U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein asked President Barack Obama on Friday to bypass Congress and use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create three new national monuments in the California desert.
All eight of the major international stock indexes were down last week with an average loss of -6.57 percent, according to Doug Short, despite Friday’s -531 point plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, driven by fears of an economic collapse in China.
The Health Consumer Alliance filed a blistering letter just before Covered California’s Board meeting on Thursday warning the program is near administrative collapse.
A new study from the Pew Research Center shows Facebook still number one in social media, but its growth in the U.S. has stalled–and Pinterest is a giant-killer chopping at its knees.
A new study from the Pew Research Center shockingly reveals that the percentage of Americans logging on to Twitter each day has flatlined for the last two years. As company’s stock led tech shares down this week, analysts are beginning to question if Twitter can survive.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has released new research revealing that huge swaths of the Central Valley are sinking at the rate of up to two inches per month due to accelerating groundwater pumping in the fourth year of the California drought.
The strong dollar, low interest rates and pent-up demand should drive after-tax growth in real consumer spending and a doubling of the rate of housing growth, according to Lombard Street Research.
The raging El Niño Southern Oscillation, a band of warm ocean water in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific, is about to cause droughts in southern Asia–and to bring enough rain to boost California almond production after years of drought-induced decline.
NBCUniversal continues its big-bucks leap to catch up to millennial “cord-cutters” and “cord-nevers” by spending another $200 million to buy a bigger stake in BuzzFeed. The move comes less than a week after NBCUniversal invested $200 million in Vox Media.
To every country in Europe, except Russia, August is the month when everyone goes on vacation. But Russians refer to the “Black August Syndrome” as a time for political coups, erratic events, economic crashes, and military catastrophes.
A stunning 6,200 American subscribers per day became “cord-cutters,” and maybe even “cord-never,” as millennials canned their pay-TV cable and satellite subscriptions in the second quarter of 2015.
TechCrunch reports that Google is working in the Gaza Strip–a 6.8-mile-by-32-mile territory controlled by terrorists–to develop a local tech start-up culture in one of the world’s most challenging business environments.
Kirk Bostrom at Strategic Preservation Partners LP warns that a global government bond crash is finally under way.
Chinese tourism and its robust spending could evaporate quickly, hurting California’s economy in mid-recovery.
NBC announced last week that it will straighten-up MSNBC’s left-wing slant and make a $200 million investment in in Vox Media.
With China’s economic crash driving U.S. oil prices down to $42 a barrel, Saudi Arabia is the oil-exporting nation suffering the worst economic decline.
China’s official foreign capital flight was $300 billion for the year ending June 2015, and it could reach $1 trillion–assuming the People’s Bank of China is even providing reliable numbers.
The communist Chinese regime fears the risk of a rebellion if tens of millions of rural migrants lose their jobs, with the export-driven economy crumbling.
Intel is about to drive a new wave of Moore’s Law, as personal computing converges with mobile technology due to the development of smaller processors, increased power efficiency, non-volatile memory, flexible/agnostic software, wireless peripherals and cloud access.
The People’s Bank of China has devalued the yuan 2.9 percent since Monday–the biggest plunge in the currency’s value since the mid-1990s. China’s currency devaluation is a classic predatory trade war action to save up to 60 million Chinese factory jobs at the expense of millions of American and European workers.
The Russian economy started stagnating in 2013, but the nation was never actually able to recover from the 2008-2009 recession, according to Stratfor Global Intelligence. The combination of the 2014 sanctions over the Ukraine and collapsing oil prices is a perfect economic storm that is grinding Russia to a halt.
California Democrats wants to create a mileage tax–a new tax on every mile driven in the state–despite already having the highest gas taxes in the nation. State officials say they need the tax increase, because gas tax collections to pay
Teenage jobs are about to suffer as Mexico’s looming financial crisis is about to accelerate illegal immigration.
Thieves employing debit card “skimmers” at the pump find August–peak driving season nationwide–lucrative for fraud, ripping off distracted drivers. Skimmers have been around since about 2002. Sociopathic thieves are constantly improving the sophistication and effectiveness of their devices. Some of the
The Facebook/Fox News partnership for the first GOP debate of the 2016 presidential campaign season resulted in the both the highest audience for any non-sports cable program, and most-watched cable news program in history. The artful coalescing of TV, cable and social media strengths has just revolutionized media economics.
