Alex Zank

Milwaukee

Reporter at Morning Brew

Reporter at CFO Brew

Dad | Reporter at @MorningBrew @CFOBrew | I also tweet frequently about Milwaukee and Wisconsin | #GoPackGo

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Producer price index surprises economists with 0.4% decline in March

1 week ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Here’s a good economic data point for a change—although to be clear, it’s a reflection of a time before President Donald Trump announced his reciprocal tariffs plan (then rolled back most of them). Prices for producers and manufacturers decreased 0.4% in March from the previous month, compared to increases of 0.1% in February and 0.6% in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed.
Third-party cyber risk is real, costly, and a business problem

1 week ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Cut down on courthouse antics. Learn how legal system abuse is defined + strategies to mitigate this type of abuse with Marsh McLennan Agency. Defend your org. CFOs know all too well the financial risks of a cybersecurity breach, especially when an attack grinds business to a halt. But it’s not just your company getting breached that you have to worry about; cyberattacks on your vendors can also prove damaging.
Looking beyond the long-term impacts of reciprocal tariffs

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Cut down on courthouse antics. Learn how legal system abuse is defined + strategies to mitigate this type of abuse with Marsh McLennan Agency. Defend your org. The Trump administration teased what it called “reciprocal tariffs” for months. But when the president unveiled his new tariff program last week, it became clear he was actually targeting US trade deficits with other nations.
IRS bringing probationary employees back to work

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

The IRS’s probationary employees have got to be feeling whiplash at this point. In February, they were all laid off, as part of efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to reduce the federal workforce. In March, they were back on the agency payroll but on administrative leave. Now, they’ll be brought back to work.
Tariff uncertainty is what CFOs have ‘been training for’

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Cut down on courthouse antics. Learn how legal system abuse is defined + strategies to mitigate this type of abuse with Marsh McLennan Agency. Defend your org. The Trump administration’s tariffs program landed with a bang, crashing markets worldwide, and now CFOs are called to the front lines to help their businesses navigate the fallout.
Added tariff risks may leave organizations underinsured

3 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Cut down on courthouse antics. Learn how legal system abuse is defined + strategies to mitigate this type of abuse with Marsh McLennan Agency. Defend your org. There are a lot of implications to think over with President Donald Trump’s tariffs program. The most immediate impact, of course, is that imports get more expensive. Suppliers often pass the added costs on to customers further down the supply chain. The tariffs could also impede M&A activity, as we previously reported.
Goldman Sachs boosts recession probability to 35% amid tariff concerns

3 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

With “liberation day” fast approaching, Goldman Sachs says it now puts the chances of a recession in the next 12 months at 35%. And it has everything to do with tariffs. President Donald Trump, who has already enacted tariffs on major trading partners as well as steel and aluminum products, plans to enact “reciprocal” tariffs on Wednesday.
M&A activity declined in the first quarter

4 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Remember when we said M&A was gonna be hot this year? Well, so far it’s been “more lukewarm,” KPMG experts said of the first quarter of dealmaking, in a new report. M&A activity through March 10 totaled $376 billion in value, putting the first quarter (well, most of it) at a 7% decline from Q4 2024 and making it the lowest quarter since Q3 2023, which came in at $349 billion, according to the Big Four accounting firm.
SBA is adding upfront fees to small business loans

4 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

It’s about to get more expensive for small businesses seeking government-backed loans. The SBA said in a recent notice that it’s reinstating up-front fees on 7(a) loans for the remainder of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, in what business lending platform Funder Intel described as a “significant policy shift.” The announcement reverses previous policy that waived up-front fees on any loans of $1 million or less.
Where ‘growth at all costs’ can go wrong

1 month ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

It isn’t just growth that investors want. According to a new analysis from EY, companies must “earn the right to grow” by achieving a high return on investment—and growth at the expense of efficiency can harm shareholder value. Experts at the Big Four accounting firm analyzed 360 S&P 500 companies “using a proprietary, forecasted cash flow model” to get a solid grasp on how growth and capital investment contribute to total shareholder return (TSR).

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Alex Zank @AlexZank

7 Apr 25

The Walking Dead had an amazing Season 1 and then just got progressively shittier. By this point they were just killing characters for shock value.

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9 years ago today of the best cliffhanger in all of television 🔥https://t.co/p2CSSLKOuT

Alex Zank @AlexZank

2 Apr 25

No joke, Trump claimed this afternoon that the Great Depression happened because the US government moved away from tariffs to the income tax as its main source of revenue.