Managers at a Tyson pork processing plant in Iowa allegedly bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19 business Article 837 words 7 votes
Canada housing squeeze: Buyers moving up 'handcuffed' by hard-to-sell condos Article 713 words 5 votes
Panasonic explores a European battery deal with Norway's largest energy and industrial companies business Article 358 words 4 votes
Bankers in Denmark see surge in threats from angry clients – finance industry is struggling to regain the public's trust after a string of scandals banking Article 4 votes
Sweden has shut down one of four nuclear reactors at its largest power station after over forty years of operation, with operators citing a lack of profitability business Link 8 votes
Breadtube vs economics #1: Response to Philosophy Tube on housing economics Video 19:50, published Oct 27 2020 13 votes
Deutsche Bank suggests 5% tax on home workers to support those impacted by the pandemic business Article 584 words 12 votes
US government seizes $1 billion worth of bitcoin linked to Silk Road dark web marketplace cryptocurrency Article 488 words 20 votes
AMC’s revenue plummets by more than ninety percent as theaters remain empty business Article 1059 words 15 votes
A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it. Article 1591 words, published Oct 27 2020 29 votes
Denmark has lashed out against the EU's plan to establish a minimum wage, arguing it would undermine a national labor-market model that's popular with unions and employers Article 7 votes
Norway's oil workers fear for future as rigs go remote – shift to operating oil rigs remotely from land, accelerated by lower crude prices, has rekindled concerns among unions business Article 923 words 4 votes
Big banks entrusted money to GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions. banking Article 4582 words 7 votes
New Hampshire announces it will challenge a legal decision by Massachusetts to continue taxing NH residents who normally work in Massachusetts but have worked remotely during the pandemic Article 509 words 6 votes
First it was toilet paper—now we’re running out of fridges. Here’s why Article 808 words, published Oct 10 2020 16 votes
Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax subsidies after contract negotiations fail business Article 1382 words 12 votes
Understanding measurement issues is key to understanding ‘economic growth’ economics Article 1799 words 5 votes
Strike by workers in the Norwegian oil sector could soon wipe out nearly one-quarter of the country's petroleum output business Article 710 words 11 votes
Lengthy era of rock-bottom interest rates leaving its mark on US economy economics Article 1808 words 10 votes
The disruption con: Why Big Tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense economics Article 2994 words, published Sep 24 2020 6 votes
US President Donald Trump’s taxes show chronic losses and years of income tax avoidance Article 10 106 words 61 votes
CEO of Philip Morris, the company that makes Marlboro, says cigarette sales may end within ten to fifteen years business Article 290 words 9 votes
The FinCen Files: Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a picture of corruption and complicity - and how the government lets it flourish Article 3948 words 11 votes
RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% - The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year economics Article 1424 words 33 votes
It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of Duty Free Shoppers, has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now - and he couldn’t be happier Article 1403 words 12 votes
"We have capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich" - Mark Blyth economics Video 50:06, published May 27 2020 13 votes
Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes economics Article 1247 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement business Article 126 words 6 votes
Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: Inside the Financial Times' five-year investigation of the billion-dollar Wirecard fraud Article 4800 words 5 votes
Multiple court rulings have found Amazon responsible for defects in products sold by third-party merchants business Article 2117 words 6 votes