Month: September 2020

1) American businesses have suffered stress that is breaking many, including some in the grocery chains. Like some popular restaurant chains, some grocery chains were filing for bankruptcy before the…

1) A railroad link between Alaska and Canada has been a dream for generations, because such a rail link would reduce Alaska’s costs for goods and services. It would also…

1) Another round of protest against the police was spurred by the grand jury in Kentucky deciding to indict only one of the three officers in the case of the…

1) Tim Kendall, former Facebook director of monetization, says that Facebook "took a page from Big Tobacco's play book, working to make our offering addictive at the outset." The greater…

1) California's annual bout of fires has just added a new dimension to the state's history. The Creek Fire has become the state's single most massive wildfire in history by…

1) After Amazon’s Prime Day was postponed by the virus in July, it was tentatively reset for the fourth quarter. Amazon didn’t want their Prime Day to overlap with Black…

1) Bad news from the conronavirus continuing to pile in with a just-released report that 60% of the small businesses that have closed because of the virus, and will never…

1) Michael Farr of CNBC claims the problem with the U.S. economy is there are too many poor people, that the poor and middle class don’t have enough money. His…

By Economic & Finance Report US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. She spent much of her legal career advocating for gender equality and…

1) The batteries in electric cars don't last forever, so therefore they must be replaced from time to time. That leaves defunct batteries which must be disposed of. One company…