Will more sanctions on Iran actually work? With the conflict involving Iran continuing, the obvious question is whether further economic sanctions would actually change Tehran’s calculations or simply make an already complicated situation more complicated. Sanctions can certainly hurt. They can restrict access to foreign currency, reduce oil revenues and raise the cost of doing…

I have written quite a couple pieces over the years about the professional gloom-and-doom crowd, so this is hardly a new subject for me. It came up again recently when I was speaking with some new prospects who seemed permanently plugged into social media accounts predicting the next market crash, recession, currency crisis or financial…