Economy
Delta suing over software problems
And, more on the question of software, Delta is suing cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike over its outage last summer which, it claims, caused Delta to cancel over 7,000 flights, and cost the company $500,000,000. The airline is asking for compensation and punitive damages from the outage, which started with a faulty update sent to several million […]
John Deere faces boycott calls after laying off workers while also moving operations to Mexico
John Deere recently announced a round of layoffs; almost 300 individuals across two states. This year, John Deere has laid off approximately 2,100 workers. This company is also planning on moving its operations to Mexico. Farmers criticized the company’s move to lay individuals off while also looking to Mexico. John Deere responded that these layoffs […]
Shipping port strikes could send prices up
As of the scheduling of this posting, union workers working at ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast have declared the intent to start their strike on October 1, 2024, assuming an agreement is not made by then. Both sides of the dispute are currently at an impasse over port automation and wages. This strike […]
Massive Data Breach – listen up!
National Public Data is not a household name, maybe, but it should be. They’re a ‘data aggregator’, used by banks, credit card companies…these are the folks who keep your data for other folks to access. One would think that sensitive data should be secure, no? Well… no. In a statement that offered little details, […]
Kamala Harris’s price control plan worries certain Democrats
Kamala Harris already provided hints on her plans to fix the economy. One plan appears to have some Democrats worried. They would rather have Harris continue to go without having unscripted interviews or without presenting her plan in more detail during her rallies. Knowledge gained from what the Harris Campaign has already published points to […]
Kamala HQ mocked Donald Trump for predicting market crash under Joe Biden
in May 24, 2024, the Democrats took to X, on what was then an account for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, to mock Donald Trump’s prediction. During an interview in May 2020, Donald Trump predicted that if Joe Biden were elected, the markets would see a crash. That account, now “Kamala HQ” addressed this prediction, and […]
Could France show us how progressive initiatives are bad for the US?
France’s recent elections have been good news for their left leaning groups. Their new left-wing coalition is proposing a 90% tax on those making over the equivalent of $433,000, raising minimum wage, lowering the retirement age, and other popular progressive ideas. If one does the numbers, if such a tax were implemented, a person could […]
The question returns
I know there are a few of you more ‘mature’ (okay, old fart) readers who remember when Ronald Reagan asked the electorate the famous question that Donald Trump should be trumpeting from the housetops: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? What do you think? On the one hand, the Dow […]
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