For the past two years, commercial real estate has existed in an uncomfortable limbo. Interest rates reset quickly, property values did not, and transaction volume collapsed as buyers and sellers stared at one another across an unbridgeable pricing gap. Today,…

Recently, a federal jury in New York decided that Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, has been operating as an illegal monopoly. The verdict found that the global and most famous ticketing company has abused its dominance in…

Over the past couple of years, it has seemed difficult to find business headlines that do not reference terms like “agentic AI,” “AI-driven workflow automation,” and “multi-hundred-billion-dollar hardware deal announced.” As the torrent of new information regarding AI model capabilities…

I emigrated from the UK to the US in 1996. Since then, my country of birth has changed, as have I. My visits to my old country usually make me feel like the old cliché: “a stranger in my own…

I recently spent a weekend with a friend in Mountain City, Tennessee, a small Appalachian town at 2,400 feet, surrounded by stunning mountain ridges and good people. It is a town that has been losing its economic footing for decades.…