For weeks, the ailing Chinese real estate conglomerate has made headlines as investors wait to see what will happen to its enormous mountain of debt.…
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Why pressure is growing for Biden to lift Trump’s tariffs as supply chain problems worsen
Computer chip shortages. Epic port congestion. And a serious lack of truck drivers. The world’s delicate supply chains are under extreme stress. The supply chain…
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Nobel Prize in economics awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens
Card was recognized for groundbreaking work on the market effects of minimum wages, immigration and education. He showed, for example, that increasing the minimum wage…
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The hearing just wrapped. Here some key things the Facebook whistleblower told Congress.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen detailed how the social media platform could become a better environment, saying it could introduce transparency measures and small frictions, and…
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Facebook Senate hearing: Live updates on Frances Haugen’s testimony
Facebook is extraordinarily profitable, so it is intriguing to hear Frances Haugen repeatedly refer to the company as “understaffed.” She said this staffing shortage contributes…
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The Facebook whistleblower will testify soon before a Senate committee. Here are key things to know.
Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, spoke with Scott Pelley during a “60 Minutes” interview that aired on October 3, 2021. The Facebook whistleblower…
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South Korean businesses are getting caught up in the country’s gender war
When players made their avatars laugh, talk or give the “OK” sign in “Lost Ark,” they clicked an icon featuring a gesture that might have…
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South Korean businesses are getting caught up in the country’s gender war
When players made their avatars laugh, talk or give the “OK” sign in “Lost Ark,” they clicked an icon featuring a gesture that might have…
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UK to offer more than 10,000 foreign workers temporary visas to tackle supply chain crisis
According to government’s statement, 5,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers and 5,500 poultry workers have been added to the existing visa scheme until Christmas 2021…
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UK expected to make U-turn on foreign worker visas
As queues started forming outside filling stations early on Saturday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said it was looking at temporary measures to address the…
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UK bails out an American company to prevent food supply crisis
The government announced the extraordinary intervention in a statement late on Tuesday. The plan should allow Illinois-based CF Industries (CF) to restart one of its…
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Hong Kong expats are up in arms about quarantine. Singapore stands to gain
“Singapore definitely has a better game plan,” said Fong, who has lived in Hong Kong for four years and works in merchandising at Versace. Fong…
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