Transform Your Affections from Admiration to Affection

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I lo...

Should We Change the Top Global Currency?

©iStock/alfexe Giving up use of the U.S. dollar for global trade and reserve accumulation would be very difficult for U.S. adversa...

A Global Supply Chain Nightmare

©iStock/pat138241 One in five container ships is now stuck at ports worldwide, with 30% of the backlog coming from China. And Lars...

Why We Can't Sit Back and Assume Other People Are Trying to Solve Climate Change

©iStock/Petmal BlocPower’s Donnel Baird and Stripe’s Nan Ransohoff talk about why we can’t sit back and assume other people are tr...

How to Buy a $44 Billion Global Social Network In Less than Two Weeks

©iStock/sommersby Well if there is one thing I love, it's speed and surprises!  When I think about people trying to secure an ...

Today in Global Small Business: Global Entrepreneurs Share Common Traits

©iStock/Sanja Radin What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Global entrepreneu...

My Kind of Town, Chicago

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype. New York i...

Grain Importing Nations Are Hurting From Rising Freight Rates

©iStock/darksite Trade flows of grains are undergoing significant shifts.  The war in Ukraine will put further pressure on grain-i...

De-globalization Might Lead to a Different Globalization

©iStock/metamorworks De-globalization, which is a retreat from Western-designed globalization, did not begin during the pandemic o...

The Permanence of Remote Work

©iStock/fulltimetraveller Deloitte's analysis through its Global State of the Consumer Tracker strongly suggests the shift to...

What Worries You Most About the Direction of America?

©iStock/Vitalii Petrushenko Last week Conor Friedersdork, a California-based staff writer at The Atlantic , where he focuses on po...

Today in Global Small Business: What You Didn't Know About Easter

©iStock/romrodinka What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: The cotton-tailed c...

I've Never Been a Social Bunny

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. "I've never been a social bunny.  I thrive on work." – Michelle Ryan ...

Can a Plant Bordering Shanghai Operate Profitably at 60% Capacity?

©iStock/Robert Way Some production capacity is better than none.  As is the case with Foxconn Interconnect Technology, a unit of T...

World Trade Organization (WTO) Slashes Forecast for Global Trade in 2022

©iStock/Maria Shapilova The Russia-Ukraine war has damaged the world economy at a critical juncture as the coronavirus pandemic - ...

Get the Best Sleep in Years: Beautiful Sounds of Flowing Water

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Etsy Sellers Are Fed Up

©iStock/Michael Vi Etsy's CEO Josh Silverman announced that starting April 11, 2022 the company would increase the 5% transact...

Today in Global Small Business: Sheryl Sandberg Says There Are Reasons For Optimism

©iStock/Mohamed Sayed What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Omicron stalled ...

Leading and Shaping the Field: Bob Marovich, Twice GRAMMY-Nominated Gospel Music Historian and Author

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. Some fantastic memories attending the 2022  Recording Academy / GRAMMYs wit...

Do Not Expect the Demise of a Globalized Economy

©iStock/Tilegen Retreat, not defeat:   What Ukraine war means for globalization . But many others caution that while an era of glo...

The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX): Global Container Freight Index

©iStock/AvigatorPhotographer Select a route to see live international freight rates, prices and trends, updated daily from the wor...

World Trade Organization Cuts Its Global Trade Growth Forecast for 2022

©iStock/Nuthawut Somsuk The Ukraine war has led the World Trade Organization (WTO) to cut its global trade growth forecast for thi...

Coni Lefferts's wegginar® 4/6/22 on Creating Global Packaging for Every Product and Budget

©2022 Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.  All rights reserved. How do you create packaging for the global marketplace that is econo...

Today in Global Small Business: Return to International Tourism Is a Gift of Globalization

©iStock/Дмитрий Ларичев  What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Return to Int...

Chicago's Uptown Gal

©2022 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved. A recent visit to Uptown Chicago that is easy access via the CTA "L' t...

When Booking a Shipping Container Seems Akin to Trying to Catch a Unicorn

©iStock/vchal Oh, the problems we face lately.  Take Glo, a startup that makes novelty items — plastic cubes that light up when dr...