This summer, cancer patients in India discovered that a chemotherapy shortage can begin far from a pharmaceutical factory, with a disruption in the supply of a metal. Cisplatin and carboplatin are decades-old generic drugs that remain a backbone of chemotherapy for many cancers. Both depend on platinum. When platinum prices more than doubled, Indian manufacturers […]
A quiet, painful break is happening in homes across America, and it started in a courthouse. As the country fixates on the Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy, the argument has left the courthouse and entered our own relationships. Recent media analysis highlights show couples breaking up, engagements being called off, and marriages straining over one […]
Conventional wisdom insists that artificial intelligence has the worst public relations ever. This is ironic, given that AI is supposed to be curing cancer, yet it can’t even come up with a PR plan to make itself less hated. Perhaps the failure is inherent to the product, not its communications strategy. We see this with […]
1992—Recognizing that “only exceptional circumstances amounting to a judicial usurpation of power will justify the invocation of extraordinary remedy” of a writ of...
Every new client who opens an account at my firm hands over a driver’s license, a passport, or a certified trust document before a single dollar moves. Federal regulators call it Know Your Customer or KYC for short. I call it common sense: verify who someone is before you give them access to something valuable. […]
President Donald Trump stands before a supreme geopolitical opportunity in the Balkans. Decades of State Department bureaucratic inertia have locked American foreign policy into a failed, artificial construct known as the Dayton Accords. This obsolete framework sacrifices American strategic flexibility on the altar of “democratic” diplomatic nostalgia. Rather than propping up a dysfunctional Bosnian state […]
The global bond market is throwing a massive tantrum, and the fallout is heading straight for your wallet. Investors are aggressively dumping U.S. government debt. This global bond market rout has driven long-term borrowing costs to heights not seen in nearly two decades. The most immediate casualty of this panic is the American home buyer. […]
Presidents love to make promises they don’t keep. Think back to the last guy in the Oval Office. Joe Biden vowed to connect rural Americans to broadband internet — the gateway to so much employment, education, and healthcare in the 21st century. But after spending more than $40 billion, not a single person was connected […]
