The website of economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth, expert in demographics, global trends and the future of work
I’d like to think I am unique, imaginative, creative, different – and maybe I am all those things. But my deciding to tip-toe into politics is not a sign of that apparently. Oh right, let’s go back a step. I am now a politician, more or less. As of two days ago, I am a […]
When you hear about the hard times for today’s graduates do you nod sympathetically while secretly rolling your eyes? If you are older than 20something yourself, you may well believe that things have always been tough for new grads, and that no, things are not different this time. Well, actually they may well be. Let’s […]
Does the evolution of neighborhoods in London, England have lessons for other cities? It might, which is why I found this article from The Economist so interesting. At issue is the gentrification – or lack of it – in Kentish Town, a neighborhood in north London. Surrounded by areas on all sides that are […]
Apparently, there is now a ‘vacation penalty’ in North American workplaces. Heading to the beach? Sure, go ahead, but your career might go nowhere. That gloomy scenario is according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, and it says a lot to me about the severity of the recession (the one that ended like […]
Free markets or authors? Book sellers or publishing companies? If you support one player, can you not support another? That seems to be the convoluted case as it is being played out by Amazon.com and the publishing company The Hachette Book Group, and it leaves authors and readers (like me in both cases) in a […]
First Starbucks, then Maxwell House, now Keurig – anybody who sells coffee is raising prices, and no wonder. Thanks to a drought in Brazil, coffee prices have risen by a staggering 50 percent over the past year. That means companies are passing on the costs, and consumers are gulping them down. Question is, if everyone […]
Which is better in economic terms: a country with with an aging and declining population or one with a youthful and growing one? Or what about if we are talking about the world as a whole – if a genie asked you to pick one, which would you pick? The conventional wisdom is that aging […]
Maybe I am reading too much into the demise of Crumbs, the used-to-be largest cupcake chain in the United States, but I think its crumbling illustrates some key trends. Read more in this blog I wrote for the National Speakers Bureau
It is kind of an urban myth, if you’ll pardon the pun: there is a story afoot that people are leaving the suburbs and moving back to the cities. I’ve written about the trend myself, but honestly perhaps the best evidence that it is true are the endless condos that are sprouting up it seems […]
‘Financial Repression’ or the generational divide over low interest rates.
