The Unkillable Appeal of Multilevel Marketing

[ad_1] Recently, when the billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman made headlines for militating against the thought crimes of Harvard undergraduates, the coverage disinterred memories of what had previously been Ackman’s most famous moral crusade: his five-year campaign, during the twenty-tens, to short-sell Herbalife, the dietary-supplement company. Herbalife can be politely called a “multilevel-marketing” or “direct-sales”… Continue reading The Unkillable Appeal of Multilevel Marketing

‘Passages’ review: Romantic triangle has Sachs appeal

[ad_1] When you first meet Tomas (Franz Rogowski), the impulsive, insatiable and utterly impossible filmmaker who propels nearly every scene of “Passages,” he’s darting around the set of his latest picture and berating his cast and crew. Why, he fumes, are the extras sitting around like idiots with their empty drink glasses? Why can’t an… Continue reading ‘Passages’ review: Romantic triangle has Sachs appeal