Tag: Business

If You Love Your Subscribers, Let Them Go

During the first COVID-19 lockdown, subscription businesses witnessed unprecedented growth. From coffee to cars—nothing was off-limits, and subscriptions went from a revenue strategy to a movement. Thanks to the unlimited supply of recurring revenue adrenaline, investors’ love for subscription businesses only grew by leaps and bounds. Then suddenly, the world woke up from its stupor….


Challenging Beijing’s Dominance in Rare Earths Requires Consumer Industries to Avoid Sourcing From China: Analysts

China is at the very top of global supply chains essential to the mining, refining, packaging, shipment, and sale of rare earth metals used for semiconductors, electric vehicles, and other growing industries. The only way to prevent Beijing’s total consolidation of this dominance is for consumer industries to change their trading relationships and source from…


Challenging Beijing’s Dominance in Rare Earths Requires Industries to Avoid Sourcing From China: Analysts

China is at the very top of global supply chains essential to the mining, refining, packaging, shipment, and sale of rare earth metals used for semiconductors, electric vehicles, and other growing industries. The only way to prevent Beijing’s total consolidation of this dominance is for consumer industries to change their trading relationships and instead source from…


Is the West Slipping Away From China?

Commentary As the old saying has it, “nothing lasts forever.” This truth is beginning to dawn in China. Rising costs, abusive policies, and, more recently, COVID-19 and war sanctions have prompted Japan and the West to rethink China’s exposure. Money is flowing elsewhere. Beijing would have to change much to bring back the former flood…


Australian Services Sector Frets Over Potential Interest Rate Rise

Australia’s services sector suffered a downturn in May faced with a rising interest rate environment, which is set to be compounded by a further hike by the Reserve Bank of Australia. The Australian Industry Group performance of services index tumbled 8.6 points to 49.2 in May, dropping below the key 50-point mark which separates contraction…


4 Tasks You Must Do Every Day to Grow Your Business

The ability to grow your business is what will make it break it. Often times, this looks like being consistent with certain tasks. These tasks are usually those that keep eyeballs on you while also getting you paid. The problem is many beginning business owners don’t know what that means. Many also fall into a false narrative and…


Massive Fire at Moscow Business Center Sends 4 to Hospital

MOSCOW—A massive fire at a Moscow business center led to four people, including a top emergency official, getting rushed to a hospital Friday, Russian authorities said. Emergency officials engaged 180 firefighters, dozens of vehicles, and three helicopters to combat the fire in the west of Russia’s capital. Sergei Zheltov, the head of the Russian Emergencies…


Biden Admin’s Reversal of Trump’s Deregulation Is Hurting Economy, Experts Say

The Biden administration’s dramatic expansion of the role of the federal government in business, banking, and society, and sharp break from the deregulatory approach of the Trump presidency, has severely overburdened key sectors and industries of the U.S. economy and helped drive up inflation to the highest rate in four decades, experts say. The federal…


What’s Behind California’s ‘Business Exodus’ | Hank Adler

There’s a trend in California of companies moving to other states due to high taxes and poor business policies. But is California doing anything to stop this great migration? My guest is Hank Adler, Burra Executive Professor of Accounting at Chapman University. He discusses why California policies are driving businesses out of the state.  …


Entrepreneur Sets Out to End Poverty in Africa

For Magatte Wade, connecting the dots is easy: The people of Africa are poor. They’re poor because they have no money. They have no money because they have no jobs. They have no jobs because there are no companies to employ them. There are no companies because the governments make it impossible to start one….