Alain Guillot
Life, Leadership, and Money Matters
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The United States has no moral standing to preach about democracy and freedom
in OpinionThe United States likes to preach democracy, liberty, and freedom and call out others on their human rights violations. My question is: Where does the United States get its moral standing to call out others. Right now the United States is trying to figure out what to do if China…
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468 Ryan Busse: An insider’s view of the multi-billion-dollar gun industry and how it radicalizes America
in podcastAbout Ryan Busse Ryan Busse is a former firearms executive who helped build one of the world’s most iconic gun companies and was nominated multiple times by industry colleagues for the prestigious Shooting Industry Person of The Year Award. Busse is an environmental advocate who served in many leadership roles…
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Capital gain taxes can be deferred or eliminated, here’s how
in OpinionThe beautiful thing about capital gain taxes is that you don’t have to pay taxes until you have a capital gain. Many billionaires, like Jeff Bezos, use a strategy of borrowing money against their stocks and not selling their stocks. For us, who are not at the same wealth level…
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Minimum wage and union jobs are just stepping stones, don’t settle for it, aim higher
in OpinionYou don’t want to work for minimum wage. You don’t have to! Minimum wage is just a stepping stone for you to move into something else. I used to clean toilets for a living When I was a recently arrived immigrant, I worked for less than minimum wage, I cleaned…
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467 Howard French: How Africa and Africans are at the center of our modern world
in podcastAbout Howard French Howard Waring French is a journalist, author, and photographer, as well as professor since 2008 at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to re-entering academia, he was a longtime foreign correspondent and senior writer with The New York Times. Where to find Howard French WebsiteTwitter…
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466 Hannah Farber: How Maritime insurance companies helped the development of the U. S.
in podcastAbout Hannah Farber Hannah Farber is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. She specializes in the political economy of colonial North America, the early American republic, and the Atlantic World. Her first book, Underwriters of the United States explains how the transnational system of marine insurance, by governing the behavior…