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The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century The explosion of the e-commerce economy has created an opportunity for thieves — and a conundrum for the railways. That’s the title of an extensive report in The NY Times Magazine by Malia Wollan. It's...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Jan 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM PST
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I am sure that you have heard all kinds of media discussing Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican base. Mostly the discussion includes consternation at the base’s willingness to accept Trump’s lies, arrogance, and criminality. For any other political...
by disoffshore
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 01:22 PM PST
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UPDATE: Sunday, Jan 1, 2023 · 12:13:44 AM +00:00 · xaxnar UPDATE: Zeynep Tufekci at The NY Times has posted The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest’s Failure It adds a new term to the story — technical debt — and confirms that management decisions...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Dec 31, 2022 at 06:14 AM PST
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Thanks, Joe Biden! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that U.S. companies are moving nearly 350,000 overseas jobs back to the United States this year—a new record—as companies become a wee bit more wary about chasing cheap labor overseas and look to...
by Hunter
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on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 10:55 AM PDT
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The Pandora Papers Millions of documents reveal offshore deals and assets of more than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials The secret deals and hidden assets of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people have been...
by LaFeminista
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on Mon Oct 04, 2021 at 02:21 AM PDT
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When Republicans look for strong economic advice, why not listen to Kelly Loeffler, the controversial Georgia senator who was most recently involved in a stock scandal that sent her fleeing committees. If you are in Kansas, running in a rural state,...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Aug 12, 2020 at 10:08 AM PDT
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Mickey Ray Williams keeps a Goodyear tire in his Gadsden, Ala., conference room. Made in Mexico and imported to Gadsden, that tire induces fear. It’s an Assurance All-Season tire. Those were developed at Goodyear’s Gadsden factory in 2014. Now some, or...
by Tom Conway
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on Wed Aug 14, 2019 at 07:54 AM PDT
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The Republc Party and their wealthy bankster, financial, and other “capitalist” overlords have long profited from disaster capitalism (one of the many signs capitalism, at least the US version of “capitalism”, is very sick, a topic for another day)....
by Dont Know Nothing
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on Sat Mar 16, 2019 at 12:39 PM PDT
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Despite some recent hiccups, the consensus among Western elites is China's rapid economic growth will continue, and sometime between 2040-2050, its economy will surpass that of the US. Davos 2017 was called China’s coming out party, and Davos 2019...
by StevenStrauss
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on Thu Feb 07, 2019 at 06:54 AM PST
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Damn straight:
In a letter on this week, a group of Democratic senators urged President Trump to take executive action on the issue of off-shoring jobs — specifically call center jobs.
The letter, provided to ThinkProgress on Tuesday, was...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Tue May 01, 2018 at 10:28 PM PDT
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Donald Trump made big campaign promises about keeping Carrier from closing an Indianapolis plant and sending the jobs to Mexico. He made those promises to the country—promises to workers ...
by Laura Clawson
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on Sat Mar 17, 2018 at 01:00 PM PDT
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When I first started writing my book about the empirical evidence of offshoring, Offshoring The Corporate Guide Map To 1984, I was of the opinion that a class war did not exist and, of course, was skeptical when the Republicans would make the claim...
by disoffshore
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on Tue Feb 06, 2018 at 08:57 AM PST
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Apple CEO Tim Cook announced this week that the company would repatriate $252 billion, give or take a few billion, then invest in America and create some American jobs – for a change.
This is a ...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Sat Jan 20, 2018 at 08:00 AM PST
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Republicans promised the American people a tax bill for Christmas, and this week they delivered. It’s definitely a bill for working people and the poor because by 2025, they’ll pay more . For ...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 08:31 AM PST
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Ford hit Michigan and its auto workers with some crappy holiday news . Instead of building a $700 million electric vehicle factory in Michigan as promised in January, Ford will construct the plant ...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Sat Dec 09, 2017 at 08:01 AM PST
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An entire year of legislative defeats has grated on the GOP.
Their promised Affordable Care Act repeal failed – again and again and again. Their Muslim ban was, well, banned by the courts. And now,
by Leo W Gerard
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on Thu Nov 30, 2017 at 06:06 AM PST
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A giant sucking sound, louder than a freight train, noisier than a tornado, shriller than Ross Perot yelling, “I told you so,” blasted across the nation Thursday as Republicans in the U.S. House ...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Sat Nov 18, 2017 at 08:01 AM PST
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This is how Trump loses the key votes that put him over the top — they see through the lies. I’m not talking about hard core Trumpers. I’m talking about Obama/Trump voters. A laid off worker at Carrier talks about Trump:
“Trump came in there to...
by TomP
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on Mon Jul 24, 2017 at 06:43 AM PDT
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Trump is a pile and his answers to everything are destructive... but in the vacuum left by the Democrats turning away from Bernie — Those left behind by the global economy grabbed on to the only life-raft in a turbulent sea. And yes I know...
by DookieShivers
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on Tue May 30, 2017 at 07:26 AM PDT
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It is hard to believe but it has been 9 years since the 2008 financial collapse that has been labeled “the worst financial collapse since the Great Depression.” That is the length of time for a typical bull market, not that it felt like one to the...
by disoffshore
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on Sat Feb 11, 2017 at 11:07 AM PST
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