Is Charlie Sheen Insurable? His Career May Depend on It

Whether Sheen can resurrect his faltering career may depend on something as mundane as an insurance physical. Hollywood producers won’t shoot a frame of film nor a second of video without insurance policies on their cast member…

Is Charlie Sheen Insurable? His Career May Depend on It

Whether Sheen can resurrect his faltering career may depend on something as mundane as an insurance physical. Hollywood producers won’t shoot a frame of film nor a second of video without insurance policies on their cast member…

Public Employee Benefits: The Numbers Behind the Debate

Let’s take the politics out of the debate over public sector unions and their benefits, and look strictly at the figures. When you strip away the rhetoric, you can chart two macroeconomic trends and two patterns of fiscally fo…

Supreme Court Sides with Employees, Again

Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted an anti-employment discrimination statute in a pro-employee way. On Tuesday the Court did it again, in Staub v. Proctor — a case involving alleged bias by supervisors agains…

Buzzword of the Week: Talking in Circles

In business jargon, it seems like round has come back around. We’re hearing a resurgence of the defense-minded phrase “circling the wagons,” as well as the extremely slippery phrase “circle back,” which changes its meaning comp…