Archive for the 'Economy' Category
EU Automakers Have Secured Less Than a Fifth of the Battery Metals They’ll Need by 2030
December 6th, 2023Via: Electrek: European automakers have secured less than a fifth of the cobalt, lithium, and nickel they’ll need to meet targets by 2030, according to a new analysis by Transport & Environment (T&E). Exceptions are Tesla and China’s BYD, but Tesla and certainly BYD fall a bit short on responsible practices compared to other automakers. […]
San Francisco Now at 35% Office Vacancy Rate, Highest Ever Recorded
December 5th, 2023Via: ABC7: The skyline of San Francisco’s Financial District is about as picturesque as it gets. An area that was bustling with people several years ago, but one that according to the numbers, is now more vacant than ever. “Right now in downtown San Francisco, we have a vacancy rate of a little over 35% […]
The American Dream Has Been Downsized into a Tiny Box
December 5th, 2023Via: Truthstream Media: Flashback: L.A. Coliving: PodShare
California: Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) Delivers Brutal Fact Check Following The Newsom And DeSantis Debate
December 4th, 2023Via: Forbes:
Gold: New Record High
December 4th, 2023Via: Bloomberg: Gold shot past a previous all-time high set in the midst of the pandemic on growing expectations for US rate cuts early next year, despite attempts by the Federal Reserve to temper the optimism. … Gold rose 0.8% to $2,087.95 an ounce as of 1:32 p.m. in Singapore, following a 1.8% increase on […]
Nearly Half of US Companies Plan to Ax Bachelor’s Degree Requirements
November 30th, 2023Via: Daily Mail: Nearly half of US companies intend to eliminate Bachelor’s degree requirements for some job positions next year, a new survey has revealed. And 55 percent said they’d already eliminated degree requirements this year, according to an Intelligent.com survey of 800 US employers, carried out in November. It comes after Walmart, IBM, Accenture, […]
Musk on Large Corporate Advertisers Leaving Twitter: “If Somebody is Going to Try to Blackmail Me… Go Fuck Yourself.”
November 30th, 2023MUSK: “The judge is the public.” SORKIN: “And you think that the public is going to say that Disney is making a mistake?” MUSK: “Yes.” SORKIN: “And they’re going to boycott Disney?” MUSK: “They already are.”@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/3LDxuk8wDC — Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 30, 2023 Via: CNBC: Speaking at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York […]
Artist Tries to Prove Work Wasn’t Generated by AI, Fails
November 27th, 2023Via: Hackaday: For digital artist [Mizkai], this problem has already become very real. [Mizkai] entered an illustration contest in October, penning a Halloween scene with a young witch. After submission though, things went awry. “At first they said they suspected I had traced AI work as my style was inconsistent,” [Mizkai] told Hackaday. Trying to […]
Bill Gates’s Relationship with Convicted Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Revolved Around a Global Health Investment Fund
November 25th, 2023Via: Breitbart: Over time, Gates and JPMorgan established an investment fund that sought to profit from the development of vaccines and other health technologies. Epstein wanted a piece of the action, and Staley brought Epstein into the Gates partnership. The Gates-JPMorgan partnership was called the Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF) and was created circa 2011. […]
Has New Zealand Stepped Back From The Brink?
November 25th, 2023I have been feeling so down about New Zealand lately that I doubted anything positive was possible within the political system here. The media did such a job on people during Covid that I thought there was no going back. I’m not popping champagne bottles or anything, but it looks like the last election has […]
