Shell Is Looking Forward
The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes.
Our Fancy Foods, Ourselves
Inside the enormous, bi-coastal Fancy Food Show, small companies try out for prime time, next year’s trends begin, and the people who have invested their life savings into their business now search for distribution and vie for your attention as you walk around snacking. All. Day. Long.
Bad Education
Since 1978, the price of tuition at US colleges has increased over 900 percent, 650 points above inflation. To put that in number in perspective, housing prices, the bubble that nearly burst the US economy, then the global one, increased only fifty points above the Consumer Price Index during those years. But while college applicants’ faith in the value of higher education has only increased, employers’ has declined.
