Bari Weiss’s MAGA Makeover at CBS Is Colliding With Reality
Bari Weiss, hired by CBS after Paramount acquired her Free Press outlet, is now at odds with news president Tom Cibrowski as the network’s ratings continue to slide. Weiss has pushed an aggressive digital‑first, hard‑news strategy while cutting roughly 6% of staff and shutting down CBS Radio. The tension became public after a pulled 60 Minutes segment and reports describing the duo as an “odd couple.” CBS Evening News viewership fell to about 4.1 million in March, a 7% year‑over‑year decline.
The Closer – Fedspeak, Housing Affordability, Positioning – 4/13/26
The Federal Reserve’s recent commentary has turned noticeably more hawkish, a shift that historically dampens forward equity returns. At the same time, mortgage rates have rebounded to roughly 6.5%, squeezing housing affordability. Existing‑home sales have slumped to their lowest level...
Restacking Is the Most Underrated Growth Tool on Substack. Here’s What It Actually Signals to the Algorithm.
Restacking on Substack is presented as an underused growth lever that sends the platform’s algorithm a clear audience‑overlap signal. By deliberately restacking complementary writers and one’s own high‑performing posts, creators can surface content to new readers and accelerate subscriber acquisition...
TMTB EOD Wrap
The Nasdaq‑100 tracking QQQ rose 1.05% as investors digested calmer rhetoric from Trump and Iran and a continuing ceasefire, lifting risk appetite. Oil jumped 1.5% on the same optimism, while Treasury yields slipped 3‑4 basis points, nudging Fed expectations toward...
The “Safety Myth” That Almost Destroyed Half of Japan — And What It Has to Do With Your Organization
The HBO documentary “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” shows TEPCO ignored a 15‑meter tsunami warning just four days before the March 2011 disaster, illustrating a “safety myth” that silenced dissent. The film links the failure to a culture of psychological‑safety suppression, where...
PadSplit Secures ORIX Financing; A Federal Court Upholds America’s Most Controversial Coliving Ban; 4.1 Million Australians Turn to Coliving, and...
PadSplit announced a new debt financing facility from ORIX USA’s Growth Capital, signaling institutional confidence in affordable shared‑housing infrastructure. A federal appeals court upheld Shawnee, Kansas’s ordinance that limits more than three unrelated adults from sharing a dwelling, raising zoning...
SILVER IS THE TRIPLE-IDENTITY ASSET: China's $48T M2 Explosion, Countries Hoarding Silver, the Export Ban, the Structural Deficit, & Why...
China’s broad money supply (M2) has surged past $48 trillion, dwarfing the combined US and EU totals, and is expected to add $4.5 trillion in 2025 alone. The expansion is prompting both the state and citizens to hoard hard assets, especially silver,...
CHINA TO BAN SULFURIC ACID EXPORTS: Copper and Uranium Mining Impacted, Bullish and Bearish Catalyst, Who Loses, & This Mining...
China announced it will halt exports of byproduct sulfuric acid starting in May 2026. The acid is a core reagent for heap‑leaching copper and uranium ores, so the ban threatens to raise input costs and curb output in mining hubs...
BRICS Payment System – What Does It Mean for the Nordics?
The article examines the BRICS countries’ effort to build a cross‑border payment system that could be operational by 2029‑2030, offering an alternative to Western‑controlled settlement rails. It notes the New Development Bank’s role, having approved over $42.9 billion in loans and...
Monday April 13, 2026
This week’s medtech briefing highlights a surge of strategic deals and capital flowing into neurovascular and AI‑enabled health solutions. Stryker announced the acquisition of Amplitude Vascular Systems to add intravascular lithotripsy to its peripheral‑vascular portfolio, while Gilead agreed to buy...
Why Would I Hire inVerita(my Folks) If I Can Just Vibe Code It Myself with Claude Code/Cursor?
Claude Code and similar AI coding assistants let technically‑savvy founders spin up a proof‑of‑concept or MVP in days, handling planning, infrastructure setup, and even QA. However, the post warns that these tools don’t deliver a well‑architected, secure, or uniquely designed...
7 Things Hidden in Every Job Description
The post argues that most executives treat job descriptions as simple checklists, missing the strategic intent hidden within. It reveals seven recurring signals—company problem, priority skills, culture cues, role timing, red flags, fit score, and keyword themes—that can be decoded...
Mortgage Rates Hold Steady Over The Weekend
Mortgage rates held steady near 6.40% for the third consecutive day, despite bond market swings triggered by weekend news of the Iran conflict. The average top‑tier 30‑year fixed rate edged 0.02 % higher than Friday before modest mid‑day declines brought it...
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CEO Confidence Slips Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty [Q1 Vistage CEO Index]
The Vistage Q1 2026 CEO Confidence Index slipped to 87.2, a 1.7‑point decline from Q4 2025, marking the first drop after three quarters of gains. The dip coincides with the onset of the Iran conflict, adding a new layer of geopolitical risk...
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[Guest Post] Oh My Influencer! Italian Rules on Influencer Marketing
Italy has formalized influencer marketing under a multi‑layered legal regime. Effective July 24 2025, AGCOM’s Regulation No. 197/25/CONS classifies qualifying influencers as audiovisual media services, invoking the TUSMA framework. The rules demand explicit commercial disclosures, protection of minors, and strict respect for trademark...
Daily Energy Report
OPEC left its global oil supply and demand forecasts unchanged despite the Iran war’s disruptive impact. The organization projects crude demand to reach 106.53 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2026 and 107.87 mb/d in 2027, with a softer second‑quarter offset by...
Hiring Managers Reveal Key to Faster Hiring, Few Use It
A Harris Poll survey for Express Employment Professionals finds 90% of U.S. hiring managers view employee referrals as a shortcut that speeds hiring, with 89% trusting referred candidates’ skills and 80% prioritizing their interviews over equally qualified non‑referred applicants. Yet only...
Smallest Fault-Code Scanner Worldwide? Diesel Laptops Delivers Diagnostic Assist
Diesel Laptops, founded in 2015, offers the world’s smallest Bluetooth‑enabled diesel fault‑code scanner, the Diesel Decoder, which pairs with a smartphone app. Recent software updates let users tap a code to receive step‑by‑step repair guidance, part numbers and pricing for...
Goodwin Recruiting Teams with Atlanta United After Record Year
Goodwin Recruiting has entered the Atlanta United Associate Partnership after a record year of industry accolades. The firm was again recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Professional and Executive Recruiting Firms for 2025, and earned spots on Inc....
New SPACs: Irenic Acquisition Corp. (IACQU), Alpex Acquisition Corporation File for IPOs
Irenic Acquisition Corp. (ticker IACQU) and Alpex Acquisition Corp. have each filed Form S‑1 to launch new special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). Irenic aims to raise roughly $200 million to pursue targets in technology and clean‑energy sectors, while Alpex seeks a...
InvoiceCloud Earns Fifth Win as a National USA TODAY Top Workplace
InvoiceCloud has been named a 2026 USA TODAY Top Workplace, marking its fifth consecutive year receiving the honor. The award evaluates organizations with 150 or more employees and placed InvoiceCloud among only 408 firms of similar size (500‑999 employees) out...
Canadian Job Market Booms In West, Slumps In East, Gap To Widen: BMO
BMO Capital Markets’ Labour Market Performance Ranking shows Canada’s job market splitting sharply between a booming West and a faltering East. Cities in Alberta and Saskatchewan dominate the top ranks, driven by strong employment growth and rising real GDP, while...
Acentra Health In Newsweek’s Greatest Workplaces for Entry Level 2026 List
Acentra Health was named to Newsweek’s “America’s Greatest Workplaces for Entry Level” 2026, earning a perfect five‑star rating among 178 companies with 1,000‑5,000 employees. The ranking draws on more than 610,000 employee reviews, extensive desk research and third‑party data to...
Smarter Workforce Platforms Boost Enterprise Value
Information Services Group (ISG) released its 2026 Buyers Guides for Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workforce Management suites, ranking 28 HCM and 36 workforce providers. The research shows HCM and workforce platforms are evolving into core operational layers, embedding AI‑driven...
Global Employee Engagement Falls to Lowest Level Since 2020
Gallup’s 2025 State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement slipping to 20%, the lowest level since 2020. The decline is driven primarily by a nine‑point drop in manager engagement since 2022, while individual contributor scores have remained flat....
Everyday Prices Jump
AIER’s proprietary Everyday Price Index (EPI) surged 2.5% in March 2026, reaching 307.4 – the second‑largest monthly gain since January 2020. Fourteen of the 24 component categories rose, led by motor fuel, housing fuels, utilities and food away from home,...
Euro Continues to Climb as the Market Senses an End to the Iran War
The euro has recovered to its pre‑conflict level as traders price an end to the Iran‑Israel war and the reopening of oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Europe’s heavy reliance on Hormuz‑bound crude makes the currency especially sensitive to...
MacroPass™: Lacy Hunt On The Economic Ramifications of the Global Oil Price Shock
Economist Lacy Hunt’s latest MacroPass report warns that the current global oil price shock will ignite fresh inflationary pressure and could trigger a misguided Federal Reserve response that worsens the downturn. Hunt draws on a century of oil‑shock data, emphasizing...
Scaling Your Shopify B2B Catalog From 500 to 50,000 SKUs: The Operations Playbook
The new playbook outlines how Shopify B2B merchants can expand a product catalog from a few hundred SKUs to 50,000 without sacrificing data integrity. It identifies three data types—attributes, pricing tiers, and inventory—that break first as scale increases, and quantifies...
Edition 252: Ali Rohde Jobs
Ali Rohde’s weekly "Jobs" newsletter, now read by over 26,000 professionals, curates senior Chief of Staff, Business Operations, and venture‑capital openings across fast‑growing tech firms. The edition also features a podcast interview about Anthropic’s Mythos AI model exposing thousands of...
“Rotten Eggs”: The Hidden Role of Sulfur in the Global Economy – by Amanda Van Dyke (Substack – April 13,...
Sulfur, the element behind the smell of rotten eggs, underpins food production, metal refining, battery manufacturing, and data‑center cooling. Most elemental sulfur today is recovered as a by‑product of sour oil and gas refining through the Claus process, feeding the...
DIRECTV’s MySports: 25 Channels For $65 a Month – Is It Worth It?
DIRECTV’s MySports genre package bundles 26 national sports channels, unlimited DVR and free ESPN Unlimited app access for $64.99 a month, with a promotional rate of $44.99 for the first two months. The plan lacks regional sports networks (RSNs) in...
Novartis Slashes 114 More Jobs at New Jersey HQ
Novartis announced a second wave of US layoffs, eliminating 114 positions at its East Hanover, New Jersey headquarters. The cuts are part of a multi‑year restructuring that follows the spin‑off of its generics arm Sandoz and earlier reductions in medical...
OPEC+ Data Deck (April 2026)
The latest OPEC+ Data Deck reveals a March production drop of 7,587 kbpd, bringing quota‑participating output to 28,312 kbpd – the second‑largest monthly decline on record and the lowest level for the expanded group since the 1990 Desert Storm period. The fall...
White Claw Maker Mark Anthony Group to Acquire The Finnish Long Drink
Mark Anthony Group, the owner of White Claw Hard Seltzer, announced it will acquire Finland’s The Finnish Long Drink, a gin‑based canned cocktail. The deal, terms undisclosed, closes in the coming weeks. Long Drink logged nearly 20% volume growth last...
Global Physical Oil Supply Picture Is Dire - And Getting Worse
Physical oil is now trading at $149 per barrel for North Sea Forties, a stark contrast to futures contracts. The Iran‑Israel conflict and a U.S. blockade have pushed crude loss to 15 million barrels per day, pulling global stockpiles down by...
The Paramount Question Isn’t Paramount
Paramount Skydance Corp. agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for roughly $110 billion in cash, valuing the target at $31 per share. The deal has drawn political and regulatory attention, yet antitrust concerns appear muted because the combined entity faces strong...
Bonds Are In 2026 What Stocks Were In 2008
Investors are eyeing bonds as aggressively as they chased stocks in 2008, driven by Treasury yields approaching 5% and 2‑year CD rates near 4%. The author notes that a sustained 5‑5.5% yield on 10‑20‑year insured municipal bonds would be compelling...
87% of CHROs Now Expect AI Fluency on Day One
The Talent Weekly reports that 87% of CHROs now expect new hires to be AI‑fluent on day one, while recent tech layoffs intensify ROI scrutiny on L&D spend. SAP’s survey of 100 large U.S. firms highlights rapid AI onboarding and...
Why I Stopped Caring About Vendors' UI
The author argues that modern large language models (LLMs) have made vendor user interfaces (UIs) largely irrelevant for most businesses. By storing core operational data in plain‑text formats like markdown on Git or Drive, AI can generate any visual representation...
How Much Time Is AI Saving You? Posted on April, 2026
The article challenges the prevailing narrative that AI’s primary value lies in saving time, arguing that most firms focus on activity volume rather than outcomes. It highlights how AI‑driven efficiency often leads to more of the same mediocre work, with...
Humility and Paranoia
The author argues that the two traits most predictive of founder success are humility and paranoia. Humility forces founders to listen to customers and respect the hidden constraints of legacy industries, while paranoia compels relentless monitoring of competitors and market...
Workplace Violence Prevention Program Tips for 2026 Webinar
On April 16, 2026, CalChamber will host a 90‑minute live webinar titled “Workplace Violence Prevention Program Tips for 2026.” The session, priced at $269 (or $215 for Preferred Members), walks HR leaders and safety managers through California’s strict workplace‑violence standards,...
Who Will Be the Senior Engineers of 2035?
Post‑COVID layoffs and AI adoption have throttled junior hiring, leaving a thin pipeline for future senior engineers. Entry‑level tech postings have dropped 67% since 2022, and firms that embrace AI see junior employment fall an additional 7.7%. As AI takes...
American Airlines Flight Attendants Say They Should Be Paid More For Working London Flights Due to Catering Mess
American Airlines flight attendants are demanding higher pay for London Heathrow routes after the carrier abruptly ended its long‑standing catering contract, creating a service disruption. The airline resorted to double‑catering—loading meals for both outbound and return legs—while a temporary deal...
Iran Thought They Were Close to an Agreement on Sunday Morning - Report
According to an Axios report, Iran thought a nuclear agreement was imminent on Sunday morning, but the sudden departure of U.S. Senator JD Vance from talks in Pakistan derailed expectations. The negotiations are stalled over whether Tehran will cease all...
Panama Canal Shows Cold War Playing Out in Slow Motion
The Panama Canal, which carries roughly five percent of global maritime trade, saw its two terminal concessions—long held by CK Hutchison, a Hong Kong conglomerate linked to Beijing—terminated after Panama’s Supreme Court declared the arrangement unconstitutional and seized the assets....
The Future of Marketing Teams Is Decentralization
The article argues that traditional centralized marketing is losing relevance as speed and specialization become critical. Companies are moving toward decentralized structures where marketing expertise is embedded within product, regional, and sales teams. Central leadership still defines brand strategy and...
NVIDIA Hiring More LLVM Engineers To Work On CUDA Tile
NVIDIA announced it is hiring additional LLVM compiler engineers to advance its CUDA Tile programming model. CUDA Tile, unveiled last year, provides a virtual ISA for tile‑based parallelism and ships an open‑sourced intermediate representation built on LLVM's MLIR. The new...
Stocks Are The ‘Vigilantes’ Now
The article argues that equities have taken over the role once played by bonds as the market’s watchdog, pressuring the Federal Reserve and policymakers. With the Fed’s policy rate stuck at 3.75% and inflation expectations near 4.8%, traditional monetary easing...