Hurricane Ian will be with us Floridians for months, if not years, to come. — Above all else, you have to be careful not to lose your empathy. As many of you are likely aware, we recently had a devastating hurricane in Southwest Florida. The fallout was worsened by the storm’s rapid strengthening, and the chaos amplified by a massively uncertain storm track that only…

Finding a better way to tell a story — Did you know? We’re currently experiencing the best economy of the last 50 years, at least in America. The same goes for Canada and the UK, too. Why? The unemployment rate, of course! See, I recently wrote a piece about how we’re already in something of a recession in many…

The past mimics rather than repeats itself. — In 1999, telephone operators at Bell Canada planned a work stoppage. Complaints ranged from corporate greed, potential downsizing, pay equity concerns, and other issues. Most pressing, at the time, was a proposed merger with another entity — Excell Corp — that seemed poised to reduce the ranks of Bell Canada’s…

Welcome to the slow-motion recession. — If you’re going to lay off 12,000 people, you should at least make an effort at telling them first. Unfortunately, Google didn’t get that memo, with some of their employees only discovering their laid-off status after their name badge failed to grant the building access that it had on every…

A refresher course on some bad spending habits. — Business strategy is very simple when you get down to it. There are only two ways to increase your bottom line: raise revenue, or cut costs. Everything else is just an offshoot of those two basic principles. Personal finance is no different. If you’re having difficulty paying the bills, you’re…

Something is deeply wrong — The inmates are running the asylum. I’ve been hearing that phrase quite often recently, and frequently from people I wouldn’t expect to utter it. I’ve heard extremely conservative colleagues say it, and extremely liberal employees say the same. …

Yes, I’m talking to you writers, too. — I’m not sure the general population really understands the speed with which technology is now advancing. The next few decades will be rough for the labor market, to be certain. The workforce reductions and eliminations will be of a scale that’ll make previous automation and offshoring appear to be minuscule…

Welcome to the new normal. — A friend of mine recently said that if we re-termed “recession” as “fiscal cooling” people would panic a whole lot less. I think it’s time for that rebranding, then, because recessions are coming. Yes, plural. And they’ll be with us for a while. There are a lot of large, societal…

We’ve got more than a few problems — It’s not about equality. Not at all. It’s about equality of outcomes when presented with the same factors. Some state it is about equal opportunity, which I suppose is the right idea. But opportunity results in a lot of theoretical situations. I’m concerned about the results. That may seem to…