Amazon’s effect on the economy has been dramatic and there are legitimate antitrust concerns, but any attempt at a fix may be fraught with risk and potential unintended consequences.

During Ed Rensi’s 14-year term as president and CEO, McDonald’s experienced phenomenal growth. U.S. sales doubled to more than $16 billion, the number of the U.S. restaurants grew from nearly 6,600 to more than 12,000, and the number of U.S. franchisees grew from 1,600 to more than 2,700. Under Rensi’s leadership, McDonald’s became the most recognized brand in the world, the next being Coca-Cola.

While the restaurant sector is robust, it is facing many risk factors, chief of which are expectations of growth that harken back to the dot-com bubble. In addition to the unreasonable expectations, our restaurant sector focus dives into the key threats and opportunities affecting the bottom line of restaurant companies in the United States. As explained by former McDonald’s President and CEO Ed Rensi, the decline in retail mall traffic has been a major factor in the ongoing decline in chain restaurant sales. From the third quarter 2015 to the fourth quarter of 2016, chain restaurant sales fell by 2.4%.

Sentieo is a producer of an intuitive, powerful financial data platform with document search, research management, equity data terminals and more. The product is web-based, but also has apps for desktop, iPhone, iPad, android and an excel plugin. It wasn’t enough to simply review the product. We asked to see it in action. During our discussion, we quickly discovered that Sentieo had developed a tool that helped investment professionals and anyone in the research industry generate ideas and tell a story.

While the restaurant sector is robust, it is facing many risk factors, chief of which are expectations of growth that harken back to the dot-com bubble. In addition to the unreasonable expectations, our restaurant sector focus dives into the key threats and opportunities affecting the bottom line of restaurant companies in the United States. As explained by former McDonald’s President and CEO Ed Rensi, the decline in retail mall traffic has been a major factor in the ongoing decline in chain restaurant sales. From the third quarter 2015 to the fourth quarter of 2016, chain restaurant sales fell by 2.4%.

While the restaurant sector is robust, it is facing many risk factors, chief of which are expectations of growth that harken back to the dot-com bubble. In addition to the unreasonable expectations, our restaurant sector focus dives into the key threats and opportunities affecting the bottom line of restaurant companies in the United States. As explained by former McDonald’s President and CEO Ed Rensi, the decline in retail mall traffic has been a major factor in the ongoing decline in chain restaurant sales. From the third quarter 2015 to the fourth quarter of 2016, chain restaurant sales fell by 2.4%.

On June 1, the day that President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, everyone from CNN panelists to the local bartender self-appointed themselves as experts on environmental economics and international climate policy.

The testimony of former FBI Director James Comey came and went with more hype than harm to Donald Trump’s administration. The more important issue is whether Congress spent too much political capital to get comprehensive tax reform done by the end of 2017. The likelihood of significant policy changes is fleeting for the year. Some economists are even losing hope that tax reform will be completed by the midterm elections of 2018.

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