Robert Kiyosaki. Robert Kiyosaki Robert Kiyosaki warned raging inflation could drag the US economy into a depression. He pointed to more layoffs and foreclosures, and a slowdown in home sales, as red flags. The “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author has touted a crash in asset prices as an opportunity to nab bargains. Soaring prices, slumping…
A Russian soldier stands guard at the Luhansk power plant in the town of Shchastya, Ukraine. Alexander Nemenov/Getty Images A Russian army recruit told The Moscow Times he was sent to Ukraine after five days of training. It backed up multiple reports have saying Russian recruits as ill-prepared and poorly equipped. For comparison, basic training…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the GeekWire Summit. Dan DeLong/GeekWire The pay disparity between S&P 500 CEOs and their workers grew even larger in 2021, a new report says. The AFL-CIO found this pay ratio was 324-to-1 last year, up from 299-to-1 in 2020. Amazon had the biggest CEO-to-worker pay ratio by a mile:…
A still from a video of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann drinking a glass of water from the Kali Bein rivulet on July 17, 2022. Aam Aadmi Party/Twitter An Indian politician was sickened after drinking from a sacred river to show it was safe. Officials said there was no link between the water and Chief…
Happy Friday! Aaron Weinman here. It was a bumper Thursday with Amazon announcing a play for the primary-care market with a nearly $4 billion deal to buy One Medical. We will get to that, but today I want to unlock the golden handcuffs that have trapped some of Wall Street’s financial advisors, and introduce you…
Former President Donald Trump. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Trump’s allies are secretly drafting plans in case he wins the presidency in 2024, Axios reported. This includes plans to remove potentially thousands of defense and intelligence employees, Axios said. The plan would be to replace them with people loyal to Trump, the report said. Members of former…
A depiction of what may be China’s new H-20 stealth bomber. CCTV/ 军迷天下 via YouTube Rumors of China working to develop a stealth bomber began emerging in the early 2000s. In early July, Chinese state media reported a looming test flight of a strategically important aircraft. Despite years of work and rumors, there is very…
Google’s Pixel 6a is finally here. It’s a sub-$500 phone that, this year, includes Google’s own Tensor chip which should bring even more power to the cheapest Pixel option. It also matches the Pixel 6 family with a two-tone color scheme and camera bar. Engadget According to Reviews Editor Cherlynn Low, the $449 Pixel 6a…
When it comes to choosing a camera to watch over your home remotely, you’re spoilt for choice nowadays. In fact, there are increasingly two big categories to choose between – after all, many home security cameras are indoor cameras. If you’re looking for an outdoors camera, though, with the hardiness to stand up to adverse…
Console hardware sales have tumbled in Europe this year due to continuing stock shortages. Just over 2m consoles have been sold across Europe this year (excluding major markets of the UK and Germany), which represents a 21 percent drop year-on-year, reports GamesIndustry.biz. In particular, PS5 sales have dropped almost 44 percent for the first half…