Reuters (January 29)
The UK is hurtling “into the Brexit unknown” as “a dis-United Kingdom exits the European Union” on Friday. Alas, more “Brexit fatigue” is likely in store. “Trade talks with every major power—including the EU—loom while there is little clarity on what the United Kingdom’s pitch to global investors will be.”
WARC (January 28)
“Advertiser spend on sports sponsorship is expected to rise 5% this year to reach more than $48bn worldwide–the strongest growth in a decade and ahead of growth projections for all traditional media.” The growth has “been buoyed by record investment ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.”
Financial Times (January 28)
“Donald Trump has become the pantomime villain for the climate change story…. However, if you look at the numbers—as opposed to the theatre—it becomes clear that the battle to control climate change now depends much more on what happens in China than in America.”
Tags: China, Climate change, Trump, U.S., Villain
The Guardian (January 26)
“Brexit Britain may soon find itself sinking faster than Venice. The UK faces economic upheaval on a vast scale if it is not, after all, to pursue ‘Brexit in name only.’”
Tags: Brexit, Economic upheaval, Sinking, UK, Vast scale ], Venice
The Economist (January 25)
Toshiba has threatened “to block the takeover” of Toshiba Machine by Yoshiaki Murakami with a new share issue. This “should alarm anyone who cares about how Japanese firms are run.” Last year, Japanese corporations held cash in excess of ¥446 trillion, “even after they had bought back a record ¥6.5trn in shares the year before.” This “reluctance to part with cash shortchanges investors in Japan by ¥16trn a year.”
Tags: Alarm, Cash, Investors, Japan, Murakami, Share issue, Takeover, Threatened, Toshiba, Toshiba Machine
Harvard Business Review (January 24)
Clayton Christensen (1952–2020) changed the way people think. “Once you see the world through his theories of innovation, you can’t un-see them. They pervade everything in your life.”
Tags: Christensen, Innovation, Pervade, Theories, Think, Un-see
The New Yorker (January 23)
For the 53 Republican senators, “membership in Trump’s party” is an “all-embracing and restrictive proposition.” Unlike royal membership, Trump’s team “tars reputations rather than enhances them.” Trump “never admits anything, demands total loyalty, and strikes out at anyone that transgresses these rules. As with the Windsors, you can’t be a half-in Trump Republican.”
Tags: Demands, Loyalty, Membership, Party, Republican, Reputations, Restrictive, Royal, Senators, Tars, Trump
LA Times (January 23)
“Republicans have been trying to impeach this president since before he was sworn into office. And now, at last, they could make good on the fantasy…. But the dynamism the party once showed, when it dared to condemn Trump in 2016, is gone.”
Chicago Tribune (January 22)
“It seems odd that lawmakers from one political party, sworn to uphold the Constitution and under oath as impartial jurors, would not insist that witnesses to what they claim is perfectly legal presidential behavior step up and testify.”
Tags: Behavior, Constitution, Impartial, Jurors, Lawmakers, Legal, Oath, Party, Testify, Uphold, Witnesses
Reuters (January 21)
“It’s a high bar but Donald Trump has quickly snagged the title of most insufferable man at Davos.” The audience at the World Economic Forum “barely clapped during Trump’s comments—but he gave himself enough applause to make up for it.”
Tags: Applause, Clapped, Davos, Insufferable, Trump, World Economic Forum
