Casino Mogul: Vegas Strip Could Be Open by Memorial Day
Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox has set his sights on what he deems the second ‘curve we must ‘flatten’: Nevada’s rising unemployment from the coronavirus shutdown. To this end, Maddox…
Monthly Archives: April 2020
Fawning US Media Is 1 Reason Beijing Thinks It Can Bully Hong Kong
Pro-China authorities last week brazenly arrested Beijing’s chief critics in Hong Kong, a city that is supposed to have a high degree of autonomy. Unsurprisingly, that sparked further condemnation from…
Is CNN Spreading Coronavirus?
Richard Quest, CNN’s Business Editor at Large, recently announced on the show that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. “I just have a nasty cough, which, thankfully tonight because…
Amazon warehouse workers plan nationwide protest this week to demand coronavirus protections
Amazon warehouse workers are planning a “mass call out” this week to call attention to what they call a lack of protections for employees who continue to come to work amid…
Farmer Says 61,000 Chickens Euthanized as Egg Sales Drop
A sharp drop in demand for eggs has one Minnesota farmer seeing 61,000 of his chickens euthanized amid the nation’s coronavirus lockdown. Kerry Mergen, a contract egg farmer near Albany,…
Newly Declassified Evidence: Russia Didn’t Try to Help Elect Trump in 2016
It has become conventional “wisdom” on the left that Russia wanted Trump to win in 2016, and therefore they helped his campaign. The latter belief was debunked by the Mueller…
White House Petition: Stop Work Visas for 2020
The U.S. government should stop the inflow of foreign visa-workers for the rest of 2020, says an April 17 petition on the White House’s website. “50 Million Americans are unemployed,…
Does Hand Sanitizer Actually Work? A Disgusting Science Experiment
Before coronavirus, the last time I used hand sanitizer was probably a few years ago at some music festival port-a-pottie. Now, “phone, keys, wallet” has become “phone, keys, wallet, mask,…
Amazon warehouse workers plan nationwide protest this week to demand coronavirus protections
Amazon warehouse workers are planning a “mass call out” this week to call attention to what they call a lack of protections for employees who continue to come to work amid…
Survival of the biggest: Coronavirus transforms retail
The titans of the retail industry — Amazon, Walmart, Target and Costco — are poised to come out of the coronavirus crisis even stronger and more formidable than they were before,…