Maersk completes first Red Sea voyage in nearly two years
The shipping company says it has no plans to fully reopen the route but may gradually resume sailing via Suez and the Red Sea Danish shipping company Maersk said on Friday (Dec 19) that…
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The 6 P’s of pricing strategy
Pricing is one of the most powerful growth levers a business has, yet it is still one of the most overlooked. While teams spend months refining product and brand, pricing decisions are too…
Affordability Isn’t a “Silver Bullet” for Democrats
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrats are increasingly discussing affordability and blaming high costs…
The Week: Trump’s Affordability Address
Plus: A massacre on Bondi Beach. Source link
Feeling the Squeeze? It Might Be the High Price of Ignoring the Deficit
Policymakers are doing nothing to constrain the structural budget deficits that fuel inflation. Source link
Kathy Hochul Chooses Death
New York’s governor didn’t need to legalize medically assisted suicide. Source link
The Lessons of Wild Reeds
Thirty years of triangulating film and cultural insight. Source link
Conservatives’ Health Care Conundrum
The only way to meaningfully reduce health care costs is to make people more sensitive to them. Source link
CNMC plans to appeal against additional tax assessment of RM29.6 million imposed on Malaysian unit
The notices were raised in relation to the disallowance of management fee expenses paid by the subsidiary to the gold-mining company A Malaysian unit of CNMC Goldmine has been slapped with…
Transcript: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal New Fox Poll Hits
Press pool photographers now sort of make a point of photographing it every time he appears in front of them. And this has been going on for months, right? No, I’ll bet you that gets him…
Sias calls on Singapore Paincare to clarify actions after failed privatisation bid
The Securities Investors Association (Singapore), or Sias, called on medical services company Singapore Paincare to clarify its actions after its privatisation bid failed earlier this…
How The New Yorker digitized its entire magazine archive
You can now read every article that has ever appeared in The New Yorker—from as early as February 1925—with the click of a button. For the publication’s centennial anniversary, its…
Cognitive Tests Are Good. The Way Trump Talks About Them Is Bad.
The MoCA is a starting point—it bundles together mini-tests on several different areas of cognition, and if a patient has a lower score in certain areas, a provider might order more…
Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible
However, District Judge Jack Zouhary ruled that Files could be prosecuted because the immunity extended only to functions “necessary and proper” for officers to undertake their duties, and…
MAHA Is Coming for the EPA’s Lee Zeldin
You’d need a full-screen infographic with live updates to keep track of all the MAGA infighting these days. President Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is trashing him in a new Vanity…
In “Pluribus,” Groupthink Spells the End of Art
There are no working artists in Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), the show’s protagonist, used to be a successful romantasy novelist, but then a virus of unknown…
China A500 ETFs inflows surge to record high towards year-end
Investors buy 8.7 billion yuan worth of shares in seven of the largest basket funds INFLOWS to a group of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the CSI A500 Index surged to a fresh record…
Nidec founder and chairman Nagamori quits board after spate of accounting issues
The 81-year-old has voluntarily resigned his post, the world’s largest maker of mini-motors says Nidec said its founder Shigenobu Nagamori will step down from his position as chairman of…
Retro, a photo-sharing app for friends, lets you ‘time-travel’ through your camera roll
Nostalgia has been one of the dominant themes of 2025, from AI-generated scenes of the good ol’ days to the resurgence of analog hobbies. Retro, a friends-only photo journal, recently…
Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal New Fox Poll Hits Him Hard
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the world that the Kennedy Center has now been renamed after President Donald Trump. Her announcement of this great honor was…
Why brands are going unhinged on TikTok (and winning big)
Dead cartoon owls, brain-rot cookie content, fake rebrands, and library thirst traps. Welcome to the era of DGAF branding. In this episode of FC Explains, Grace Snelling breaks down why…
Bank of Japan hikes interest rates to 30-year-high of 0.75%
THE Bank of Japan on Friday hiked interest rates to 0.75 per cent, marking the first increase since January and its highest level in 30 years. The bank decided by a unanimous vote to raise…
Bank of Japan raises interest rates to 30-year high, signals more hikes
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates on Friday (Dec 19) to levels unseen in three decades and signalled its readiness for further hikes, taking another landmark step in ending…
BOJ raises interest rates to 30-year high, signals more hikes
It offers a slightly more upbeat view on the economy than at its previous meeting in October The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates on Friday (Dec 19) to levels unseen in three…