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Does Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell deserve to be fired for...

President Donald Trump acknowledges he has spoken privately with a group of House Republicans about whether he should fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Trump...
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Five Questions With: Nancy Scarduzio

Nancy Scarduzio | Small-business ombudsman, R.I. Commerce Corp. 1. Some people may not be aware that R.I. Commerce Corp. has a small-business ombudsman. Can...
Brett M. Johnson

Johnson named Pawtucket Foundation’s 2025 Person of the Year

BRETT M. JOHNSON, chairman of Fortuitus Partners and co-founder of Rhode Island FC, was recently named the 2025 Person of the Year by the...
Emily R. Davis

Hiring the right people is key to navigating the turmoil

Drivers of our current and projected economies include the spate of business closings, layoffs and bankruptcies that challenge us every day. The grave uncertainties...
Marc 
Zimmer

Turbulent research landscape imperils U.S. brain gain

Despite representing only 4% of the world’s population, the U.S. accounts for over half of science Nobel Prizes awarded since 2000, hosts seven of...
Ezenwayi Amaechi Ejiribe

Shifting the social determinants of business

The story plays out every day. An industrious woman – an “entrepreneur by necessity”– starts a business because she has no other income potential....

Business Bestsellers

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. The authors explain that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s...

Flexibility can pay off


A college professor was once approached after a lecture by a young man demanding an explanation for an apparent contradiction between something he had...

Five Questions With: Dottie Nigrelli

Dottie Nigrelli is an associate broker for Residential Properties Ltd., which she joined earlier this year along with 12 other Compass Watch Hill agents....

Five Questions With: Kathleen Breen Combes

Kathleen Breen Combes is the artistic executive director of Ballet Rhode Island. When the organization, formally known as Festival Ballet Providence, rebranded in 2023,...
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