William S Sefton

A once-standard GOP talking point went unmentioned in Trump's State of the Union speech. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/state-union-debt-deficit/551978/?utm_source=feed

The ambition is thrilling. The details are scarce. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-berkshire-jpmorgan-health-care/551858/?utm_source=feed

Many of the women who work in agriculture often have few options but to put up with abuse on the job. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/agriculture-sexual-harassment/550109/?utm_source=feed

The president’s tweet directed at the rapper shows that he still doesn’t grasp the actual issues black Americans are struggling with. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/trump-jay-z/551702/?utm_source=feed

The president’s tweet directed at the rapper shows that he still doesn’t grasp the actual issues black Americans are struggling with. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/trump-jay-z/551702/?utm_source=feed

A protectionist president extols “fair” global trade. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/trump-davos/551567/?utm_source=feed

Why have high-profile organizing campaigns succeeded for white-collar workers and failed for blue-collar workers? https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/union-organizing-media-white-collar/551453/?utm_source=feed

A new task force is urging developing countries to put levies on candy and soda, as many do on cigarettes and alcohol. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/more-taxes-less-death/551519/?utm_source=feed

In a memo, the agency's director outlines his vision for a regulator that's kinder and gentler to the financial industry. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/cfpb-trump-mulvaney/551504/?utm_source=feed

Big banks once offered some basic services without fees. But that's become rarer and rarer. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/free-checking-bank-of-america/551393/?utm_source=feed

The retail apocalypse for legacy brick-and-mortar companies has come to the toy business. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/toys-r-us-closing-stores/551390/?utm_source=feed

Customers can walk in, grab what they want, and walk out—all while being monitored by a sophisticated system of cameras. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-go-store-checkouts-seattle/551357/?utm_source=feed

The Senate quickly confirmed the president's pick for the next leader of the Federal Reserve. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/jerome-powell-confirmed/551345/?utm_source=feed

On Tuesday, Jerome Powell was confirmed as the next chairman of the central bank—delivering Trump's biggest economic victory yet. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/jerome-powell-confirmed/551345/?utm_source=feed

For some Americans, sub-minimum-wage online tasks are the only work available. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-mechanical-turk/551192/?utm_source=feed

Their peaceful premises and intricate rule systems are changing the way Americans play—and helping shape an industry in the process. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/german-board-games-catan/550826/?utm_source=feed

Corporate goliaths are taking over the U.S. economy. Yet small breweries are thriving. Why? https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/craft-beer-industry/550850/?utm_source=feed

Gillian White joins us to discuss dramatic changes underway in retail and what the industry's troubles mean for the country. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/radio-atlantic-bricks-clicks-and-the-future-of-shopping/550877/?utm_source=feed

When cities compete to attract big employers, the country as a whole suffers. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-hq2-20-cities/550790/?utm_source=feed

The cryptocurrency was meant to be stateless and leaderless. Ironically, the culprits of its latest plunge are ... state leaders. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-bubble-pop/550601/?utm_source=feed

Full employment and state policies are aiding the working poor, though some companies are giving Trump's tax cut the credit. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/low-wage-workers-finally-get-a-raise/550487/?utm_source=feed

The problem with the soda is right there in the name: It’s neither healthy-seeming enough to thrive as a diet drink nor tasty enough to thrive as a cola. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/diet-coke-new-can/550478/?utm_source=feed

Donald Trump's widely reported 'shithole' remark dismantles the economic argument against foreigners. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/temporary-protected-status-el-salvador/550349/?utm_source=feed

A new Netflix documentary series tries to shine a light on how corporate malfeasance and fraud affects everything we eat. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/netflixs-rotten-excoriates-big-food/550274/?utm_source=feed

A new Netflix documentary series tries to shine a light on how corporate malfeasance and fraud affects everything we eat. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/netflixs-rotten-excoriates-big-food/550274/?utm_source=feed

Of the top 250 films of 2017, 88 percent had no female directors, 83 percent had no female writers, and 96 percent had no female cinematographers. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/the-brutal-math-of-gender-inequality-in-hollywood/550232/?utm_source=feed

The excitement about bitcoin and blockchain is sort of like the dot-com bubble—if nobody in 2000 was quite sure what the internet was for. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-blockchain-silly-season/550184/?utm_source=feed

Schulenburg, with fewer than 3,000 residents and a polka museum, seems an unlikely place for some of the state’s first legal sales of the drug. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/schulenburg-texas-medical-marijuana/548306/?utm_source=feed

In the American labor market, services are the new steel. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/health-care-america-jobs/550079/?utm_source=feed

Top leaders at the newspaper say they took an ultra-nuanced approach in deciding how to handle allegations against a star reporter. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/american-newsrooms-are-covering-sexual-harassmentbut-whats-happening-inside-the-newsrooms-themselves/550058/?utm_source=feed

Consolidation in the health-care industry is threatening small and independent hospitals and the communities they're in. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/rural-hospitals/549050/?utm_source=feed

President Trump lauded them and then claimed credit for their positive developments in the past year. He was doubly mistaken. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/trump-black-hispanic-unemployment/549932/?utm_source=feed

The interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking a more laissez-faire approach to policing the financial sector. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/cfpb-gop-trump/549755/?utm_source=feed

But job growth in 2018 likely won't be as robust. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/december-jobs-report/549782/?utm_source=feed

The interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking a more laissez-faire approach to policing the financial sector https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/cfpb-gop-trump/549755/?utm_source=feed

Inflation—it’s finally coming. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/will-inflation-be-the-biggest-economic-story-of-2018/549698/?utm_source=feed

The country has quietly become the world's sixth-biggest auto producer. But it'll need to do better if it's to join the top tier of global powers. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/india-manufacturing-tata-alyssa-ayres/549263/?utm_source=feed

The country has quietly become the world's sixth-biggest auto producer. But it'll need to do better if it's to join the top tier of global powers. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/india-manufacturing-tata-alyssa-ayres/549263/?utm_source=feed

Yet more evidence piles up for effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/eitc-getting-people-to-work/549416/?utm_source=feed