19 December 2019
1) New York Life Insurance is buying Cigna business, which sells life and disability insurance, for $6.3 billion dollars. This is just one of several which have bought into the…
18 December 2019
1) Walt Disney’s Star War’s empire has been fading at the box office with many fans finding the new offerings less than anticipated. The last chapter of the Star Wars…
17 December 2019
1) The aircraft manufacturer Boeing Aircraft has announced it is bringing production of the 737 MAX to a temporary halt the first of January. Boeing is America’s largest manufacturing exporter…
16 December 2019
1) The Trump administration has reached a trade deal in principle with China. Reportedly, the United States has offered to cut existing tariffs on Chinese goods by as much as…
The Golden Rule of Automation
People go about their daily lives never seeing technologies growing to eventually displace them, even when it’s right in front of their noses. James Lyman BSAE, BSEE, MSSM I just…
13 December 2019
1) The Trump administration has reached a trade deal in principle with China. Reportedly, the United States has offered to cut existing tariffs on Chinese goods by as much as…
12 December 2019
1) The U.S. Federal Reserve elected not to raise interest rates, thereby signaling borrowing cost will most likely remain unchanged, and they expect moderate economic growth and low unemployment to…
11 December 2019
1) Analyst say Netflix, the video streaming service, must lower its prices in 2020 to avoid lost of millions of its U.S. customers because of the rising competition. It is…
10 December 2019
1) Celadon, a truckload carrier and American trucking giant, is slated to declare bankruptcy as early as December the 11 th. This may possibly be the largest truckload bankruptcy in…
9 December 2019
1) The newly released November jobs report is the best in ten months and blows away expectations as striking GM workers returned to work. The good news confirms the economy…