5-Year TIPS Auction Gets a Real Yield of 1.367%
On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury auctioned 5‑year Treasury Inflation‑Protected Securities (TIPS) with a real yield of 1.367%, marking a modest increase over the prior auction. The offering attracted robust demand, pulling in roughly $38 billion in bids from both domestic and foreign investors. The higher real yield reflects growing inflation expectations amid geopolitical concerns, including tensions in the Middle East. Investors are adjusting their portfolios, balancing cash, dividend‑linked VTIPS, and newly issued TIPS to maintain inflation protection.
She Raised $2.5 Million From Friends and Family — And Saw Zero Sales. Then She Leaned Into a ‘Hunch.’ Now...
Mariam Naficy founded Minted in 2007, raising $2.5 million from friends and family. After an initial model of selling established stationery brands flopped, she allocated $100,000 to a crowdsourced design competition that quickly became the company’s core offering. The artist‑driven marketplace...
Anthropic PMs Ship in Days, Hire Introspective AI Talent
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else I sat down with @_catwu, Head of Product for Claude Code at @AnthropicAI, to get a peek into their unprecedented shipping pace, how AI is changing the PM role, and how to...
Top 3 SPAC Targets – Solar Power
After a lull, the SPAC market is refocusing on solar power. The article spotlights three private solar developers—Cypress Creek Renewables, Avantus, and ACES Africa—as top SPAC candidates. Cypress Creek runs about 3 GW of operating assets with a 15 GW pipeline; Avantus...
Hospitality Ranks Least Prepared for AI as Workforce Gaps Widen
A 2026 Resume Now analysis finds hospitality is the least AI‑ready industry, trailing healthcare, financial services and logistics. The report highlights a widening skills gap as AI tools are deployed faster than frontline workers can be trained. Automation is reshaping scheduling...
What Are the Best Enterprise Social Network Platforms for Large Organizations?
G2’s Spring 2026 Enterprise Grid® Report ranks Workvivo, DSMN8 and Blink as the highest‑scoring enterprise social networking (ESN) platforms for large organizations, with Workvivo achieving a 9.9/10 user‑satisfaction rating. Haystack, Workvivo and MangoApps lead the category for customer‑support quality, while Workvivo,...
Three Phases to $1M Digital Writing Success
The Path to $1M as a Digital Writer is just 3 phases. Phase 1: Start writing online, gather data, and then double-down on "what's working" Phase 2: Name & Claim your niche, build a Superniche audience, create your 1st digital product Phase 3:...
What Is the Best Recruitment Marketing Platform for Enterprises?
According to G2’s Spring 2026 Enterprise Grid Report, Bullhorn, Handshake for Employers, and Greenhouse are the overall best recruitment‑marketing platforms for large enterprises. JobDiva, Bullhorn, and Greenhouse achieve the highest user‑satisfaction scores, while Jobylon, RippleMatch and Handshake lead in customer‑support ratings....
Sell Pain, Not Product: Quantify Buyer Problems
My first year in SaaS sales: $36K. Ten years later: $1.63M in a single year. The difference wasn't hustle. It wasn't luck. It was one shift: I stopped selling products and started quantifying pain. The reps who make the most money describe their buyer's...
Luck? No! How Builders Manufacture the "Accidents" Outsiders Call Magic
The article debunks the myth of "luck" in business, arguing that so‑called accidental breakthroughs are the result of deliberate, high‑velocity experimentation. Historical examples—from Perkin’s mauve dye to Bell’s telephone—show that most “accidents” occurred during focused research, especially in opaque fields...
Better Tech Boosts Advisor Well‑Being, Cuts Turnover Risk
Advisor well-being (measured by the Cantril Ladder) is strongly linked to satisfaction with their tech stack. Advisors who rated their tech stack between 1 and 3 reported an average Cantril rating of 5.6, while those who gave their stack a...
Gemini + Veo: A Deep Dive Into Google’s High-Fidelity Video Generation Pipeline
Google unveiled Veo, a high‑fidelity 1080p video generation model that leverages latent diffusion in a 3‑D latent space, and paired it with Gemini, its multimodal reasoning engine, to act as a cinematic director. The integration, accessible through Vertex AI, lets Gemini...
Your Marketing Team Is Doing Everything Right — But the Results Aren’t Adding Up. Here’s Why.
B2B marketing teams are achieving individual channel metrics yet failing to translate activity into pipeline because they operate in silos. The article argues that consolidating PR, SEO, content, and AI optimization around a handful of high‑priority pages creates a unified...
How Do I Interview with the Person I Would Be Replacing?
A candidate has reached the second interview round and will meet the employee who is leaving the role. The conversation could serve either as a standard evaluation interview or as an informational session to learn the job’s nuances. The article...
People Moves: $62B RIA Clearstead Hires M&A Head
Clearstead Advisors, a Cleveland‑based RIA with $62 billion in assets under advisement, has hired Shaun McCracken as executive managing director of mergers and acquisitions. McCracken joins from Acrisure after eight years, most recently serving as its M&A director. The move reflects a...
JPMorgan’s Private‑credit Playbook: Inflate Rates, Warn
The JPMorgan private credit playbook this month: 1. Raise back-leverage rates 50-150bps. 2. Mark down the collateral. 3. Tell the press the asset class is risky. 4. Launch your own fund. The warnings were always going to end in a product launch.
Advil Says Toss Expired Bottles, Buy New in Awareness and Purchasing Campaign
Advil launched "The Advil Exchange," a digital campaign that lets shoppers scan expired bottles to receive a $3 coupon for a new 18‑plus count product. The initiative, driven by a survey showing consumers keep an average of 13 outdated pain‑relief...
AI, Brand Safety’s Frenemy | Behind the Numbers
In this episode, Marcus talks with UK analyst Bill Fisher and US AI expert Jacob about the surge of AI‑generated "slop" on platforms like YouTube and its impact on brand safety. They highlight how AI content now makes up roughly...
Credit Investors Snap up BDC Bonds as Retail Exits Equity
Third BDC bond deal in eight days. All oversubscribed. All priced tighter than talk. Credit investors are buying the liability stack while retail is trying to exit the equity below it
Washington’s One-Dimensional Chess in the Horn of Africa
The Trump administration is reportedly holding secret talks to lift U.S. sanctions on Eritrea, a move that diverges from the usual pattern of sanction relief following political reform or conflict resolution. Eritrea’s authoritarian regime, led by Isaias Afwerki since 1993, shows...
BREAKING: Congressman Tom Suozzi Just Tore Apart Trump’s Trade Defense With One Simple Line of Questioning
In this episode, host challenges the prevailing narrative that recent U.S. tariffs are dramatically raising household costs, disputing figures from the Tax Foundation, Yale Budget Lab, and Moody's that claim tariffs add $1,000 to $4,200 per family annually. The discussion...
Ads Drive Traffic, But Weak Pages Waste Budgets
Ads are bringing people in But they don’t stay If your page doesn’t convince Your budget just bleeds
Parminder Singh Appointed CEO Of Reliance’s AI Subsidiary
Reliance Industries has named former Google executive Parminder Singh as chief executive officer of its AI arm, Reliance Enterprise Intelligence Ltd (REIL), effective immediately. The move follows a joint venture with Meta that injected roughly $103 million—$71.9 million from Reliance and $30.9 million...
Alani Nu Could Boost CELH Revenue, Undervaluing Stock
$CELH does seem too cheap at ~2.9x NTM ev/revs with Alani Nu growing at 94% YoY. At the end of 2025, the Celsius brand was 60% of total revenues and the Alani Nu brand was 40% of total revenues. Before the...
Mass General Brigham Secures Nearly $866M Financing Package For Ongoing Expansion
Mass General Brigham secured a $865.5 million tax‑exempt bond package, led by J.P. Morgan Securities, to fund its ongoing West End campus expansion. The financing will support the 482‑bed Ragon Building, which will boost oncology and cardiovascular services, and add five stories...
MacroVoices #529 Ole S Hansen: Commodities in The Wake of The Iran Crisis
In this episode, Saxo Bank’s chief commodity strategist Ola Hansen explains how the Iran crisis is rippling through energy markets, refined products, fertilizers, metals and agriculture, creating extreme backwardation in crude oil futures. He argues that the forward curve’s steep backwardation...
Ad Spend on YouTube, Google Search, Amazon Sponsored Products Is Growing: Report
Tinuiti’s latest report, based on more than $4 billion in managed ad spend, shows double‑digit growth across most digital channels in Q1 2026. Meta’s Instagram Reels now generate a third of the platform’s ad impressions, lifting Instagram ad spend 28% year‑over‑year, while...
Bread's Strong Earnings Tempered by Economic Worries
Bread Financial reported a strong first‑quarter performance, with loan balances climbing to $18.1 billion, a 2% year‑over‑year increase, and credit sales up 7% to $6.5 billion. Revenue rose 5% to $1.02 billion and net income surged 32% to $4.15 million, beating analyst forecasts. Credit...
Bonds Play a Role in Arlington, Texas, Lease Extension for Dallas Cowboys
Arlington’s City Council approved a master agreement extending the Dallas Cowboys’ lease at AT&T Stadium through 2055, with the team pledging at least $750 million for facility upgrades. The city will reimburse up to $273 million over 20 years for maintenance and...
Trump Reportedly Invites Russia to G20 After Renewing Russian Oil Waiver
President Donald Trump has reportedly extended a Treasury waiver that allows sanctioned Russian oil to be sold globally through mid‑May 2026, a move estimated to add roughly $9 billion to Moscow’s war‑funding. At the same time, Russian officials claim they have...
US, South Africa Renew Accounting Recognition Pact
The United States and South Africa have renewed their mutual recognition agreement (MRA) for accountants through June 30, 2031. The pact, signed by NASBA, the AICPA and SAICA, streamlines licensing for U.S. CPAs and South African chartered accountants seeking to work in...
Make Time Wellness Expands Product Line and Retail with Launch in Target Stores
Make Time Wellness, the women’s brain‑health supplement brand founded by Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni, is launching its products in select Target stores nationwide this April. The rollout follows the introduction of three new formulas—Menopause & Brain Health, NAD+ & Rhodiola,...
The $2.8 Billion Email: What CEOs Get Wrong About BEC Fraud
Business Email Compromise (BEC) continues to drain U.S. companies of roughly $2.8 billion a year, according to the latest FBI Internet Crime Report. CEOs frequently attribute the threat to weak IT controls, overlooking the human element that attackers exploit. The article...
Conduit Issuer Project-Selection Process in Spotlight
The SEC’s municipal securities director warned that non‑governmental conduit borrowers are driving the bulk of defaults in the municipal bond market. Data from Municipal Market Analytics shows that from Jan 2020 through April 2024, conduit‑backed borrowers accounted for 75% of impairments...
1H 2026 SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors: Connected Solutions and New AI-First Capabilities
SAP announced the first‑half 2026 release of SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors, adding AI‑first recruiting tools and tighter integration with the SAP HCM suite. The update introduces AI‑driven candidate matching, automated interview scheduling, and a new API marketplace for third‑party extensions....
Petro to Meet with Delcy
Colombian President Gustavo Petro will meet Venezuelan acting president Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas to discuss border security and the prospect of Colombian gas imports from Venezuela. The talks mark the first high‑level contact since the U.S. military ousted former President...
More than 30,000 Samsung Workers Take to the Streets to Demand Greater Share of AI Profits
More than 30,000 Samsung Electronics employees gathered in Pyeongtaek to press for a larger slice of the company’s AI‑driven earnings. The National Samsung Electronics Union is asking for a 15% profit allocation—roughly $27 billion, or over $400,000 per worker—plus the removal...
How Multi-Concept Ownership Benefits Both Franchisors and Franchisees
Multi‑concept franchise ownership is gaining traction as seasoned operators acquire several complementary brands. For franchisors, these owners deliver ready capital, proven operational know‑how, and reduced onboarding risk, enabling faster territorial expansion. Franchisees benefit from diversified revenue streams, shared back‑office infrastructure,...
Tech Media Must Stop Uncritical CEO Quote Reporting
A recent New Yorker article put a spotlight on Sam Altman’s compulsive lying. It’s not a great look for tech media that echoed his statements. On Tech Won’t Save Us, I spoke with @kbode to discuss the problem of “CEO says...
Shift IT Focus From Spend to Real Value Metrics
IT is great at tracking spend, not so great at proving benefits. Time to move beyond inputs and measure "honest time savings, productivity gains, and market share." #CIO https://t.co/qPKuOVY8TH
Ecommerce Trends: AI’s Key Conversion Metric Is Improving
Adobe Digital Insights reports that AI‑driven traffic to North American retailers converted 42% more often than non‑AI traffic in March 2026, overturning a year‑earlier deficit. AI‑referenced visits surged 393% year‑over‑year, while visitors stayed 48% longer, viewed 13% more pages and...
Top Large Cities Reveal Geographic Edge for New Restaurants
Aspiring restaurant operators - here is an interesting resource about the best large cities to start a business. Some interesting geographical differences. https://t.co/3JGPaRhc7m
Smart, Original SportsBiz Coverage Drives Better Business
Unparalleled coverage of the #sportsbiz industry. Smart, original editorial designed for better business outcomes: Check it all out at https://t.co/Ja1yYjwFgP https://t.co/Cq0rqIOTkx
UPS Adds Temporary Surge Fee to US Imports, Exports
UPS introduced a temporary "Surge Emergency Fee" on April 19, imposing a $0.23 per‑pound surcharge on most U.S. import and export shipments and a $0.32 per‑pound rate for China and Hong Kong lanes. The fee spans seven core services, from Worldwide...
HR Overlooks AI’s Real Impact on Workforce
HR´s blind spot in assessing the impact of AI https://t.co/nntpfcj1lN #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
From Enterprise IT to Entrepreneurship: How Kostiantyn Gitko Is Building Tech Businesses Across Global Markets
Former enterprise CTO Kostiantyn Gitko founded Devox Software after years leading large‑scale IT operations in Ukraine. Leveraging his experience with reliable infrastructure, Devox now employs more than 120 specialists and delivers structured, scalable solutions to clients across the United States...
Sanctions Spur Dramatic Diversification of Iran’s Trade
Under the sanctions regime, Iran’s trade has diversified dramatically. More featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below https://t.co/YVEjDdiUTn
Scandic Hotels Group Moves Closer to Dalata Deal as Leadership Overhaul Begins
Scandic Hotels Group, which has been managing Dalata’s portfolio since November, announced that Dalata’s CEO Dermot Crowley and his deputy will step down later this year as part of a post‑acquisition restructuring. Dalata was bought for €1.4 billion (approximately $1.5 billion) by...
Dollar Climbs, Risk Appetite Sours, Markets Tumble
Dollar has rallied; VIX spiked; equities, gold, emerging markets and Bitcoin have dropped. News of Ghalibaf bowing out of US-Iran negotiations not being taken favorably from a 'risk appetite' perspective
$2,500 Grant For Early-Stage Founders (Deadline: May 6, 2026)
A $2,500 non‑dilutive grant is now open for early‑stage founders who are actively building, testing, or selling their products. The program targets entrepreneurs who need cash to validate ideas without giving up equity. Applications must be submitted by May 6, 2026, and...