Tariffs and trade agreements are a complex subject and going down the rabbit hole can result in endless and ultimately pointless discussions. Strangely, tariffs and trade agreements are simply a game ...

Most Israelis perceive their national life as a zero sum game. This may well be a lasting heritage of the Holocaust. Accurately perceived or not, survival is always in question in their minds. You win ...

I’ve been reflecting lately on the term “zero sum game.” It’s one of those phrases that gets thrown around often in business, particularly in negotiations. The idea is simple: in a zero-sum game, one ...

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Some situations in life are zero-sum. On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams take the field but only one will emerge victorious, Vince Lombardi Trophy in hand. In a presidential election, only one candidate ...

About a third of Americans either “agree” or “strongly agree” that the economy is a zero-sum game — that one person must lose for another to gain. The figures are higher still for Democrats when they ...

Normally, I do a decent job turning my work switch off during the holidays. However, this time, as the holidays approached, I couldn’t help but reflect on the state of our healthcare system, given the ...

In the 1987 Oliver Stone classic Wall Street, Michael Douglas’ role as the brazen corporate raider, Gordon Gekko, not only won the actor an Oscar for his performance but iconized his character as the ...

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I have dual loyalties. Don’t get me wrong, I am a Trojan through and through — but I would be lying if I said that no part of me still feels like a Wolverine. I ...