Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Ray Dalio says cash is not a safe place right now despite heightened market volatility

Omicron variant was detected in the Netherlands before S. Africa flights

Column: Hypocrisy of Build Back Better giving rich a tax cut

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to announce huge £255billion bid to derail China's global plans

The U.S. government is wasting billions on ineffective wildfire policy.

New Data Finally Shows Why People Are Quitting Their Jobs. It's Definitely Not Because They're Lazy

Moderna CEO says vaccines likely less effective against Omicron

Monday, November 29, 2021

The White House is taking aim at 'the cartel of shipping companies' that control global trade amid supply chain chaos

Biden’s ‘Infrastructure’ Bill Contains Backdoor ‘Kill Switch’ For Cars Raising Privacy Concerns

Anti-drunk driving technology required for new cars in infrastructure bill

America is looking down the barrel of population collapse

Raimondo: U.S. at 'inflection point' of chip shortage

Scientists solve two problems at once—turning methane pollution into sustainable fishmeal

Germany says working with U.S. on Nord Stream 2 deal

Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of

Will The EV Revolution Trigger Global Economic Crisis?

Omicron Could Fuel Surges With ‘Severe Consequences,’ WHO Says

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Easy Way to Tax Billionaires That Would Actually Work: Tax the Loans That Use Stocks As Collateral

How the Infrastructure Bill Might Help the West Manage Megafires

Virus Variant Sends Mideast Stocks Into Nosedive After Oil Slump

'A huge lift': Biden's bet on child care is closer to reality but could it boost expenses for some?

Restaurant Manager Quit to Make Same Wages As Uber Eats Driver

Fed chair? Check. Releasing petroleum? Check. What else can Biden do to try to tame inflation?

More colleges face bankruptcy but top schools experience record wealth

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go? | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Biden's minimum book tax could hurt private pensions

This tax would make wealthy corporations pay their fair share

Russia Just Showed How Vulnerable America Is to ‘Scorched Earth’ Space War

Opinion: 10 reasons not to panic about inflation just yet

Stocks, oil tumble on virus variant fears, safe havens gain

OPEC+ Urged to Relieve ‘Artificial Tightness’ in Oil Market

U.S. Rig Count Climbs As Oil Prices Crash

The market's Black Friday freakout about the new variant shows how a reactionary Wall Street rules American life and politics

Omicron COVID Variant Possibly 500 Percent More Infectious Than Delta

Friday, November 26, 2021

As new debt limit showdown looms, lawmakers consider long-term solutions

Crypto: Bitcoin (BTC) enters bear market on new Covid variant

Vertical Farming Is the Key to Preventing a Future Food Crisis for American Cities

Cryptocurrency Ban: Prices Crash as Indian Govt To Move Bill Prohibiting All Private Cryptocurrencies

Retirees flee high-tax New Jersey, creating potential fiscal crisis for state

Disaster capitalism 'hits new heights' as Wall Street profiteers cash in on recovery loans

South Africa grapples with new COVID variant that could be more transmissible and more resistant to vaccines

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Columbia University to pay $12.5 mln to settle COVID-19 refund claims | Reuters

Opinion: Hydrogen for ground transportation and heating is a bad idea

New report from ACEEE examines benefits of electric pump water heaters

Federal Reserve likely to become a tougher talking central bank

Scientists warn of new Botswana variant of Covid-19 with high number of mutations

Canada 'extremely disappointed' with U.S. decision to raise softwood lumber duty rate

Bernie Sanders Is Right: Biden’s Big Build Back Better Bill contains a Huge Gift to the Rich

Fed ready to raise interest rates if inflation continues to run high, minutes show

Traders Pile Into $70 Longer Term Crude Price

Now might be a good time to stock up on platinum – while nobody cares about it

COVID-19 Is Still Killing More Than a Thousand Americans Every Day

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Fertilizer shortage may lead to spring scramble on North America's farms

Lira eases back from record low as Turkey stumbles into unknown

Oil Slides as Biden Releases 50 Million Barrels of Stockpiled Oil Reserves

Infrastructure is bipartisan again — it needs to stay that way

Worst is over in global supply chain disruptions: Shipping association

Turkey may not be the only country facing a currency crisis, says investor Mark Mobius

A Second Afghanistan? Biden Admin Prepares For The Worst In Ethiopia

A Timeless Lesson Of Circuit City's Bankruptcy: Solve The Right Problem

U.S. energy secretary: companies making huge profits, should increase oil supply

Iowa board agrees to keep secret names of landowners in path of proposed carbon capture pipeline

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Jury holds pharmacies responsible for role in opioid crisis

It's Fiscally Irresponsible for the United States Not to Spend More Money

U.S. adds Germany and Denmark to "do not travel" list as COVID cases rise, joining several other European countries

Biden is risking an oil-price war

U.S. warship again transits sensitive Taiwan Strait

Why US-China oil reserve release won’t fix deeper demand-supply problems

Samsung Picks Taylor, Texas for U.S. Chip Plant in Win for Biden

Experts Concerned As Americans Are Rapidly Losing Interest In Having Kids, According To New Poll

Op-Ed: We send back 30% of what we buy online. How our return culture alters the supply chain

Inflation May Actually Benefit Your Business.

The promise and problem of a functional Federal Reserve

How Medicare could change if Democrats' spending bill becomes law

With Jerome Powell's second term, markets are betting the Fed will be more aggressive on inflation

U.S. to release 50 mln barrels of oil from emergency reserve - White House

Monday, November 22, 2021

Biden picks Jerome Powell to lead the Fed for a second term as the U.S. battles Covid and inflation

Japan working on release of oil reserves after U.S. request

2 Million Missing Workers Are Immigrants Who Never Came to Solve the Labor Shortage

IMF deal with Pakistan would revive $6 billion bailout

World's First Autonomous Electric Container Ship Completed Its First Trip

The Real Inflation Problem Is Corporate Profiteering

Another 650,000 Pay-TV Subscribers Cut the Cord in the Third Quarter

Market is a bad inflation report away from correction: Jeremy Siegel

It's not just sneakers anymore — the supply chain crisis is so bad that people are turning to bots to buy everything from electronics to toys

Sunday, November 21, 2021

'Piracy' website offers NFT art as free downloads

Environmentalists sound alarm at US politicians’ embrace of cryptocurrency

Shipping rate surge threatens global economy recovery, UNCTAD says

Traditional colleges are recognizing Google career certificates

Proposed Macrogrid Would Improve Reliability And Resilience Of US Electric Power, Study Says

El Salvador plans first 'Bitcoin City', backed by bitcoin bonds

Saturday, November 20, 2021

US and Taiwan to hold talks on Monday about forging closer economic ties

The Pentagon Budget Costs 4 Times As Much As Biden’s Social Policy Bill. Guess Which One Congress Thinks Is Too Pricey.

American taxpayers pick up New Jersey commuters' fare

Top analysts say Biden infrastructure, social spending plans won't add to inflationary pressure

What's the best way to spend the $1.2 trillion in the infrastructure bill?

With Its Latest Store, Starbucks Just Threw Out a Strategy It Spent 40 Years Perfecting and It's Totally Brilliant

Friday, November 19, 2021

CBO says Democrat social spending bill to grow deficit by $367 billion

Oil drops below $80 on European COVID concerns

Amazon, the great disruptor, might be about to turn payments upside down too

Amazon, Facebook, other large firms would pay more under proposed minimum tax, Warren's office says

Part of the ‘great resignation’ is actually just mothers forced to leave their jobs for childcare

Biden Wants Major Oil Reserve Sales. That’s Not Easy in Asia

I know how lobbyists make sure Americans don’t get dental care–I was one of them

The $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Spends a Lot More Money on the Same Old Highway Programs

Putin outsmarted as Qatar offers PM lifeline out EU's gas crisis: ‘Not going to Russia!’

Nearly 1M self-employed workers suddenly required to prove they deserved EDD benefits or pay it all back

Delta’s New, Even More Infectious Cousin AY.4.2 Might Actually Be Good News

Virus surge worsens in Midwest as states expand boosters

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Warren Buffett, Bill Gates to build nuclear power plant in Wyoming

Muni Senior Living Defaults Break Record With No Respite in View

Federal Reserve Governor Argues Against Subjecting Stablecoins to Full Banking Regulation

Goldman Sachs CEO is worried about excessive market greed

Why Forcing Stablecoin Issuers to Hold All-Cash Reserves Is a Bad Idea

Ignore 'hysterical people' — inflation is not here to stay, economist says

Oil Tumbles on U.S. Reserve Draw, Biden’s New Vow to Crackdown on High Prices

Top vaccine manufacturers rake in $1,000 in combined profit every second: Analysis

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

John Deere employees vote to approve contract proposal, end strike

US plans ‘coalition of democracies’ for trade but won’t join CPTPP: Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo

Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure

Global need for copper, nickel will quadruple over next 30 years

Powell’s Five Inflation Benchmarks Are Starting to Flash Amber

Corporations Use Inflation As Excuse to Boost Prices, Profits

German regulator puts brake on Nord Stream 2 in fresh blow to gas pipeline

Americans keep spending

Why Lael Brainard is best qualified to lead the Fed

Greed Is Why Supply Chain Crisis Isn't Ending: Veteran Trucker

Americans spent more than ever in October as the Delta wave faded away, shrugging off the highest inflation in 30 years

Congressional Doctors Lead Bipartisan Revolt Over Policy on Surprise Medical Bills

Jim Cramer sees signs that inflation pressures are easing, believes Fed policy approach is right

The U.S. Government Plans to Back Much Higher Mortgages. It Could Actually Be a Blow to Buyers - Mansion Global

Why are cryptocurrencies crashing? Bitcoin, Ether, Doge, and Shiba Inu plummet

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Walmart earnings: America's largest retailer is navigating the supply chain just fine

Almost $500bn ‘lost to tax abuse by firms and super-rich in 2021’

Bitcoin falls as China takes aim once again at 'extremely harmful' crypto mining

Biden Admin Set to Proceed With Largest Offshore Oil & Gas Lease Sale in U.S. History

Medicare prescription plan could lower insulin, other drug costs

The global supply chain crisis isn’t as bad as it looks

BofA Sees 'Non-Functioning Areas' in Treasury Market

Fed must hike interest rates to cut stagflation risks: Stephen Roach

U.S. Republicans move to decriminalize marijuana at federal level

Monday, November 15, 2021

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System sues Facebook

Get rid of tariffs on China to help ease inflation, two dozen business groups tell Biden

Worst yet to come for China’s housing market as new home prices fall by most in 6 years

Beans May Be the ‘Food of the Future,’ but U.S. Farmers Aren’t Planting Enough

2 big unknowns loom large over the 2022 housing market

Fed is losing credibility over its inflation narrative, Mohamed El-Erian says

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Janet Yellen Warns Of 'Global Trading Consequences' From China's Billions In Real Estate Debt

Noted economist explains what's 'really driving' inflation

U.S. court voids emissions rules for heavy-duty truck trailers

Apple agrees to pay workers $30 million to settle lawsuit over bag check policy - 9to5Mac

One way Americans feel inflation's pain: Health insurance premiums

Kaiser health care worker strike averted as tentative deal is reached, company says

The supply chain crisis' latest woe: Cargo theft

Striking John Deere workers to vote for third time on contract

Russia invasion news: More troops on Ukraine border than entire British Army - satellite

Covid Surge in Arizona, New Mexico, Western US States Packs ICUs, Hospitals

High Court decision on $125 million fine for Volkswagen is a warning to all greenwashers

Researcher: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should

Saturday, November 13, 2021

Medicare's "Part B" premium jumping by $21.60 a month next year, one of largest increases ever

China to develop new heavy icebreaker for ‘Polar Silk Road’

Trucker on Driver Shortage: 'They Can't Support Their Families'

A Beginner's Guide to Coinbase: How To Buy Cryptocurrency

A record 4.4 million people quit jobs in September: Great Resignation

China power curbs cut 7% of annual aluminium capacity

Volvo Says Manufacturing An Electric Car Generates 70 Percent More Emissions Than Its ICE Equivalent

Medicare standard Part B premiums for 2022 jump by 14.5%

Amazon New York Workers Withdraw Petition for Union Vote

Three Snow Leopards at Nebraska Zoo Die of COVID a Month After Testing Positive

A Fifth COVID-19 Wave May Be Coming To the U.S.

Friday, November 12, 2021

This Is How Long It Really Takes to Save for a Down Payment

Retirees Need to Adjust Their Retirement Income Strategy

Austria to put millions of unvaccinated people in Covid lockdown

'Stretched too thin': With staff 'exhausted,' schools cancel class or return to remote learning

Kaiser faces potentially crippling strikes next week in CA

Johnson & Johnson to split into two companies, separating consumer health business

Key budget office caught in crosshairs over Biden spending plan

Jim Cramer on stagflation concerns and retail earnings

The moon's top layer alone has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 years

Labor Shortage: Companies Order Record 29,000 Robots, Data Shows

Lions, tiger, big cats at Saint Louis Zoo have COVID-19

COVID-19 hot spots offer sign of what could be ahead for US

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Germany Covid cases hit 50,000 a day prompting 100,000 deaths warning

We need to talk about the real reason behind US inflation | Robert Reich

Dollar rockets to 16-month highs after hot U.S. inflation; euro sinks

There's One Really Scary Thing About October Inflation That's Different

Budget scorekeeper starts releasing estimates for Democrats' massive spending plan

Pressure on Fed to raise interest rates as US inflation surges to 30-year high | US economy

A solution to the US worker shortage and inequity is hiding in plain sight

The cost of Medicare Advantage plans to the U.S. government is exploding

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Diesel Shortage Amid Soaring Prices: Truck Stops Resort To Rationing

Energy crisis will trigger a food shortage as fertilizer prices soar

Bank of China Reveals Machine That Converts Foreign Currency to Digital Yuan: Report

Here's how long it may take Biden's infrastructure package to jolt the economy

Oil rises on surprise U.S. crude stockpile decline

China CPI and PPI: The world's second largest economy has a big inflation problem

White House announces ‘pop up container yard’ as part of $475m plan to solve supply chain crisis amid fears of holiday shortages

Retailers lose love for Asia: Snarled supply chains force manufacturing exodus to Balkans, LatAm

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Hotel CEOs Concede a Lasting Labor Shortage May Reshape Guest Experience

Home prices to drop by late 2022, says the Mortgage Brokers Association

U.S. Banks Eased Lending Standards, Fed Survey Shows

Bipartisan bill to require algorithm-free versions of tech platforms

Controversial Bitcoin tax provision passes Congress with infrastructure bill

Oil approaches $84 as lifting of U.S. travel ban boosts demand

China Property Stress Spurs Fed Warning as Bond Losses Widen

Analysis: COVID-19 pills are coming, but no substitute for vaccines, disease experts say

Monday, November 8, 2021

Fed Vice Chair Clarida says another year of inflation like this one would not be 'a policy success'

US warehouses running out of room amid supply chain crisis

How can we ensure a just transition away from coal

Person Furious That Someone Right Click Saved Their Precious NFT

Time for a national strategy on food

Is Experiential Marketing the Future of Retail?

Companies that do not go green ‘will become collateral damage of net zero’

Interest In Attending College Is Fading Amongst HS Students, Per Survey

Billionaire Stan Druckenmiller Warns Crypto, Meme Stocks, Bonds Are in a Bubble: 'This Bubble Is in Everything'

Oil gains after U.S. infrastructure bill passes, Chinese exports rise

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Roads, transit, internet: What's in the infrastructure bill

‘China is ready’ to make RCEP trade deal tariff cuts

Too little and too late at the Fed

The U.S. is hungry for seafood, but more industrial aquaculture isn't the answer

Emerging Market Rate Hikes – No End in Sight

Consumption Tax: What It Is And How It Works

The Next Shipping Crisis: A Maritime Labor Shortage

Democrats’ plans to expand Medicare benefits may - or may not - pinch Advantage plans’ funding

Saturday, November 6, 2021

Boeing directors agree to $237.5 million settlement over 737 MAX safety oversight

The Strike at Kellogg’s Is Now Entering Its Second Month

Mystery of China’s Huge Dollar Surplus Baffles Global Markets

Monthly Jobs Reports Not Keeping up With Reality, Preliminary Figures Way Off

House passes $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes transport, broadband and utility funding, sends it to Biden

Energy crisis shows how world needs to wean off fossil fuels

House passes bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill after progressives drop opposition

Friday, November 5, 2021

WOW! Rick Santelli Stunned by Jobs Report Live in Real Time

A ‘Historic, Transformative’ Plan: Schumer Announces Deal To Lower Drug Prices In Spending Package

American Chambers of Commerce across Asia are urging Biden to sign on to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

Negative Bond Yields Are Starting to Dissipate in Europe

A Squeeze on Lithium Has Top Producer ‘Going as Fast as We Can’

China cites famous US economist to warn against low productivity

Car Shortages Are Putting The Economy In Jeopardy

Ohio became the largest state to mandate personal finance education

Carrots and sticks: why energy prices won't fall for a long time

Europe's COVID spread is "warning shot" for rest of world

Real estate: The historic run on home prices is set to taper off in 2022

More Than 30,000 Kaiser Permanente Workers Just Announced They’ll Strike This Month

Study shows dramatic decline in COVID vaccine effectiveness

Thursday, November 4, 2021

US trade deficit hits record of $80.9 billion in September

Kellogg's U.S. cereal plant workers reject revised offer

The Second-Largest Strike in the U.S. Is Happening in New York City

US government works to 'cocoon' old nuclear reactors

Fertilizer shortage expected to send food prices higher

The CEOs of Microsoft and LinkedIn Agree: We're in the Middle of the 'Great Reshuffle,' Not the 'Great Resignation'

Another rural Oregon county voted to explore moving to Idaho, part of a larger effort to secede from the blue state

China Is Permanently Damaging Its Marketplace

Wall Street’s smartest hedge funds are now getting smacked by inflation

America Is Addicted to Sanctions

Why all your coworkers who quit are about to come back as ‘boomerang employees’

Powell's path to second Fed term becomes wider

Deer in Iowa appear to be catching COVID-19 from humans. Could it happen in other states?

Covid has caused 28m years of life to be lost, study finds

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

World’s largest trade deal RCEP to come into force in January 2022

John Deere Workers Reject Tentative Deal, Decide To Stay On Strike

GOP legislatures move to weaken child labor laws in lieu of increasing wages

Norway in legal quandary after wind turbines ruled a threat to reindeer herder rights

Seventy-five dollar carbon tax could cut emissions by 12%, report says

Oil slips after American Petroluem Institute data shows U.S. inventory build-up

‘Suicidal Thoughts Just Disappeared’; Groundbreaking UCSF Study Treats Depression With On-Demand Stimulation in Brain

Supply chain bottlenecks will take time to resolve: Shipping firm CEO

Zillow to shutter home buying business and lay off 2,000 employees as its big real estate bet falters

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

World's Largest Shipping Co. Sees Highest Profits in 117 Years

US Treasury calls for stablecoin legislation

McKinsey report shows how toilet paper habits changed

Lithium Americas makes $400 mln bid for Millennial to rival China's CATL

The U.S. Federal Reserve's take on greening the economy: Not our job

Treasury says plans to borrow $1.02 trillion this quarter

True or false: Charging an electric vehicle is cheaper than paying for gas

Pre-Bankruptcy Executive Bonuses a New Target for Fairness Advocates

Many young adults choose work over college, report shows

Amazon CEO Andy Jassey Just Taught Every CEO a Powerful Leadership Lesson. Here's What You Can Learn From Him

Booster Shots Drastically Reduce Delta Variant Hospitalizations And Deaths In Israel

Monday, November 1, 2021

US Treasury says stablecoins should be regulated like banks

Why ‘Buy American’ Isn’t The Answer To Safeguard National Security Supply Chains

Nigeria becomes the first country in Africa to launch a digital currency, eNaira

UK steel makers 'left behind' as US ends trade war with EU

Biden pick for Fed chair expected soon, Yellen says

Britain tells France: back down in 48 hours or we get tough

Bank of America Sees Negative 10-Year Stock Returns

It's not a 'Great Resignation' that will change work forever, one economist says. His calculations show the labor shortage is ending soon.

Military spending drop a warning to California

Americans sour on economy amid inflation woes

Apple, Amazon Q3 earnings prove it's a bad time to be in the 'stuff' business

Solid-State Batteries Are Coming! Solid-State Batteries Are Coming!

A carbon tax is a much more powerful tool than a clean electricity mandate

Oil drops on China fuel reserves release; OPEC+ meeting in view

China economy shows signs of stagflation, price inflation: Economists

Covid-19 vaccine: Skin patch could work better than injections

Colorado Lets Hospitals Turn Away Patients as Covid Surges Anew

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