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Weird Commerce: PoliTEAcal Teas, Steeping In Satire

PYMNTS

Back around this time of year in 1773 and after the British government smacked a tax on American colonists’ tea, men dressed as Native Americans, boarded British ships bopping in the Boston Harbor and threw more than 300 chests of tea into the water. Each tea bag image has 11 references to the candidate and their campaign.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

As regulators grappled with new policy, Congress pondered taxing crypto, and bankers began pilots to offer crypto currency conversion, the industry quickly realized that this alternative currency paradigm is here to stay and must be integrated into future strategy and client experience. We aren’t talking just Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. High tax rates on corporate gains meant that the best way to spend profits was to make acquisitions. Those companies made plans.