Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Luxe for less: the case for secondhand luxury

Due to elevated cost of living pressures, fashionistas around the globe are having to tighten their belts. Make no mistake - those belts are...

Tick tick boom: perspectives on the quartz crisis

When the first quartz-powered watch made its debut at the end of the 1960s, it inspired both excitement and existential fear in watchmakers around...

Nobody wants to buy alligator pears

It’s not every day that a supersized annual sporting event transforms an obscure exotic fruit into a $341.9 million industry. This is the unlikely...

Emus with Guerrilla Tactics

Is violence always the answer? If you consider the fact that the Australian military once went to war with the native emu population (and...

The Microsoft of Musicians: Taylor Swift

No, you’re not imagining it: Taylor Swift really is everywhere right now. From radio airwaves to streaming services, social media to news outlets and...

Lessons in wealth management from a cursed family

Using the example of the Vanderbilt family in the US (once the richest of them all), Dominique Olivier explores the "curse" of generational wealth.

Disney goed nie

Disney's creative rut has been breathtaking, Pressure to continue releasing movies has led to a quantity over quality problem, with results that can ruin childhood memories. Dominique Olivier explains.

Bad business and the bother with boycotts

Do boycotts actually work? Using Nestlé (and her own love of Milo) as a case study, Dominique Olivier tells the story of badly behaved corporates and how to stop them.

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