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I think it’s marvelous that Major League Baseball has taken its show on the road, playing regular-season games in places such as Williamsport, Pa.—the birthplace of Little League—and Dyersville, Iowa, where the classic movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. I’ve ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Are we being evicted by our landlord, Mother Earth? Less than 20 years ago, the American Red Cross rated disaster responses on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the worst and most expensive. Hurricane Katrina was a ...

Tagged with: Christine Steerman Environmental Business

If safety were your primary concern, what would you think about a trading strategy called “the Iron Condor?” This is not a hypothetical, because there is such a strategy and, as of early last year, it had attracted over $5 ...

Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor

  For the first time since 2008, the Federal Open Market Committee (The Fed) announced on July 31 that it would be cutting interest rates by 0.25 percent. Thanks to a healthy and expanding economy, the Fed started increasing rates ...

It’s no secret Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems to enjoy taking federal officials to task for policies he believes to be detrimental to New Yorkers. In fact, the governor has gone as far as creating an agenda titled “New York’s Declaration ...

You only get one chance to make a first impression, and what an impression Syracuse University basketball made on me when I attended my first game as a wide-eyed 15-year-old at dusty, old Manley Field House on Jan. 14, 1971. ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

The IRS has issued new guidance on how taxpayers with hidden money offshore can come clean. The new procedures replace the nearly 10-year old offshore voluntary disclosure program, which the IRS terminated last fall. Certain taxpayer can still receive the ...

Tagged with: Josh Gewolb Taxing Matters

In hindsight, it seems that last December might have been a reasonable time to consider additional economic stimulus in the form of a Federal Reserve Bank interest rate cut. By Christmas of 2018, the U.S. government was in the midst ...

The other day, I got a call from a friend asking me to be a reference for a new job. I was surprised because I always knew this person to be the definition of an engaged employee. They had even ...

“My boss is a control freak—I don’t need him to tell me in detail how to perform simple tasks, yet he can’t resist. What’s more, he is insisting that I be a control freak over my people and I simply ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

I’m not a big believer in sports jinxes and curses. The Chicago Cubs didn’t go more than a century without a World Series title because that odiferous billy goat and his owner were asked to leave their Wrigley Field box ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

On June 24, 2019, The U.S. House Financial Services Committee announced a second Senate hearing for Facebook’s Libra would be held on July 17. Since Facebook announced their decision to make Libra, a cryptocurrency, more central to their business model, ...

Tagged with: Business Banter David Kunsch Pouya Seifzadeh

    The U.S. expansion entered its 121st month in July, becoming the longest on record. Strong and resilient employment growth has accompanied the cycle, driving the national jobless rate to a 50-year low. Rochester has followed a similar path—with ...

Personality tests continue to grow in popularity as a workplace tool—not only in how they’re used, but also in the number of assessments available. The more common ones include DiSC Behavior Inventory, the Big Five, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Occupational ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

For over 50 years the U.S. Supreme Court (Court) has wrestled with defining what speech is “obscene,” “immoral” or “pornographic” under law. Such grappling led to one of the most famous phrases uttered by a Supreme Court Justice: “I know ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law