8 October 2020
1) Despite the economic failure of the first supersonic airliner, the French-British Concorde, there are now attempts to revitalize the supersonic airline service. Boom Supersonic has unveiled its first demonstrator…
7 October 2020
1) Ikea, the big Swedish world wide modular furniture manufacture, has experienced a surge in sales from the pandemic as people turned homes into offices and schools. Their online sales…
16 October 2020
1) There are mounting fears that a surge in Covid-19 this fall and winter could kill 2,900 people a day in America. This is reminiscent of the World War I…
5 October 2020
1) Economic watchers were disappointed with the job reports for last month, with just 661,000 jobs added and the unemployment rate down to 7.9% from 8.4% in August. But this…
2 October 2020
1) With the government support ending the first of October, American and United airlines are cutting 32,000 jobs. The airlines received $50 billion dollars under the CARES Act to boost…
1 October 2020
1) After two previous recalls for Mustangs and Super Duty pickups, Ford has announced a third recall of nearly every new vehicle it sells today, a total of about 620,246…
30 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…
29 September 2020
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…
28 September 2020
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…
25 September 2020
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…