Whether or not you feel your phone is the greatest and most indispensable tool in your life, this article points out the extent of our phone’s impact our brain. Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal
My newest piece focuses on political diversity in the workplace. In a country more polarized than perhaps at any other time in history, it’s still important to avoid political homogeneity in the workplace. In addition, I offers some principles I’ve used as a boss for smoothly navigating political discussions. Read the full story in The Harvard…
This is something we’ve talked about often – the high percent of income Americans spend on housing and the percent dropped slightly in the last reading. They measure the percent of the renting population spending over 30% of their income on rent – it was 49% but just fell to 48% in the last reading….
Equating the price of a drug to the value of a life is not, as pointed out, the way fire departments or hospitals respond to life threatening situations, so why should drug makers use this analogy all the time? Read the full article in The New York Times
Kari wrote an op-ed for CNBC today. In it she describes a useful set of principles that anyone can utilize in this new age of market unpredictability and bizarre presidential Tweets. Read the full article on CNBC.com
The US government again helps Amazon by limiting whomever might be able to be a real competitor. As long as prices fall, the US doesn’t seem to care about anti-trust issues. Read the full article in The New York Times
Kari was on CNBC’s The Halftime Report to talk about the prospects of Charles Schwab (SCHW) and why she is long the name. Watch the full video on CNBC.com
Kari recently wrote a piece for CNBC about the recent divergence between “soft” data (economic surveys and sentiment indicators) and “hard” data (actual economic data points like jobs numbers and the unemployment rate). The data tells two different stories. Read the full article on CNBC.com
Jeff Bezos figured out that the typical connection between company value and EARNINGS was not sacred. He promised innovation with “lowest price” with no or little profit and investors made him and Amazon among the richest in the world. Read the full article in The Boston Globe here