Being ready for the career or job you want is the most important aspect of obtaining the position. It remains true that your appearance, your desire to work, your ability to communicate, and your positive attitude are most important. I often hear from business people that if a person shows up for an interview with these soft skills, the company would hire them and train the specific skills needed to perform the job.

My colleague Steve Davis has a nice post quantifying economic uncertainty due to the trade war, and its emerging impact on investment. Steve (and Nick Bloom) have done a great job quantifying policy uncertainty over time. To be clear, policies can have two effects -- there is the certainty of damaging policy, but there is also the damaging uncertainty of what policy will be.

Several Nobel Prize laureates in economics and basic sciences gathered in Beijing to share their views on escalating trade tensions and scientific and technological improvement.

Hoover Institution fellow Russ Robert discusses trade, tariffs, and the economy.