Marc Faber, an influential Swiss investor and guest commentator on markets for decades, is known as “Dr. Doom” for his bearish forecasts on stocks. Faber’s recent racist pontifications on the colonization of the United States, the intelligence of Africans and the far-right movement, just to name a few, has resulted…
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Archived: EY Earns No. 1 Spot on 2017 DiversityInc Top 50 List
DiversityInc on Tuesday revealed the 2017 Top 50 Companies for Diversity, awarding EY the number one spot on this year’s list following an impressive performance since joining the Top 50 in 2001. Prior to this year’s competition, EY has been among the Top 10 for the past eight years seven…
Archived: Apple CEO Tim Cook Outed by CNBC Anchor
By Julissa Catalan Apple CEO Tim Cook has been outed on live television. While discussing the lack of openly gay CEOs on a live segment of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, co-host Simon Hobbs referenced the Apple exec in saying: “I think Tim Cook is open about the fact that…
Archived: GOP for White People Only
By Barbara Frankel After I saw the movie Lincoln, I wondered: When did the Republican Party go from being the champion of inclusion to advocating the “politics of nullification” The answer is analyzed in a fascinating and important new article in The New Republic, “Original Sin: Why the GOP is…