The unionization efforts from workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse follow several successful union campaigns led by blue collar tech workers and reflect a general increase in activism among tech industry employees. From Amazon workers slamming…
50 years ago, on March 30, 1971, a store selling freshly roasted coffee beans and coffee equipment opened in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. And if anyone had predicted back then that this little specialty store would lay the groundwork for a billion-doll…
As we have entered the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s a growing transatlantic divide in public mood. While the finish line appears to be in sight for the United States, where a rapid vaccine rollout and falling case numbers have sparked …
The market “should” be in launch mode right now. This doesn’t look like a launch to me.
The bad news is that the 13 week cycle up phase has been weak, and is on the brink of failure. The worse news is…
In yesterday’s release of Ember’s Global Electricity Review, the fact that more than half of the world’s coal-powered electricity in 2020 was produced in China stood out. But this is only half the story. Dramatically rising energy demand in the country…
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are pushing to form a union and their votes are set to be counted after one of the most high-profile and consequential unionization drives in recent U.S. history. Their employer remains bitterly opposed to …
Amazon warehouse workers are pushing for union membership in Bessemer, Alabama, a move their employer is bitterly opposed to. Amazon has been criticized heavily for its working conditions during the pandemic and if the warehouse workers manage to union…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
We have a darn good idea of when the US Government will run out of money. We know when it will start slamming the market with even more supply. Huge supply. Record supply. The biggest baddest, most persistent tsunami of supply in history.
It will wipe out everything in its path. There will be no escape.