Not long ago, supply chain management was viewed as the silent, dusty backbone of commerce. Essential, yes, but hardly worthy of mainstream attention. Then came the pandemic, and suddenly, everyone from Wall Street to suburbia realized that getting toilet paper from warehouse to aisle was...
You’d have to go back to the last few seismic shocks to the U.S. economy — the pandemic and the Great Recession — to find this level of economic gloom among consumers. As measured by the preliminary April reading of consumer sentiment released Friday (April...
Large players in the grocery industry took advantage of the pandemic’s supply chain problems to raise prices and profits and keep them high. So said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a press release and staff report issued Thursday (March 21). “As the pandemic illustrated,...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched a new program that aims to assist businesses that mistakenly filed Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims and want to repay the funds they received in error. The IRS has been working on this Voluntary Disclosure Program for several months...
May 22, 2025
Not long ago, supply chain management was viewed as the silent, dusty backbone of commerce. Essential, yes, but hardly worthy of mainstream attention. Then came the pandemic, and suddenly, everyone from Wall Street to suburbia realized that getting toilet paper from warehouse to aisle was a logistical miracle, and even sometimes a catastrophe. “Our supply […]
August 25, 2023
The ability to make tough decisions quickly is often the difference between success and failure. After all, if it were easy to be a leader, everyone would be one. “We...
March 30, 2021
With the restaurant industry hit hard by the events of the last year and small and midsize businesses (SMBs) disproportionately bearing the brunt of these challenges, consumers and businesses alike...
December 14, 2020
Subscription services are taking off during the pandemic, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers are no exception. Many of these solutions providers are offering key services for businesses with employees working from...
October 07, 2025
The Federal Reserve reportedly may be getting close to ending the reduction of assets on its balance sheet, a quantitative tightening process that began in 2022 as the central bank sought to reverse the asset purchases it made to stimulate the economy during the pandemic. Funding pressures in U.S. money markets and dwindling bank reserves […]
March 21, 2024
Large players in the grocery industry took advantage of the pandemic’s supply chain problems to raise prices and profits and keep them high. So said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
December 21, 2023
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched a new program that aims to assist businesses that mistakenly filed Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims and want to repay the funds they received...
September 25, 2023
Most Americans are reportedly facing financial challenges as their pandemic savings have dwindled. Beyond the wealthiest 20% of the U.S., Americans have depleted their extra savings and now have less...
