Companies today adhere to a decades-old recruitment process originally designed for in-person paper applications — a pre-Internet, one-company-for-life era that has quickly passed us by. The Internet increased our visibility of choice and ease of application, which – c...

Recruiting today misses talented people who may not directly fit the job description, or model of the “ideal hire.” Traditional hiring practices assess on experience (what you have done) rather than potential (what you are capable of), with a disproportionate focus on...

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is banking on cash. He currently owns just four dividend stocks, Amazon, Netflix, and two undisclosed shorts. His logic?

"I think we borrowed from the future to pump up the current market...I don't know when the market will start to r...

For futurist nerds the world over, there is perhaps no better outlet than Yuval Noah Harari's "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow". The 400-page manifesto speculates on humanity's future, specifically our quest to upgrade humans into gods. From AI to cyborgs to des...

Henry Ford raised the salary of his workers so they’d be able to buy cars. Although this decision risked lowering profits temporarily, Ford took the long bet, assuming the move would lead to a more sustainable business and economy over time.

It did. By 1916, profits dou...

Remember how the housing market collapse shocked the world? There we were, chugging along, seemingly ok until -- boom! Economic implosion. 

In the first few years post-bomb most people were too busy cleaning up the carnage to figure out what the hell happened. Luck...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently stated it is a family's right to decide if they want to procreate, in response to backlash that Japanese are becoming "selfish" in their contentment without children. Whether due to positive scenarios such as increasing life...

What if you could attend college without racking up debt?

This is the idea behind Income Share Agreements, or ISA's, a United States financial structure in which an individual or organization gives a fixed amount of money to a recipient who, in exchange, agrees to pay b...

By 2023, the average BA grad's debt load will exceed his or her annual wages.
 

This is a terrifying statistic. More terrifying, however, are the trickle-down effects of a generation who can't get ahead. As many people well know, when every available dollar goes toward...

It is the worst-kept secret in the history of worst-kept secrets: Social Security is going to dry up. Soon.

This year signaled the start of a long, painful decline when -- for the first time since 1982 -- the Social Security Administration had more people to pay out th...