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Some policymakers are looking to Florida for lessons, given the state’s superior record when it comes to restoring power quickly after major storms. Director of Energy Studies at the Public Utility Research Center Ted Kury explains how Florida was able to make appropriate updates to the state’s power systems.

For men like Joe Biden—highly educated, employed past 65, strongly tied to work—stepping away can pose its own risks to health and happiness. Mo Wang, Associate Dean and Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar, explains why retirement doesn’t have to be accompanied by decline.

There are many factors to consider when weighing retirement. Mo Wang, Associate Dean, Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar and retirement expert, shares what holds people back from passing the torch and how to make your retirement years as fulfilling as possible.

Protecting small-business owners from corporate monopolies is an issue worth championing, but it’s not exactly black and white when it comes to the tech behemoth Amazon.com and its line of AmazonBasics products.

Antitrust legislation will not be a panacea for small-business owners in this case; in fact, it might hurt them, John B. Higdon Eminent Scholar Hsing Kenny Chang and Associate Professor Jingchuan Pu argue in this Op-Ed.

In the five years since Stefanie Robinson (BSBA ’03), Katie Kelting (BSBA ’03, MS ’06) and Peter S. Sealey, PhD Professor of Marketing Richard Lutz published research on charitable giving at store checkout counters, the practice has proliferated. More than half of Americans donate while shopping, according to one recent study.

The auditing profession is at a tipping point, and Robert Knechel, Frederick E. Fisher Eminent Scholar and Director, International Accounting and Auditing Center, is a leading expert to discuss it. In the latest episode of Veritas Investment Research’s podcast, Knechel discusses the auditing profession’s undergoing transition worldwide, audit failures, fraud and specific, important questions auditors need to ask themselves before an audit.

The Biden Administration may have been heavy handed in its attempts to initiate AI regulation, but Republicans don’t seem to have a better strategy, as Public Utility Research Center Director and Gunter Professor Mark Jamison points out in his recent blog post, “A Vision for Tech Policy is Missing from GOP Economic Plans.” To find out how the US should be walking the fine line between overregulation and recklessness in the face of this powerful new technology, AEI’s James Pethokoukis asked Jamison a few quick questions.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group have plunged since the company began trading in March, driven by a combination of operational challenges, legal woes and competition in the social media landscape. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter likened the company’s performance on the financial markets to that of “meme stocks,” such as AMC and GameStop, which took the internet by storm in 2021 after investors on social media platforms, in particular Reddit, orchestrated buying sprees.

A single act of rudeness at work can do a lot more harm than managers might realize, according to University of Florida research. Not only can a supervisor’s or peer’s insensitive or disrespectful behavior hurt the work performance of a targeted person, rudeness can even affect coworkers who witness it, explained W.A. McGriff, III Professor Amir Erez of the Warrington College of Business. That’s because rudeness can be a significant distraction.

Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group has gone ice-cold. The conservative social media company has lost roughly half its market value since May 30, and Trump Media’s volatile share price (DJT) tumbled another 5% on Friday, leaving it down by a staggering 50% in the span of just three weeks. Despite the tumbling share price, some experts like Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter are warning Trump Media remains vulnerable to further losses.