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A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: My co-author Seth Levine and I had an exciting weekend. Journalist Michel Martin interviewed us on NPR’s All Things Considered about our book, The New Builders: Face To Face With The True Future Of Business, coming out May 4th. Here’s the segment, where we advocate for a new movement of […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: This week, to celebrate International Women’s Day, the Fearless Girl on Wall Street broke glass ceilings. The sculpture is now surrounded by shards of broken glass. Of course I celebrate the achievements of individual women, the first doctor, first firefighter, first woman CEO of a big bank. But I’ve covered too […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: When I was writing about finance, I relied on Vanguard research for clues about the world economy’s trajectory. So, good news out today: Vanguard sees a strong economic rebound in 2021, with China at 9% GDP growth, emerging markets at 6% overall, and 5% in Europe and the […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Five or six years ago, I wrote a story for the Atlantic about my great-grandfather’s suicide during the Great Depression and its effect it had on my family over the years. The stigma of a suicide lasts for generations: the clearest evidence for me being the way we […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: Saturday, I walked down to the Lincoln Memorial. I wanted to get a sense of the size of the Trump rally. It was in the thousands, small as Washington, D.C., rallies go. The crowd at the Memorial was diverse and peaceful, and collected in surprising numbers around the Second […]

A note from our editor, Elizabeth MacBride: When I was an intern at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, one editor lacked confidence. When she was responsible for planning the front page, she leaned on the advance wire notice that revealed what The New York Times planned for its Page One.Thus, the Richmond newspaper sometimes had strangely New York-centric stories, like […]

Two fascinating ideas emerged from an interview last week with Kathryn Finney. First is the question of the narratives of economic value that dictate who gets paid, and for what, in the United States. Perpetual income and wealth gaps exist because many Americans have internalized a slavery narrative that Black people’s labor should be free, […]

The Times of Entrepreneurship: Weekly Alert Good morning, Times of E readers. Here are the week’s key headlines, plus a Small Business Resource Guide of grants and loans Subscribe to Times of E’s weekly briefs or tell us about your company: www.timesofe.com/introduction. Gun Sales Surge Again, But Something Will Be Different This Time: Video Surveillance There’s […]