(Associated Press) Delta Air Lines will require new employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 starting Monday.
The airline won’t impose the same requirement on current employees, more than 60% of whom are vaccinated, a Delta spokesman said Friday.
Delta has about 74,000 employees.
American, United, Southwest and Alaska airlines, however, said they do...
(Associated Press) More than a dozen states quickly embraced new federal guidelines that say fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to wear masks indoors or out in most cases.
But other states and cities and some major businesses hesitated amid doubts about whether the approach is safe.
Some businesses argue there...
Financial markets have become a complete joke. From GameStop to Dogecoin to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a plethora of assets have been pushed to laughable heights with the help of the Federal Reserve’s funny money.
Just about everyone, except for stone-faced Fed officials, seems to be in on the joke.
Dogecoin promoter...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) California’s wealthiest residents sought to purchase luxury homes in other states during the COVID-19 pandemic, if not leave the state entirely.
A report from realty company Coldwell Banker suggests many of their California-based home sellers saw their wealthy clients selling and heading for more tax...
(Mark Hemingway, RealClearInvestigations) In 2017, Nandini Jammi helped launch a company called Sleeping Giants to pressure corporate advertisers into boycotting conservative media. With little more than a Twitter account, a Facebook group and a gift for incendiary rhetoric, the company reportedly prompted a range of corporations, from Pfizer to...
(Peter Jacobsen, Foundation for Economic Education) On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released numbers indicating that the average price level of consumer goods has risen 4.2% since this time last year. This is the highest rate since 2008. In other words, the average consumer making the same...
(Associated Press) Calling Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings “not one of the bigger ones,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that if smaller cruise lines want to leave the state because of bans on vaccine requirements, their void will be filled.
Miami-based Norwegian is the third-largest cruise line in the world and...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) A series of red states around the country are turning away federal supplemental funding for unemployment benefits, saying it is hurting their state economies and encouraging potential workers to stay home rather than return to the workforce.
Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday the state...
Apple's suppliers in China have connections with factories that use slave labor and a forced labor camp in the Xinjiang region, according to The Information (paywall).
The investigative news site learned from company employees and documents that seven suppliers, which assemble Apple's products and make its device components, have strong connections...
As the Biden administration showers the nation in debt-funded handouts and federal bailouts, new concerns are emerging as to the likelihood of a “Great Reset” in the value of our currency.
However, this potential dollar rout has been in the making for many years.
Abusive monetary and fiscal policy in Washington...
(Associated Press) Wholesale prices rose a higher-than-expected 0.6% in April, driven by escalating food costs.
It's more evidence that inflation pressures are starting to mount as the country emerges from a recession brought on by the pandemic.
The increase in the producer price index, which measures inflationary pressures before they reach consumers,...
California's cap-and-trade program transfers wealth from manufacturers and oil companies to environmentalists, yet it has not demonstrated any ability to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The program relies on selling "polluters" carbon credits that give them the right to emit carbon dioxide—a naturally occurring gas in the atmosphere.
A recent...