companies."

In the battle between physics and platitudes, physics is undefeated.

One thing that could help us close that remaining gap is a carbon tax—something universal, fair, and relatively simple. Paired with positive incentives for renewables, a price on carbon creates a negative incentive to generate emissions. I recently tuned in to a training session from Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which made a strong case not just for... See more

the merger of these two companies speaks to the predicament of American fashion, which is not focused on managing brands so much as it is about managing businesses

The region-beta paradox describes the phenomenon whereby, sometimes, a person may benefit from being worse off versus just mildly off, because being worse off may mobilize them to take action to address the problem, whereas being mildly off can lead them to stagnancy.

For them, LVT might be an efficient replacement for the property tax but that’s about it. Georgism as an ideology has always gone beyond this.

The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the twentieth century.

One person recently likened LVMH to me as a private equity firm with 40 percent carry rather than 20 percent carry. Not a bad deal.