2023 is right around the corner. As you start thinking about New Year’s Resolutions, consider making workplace productivity a priority. 2022 was riddled with stories of workplace burnout and fatigue. Luckily, we’ve found a few tips to turn that around…

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Reshoring – For some twenty or thirty years there was a consistent lament that manufacturing was abandoning the US. There was a virtual stampede out of the US as manufacturers and others sought lower…

It’s clear that no two leaders are alike, but what makes someone a leader? Or more specifically, how do you build a leader? According to Harvard Business Review, a leader “successfully marshals [their] human collaborators to achieve particular ends.” Whether…

Inflation spikes, delayed supply chains, a hot labor market and a looming recession all continue to hinder the U.S. economy. Job openings made a record monthly decline of 1.1 million in August to 10.1 million, according to U.S. Department of…

As inflation continues to wreak havoc on the global economy, the labor market is showing signs of cooling. According to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), the count of job openings plummeted by 1.1 million vacancies in…

Investopedia names complacency as one of the top six reasons a business fails, and a culture of complacency prevents leadership teams from predicting a downturn and other risks that can harm a business. Signs of workplace complacency include employee disengagement,…

With an excited ‘I-just-got-candy’ look on my face, I slid the paper into the compartment made for either a single page or multiple. Excitedly, I punched some numbers into a keypad on top of the machine. There was a click,…

This is actually pretty dangerous territory for an economist. We all know the best definition of an economist is someone who explains tomorrow why the predictions they made yesterday didn’t come true today. We are also notorious for predicting 13…

There are far more questions regarding the new climate change legislation than there are answers. We discuss some of this elswhere in the latest issue of the Flagship but it seems appropriate to get into a bit more detail in…

It’s a small lien, just under four thousand dollars. And with poo-poo heads, er, attorneys wanting $300 or so per hour to pursue it, it wouldn’t take long to chew up most of the lien’s value foreclosing on it. So why…