Cash bonuses won’t fix a birth rate problem.

Financial incentives may look like a solution on paper. But decades of global data say otherwise.

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It’s a beautiful day in Miami to talk about the future!

Students in Milan hung an effigy of Elon Musk in Piazalle Loreto today. That’s the same place where Mussolini was killed.

Have we seen peak McDonald’s in America? It’s an intriguing question, given the prevalence of the restaurant across the U.S.

The future is gray and incredibly bright

I want to be an old Italian man when I grow up.

Welcome to “Dead Week.” Here are the rules.

"As I age, I feel like I become more and more distant from the current world, and I think that's very scary. So, whenever young people want to work with me, I'm grateful and I do it."
TAKASHI MURAKAMI

I've been thinking a lot about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand this week, following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Johnson in New York. Ferdinand's death was the most immediate cause of World War I. Could Johnson's death signal something bigger coming, too?

New demographic realities are changing the labor and consumer mix across the U.S. and worldwide. Organizations have no choice but to adapt. Here’s one example at MIA, where automated wheel chairs will soon whisk customers with mobility needs to their gates without human interaction.

This ad for Geritol in 1971 features women who are all 46. Yes, you read that correctly. Beauty standards and longevity have changed since then, but gendered ageism persists.

The population peaked in 63 countries and areas containing nearly a third of the world’s population before or during 2024. This means these locations are now in a post-transition stage when the population stabilizes or declines.