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CC Wei, chief executive officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., warned of the dangers of excessive government export controls that can undermine mutual trust between countries. “Export controls and bans on products from other countries destroy the productivity and efficiencies gained through globalization, or at least diminish the benefits offered by a free market,” Wei said at an industry event…

Asking for a raise can be nerve-wracking: the stakes are high and you have to be prepared for disappointment if things don’t work out. But if you’re a man, you might have a better chance of getting a “yes” to your request. According to a recent CNBC survey, while men and women (11%) asked for a raise this year in…

A US university is investigating a Nobel Prize winner over allegations of sexual harassment, which the economist’s lawyer dismisses as “professional rivalry”. Philip Dybvig, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics for researching bank failures, was questioned by Washington University’s Title IX office in St. Louis in recent weeks, his attorney Andrew Miltenberg told The Associated Press. Miltenberg said…

Gatherings prior to the COVID years had their challenges, but they were more like that I wonder if that person whoever takes over the conversation will be there this year Diversity. Since COVID-19 entered our lives, party hosts must also consider how diligent invitees are to keep COVID at bay. In the early days of the pandemic, the world learned…

At a gas station outside of New York City, retired parole officer Karen Stowe was confronted with a gas pump price she didn’t want to pay. She instead bought groceries at the supermarket and planned to buy cheaper gas elsewhere. “The price is so high that people have to think very carefully about where they’re going,” said Stowe, who had…

Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly suspended the accounts of one of its competitors and more than half a dozen tech journalists Thursday night. Musk suggested that users were banned for sharing information about the @ElonJet account, which tracks the movements of Musk’s private jet, which the Twitter CEO claims threatens his safety. The first Twitter account to be banned on Thursday…

For this month’s issue wealth Analytics has partnered with the Diligent Institute, the research arm of Diligent, a global leader in modern governance providing SaaS solutions for governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Diligent gave us exclusive access to the raw data powering their corporate sentiment tracker. To create this tracker, they continually search the web for executive statements and…

As U.S. health officials prepare to start handing out free at-home Covid-19 tests again, people who stocked up during the omicron surge may be wondering if they’re still good. Starting Thursday, for a limited time, every U.S. household can again order up to four free rapid test kits in the mail, part of the White House’s effort to combat a…

Basketball legend-turned-businessman Shaquille O’Neal is trying to distance himself from crypto after he was a paid spokesperson for failed exchange FTX and was targeted with a lawsuit for it. “A lot of people think I’m involved, but I was just a paid spokesperson for a commercial,” O’Neal told CNBC Do it in this week. In this commercially, O’Neal said he…

Tesla investors are starting to wonder if CEO Elon Musk is still the right man to lead the company. With Musk’s attention largely focused on Twitter, which he roused after his $44 billion acquisition in late October, doubts are mounting about his ability to effectively run the electric vehicle maker. It doesn’t help that he’s sold large amounts of his…