Economy

Megan Rapinoe created more controversy during the Tokyo Olympics, and some Subway franchisees are reportedly urging the fast-food company to let her go.

Facebook has reworked its privacy settings once again, making it even harder to locate them in multiple menus across the app. The Masters of the Universe claim that scattering privacy settings into multiple different categories matches “people’s mental models.”

A senior employee at Apple has alleged that she was placed on indefinite leave after tweeting allegations about a culture of sexism at the company. She alleges that she was given feedback for being “too hard on the white man” in a diversity training, and also claims her managers engaged in “tone policing.”

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh praised the July jobs report, predicted that more people will return to the job market, and said that “if we got more people vaccinated, and

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh touted the July jobs report as “a great jobs report,” and stated that more government spending is “very much needed in our country.” Walsh said,

Americans need a pause from government-directed immigration, Stephen Miller told a meeting of young conservatives in Houston, Texas. 

Over the past three weeks, some of the most powerful tech companies in the world have taken a number of steps — unprecedented even by their standards — to monitor their users.

The Democrats promised the so-called $1 trillion infrastructure bill would be paid for, but the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of the legislation shows it will increase deficits by $256 billion over the next decade.

E-commerce giant Amazon has reportedly delayed the return of employees to its offices until January 2022 amidst ongoing worries about coronavirus variants. The company also announced it would not mandate vaccination for returning employees.

The July jobs report was the strongest in the history of the Biden administration — and yet real wages likely fell once again.

The FTC has taken issue with Facebook’s latest decision to shut down the personal accounts of several NYU researchers investigating the company’s advertising practices. 

Tech giant Apple recently announced a new feature that will allow it to scan iPhone and iPad photos to detect if they contain sexually explicit imagery involving children, which Apple will report to authorities — however, many privacy experts are worried about the implications of Apple snooping on user content. One expert points out that Apple’s move is well-intentioned, but they should be thinking about one important question: “What will China want them to block?”

Ohio Senate Republican candidate J.D. Vance blasted on Friday a proposed cryptocurrency regulation from Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), which President Joe Biden has backed, saying it would punish Ohioans to big tech’s benefit.

The better than expected jobs growth in July was driven by a rise in jobs held by whites. Black employment and black labor force participation declined.

The city of Denver, which Democrat mayors have governed since 1963, spends at least double on homelessness than it does on K-12 students.

The $1.2 trillion “infrastructure deal” is a progressive-sounding label on old-fashioned pork. It will not grow the economy; it will not be “fully paid for,” as promised; and it will not even focus on the “roads and bridges” that are always being cited as the reason for the spending.

Drought and extremely low water levels in the Lake Oroville reservoir have forced authorities in California to shut down the state’s most important hydroelectric power plant, amid intense summer heat and peak electricity demand.

Economists had forecast around 845,000 jobs.

Labor shortages are forcing up wages at small businesses nationwide, according to the monthly jobs report by the National Federation of Independent Business.

A “disastrous” amendment backed by President Joe Biden and proposed by Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Mark Warner (D-VA) could crush the cryptocurrency industry, lawmakers and industry officials say.

Homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas is offering temporary residency and work permits to people who claim to be victims of China’s oppression in Hong Kong.

Thursday on Fox News Radio’s “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) hit President Joe Biden for extending the eviction moratorium amid a recent surge in coronavirus cases.

Google fired eighty employees in the last three years for security violations related to the misuse of company data and user data, according to an internal Google document obtained by Vice’s tech news vertical, Motherboard.

According to a recent report, the U.S. government has seized $1.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency in fiscal year 2021. This represents a huge leap from the $137 million worth of cryptocurrency seized in 2020. 

Facebook-owned Instagram recently suspended Jamaican gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah from its platform after she posted videos of her own Olympic 100 and 200-meter race wins. The Masters of the Universe now call her suspension a “mistake.”

Expect similar delays from all the big banks soon.

Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) addressed the debate about mask mandates for private businesses as the United States deals with the Delta variant of the coronavirus.