Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business. Show all posts
Sunday, May 21, 2023

'Shark Tank's' Kevin O'Leary, 'I have 54 companies in every state and nearly every sector, and we now know what the percentage is, it's just under 40 percent --- 40 percent are never coming back!' (VIDEO)

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Office workers. Are the coming back in the new economy?  Elon Musk say employees working from home are like Marie Antoinette: Let them eat c...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Target Earnings Squeezed as Shoppers Stick to Basics

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Target's getting hammered. Their grocery business takes just 3 percent of the share of total grocery sales in the U.S. And folks aren...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy

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My wife briefly worked there. Briefly. It wasn't her most memorable or rewarding job.  The company made a bad bet on its own-store brand...

Decoding the Bud Light Disaster

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At Instapundit, " THOMAS LIFSON: Decoding the Bud Light disaster as marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid ‘takes leave of absence’ .
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

U.S. Aims to Chart New Course for Chip Industry

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At the Wall Street Journal , " $53 billion plan, a mix of subsidies and conditions, will be a test of U.S. industrial policy: Companies...
Friday, February 3, 2023

U.S. Added 517,000 Jobs as Hiring Accelerated in January

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Well, that recession everyone's been predicting hasn't materialized. This economy is sizzling, *despite* the loathed Biden administr...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Corporate Consolidation in Publishing Industry Downshifts After Penguin's Bid to Acquire Simon & Schuster Collapses

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Even Stephen King was against the merger, which was very likely to hurt the little people in the publishing world, those who don't have ...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Twitter Turmoil Poses Risks to the Company’s Brand

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At the Wall Street Journal , " The social-media company is under a spotlight in the early days of Elon Musk’s ownership ": Twitter...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Russia Nationalizes ExxonMobil's Holdings in Sakhalin-2 Oil and Gas Project at Sakhalin Island, Russia

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This should be front-page news everywhere.  ExxonMobil wrote down $3.4 billion relating to it's exit from the Sakalin-2 development.  I&...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Demand for Cars Faces Test With Rising Rates (VIDEO)

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I bought a brand new Toyota pickup when I was in my early twenties, in the early 1980s, and interest raters were astronomical. What did I kn...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Policies Pushing Electric Vehicles Show Why Few People Want One

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From Bjorn Lomborg, at the Wall Street Journal , " They wouldn’t need huge subsidies to sell if they really were a good choice, and con...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Bed Bath & Beyond to Close 150 Stores, Cut Staff, Sell Shares to Raise Cash

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Probably, the most poorly managed major corporation in the country right now. They're close to going out of business. My wife worked the...
Monday, August 22, 2022

'Quiet Quitting'? This Is Not Good

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Young people are generally inclined towards slacking anyways, but post-lockdown/pandemic, the lackadaisical sloth cohort is downright indole...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

TikTok Influencers Push to Unionize Amazon

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These people are kids with millions of followers on social media.  And they're demanding Amazon pay its workers $30.00 an hour. Right. F...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster Antitrust Case Goes to Court

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Opening arguments were held yesterday.  The attorney for Penguin Random House, Daniel Petrocelli, is a freakin' firecracker. At the New ...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

J. David McSwane, Pandemic, Inc.

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At Amazon, J. David McSwane, Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick .
Friday, July 8, 2022

Twitter Says It's Going to Sue Elon Musk for Trying to Back Out of Takeover Deal

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Folks see Musk as a free-speech savior, so it'd be a bummer if the deal doesn't go through. That said, frankly, Twitter's valuat...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Small Business Is America (VIDEO)

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It's Carol Roth, author of The War on Small Business , for Prager University:
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Markets Suffer Worst First Half of a Year in Decades

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At the Wall Street Journal , " Investors gird for more volatility; almost everything—from stocks to bonds and crypto—falls to start 202...
Friday, June 3, 2022

Why Sheryl Sandberg Quit Facebook's Meta

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She's sketchy. At WSJ , " One of the world’s most powerful executives became increasingly burned out and disconnected from the mega...