Business

“But I’m not an expert. I have no degree or credentials. How can I start a business? No one will take me seriously, let alone pay me.”

I hear this all the time from my students. I patiently remind them that I’m a high school dropout, and on paper, my only qualification to manage Facebook and Google ads is the fact that I run a seven-figure agency that manages Facebook and Google ads.

It usually doesn’t sink in, so I refer them to a recent Wall Street Journal article that tells the all-too-familiar story about a group of graduates who can’t secure a high-paying job. This particular story, however, shares the struggles of students enrolled in the MFA filmmaking program at Columbia University, the prestigious Ivy League school in New York. These students took on six figures of debt to obtain an

A view of Canary Wharf business district in London, Britain, October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Matthew Childs

LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) – British businesses are cutting ties with China due to concerns about political tensions, a shift that is likely to stoke inflationary pressures, the head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said in an interview published on Saturday .

“Every company that I speak to at the moment is engaged in rethinking their supply chains … because they anticipate that our politicians will inevitably accelerate towards a decoupled world from China,” CBI Director-General Tony Danker was quoted as telling the Financial Times newspapers.

China was Britain’s biggest source of imported goods in 2021, accounting for 13{2bf522bcdc8ba51159d5205fc2be549bd4c5028a3d44797ff18fd67e8b5848d5} of the total, while it was the sixth-largest destination for goods exports, according to Britain’s official trade statistics.