Big Tech monopolies have the power when it comes to extracting and profiting from consumer data. That will change if Tim Berners-Lee is successful.
Author: Michael Braga, USA TODAY
Are we trapped in another housing bubble? A rapid rise in home prices has some experts worried
Home prices are rising coast to coast and are outstripping wages and rents. Some say it’s another housing bubble. But it’s nothing like the mid 2000s.
Delays in holiday deliveries, delays in returns, plague small businesses
Unusually high holiday season shipping volumes and long delays at UPS, FedEx and especially USPS anger customers and hammer small businesses.
American manufacturers pine for home as COVID disruptions, Trump tariffs shake up supplies
President Trump’s trade war was supposed to encourage American manufacturers to pack up their international operations and move home. Did it happen?
Rising vacancies, falling rents: ‘The office market, it’s like a slow-motion car wreck.’
The pandemic has already caused a rise in office vacancies and drop in rents. If enough tenants cancel their leases, delinquencies might also rise.
Two small banks failed in October. They won’t be the last if COVID leaves some businesses struggling to pay loans.
Two banks failed in October and experts expect more to follow as Covid-related loan problems mount.
As COVID-19 shuts malls and hotels, their owners fall behind on loans, setting the stage for a changed landscape
Huge numbers of hotel and retail loans are going bad because of the coronavirus pandemic. Many of these properties will have to be repurposed.
With stimulus stalled, shortfalls in tax revenues leave states facing layoffs, service cuts
Covid crisis and dropping oil prices have impacted state tax collections. Declining revenues may force layoffs cuts or tax increase in the year ahead.
‘You have no authority over us’: Church leader, sons jailed for insisting chemical’s power to heal trumps laws of the state
The FDA raided the family’s compound after members failed to stop claiming Miracle Mineral Solution cures COVID-19.
Minor league baseball teams the latest to sue insurance companies for failing to pay business interruption insurance
Minor league teams the latest to sue insurers over COVID-19 losses.