With unemployment continuing to be at undeniably low rates, the labor market is tight. Usually tight labor markets — more jobs than available or desirous workers — result in increased wage pressure as businesses increase salaries to attract the workers they want. And that contributes to inflation. But there is no wage pressure.

Effective content’s objective is not to just grab attention, but to hold it. Grabbing alone doesn’t support the brand; it supports the ad.

The problem’s not that glass isn’t recyclable. It is. The problem is that glass breaks.

In consumer marketing, if you can unite a wide audience around your product or service through storytelling, you have a diverse market, a market that may protect the company from inevitable economic swings.

Compromise is not a four-letter word. It’s a way to appeal to the greatest number of players or customers. Compromise moves ideas, issues and products toward acceptance.

The top two observations are the coming proliferation in 2019 of Amazon Go and Alibaba Hema. The category is cashier-less retailing.

Recycling is a business; it’s transactional, subject to market pressures and the critical law of supply and demand.

Have you taken advantage of the special two-seek sale going on? Political consumers have. It’s the sale sponsored by our democracy. And if you’re not participating, you’re missing out!

If consumer choice is placed ahead of consumer protection, then caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware.

Sustained spending levels may be temporary. There are some caution lights flashing yellow.

Federal economic policy appears to be non-ideological. Let’s call it whimsical. Americans have a reduction in the taxes we pay, but with tariffs, an increase in the prices of products we buy.

Just like any other product, recyclable material has to find a buyer to complete the journey, the transaction.

With the decrease in births to teens and 20-somethings, there is now created a “baby bust” that could be troubling to the economy.

From cars and clothing to insurance, cereal and banking, brands are embracing the values embodied in diversity and aligning themselves with inclusivity.

Retail growth has been on the extreme ends of the spectrum, with those mainstream-conscious stores in the middle maintaining a recession-related status quo. Little to no sales growth.

Daily or routine habits are disrupted by foul weather and foul moods. These atmospheric disturbances also have a direct impact on consumer behavior. And behavior begets spending.

5G is coming. Is the government suggesting it’s best to take away from the private sector a new and advanced network and nationalize it?

The internet, this great American invention which has changed the way the world communicates, does business and lives — this vast democratization of connectivity — is under attack

The way Facebook is set up as a social network can influence opinions and behavior through social proofing, endorsements, critiques and reviews. And it is done somewhat passively through conversational and casual messaging.

Democracy and capitalism are not the same. The first is political; the second economic. Nor is one created by the other. But they work well together, undergirded by the freedom to choose.