Sean McHenry

As the populations of the U.S. and other wealthy countries get older, companies are looking in places like Vietnam for younger workers.

Vietnam’s young and increasingly tech-savvy workers are helping transform the country’s economy.

“The Black unemployment rate has always exceeded other groups,” said CBPP Chief Economist Gbenga Ajilore. “But what's different is that there's a bigger jump, and this is more sustained, and it's more long running.”

"It turns out that people who go to the movies are a little bit like people who fly in airplanes,” said Ben Fritz at the Wall Street Journal. “It's this the same basic experience, but some people are willing to pay more for something extra.”

According to reporting from Sarah Kaplan at the Washington Post, carbon dioxide pollution is causing crops to lose nutrients. “Everything from really essential staples, like rice and wheat and soybeans,” said Kaplan, “to lettuce, potatoes, sweet peppers, and canola.”

“Business schools are desperately looking for alternative revenue streams to finance their marquee MBA programs,” said journalist Robb Mandelbaum, reporting for Bloomberg Businessweek. And one stream they’re turning to— executive education.

In their new book, co-authors Chad Bown and Soumaya Keynes make the case that in a global economy where trade wars are everywhere, the best thing to do is learn how to fight them.

E-retailer Quince is having a moment, in part because it has a lot of data on its customers. “It uses a data-scraping operation to figure out what is selling sort of across the internet in these categories that this particular consumer finds interesting,” said Bloomberg’s Amanda Mull.

The Trump administration is pushing for more companies to get banking charters, and fintech and crypto companies are taking them up on that.

“When you're scrolling, chances are most of the things you're seeing are actually stealth paid advertisements,” said Lane Brown at New York Magazine. “You have no idea they are ads, but they are.”