Cyprus Explainer, Burger King Game Changer, Warren On Minimum Wage And More

March 18, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Everything You Need To Know About Cyprus But Were Afraid To Ask Just when you thought it was safe: Americans who have been pumping money back into the stock market as it hit record highs got some unhappy news this morning: Europe is blowing up, again, and threatening to set all of our money on fire, again. The European country at the epicenter of the mess this time is neither Greece nor Italy nor Spain, nor any other country that large numbers of Americans could find on a map. It is the country of Cyprus, of which a sizable portion of Americans have perhaps never heard. Now many of them are asking, what the heck is Cyprus, and why is it threatening to set my money on fire? Continue reading... Elizabeth Warren: Minimum Wage Should Be $22 An Hour Burger King's Game Changing Move Supreme Court Knocks Down Goldman Malls Getting Desperate In Fight For Survival Stocks Drop Sharply On Cyprus Bailout Tax Cyprus Delays Controversial Bailout Vote As Savings Tax Reworked 3-D Printed Gunmaker Gets License To Build, Sell Guns Everything You Need To Know About Cyprus But Were Afraid To Ask 10 Companies Paying The Least In Taxes 3-D Printed Gunmaker Gets License To Build, Sell Guns Krugman Levels Dire Warning On Cyprus Bailout LINCOLN MITCHELL Paul Ryan's Road Back to Relevance Ryan's newest budget is much more about communicating with his party's leadership and activists than about usefully contributing to the policy debate. It could perhaps most accurately be described as the "make Paul Ryan relevant again budget." Continue reading... ROBERT L. BOROSAGE A Tale of Two Futures: Ryan Against the Congressional Progressive Caucus Both parties agree that we suffer from mass unemployment, declining wages, and growing inequality. Both agree that rising future deficits should be addressed. But they offer completely different responses to these realities. The question, of course, is where Congress lines up. Continue reading... DAVID COATES The Problem With Charm Offensives: If They Are Needed, They Have Already Failed Please, Mr. President: no grand bargains with the defeated. No toleration of their scorched-earth policies. Stop inviting Republicans to dinner. Start eating them for lunch. Democratic charm-offensives focused on Republican lawmakers can come at too high a price. Continue reading... TONY SCHWARTZ Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults For more than a decade now, I've struggled to define what fuels the most sustainably productive work environment. Perhaps nothing I've uncovered is as important as trust. Continue reading... MICHAEL RUDERMAN Rethinking Mentorship Our dynamic, global economy demands creative leaders who are able to forge new paths. Mentorship must be more about empowering the mentee than about shaping the mentee to be like the mentor. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.