Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work [???]
September 1st, 2020Via: Bloomberg: A strange phenomenon has emerged near Amazon.com Inc. delivery stations and Whole Foods stores in the Chicago suburbs: smartphones dangling from trees. Contract delivery drivers are putting them there to get a jump on rivals seeking orders, according to people familiar with the matter. Someone places several devices in a tree located close […]
THE JAB: Featuring GlaxoSmithKline
August 31st, 2020Via: Children’s Health Defense: It’s deja-vu all over again with the W.H.O. declaring “pandemics” that result in gold rushes for pharmaceutical companies who swoop in with vaccines to save the day. But are they actually saving anyone? Or do serious adverse events such as the very real narcolepsy epidemic that we saw in the swine […]
Insider Trading Is Rife With No Regulators in Sight
August 31st, 2020Via: Bloomberg: There’s no end to the parade of corporate transactions preceded by trading underlying their selective disclosure.
Amazon’s Drone Delivery Fleet Hits Milestone with FAA Clearance
August 31st, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Aviation Administration designated Amazon Prime Air an “air carrier,” the company said Monday. That allows Amazon to begin its first commercial deliveries in the U.S. under a trial program, using the high-tech devices it unveiled for that purpose last year. Amazon and its competitors must still clear some imposing regulatory and […]
New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs
August 31st, 2020Via: DNYUZ: Since the pandemic began, the suburbs around New York City, from New Jersey to Westchester County to Connecticut to Long Island, have been experiencing enormous demand for homes of all prices, a surge that is unlike any in recent memory, according to officials, real estate agents and residents. In July, there was a […]
The States with the Worst Unemployment Rates
August 27th, 2020Keep in mind, these are official rates. The actual rates are far worse. Via: Yahoo Finance: According to the Department of Labor’s latest report, which breaks out the insured unemployment rate (a ratio of people on unemployment benefits divided by labor force) through August 8, Hawaii is currently suffering the worst employment picture with a […]
Journalism’s Gates Keepers
August 26th, 2020Via: Columbia Journalism Review: As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation, […]
Hungry New Yorkers Form Quarter-Mile Line for Free Food in Queens
August 26th, 2020Via: New York Post: The line stretched a quarter-mile before the sun was barely up Saturday, snaking around corners like bread lines in the 1930s. But the hungry in Queens are today’s New Yorkers, left jobless by the coronavirus. Until the pandemic struck the city, La Jornada food pantry used to hand out groceries to […]
UK Government Scientist Admits Lockdown Was a “Monumental Mistake on a Global Scale”
August 26th, 2020Via: Summit News: A scientific advisor to the UK government says the coronavirus lockdown was a “panic measure” and a “monumental mistake on a global scale.” Infectious diseases expert and University of Edinburgh professor Mark Woolhouse acknowledged that the decision to lockdown in March was a “crude measure” that was enacted because “we couldn’t think […]
Ford Starts Construction on New Factory for Electric F-150 Pickup Truck
August 25th, 2020Via: Electrek: Ford has started construction on a new factory to build the upcoming electric F-150 pickup truck next to its current pickup factory in Dearborn, Michigan. You could argue that no one has a bigger stake in electric pickup trucks. Electrification has disrupted every segment it has touched, and with Ford being the leader […]
