The hospitality industry is facing a critical moment. As interest rates fluctuate, many hospitality groups find themselves squeezed by increasing debt service expenses, a consequence of the Federal Reserve's efforts to combat inflation. Ground...

Doctors need to do wellness checks of their own businesses. They're likely missing out on money that health insurers owe them.

Medical billing has become so complicated that physicians are forgoing millions of dollars of earned paym...

Property owners and developers of some relatively high-profile assets - like the Hard Rock Casino in Rockford, Illinois - have been turning to sale-leaseback deals of the land their buildings sit on in an attempt to mitigate interest rate sho...

Outside observers would be forgiven for thinking cryptocurrencies were tulip-bulb level speculative foolishness, replete with prominent fraudsters and a massive multi-year hype cycle. But the real-world use cases now emerging for stablecoins -...

High-current-income business owners can't afford to sit still with the IRS loading up its audit and IT staff to drive federal tax revenue. Cash benefits plans can help lower tax burdens and build a more affluent retirement and are worth investi...

Just a year ago, analysts and investors following Meta were wondering if they were witnessing the beginning of the end for what was once one of tech's brightest stars. The company, one of the 30 most profitable companies in the world, had spent...

For years now, corporations have been flooding headlines with their ambitious pledges to achieve carbon neutrality. Companies like Amazon, Walmart, and even BP, have vowed to do more to reduce their carbon footprint. But like a well-intentioned n...

Technology companies large and small are conducting layoffs as higher interest rates dampen demand for their products. Furthermore, they’ve gone into conservative mode, prompted by threats posed to their business model by the promise of artificial intelligence. But the paring back or zeroing out of internships may be the worst response to these headwinds.

Breathe easy marketing teams: ChatGPT and similar Artificial Intelligence tools will not be putting you in the unemployment line anytime soon despite growing frets.

It will streamline mundane tasks and produce ideas, but it will not r...

U.S. patent law isn't ready for artificial intelligence -- the technology is too revolutionary, too surprising, too powerful, and in some ways too opaque for our current legal framework to fully address. But in light of A.I.'s ascent, software co...

The IRS commissioner announced last month that the agency will now deploy artificial intelligence in pursuit of "wealthy tax cheats" who are using partnership structures to pay "little to no tax." But the announcement's logic doesn't...

t's a question that plagues philanthropists: Why, in such a wealthy nation, have we yet to conquer our most persistent social problems?

Homelessness is an excellent example. Although the U.S. spends billions of dollars every year t...

Corporate America is not feeling confident about their next big bet. The reason? Widespread indecision on where the economy is headed. Despite today's highly unpredictable economy, forward progress is still possible but will require bold CEOs a...

A current read of the nation's business press brings a sense that the entire commercial real estate space has entered a doom loop from which there is no escape.  But that would be a misguided - and potentially costly - assessment for i...

The landscape for commercial real estate may look dismal from afar with high interest rates and an office space market still in shakeout mode, but pockets of opportunity remain for investors with the right approach and strategy.

Some...

Financial results are booming in the oil and gas industry, but climate-change-driven opposition to energy companies has driven away young talent. Industry players need a board-level focus on human capital and inclusivity if companies are going to...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. businesses were receiving an average of $30 billion annually in local and state tax incentives, much of it for creating jobs that directly benefit local economies. Those agreements typically required workers to...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a lower court decision on taxation (Moore v United States) that could open or slam the door on a federal wealth tax, it's worth a deep dive into just how terrible a wealth tax would be for A...

Without it, you will struggle needlessly with underperformance and talent retention. Try these strategies to build the right culture.
Most companies have adopted policies around DEI-diversity, equity and inclusion-although the effectivenes...

The IRS is taking an increasingly aggressive and political anti-taxpayer tone in its public pronouncements. Successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople would do well to start listening - and step up the pace and intensity of their planning and prepar...