Economy
Canada responds to Trump with tariffs on manatee meat, flamethrowers, and other items
In response to President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products, Canada imposed a 25 percent tariff on approximately 1,800 American products. Examples on the list include false beards, church bell cases, passenger drones and live monkeys. If you’re a Canadian and want to purchase accordion parts, bovine semen, and emus, you’ll have to pay more. Canada […]
The H-1B skilled-worker program, bringing in talent or displacing Americans?
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are championing the use of the H-1B skilled-worker visa programs to bring in talent. One argument they advanced is that we are competing against other countries in artificial intelligence development and in other technology arenas. To be able to compete with these other countries, one of the things we need […]
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 […]
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