the only unionized province

Their statement is so phony.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-exits-quebec-operations-cut-170124669.html

"""The online retailer will phase out operations across seven sites in the province — the only location in Canada with unionized Amazon employees — over the next ..."""

There will be no savings to customers.  This is solely being used to fight unions, and make more profits.  There is no reduction of prices coming to the customers of this province. 

If anything I expect the cost to be pushed to the consumer via delivery charges, or increased prime membership costs.

Your life will soon be a subscription. 

Not Socialism

Welcome to the Matrix

We are certainly living in the matrix these days. Instead of a battery though, we have just be turned into these....

or our potential on how many of these we can make for the powers that be.

Joe Scamchin is Scum

This is not the only article on how scum this guy is.  Just the one the inspired this post.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-manchin-big-coal-west-virginia-1280922/

Scamchin is a great example of why politicians should only make the median income of their district.  I bet WV rises quickly from the bottom of things when Scamchin has to live just above poverty.

He is doing his part in log jamming any work though.

Potential Research Project

https://www.propublica.org/article/these-real-estate-and-oil-tycoons-used-paper-losses-to-avoid-paying-taxes-for-years

Think I have found a research project....

a problem in the US

Twitter find

https://twitter.com/FaartheRam/status/1391741728571461632?s=19

teen spenders

We are so desperate for normal....

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teen-spending-record-low-piper-survey-morning-brief-095034828.html

This is horrible though. Our society is so stuck on money that we track how much our kids spend. 

Banon Busted

This.....

https://www.wired.com/story/steve-bannon-charged-border-wall-gofundme-gone-bad

Is great. One of the 2016 conmen shows true colors. Were is the wall?

start your engines

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/in-the-us-another-financial-bubble-is-about-to-burst-1.1056312

The Cashless Ecosystem

https://i.insider.com/5ddd790ffd9db265306db3e2

Liberal Ideas are the threat

Neat little article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/28/wall-street-is-underpricing-a-biden-win-wells-fargos-chris-harvey.html

God forbid that a banker pay a fair amount in taxes, or a corporattion for that matter.

Heaven help us if Joe wins, and suddenly things start happening to help poor people and the rich people maybe pay a little more to help out. 

What a terrible world that would be.

Populism Round 2.0

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/12/pandemic-will-fuel-populism-that-sent-trump-white-house/

The brunt of the damage is not being borne by the elites who work in the information economy but by those at the middle and the bottom of the economic ladder — the forgotten Americans who were finally doing better under President Trump until this crisis arrived. Before the pandemic, the U.S. economy had added a half-million manufacturing jobs and low-wage workers.......

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/wage-growth-economy.html

Not protecting Stimulus

https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-mnuchin-knew-banks-coronavirus-checks/

"""
The payments are going out this week, two weeks after Mnuchin was first informed about the issue. And under the CARES Act, the Treasury Department has the ability to write rules protecting that payment from being taken by financial actors. But Treasury has done nothing of the sort. 
"""

They never had Morals

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/01/amazon-coronavirus-new-york-chris-smalls-dismissed

Jeff Bezos is the one guy in high school who got picked on, and now he has to make everyone pay for the abuse he received.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse-jobs-worker-conditions-bathroom-breaks

https://www.inquirer.com/news/working-amazon-warehouse-fulfillment-center-emily-guendelsberger-on-the-clock-20190709.html

"""
There is no greater illustration of the moral decay of 21st-century corporate America than Amazon. Past behemoths trafficked in noblesse oblige, tolerating unions and even investing in their workforce. Automobile plants and steel mills accepted that the price of doing business was guaranteeing their workers more than a subsistence wage.
"""

Are we really that surprised?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/supercharged-debt-bets-unravel-and-expose-wall-street-s-big-risk

Add in the fact that no one is "on the floor" trading, so all of the algorithms have a chance to run crazy now.

Supply Chain Meltdown

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/a-covid-19-supply-chain-shock-born-in-china-is-going-global

Will be interesting how many companies adopt a distributed internet like model for their supply chains. Who knows.

Don't here to much about LATM::
"""
Peru’s state of emergency and nationwide lockdown have led major mining companies like Freeport-McMoRan Inc. and Newmont Corp. to curb copper production there. The same is happening in other mining centers like Chile, Canada and Mongolia, with economists at Scotiabank saying the initial result from the hit in Chile and Peru alone leading to the loss of some 325,000 metric tons of copper production, or about 1.7% of global annual output.
"""


"""
“I think it’s irresponsible for anyone to make assumptions right now.”
"""

An utter buffoon

Watching this is painful.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-news-live-updates-march-16-2020-220735000.html

He is unable to simply read something and move on. 

it wasn't me

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813632098/wells-fargo-board-members-resign-days-before-set-to-testify-before-congress

This should be read as, in an effort to avoid responsibility, board members from wells .......

Situation Normal:: Blame Others

As usual nothing is ever trump's fault.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/trump-s-business-as-usual-virus-strategy-fails-to-calm-markets