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Ty Haney’s Outdoor Voices Work Diary: Doing Things and #doingthings

The athletic apparel founder’s week is anything but “recreationally paced.”

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Wait. Elevating Women Means I Have to Pay Them?

Companies want to eliminate harassment and get more women into leadership — as long as that doesn’t cost them anything. Here’s some advice.

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DealBook Briefing: A Rate Cut Now Looks All but Certain

Jay Powell, the Fed chairman, strongly signaled yesterday that the Fed could cut interest rates later this month.

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Trump Withdraws Plan to Eliminate Drug Price Rebates

The proposal would have lowered costs under Medicare for consumers needing expensive drugs, but would have raised Medicare premiums.

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Making Sure Your Stress Isn’t Contagious

First, identify what’s stressing you out. * This article was originally published here

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World polar circumnavigation record shattered

The One More Orbit crew at Kennedy Space Center Aerospace Technologies Group of Boca Raton reports it products were used on a flight that shattered the world record for global circumnavigation of the...

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Unemployment Is Low, but That’s Only Part of the Story

Those who stop looking for work aren’t officially listed as unemployed. There is a broader monthly statistic that accounts for the dropouts, but it doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

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Is This the End of Anonymous Shell Companies? Not Too Fast

The use of L.L.C.s and shell corporations to hide the true source of funds has been an issue for the United States for more than a decade. A bill in Congress seeks to address it.

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Economic Conditions Snapshot, June 2019: McKinsey Global Survey results

Executives’ sentiments on the global economy are the lowest in years, amid growing concerns over trade conflicts. Meanwhile, their expectations about conditions at home remain more negative than...

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Andrew Dibner, Medical Alert Pioneer, Is Dead at 93

Concerned about what happens when people fall and can’t reach a telephone to call an ambulance, Mr. Dibner, a psychologist, developed a system to help.

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Prime Day’s Best Sellers by Year

What will people buy on Prime Day 2019? We look to previous years’ best sellers for clues.

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Driving toward growth: Making difficult decisions and placing the customer first

The key to above-market growth at Aliaxis is a mind-set that keeps the customer first.* This article was originally published here

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Monthly Jobs Data Shows Slight Slowdown in SMB Growth

Small businesses added an average of 0.21 workers per company in June 2019. 58% of SMB owners reported hiring or trying to hire, marking a four-point decline from May. 21% of small business owners...

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Facebook’s Digital Money Could Mean Fabulous Wealth. Or Not.

The social network is planning a new cryptocurrency, potentially inserting the company into yet another part of our lives. Our reporter wonders: What’s in it for me?

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Buying Lattes Is Not Keeping You From Being Rich

Have as many lattes as you want. Just make sure you focus on the handful of things that will make a major difference to your financial health, a financial adviser says.

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Bond Returns Have Been Spectacular. Don’t Count on a Sequel.

A large and largely unexpected decline in bond interest rates requires downshifting expectations for the future.

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DealBook Briefing: Why Are Stocks Still Rising?

Economic fears are climbing — but so are the markets, with the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average both setting records yesterday.

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Long-Short Funds: Long on Complexity, Short on Returns

Portfolios that bet on some stocks rising and others falling have produced poor results because of high costs and unfavorable markets.

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Day Care and Dog Care Helped Plump These Funds’ Returns

Three of the second quarter’s better-performing mutual funds found winning investments in industries as varied as child care, animal health and banking.

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In the Search for Safe Assets, Investors Detour Around Gold

Despite global turbulence, strife and a June price surge, gold remains far below its 2011 highs.

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