Discourse

Builders have too many new homes on their hands.

No one's going to sound an alarm, blast out a text message, or shoot you an email about it, but the US economy is undergoing a historic shift. We are leaving one long period of expansion — what economists refer to as a "supercycle" — and entering a very different one.

Doug Mattison just wanted to cancel his gym membership.

Ken Cheng doesn't believe in giving his employees raises to boost productivity. He has a simpler solution: Take away their desk chairs. Without the ability to sit, workers are more alert and inspired, he wrote on LinkedIn.