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Capitalism is broken - we need the Government to fix it
Back in May 2019, Economic Agenda warned the Western world faced a new “gilded age”. That name derives, of course, from an 1873 Mark Twain novel – which satirised the greed and decadence of late 19th century America. Twain told…
International Day of Living Together in Peace
Living together in peace is all about accepting differences and having the ability to listen to, recognize, respect and appreciate others, as well as living in a peaceful and united way. The UN General-Assembly, in its resolution 72/130, declared…
How A Full Life Framework Can Help You Break Your Limitations
One of my connections is Leon Ho, the founder and CEO of Lifehack. I've been personally inspired by what Leon calls the Full Life Framework, a tool he uses to help others live a full life and live one himself. The idea came to fruition as a result…
Analysts like Red Rock's sale of Palms, construction at Durango
Top Station executives Chairman and CEO Frank Fertitta III, Vice Chairman Lorenzo Fertitta and Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Stephen Cootey met with gaming analysts from Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan late last week…
Dear Startups: Don't repaint, reinvent
Image Credits: MassanPH / Getty Images I feel hungover. No, not in the traditional sense, but in the dizzying way you feel when half of your world is celebrating double vaccinations and no masks, and the other half, across the world, is mourning…
LORD FROST: EU must stop point scoring and work to protect the peace
Just two weeks ago the European Parliament finally ratified our agreement with the EU. Now we can start to make it work. This agreement gives us full control over our own laws, courts, borders and money. It ends alignment with the EU and thereby…
Macrotech to invest Rs 2,800 cr in FY22 on construction of realty units
Realty firm Macrotech Developers will double its investment on construction to Rs 2,800 crore in this fiscal to speed up works at various projects which were hampered last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a nationwide lockdown. Mumbai-based…
Looming large: On 11-mile construction site, bridge at end of South Beltway rises
The state's South Beltway bid request landed on his desk like a 4,000-page set of assembly instructions. Alan Hayes and others at Hawkins Construction knew what the Nebraska Department of Transportation ultimately wanted — an 11-mile line on…
JCB digs up a green future with hydrogen engines
It's pouring with rain at the JCB testing quarry on a Tuesday afternoon in Staffordshire, but the JCB 3CX backhoe loader is just getting fired up. The driver spins his cabin around a few times as if doing a twirl, then edges out towards the centre…
Temporary mural to be marketed as NFT will come down during demo of building near Michigan Stadium
ANN ARBOR, MI -- Martin Vloet, owner of the Stadium Club venue that hosted a charity tailgate from 2016-18, will demolish the building on Monday - and he's created a limited-time mural that will come down with it. The 30-foot east-facing wall of…
Natural Gas, America's No. 1 Power Source, Already Has a New Challenger: Batteries
Vistra Corp. owns 36 natural-gas power plants, one of America's largest fleets. It doesn't plan to buy or build any more. Instead, Vistra intends to invest more than $1 billion in solar farms and battery storage units in Texas and California as it…
Labourer dies during Z-Morh tunnel construction
A labourer died on Saturday after a cement plate fell on him during the construction work on Z-Morh tunnel in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district. The under-construction 6.5-km Z-Morh Tunnel would connect Kashmir with Ladakh round the year. The…
The tyranny of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Re “All the news that's fit for wealth” (Social Studies, May 9): A synopsis in last Sunday's Ideas section discussed recent political science findings that newspaper reporting on the economy “was correlated with gains and…
Improbable founder's battle to transform the world of video games
Most start-ups struggle to find space to work from in their formative years, with employees often spending hours hunched over laptops in coffee shops as they dream of hitting $1bn (£711m) “unicorn” valuations. For the first two…
Which Utah businesses got the most federal Paycheck Protection money in 2020?
Editor's note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism. A temp agency, a mysterious entertainment company and a medical clinic are among the Utah businesses that last year…
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