... underpaid and overworked, travellers in agony and investors looking stupid. The profitability of big US airlines over the past five years (a time of very low fuel prices, by the way) is poor. This is mainly because we’re trying to get it all done on a shoestring. How can commercial air travel be such a mess ...
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... The Economist recently reported that Africa, historically sustained almost exclusively by its extractive industries, has remained afloat. The year-low prices of commodities like copper, cotton and platinum, and the continuing fall of oil, have failed to overturn the bright growth forecasts for 2015, ...
... implicitly and automatically”. How, the article asks, can we be expected to trust Uber with our personal information if they’re willing to stoop this low? The same can be said of a consumer brand that promises wholesomeness, but then engages in unsavoury labour practices or ignores consumer safety. It ...
... December 15, 2017 Beijing is pushing migrants from the countryside out of the capital city. Established residents have felt the squeeze not only from low income laborers who’ve flocked to the city, but also from highly educated workers attracted by start-ups and other booming new economy businesses. It ...
... consumers bought more clothes and employment initially rose – aka the ‘income effect’ working on elastic demand. The jobs were dangerous, scary and mostly low skilled. They also eventually started to disappear altogether as more and more tasks were taken over by machines. From the Luddites’ perspective, this ...
... printing beyond spare parts and novelties, but phase two involves rethinking the premise that long runs of standard parts are the only way to achieve low unit costs. In other words, design can become reality for a dramatically greater number of good ideas. The potential this represents for customized products ...
... supply chain is incredibly agile and emerging technologies will keep feeding this trend. Automation and robotics are expanding everywhere, which means low-cost labour offers much less of a competitive advantage than twenty years ago when China first took over global manufacturing. Digital technologies also ...
... investments that created the world’s biggest economy. This blindness is especially baffling when interest rates, both long and short term, are historically low and cash is so fat on corporate balance sheets that many would rather buy back shares than invest in growth. Globally, we are at greater risk of deflation ...