Archive for the 'Economy' Category
HIGHEST U.S. INFLATION SINCE 1990, CPI +6.2%
November 10th, 2021Via: Bloomberg: Prices paid by U.S. consumers accelerated in October from a year earlier by the most since 1990, exceeding forecasts and adding to evidence of building inflationary pressures as companies find more success in passing on higher costs. The consumer price index increased 6.2% from October 2020, according to Labor Department data released Wednesday. […]
More Than Half of U.S. States Are Suing to Stop Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
November 10th, 2021Via: Business Insider: More than half of US states on Friday filed or joined lawsuits opposing President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for employees of large companies. Twenty-six states cosigned four petitions, amounting to perhaps the most sweeping legal challenge to pandemic-era safety requirements since Biden took office. Three Democrat-led states are among the 26. The […]
Appeals Court Stays Vaccine Mandate on Larger Businesses
November 7th, 2021Via: AP: A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay of the requirement by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or face mask […]
DeSantis Announces Lawsuit Against Biden’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Employer Vaccine Mandate
November 5th, 2021Via: Epoch Times: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Nov. 4 that he is suing the Biden administration over its “unconstitutional” employer vaccine mandate being issued through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). … The governor said the vaccine mandate will drastically impact Florida companies, both public and private, who receive millions of dollars […]
From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. Worker Rebellion Swells Over Vaccine Mandates
November 2nd, 2021Via: Reuters: In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official. … For Boeing Co in the United States, more than 7,000 workers have applied for religious exemptions […]
30 Facts You NEED to Know: Your Covid Cribsheet
November 1st, 2021Via: Off-Guardian: …we decided to make a bullet-pointed and sourced list for all the key points. A one-stop-shop.
Bill Gates and the Uncertain Future of Food Security
November 1st, 2021Via: Off-Guardian: As we approach a winter of discontent and Global food systems go from bad to worse, there’s trouble in paradise. At the root of these problems, Government responses to COVID-19 have contributed to a six-fold increase in famine-like conditions as global supply chains collapse, and field trials for gene-edited crops and farm animals […]
Barclays CEO Jes Staley Resigns Over Ties To Epstein
November 1st, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: Yet another finance titan has just been forced out of their CEO job due to unsavory ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Months after Apollo co-founder and former CEO Leon Black abruptly left private equity giant Apollo following an internal uprising over his ties to the now-deceased Epstein, Staley, – who had been tasked with […]
Venezuelans Turn to Gold Nuggets as the Local Currency Implodes
November 1st, 2021Dealing with physical gold in fractions of a gram seems extremely cumbersome, and, are vendors confident that they’re being paid in actual gold? With the use of cryptocurrencies booming in Venezuela, I wonder if people are using any of the gold backed cryptos for the purposes described in this piece? The most bugeyed Cryptogon readers […]
“This Is War”: An Interview with Pierre Kory, M.D.
November 1st, 2021Via: Peak Prosperity:
