Even if closing due to health or safety concerns, retain your customers during the coronavirus outbreak, by promoting gift cards and discounts, to holding online events, among several ways small busin…
How Much Should You Really Offer for the Fixer-Upper Home That You Absolutely Love
Buying a home needing some work or complete renovation to make it habitable, is a sensible way to break into the housing market. The listed price of such houses will be relatively low, to catch people…
What is the Real Cost of that Speeding Ticket You Just Got?
Speed comes at a hefty price involving hundreds of dollars, as speeding tickets do cost! Apart from the fine, the increase of your monthly insurance premiums, also adds to costs. A speeding ticket sig…
Elon Musk’s Impending Hostile Takeover of Twitter Has Everyone Talking
Takeover Bid? A public platform maximally trusted and inclusive, is very important to the future of civilization, says Elon Musk without caring about the economics at all. Tensions increased at Twitte…
Sri Lanka Seeks $3 Billion Bail-out Amidst Financial Crisis
Sri Lanka’s Economic Nightmare The country is highly vulnerable to external shocks due to high debt, inadequate external buffers and high risk to government debt sustainability, worsened by the …
Russia’s Hybrid War on Ukraine Picks Up Steam
Russia no longer depends on classical warfare to destabilize Ukraine, depending on targeted disinformation, mercenaries, and cyber-attacks. Over the past week, Ukraine saw unprecedented cyber-attacks …
Whopping 14% Surge in McDonald’s Sales as Lockdown Restrictions Ease
Beating Market Forecasts McDonald’s reported stronger-than-expected sales by 14% in the third quarter, due to larger orders and higher menu prices with revenue jumping to $6.2 billion. That beat the f…
In Case You Were Wondering: Conflicts and War Do Affect Stocks
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Workers at an Arizona Starbucks Win Union Drive
Starbuck workers Unionization win! Starbucks Corp café workers in Mesa, Arizona, won the right to join a workers union, as the first company-owned US location, outside of New York State to do so. Empl…
Virgin Galactic Launches Sales for $450,000 Spaceflights… You In?
Commercialising Spaceflights Virgin Galatic, which is billionaire Richard Branson’s big aerospace company, has already started selling tickets for the eagerly awaited flights into outer space. After y…