REUTERS/Fred Prouser The Fed won’t slow down its rate hikes as the economy is strong enough to tolerate more tightening, Mohamed El-Erian said. “I think the Fed is going to welcome the latest print, but it’s not going to slow down in any significant manner,” the top economist told CNBC. He expects the next Fed…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
These are boom times for digital advertising. While the pandemic decimated the economy, the job market, and consumer confidence, it seems to have done little to quash a bonanza in digital ad spending. We forecast the US digital ad market will reach $239.89 billion this year, up 13.6% from 2021. To help you stay ahead…
John Lamparski/Getty Images Mark Cuban believes that a provision of the Democrats’ spending bill taxing buy backs is a good idea. The billionaire investor told Squawk Box that buybacks are no longer as tax rewarding as in the past. Cuban added that buying back shares rewards investors for “leaving and selling.” Mark Cuban thinks that…
United States Attorney General Merrick Garland. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed Thursday that he personally signed off on the search warrant used to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Garland also announced the Department of Justice filed a motion to unseal the search warrant and an FBI property receipt. “Federal law, long-standing department rules,…
David Paasche. Courtesy of David Paasche David Paasche is a flying trapeze instructor in Dallas who left consulting to do circus full-time. He was nearing a six-figure salary and now makes $15 an hour, but he’s more fulfilled and happier. Here’s what his job is like, as told to writer Christine Gilbert. This as-told-to essay…
The Federal Elections Commission has rubber stamped a proposal from Google that could make it easier for political campaigns to skirt email spam filters. Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve a Gmail pilot, agreeing with Google that the program wouldn’t run afoul of election rules, as The Washington Post reports. In June, Google asked the FEC…
You might not have to worry about charging your EV the next time you’re shopping for build-it-yourself furniture. IKEA has struck a deal to bring Electrify America’s fast chargers to more than 25 stores in the US. The rollout will bring over 200 individual chargers to shops in 18 states, including California, Florida, New York,…
We all know the pain – you open up your email app of choice to find your inbox, professional or personal, choked with unwanted messages. You can delete for as long as you like, but the best way to get rid of these emails is to unsubscribe from the mailing lists in question. Here’s how…
The efforts of Brazilian regulators to work out whether Xbox should be allowed to purchase Activision continue to yield really interesting and juicy tidbits of information. Best upcoming games for Xbox Series X and Series S: The top next-gen games In the latest swathe of documents that the country’s public regulatory process has published, Xbox…
Inflexion Games, the studio founded by former BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn, has announced a delay for its Victorian fantasy adventure Nightingale, with the game now expected to enter early access some time next year. Nightingale, described as a “shared world survival crafting game”, was initially announced a few years back, but got its first proper…