Hitting “reset” has been the top-line news item globally this week. North Korea and South Korea are progressing toward a formal end to the Korean War, 65 years after hostilities were discontinued by armistice. Those who flipped (or more likely clicked) from the first page to the business...
“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” The above was famously said by President Harry S. Truman on the nature of politics and winning over an audience. Convincing is the best way to go, according to Truman — but in a pinch, a confused audience...
In recent years, Tax Day has also become a time to make big statements on taxes. We won’t do that. Instead, we’ll remind you of some pretty big moves — made by some of payment’s biggest players — that have absolutely nothing to do with politics....
Though you might not realize it looking at a weather forecast in various parts of the nation – as it seems the temperature might never actually break 40 degrees – spring is upon us; the season for new beginnings is here. Even if the weather refuses to play nicely, at...
Spring, after a long delay, has arrived. It seems to have (mostly) stopped snowing, the April Fools’ Day Easter baskets have been put away, and now it’s time to see what green shoots will peek through and grow. Like, for instance… Will Walmart Buy Humana? If...
Despite living in a world awash in data, it’s surprising how much our lives are defined by uncertainty. What’s coming next is hard to measure in a world where it seems entire news cycles can be made — and broken — with but a single...
Despite the best work of fortune tellers and algorithm writers, the future is a hard thing to predict – because unusual and unexpected things insist upon happening. Sometimes, the unexpected is good. After all, Boston managed to have a St. Patrick’s Day parade in 2018...
The pomp, the pageantry — and, of course, the glamour. Roughly 40 million people tuned in last night to the 90th run-through of the Academy Awards to find out which films, performances, scripts and costumes carried the day in 2017. On the upside, this year’s...
Last week had plot twists in the payments and commerce ecosystem. We found out Google was hitting reset on its mobile payments ambitions. We learned, care of an indictment out of Robert Mueller’s investigation, the Russians aren’t coming — so much as they are already here and are committing a...
