Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Here’s the Medical Cannabis Super Bowl Ad CBS Refused to Run
February 3rd, 2019Via: Green Entrepreneur: It was all over the news on Tuesday: CBS rejected a public service announcement highlighting the benefits of medical cannabis, which was intended to be aired during the 2019 Super Bowl. Long story short, what happened was Acreage Holdings, one of the largest U.S. based cannabis companies, which counts former House Speaker […]
Germany Drops F-35 from Fighter Tender
February 2nd, 2019Via: Reuters: Germany will pick either the Eurofighter or Boeing’s F/A-18 fighter jet to replace its Tornado warplanes, knocking Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter out of a tender worth billions of euros, Defence Ministry sources said on Thursday.
U.S. Army Recruiting Rap
February 1st, 2019Economic collapse got you down? Don’t want rent or electricity bills? Come kill for Uncle $cam! But before that, check out Anybody’s Son Will Do. This is the Marines, but it’s pretty much the same, regardless of military branch or country. Anybody’s Son Will Do (1983) Via: United States Army:
European Bond Cartel
February 1st, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Eight banks are being targeted in a European Union probe that alleges traders colluded to acquire and trade euro government bonds, a month after the EU regulators implicated lenders in a separate bond-trading case. The European Commission didn’t identify the banks being investigated for “a collusive scheme that aimed at distorting competition” for […]
EU and Japan Create World’s Biggest Free Trade Zone
February 1st, 2019Via: Deutsche Welle: A free trade agreement between Japan and the EU entered into force on February 1, covering 635 million people and almost one-third of the world’s economy. Dubbed the world’s largest free trade agreement, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement removes duties on almost all agricultural and industrial products and opens up the service […]
Amazon Is Hauling Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks Developed by Embark
January 30th, 2019Via: CNBC: Amazon is using self-driving trucks developed by Embark to haul some cargo on the I-10 interstate highway, CNBC has learned. The trucks were previously noticed by a Reddit user, who photographed and shared images this week showing tractors emblazoned with the Embark logo and trailers painted with the Amazon Prime logo.
Smart Coolers: Now Your Groceries See You, Too
January 30th, 2019Via: The Atlantic: Walgreens is piloting a new line of “smart coolers”—fridges equipped with cameras that scan shoppers’ faces and make inferences on their age and gender. On January 14, the company announced its first trial at a store in Chicago in January, and plans to equip stores in New York and San Francisco with […]
Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Obama Spoke at Boeing Retreat After Firm Gave Millions to Library Fund
January 28th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Boeing Co. lined up a surprise motivational speaker for an executive retreat in Arizona this month: former U.S. President Barack Obama. He was the second former U.S. president in two years to offer up leadership tips to managers gathered for Boeing’s annual desert planning session. George W. Bush addressed the group last year, […]
Another EV Giant Enters The Battery Business
January 27th, 2019Via: OilPrice.com: German auto maker giant Volkswagen has just upped its bet on electric vehicles (EVs) by announcing it will begin manufacturing batteries and charging stations for those cars, which the company plans to also start mass producing soon. The Wolfsburg-based company said it would invest 870 million euros (about $985 million) by 2020 to […]
Army’s Long-Awaited Iraq War Study Finds Iran Was the Only Winner
January 27th, 2019The arms industry and the mercs did ok, too. Via: ArmyTimes: A two-volume Army study of the Iraq war is a deep examination of the mistakes and success of the war effort that also takes aim at critics who would slough off the conflict as they shift to near-peer threats. The study, commissioned by former […]
