Stocks Roar; Jobs Grow; Warnings on a Road to Recovery; A Nation's Wounds Reappear
If more than 40 million Americans are without work and more than 100,000 small businesses have permanently closed in the last 90 days, how can the stock market rise so quickly after one of the worst c...
5 Jun 20204min
Permanent changes in the American Economy post-COVID19; Working Remotely is here to stay; Remembering 100,000 American lives.
While unemployment remains at levels not seen since the Great Depression, there are hopeful signs the economy can recover historic losses. Entire sectors of the American economy are forever changed be...
29 Mai 20204min
Bringing back the economy – step by step; WSJ piece on America’s financial collapse; and a Memorial Day tribute.
As the nation seeks to find its way forward on this Memorial Day weekend, we feature Justin Baer’s piece in the Wall Street Journal this week stands as a legacy story marking one of the worst days for...
22 Mai 20204min
Ep. 5 - Federal Reserve Chairman warns of further crisis; Technology growing and scaling; Kickboard's strategy for education forward.
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell spoke to the nation this week. Powell warned of catastrophic changes in various sectors of the economy. While economists agree the tools used by the Fed h...
15 Mai 20204min
Ep. 4 - Jobs coming, and going; 40 years of US Dept. of Education; Tulbelt and the next wave of the sharing economy
The National Association of Business Economics warns that only a small fraction of the jobs lost will be coming back as the American economy has been radically changed by the COVID-19 crisis. Educatio...
8 Mai 20204min
Ep. 3 - Leadership Lessons from Raising Cane's; the age of COVID-19; new opportunities.
When Todd Graves, the Founder and CEO of Raising Cane's saw the COVID-19 crisis coming, he immediately took action. Through his leadership, the company is surviving the pandemic without any employees ...
1 Mai 20204min
Ep. 2. - Financial earthquake; education revolution; leadership shift
In one month almost every job created since the Great Recession in 2008 was eliminated. Many of these lost jobs aren't returning as the economy makes drastic shifts in the world of commerce and indust...
24 Apr 20204min
Ep. 1 - Record lows; teaching innovation; a living legacy
U.S. banks are reporting record losses. We take a snapshot of the nation’s economy and look forward to the last half of the year with hope for a dynamic recovery. We also feature the work of Khan Acad...
17 Apr 20204min
