How many people visit ski resorts each year in the U.S.?
Over the last ten years (excluding Covid years) about 10 million people or about 3% of the total US population visited ski resorts (most made multiple visits each season). I…
Automation in fast food delivery: Chipotle
Source: Chipotle staffing back at pre-pandemic levels, company is exploring automation, CEO says As noted here many times in the past, automation is coming to fast food. We’ve seen it…
Why go to college? :” Walmart to Pay In-House Truckers Up to $110,000″
Serious question – why invest so much in a 4-year degree that probably starts at far less and which has limited upside as well when you can make $100k as…
“Inflation is raging”
I’m so old, I remember when the experts said inflation was to be mild and to be short lived… :Fed Governor Waller says half-point rate hikes could be needed as…
The 3-decade long push for globalization of trade may be coming to an end, and changing
Postwar vision of harmonious world trade was already under pressure; invasion of Ukraine risks further economic fragmentation. Source: Economic Blacklist of Russia Marks New Blow for Globalization – WSJ Russia…
Paycheck Protection Program spent about $1/4 million on each “saved job”
And the top 20% of households received about 85% of the benefits. The PPP was launched by the Trump administration and has been reformed by the Biden administration, but data…
BP sees profitability in EV charging business
Says EV charging can have a business model on par with gas service stations.
World bows to global elite: Rotterdam to temporarily dismantle historic bridge so Jeff Bezo’s yacht can fit through
The global elite get everything and ignore all rules: A massive steel bridge in Rotterdam is to be partly demolished so that the pleasure yacht being built for Amazon founder…
Kharma: What goes around comes around
About 20 years ago, today’s BigTech companies argued that Microsoft was favoring their own products (Internet Explorer) and the entire company should be broken apart. 20 years later, these very…
Apple said to intimidate Android users to adopt iPhone, via clever peer pressure propaganda
The use of green and blue to show whether a message to a user is made through iMessage or via other devices has become more than a simple convenience indicator…