On September 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August jobs report and the headlines practically wrote themselves. Employers added 162,000 jobs, nearly three times the 56,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%. Financial television called it a rebound, the stock tickers turned green, and the story was over by lunch. Buried further down in that same ...
Sacramento cops. One felon. The title gives away the ending. ...
Patrick De Haan has been tracking fuel prices for GasBuddy since 2011. He has worked through refinery fires, hurricanes, COVID and the 2022 diesel spike, and he is the guy reporters call when pump prices start going crazy and they need somebody to explain what is actually happening. This week he pulled up the diesel spot market and posted a ...
Seven mistakes. Odds are you’re making one. ...
SEAL, marshal, CIA. Same man. Settle in. ...
Remember when Americans were fighting over toilet paper at Costco? For a few weeks in 2020, the country got a crash course in just how fragile the modern supply chain r–eally is, and just how eaily people can push things over the edge when they start to panic. A product nobody thought twice about suddenly disappeared, stores slapped limits on ...
Somebody had a knife. The camera was running. ...
Skip the 9mm. He’s carrying something else. ...
For the first time since the AI industry started, the four companies building the most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet agree on something — AND NO IT’S NOT GOOD. Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google DeepMind spend every waking hour trying to destroy each other. They poach each other’s researchers, sue each other, mock each other in public, and burn ...