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Saturday, July 12, 2025
People Take Pictures of the Summer
Friday, July 11, 2025
Viewpoint Diversity by Harvard
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A spokesman for Harvard said an initiative under discussion “will ensure exposure to the broadest ranges of perspectives on issues, and will not be partisan, but rather will model the use of evidence-based, rigorous logic and a willingness to engage with opposing views.” He added that the school has been accelerating efforts to set up the initiative, which would “promote and support viewpoint diversity.”
Learn more about how Harvard is getting close to making this 'viewpoint diversity' happen.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Great Analysis of How Tariffs Are Paid by Americans
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The buyers’ tariff payment [business owner who imports], in turn, is included in the bill you pay in the store. This is because these buyers add it to the bills they’ve paid to their Vietnamese supplier and to the shipping company carrying across the Pacific to the United States. The result is the “landed cost” from which they mark up to cover costs — wages, building rent, transport, maintenance, marketing, etc. — and leave a profit margin. If the product doesn’t sell, the store takes the loss; if you buy it, you cover their tariff cost. Using the hypothetical example of a container carrying 1,000 Vietnamese-made wooden chairs valued at $100 each, here's the arithmetic.
Read on for the full analysis.
Wednesday, July 09, 2025
The OKAPA Water Bottle: Elevating An Everyday Ritual Through Meticulous Design and Uncompromising Engineering
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In working with IDEO, global brand expert Hardy Steinmann, CEO and Founder, OKAPA says:
“IDEO’s thinking starts where other firms end. Our collaboration was the art of playing thought ping-pong. It resulted in a high-tech, sophisticated, intelligently beautiful, and fashionable lifestyle product. The final design is so perfect, I made it my mission not to change anything..”
Learn more by reading the fabulous, meticulous, story here.
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Tariffs: Oh Keep Up Will You?
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The latest development on global trade by Trump comes as a 90-day pause the White House placed on some of its most aggressive import taxes was set to expire this week (7/7/25).
Starting August 1, 2025, here's what you might expect. Chaos in the name of the game here.

Monday, July 07, 2025
Today in Global Small Business: The Predictability of Unpredictability
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- Trump is not the first American president to deploy an Unpredictability Doctrine.
- Dalai Lama, a global symbol of Tibetan culture and resistance, turns 90.
- How maritime ports can advance industrial climate tech solutions.
- Quote of the week: "You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to go with the flow." – Jane Krakowski
- Planning for the unplannable: What supply chain leaders should be doing now.
- Container lines pull back on India-US pricing push.
Saturday, July 05, 2025
I Simply Know They're Just One Thing
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Friday, July 04, 2025
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Wednesday, July 02, 2025
The Winners and Losers in Trump's Big, Beautiful Tax Bill
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What's in the BBTB? Who comes out a winner? Who comes out a loser? Find out here.
Tuesday, July 01, 2025
The Dollar's Worst Start to the Year in Decades
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The combination of Mr. Trump’s trade proposals, inflation worries and rising government debt has weighed on the dollar, which has also been buffeted by slowly sliding confidence in the role of the United States at the center of the global financial system.
Maybe the dollar isn't that weak after all because it started from such a high level.
Monday, June 30, 2025
Today in Global Small Business: wegg® Accepts All Leftover Gift Donations to Mr. and Mrs. Bezos
- Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® (wegg®) accepts all leftover gift donations to Mr. and Mrs. Bezos. Please lavish it on wegg! Donate here. Crypto gifts here.
- Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos are married! The cost of the wedding estimated between $47 and $56 million.
- Inside Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's pajama-themed wedding celebrations.
- Quote of the week: "Where there is love there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi
- Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez final wedding party.
- Venice boat ride for Mr. and Mrs. Bezos.