When high schooler Kate* was hard up for money, she took a seemingly easy job as a hostess at a nightclub in Mong Kok, Hong Kong's grittier, neon-soaked red light district. But each night, she walked away with peanuts. So when she met a gangster wh
Although I do not often agree with Dennis Prager, I must acknowledge that this short essay of his is excellent. Its title is: "Why Do People Still Donate to Universities?" And his answer, if I can put words in his mouth, is, "Don't do it, if
While the relentless decline in Caterpillar retail sales has been duly noted here every month for nearly 4 years, now posting 44 consecutive declines, the latest, July data was downright depressionary.
This U.S. Bank Is About to Relive the 2008 Derivatives Nightmare … Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) - with its stock now trading at a 30-year low - was recently called the world's riskiest financial institution by the International Monetary Fund
When high schooler Kate* was hard up for money, she took a seemingly easy job as a hostess at a nightclub in Mong Kok, Hong Kong's grittier, neon-soaked red light district.
Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world's experts in autonomous vehicles. The city is home to Carnegie Mellon University's robotics department,
If you think the Internet came out of Silicon Valley, that NASA planned the first satellite to orbit Earth, or that IBM created the modern computer-- think again. Each one of these breakthroughs was conceived at RAND, a shadowy think tank in Santa M
McDonald's, a company reviled as of late for its use of unhealthy ingredients, has decided to change course. Kind of. In its latest marketing ploy to prove it is more than a chemical mill masquerading as a restaurant, McDonald's has launched a n
Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group, an organization pushing for GMO labels on food packaging, shares some tips for finding items on grocery store shelves that contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). As Vice President of Government A
If the Economy were a car, productivity would be the engine. Heated seats, on-demand 4-wheel drive and light-sensitive tinted windshields, are all very nice. But they mean little if the engine doesn't turn and the car just sits in the driveway. The
The Port of Long Beach Posts a 7.7% Drop in Container Volumes compared to July 2015. The port attributes the decline to high inventory levels and a slow start to the peak season.
With multiple flights of its New Shepard vehicle under its belt, Blue Origin is appraising the research market for scientific and technological experiments that can be lofted to suborbital space.
The disease of government is like an ineradicable plague that sickens without ceasing. Now patent and copyright law have been extending in the UK and EU.
Morgan Chalfant for the Washington Free Beacon reports The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent more than $408 million to install solar panels on its medical facilities in recent years, despite many of the projects experiencing significant delays
UK & EU Shut Out 3D Printing Community … It's amazing what an eruption Brexit had in the headlines, only to be superseded by worse things in the news shortly after … What an interesting law they have chosen to pass. -3DPrint
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- Television viewers know there's a mind-boggling array of shows to attempt to watch. John Landgraf, the chief executive of FX Networks, predicted change is coming but not until the number of scripted series peaks at abou
A Florida-based company won U.S. government permission on Wednesday to send a robotic lander to the moon next year, the firm's founder said, marking the first time the United States has cleared a private space mission to fly beyond Earth's orbit.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. agreed to buy e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc. for about $3.3 billion, giving the world's largest retailer the resources for a stronger shopping website to compete with market leader Amazon.com Inc.
$70K Tesla For His B-Day [Watch].
The founder of Gravity Payments took a $70K pay cut to ensure all employees could receive higher wages. Recently, they surprised him with a Tesla as a 'thank you'.