Category: Money

Tax the rich. It sounds great on a bumper sticker. But in the real world, money has wheels. A grim new report from the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) proves just how fast those wheels can spin. Since Seattle slapped businesses with its “JumpStart” payroll tax in 2020, the city’s downtown core has been bleeding out. […]

Your morning caffeine fix shouldn’t land you in the ER. Yet, here we are. More than 17,000 Kidisle-branded hot and iced coffeemakers are being pulled from the market after turning unsuspecting users into burn victims. They cost a mere $49. Apparently, you get what you pay for. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission dropped the […]

Scott Kirby is done playing matchmaker. The United Airlines boss, speaking from the sidelines of the IATA summit in Rio, basically admitted his grand dream of a mega-merger is dead. American Airlines swiped left. Now, Kirby is pivoting. He’s looking to scavenge. If soaring fuel costs choke out the weaker players, United will gladly swoop […]

Elon Musk is selling the stars. Or at least, he’s selling the paperwork. Next week, Texas-based SpaceX is launching a massive Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq. It is set to be the largest public share sale in history, instantly catapulting the rocket company into the top ten largest listed firms in the United […]

Retail is tough. Burlington doesn’t care. The off-price giant is pushing ahead with its relentless brick-and-mortar expansion, plotting to open 14 new stores across 10 states this June alone. It is all part of a massive land grab to push their total footprint well past the 1,000-store milestone. They aren’t stopping there. By the time […]

Check your freezer. Seriously, do it now. The Food Standards Agency just dropped a massive warning about a whole range of frozen meals that might actually be a health hazard. We are talking about products pumped out by Inarah’s Frozen Food Ltd, a Walsall-based outfit that apparently couldn’t prove to inspectors that their operation isn’t […]

Drivers are getting a brief reprieve at the pump. Finally. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded slid to $4.26 on Wednesday. That is a 30-cent drop—about 6.5%—since the peak on May 21. Do not pop the champagne. We are still paying way more than the sub-$3 average we saw in late February […]

Having a baby in America is already a financial nightmare. It is about to get worse. Starting in January, the medical billing machine is tossing out the old playbook. Instead of charging one flat “bundled” rate for pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum care, doctors are going à la carte. Every visit, every checkup, every minor service […]

Mark Zuckerberg wants to run your business. Or rather, he wants his algorithms to do it. At a London conference on Wednesday, Meta unveiled its latest play for corporate dominance: an AI “business agent” designed to handle the daily grind. It is not just another chatbot. This one actually does things. Think booking appointments. Think […]

The global gas trade used to be a gentleman’s game. Clean, transparent, easily tracked. Not anymore. In May, at least four Qatari LNG tankers slipped through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders killed. Abu Dhabi’s state oil giant, Adnoc, did the exact same thing with four of its own ships. It is a drop […]