News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Why $15 minimum wage is pretty safe, (2) Four things that could pop the 'rational bubble' in equities: Mohamed El-Erian, (3) France, Once a Vaccine Pioneer, Is Top Skeptic in Covid-19 Pandemic, (4) Technology That Delivered, (5) Bill Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner, and Bonus article - Michigan designates Wednesday [January 20] as 'What's Going On' Day as Marvin Gaye single marks 50 years.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) China CCP to Nationalize Jack Ma's Alibaba and Ant Group, (2)Google Workers Speak Out About Why They Formed A Union: 'To Protect Ourselves', (3) The ‘Small-Cap Effect’ Isn’t Dead, After All, (4) Sustainable Equity Funds Outperform Traditional Peers in 2020, (5) The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. All of them were held by women, and Bonus article - Our own Amanda Vaught quoted in the New York Times on her post-pandemic plans.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Domino's to pay frontline workers nearly $10M in holiday bonuses in effort to 'put people first', (2) How Amazon Wins: By Steamrolling Rivals and Partners, (3) NASS ready to begin last phase of Ag Resource Management Survey, (4) How Bad Was Virus Aid Fraud? One Banker Was ‘Frustrated With Humanity’ - The New York Times, (5) Ski Towns and the Ski Bums Who Staff Them, Ponder Their Survival, and Bonus article - Covid-19 Christmas sweater that ensures social distancing – it flashes and sounds alarm when people get too close.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Why are mRNA vaccines so exciting?, (2) Skin in the Game: Wall Street’s answer to the student-debt crisis, (3) Getting Covid Vaccines to People Will Cost States Billions They Don’t Have, (4) A Netflix doc wants to fix our food system with capitalism. 'Gather' argues that’s how it broke, (5) Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut, and Bonus article - Trees are more social than us these days.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) The economics of Christmas trees, (2) How Some Black Startup Founders Are Thriving in a Pandemic Year, (3) China to expand weather modification program to cover area larger than India, (4) Globalization is Alive and Kicking in Trade’s Big 2020 Comeback, (5) Big Push Into Helium Could Have the World on Russia’s String, and Bonus article - Does anyone out there want to revisit 2020?

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) The Pandemic Has Broken Shale and Left Oil Markets in OPEC Hands, (2) How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism, (3) Nasdaq to Advance Diversity through New Proposed Listing Requirements, (4) Sephora to Set Up Shop Inside Kohl’s, (5) Can you repeat that? Hearing trouble more obvious with masks, and Bonus article - Who’s in the Crossword?

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Love and Money—and How They’re Connected, (2) The Faces of Americans Living in Debt, (3) A Covid-19 Vaccine Could Unleash Pent-Up Demand, Bringing Along Inflation, (4) To Save the Economy, Save People First, (5) Butter Is Booming, Whole Milk Is Back and Dairy Is Surviving, and Bonus article - Vera Menchik: The Real-life Beth Harmon‎

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Democracies that failed the Covid test will struggle on climate change, (2) "Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.", (3) Global Financial Stability Watchdog Warns That Markets Remain Vulnerable, (4) Racism Impoverishes the Whole Economy, (5) Miami Marlins hire Kim Ng as MLB's first female general manager, and Bonus article - Chris Nikic, You Are an Ironman. And Your Journey Is Remarkable.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) The C.E.O. Who Promised There Would Be No Layoffs, (2) Travel Companies That Are Thriving Amid the Pandemic, (3)Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate, (4) Ark ETFs Defying Gravity, (5) The new COVID trend? Apparently, it’s buying rare books, and Bonus article - Portland's iconic Powell's Books is selling a book-scented unisex fragrance.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1)This Is Your Brain on Uncertainty, (2) October Selloff Leaves Few Places to Hide, (3) What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof?, (4) The Secrets to Success as an Audiobook Narrator, (5) Japan using high-tech experiments to fill baseball stadium, and Bonus article - Some fascinating history behind the Apple founders