“It takes a lot longer to fly from Chicago to New York or Washington to New York than it did 20 years ago. There's no reason for that. There's plenty of room in the sky.”
— American Airlines CEO Robert Isom on the need to invest in air-traffic control, during an earnings call on Thursday.
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“These are not acts of love or altruism. They are acts of depression and desperation.”
— Donna Cohen, a retired psychiatry professor who has researched murder-suicides affecting older adults
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Trump has issued family tokens for sale. Why would he do that?
President Trump, who has lent his name to everything from steaks and wine to cryptocurrencies, now wants to sell you investment funds.
Trump’s social-media company, Trump Media & Technology , said Thursday that it has applied for trademarks on a series of exchange-traded funds and separately managed accounts. The financial products, which include funds labeled “Made in America” and “Energy Independence,” will launch later this year, Trump Media said.
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The price of a one-day adult pass to Disneyland on the most popular days at the theme park is $206, more than $100 more than the price of admission on the lowest-cost day. Price hikes have moved Disney vacations out of reach for many Americans, alienating parkgoers and worrying executives.
“These are not acts of love or altruism. They are acts of depression and desperation.”
— Donna Cohen, a retired psychiatry professor who has researched murder-suicides affecting older adults
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Trump has issued family tokens for sale. Why would he do that?
President Trump, who has lent his name to everything from steaks and wine to cryptocurrencies, now wants to sell you investment funds.
Trump’s social-media company, Trump Media & Technology , said Thursday that it has applied for trademarks on a series of exchange-traded funds and separately managed accounts. The financial products, which include funds labeled “Made in America” and “Energy Independence,” will launch later this year, Trump Media said.
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The price of a one-day adult pass to Disneyland on the most popular days at the theme park is $206, more than $100 more than the price of admission on the lowest-cost day. Price hikes have moved Disney vacations out of reach for many Americans, alienating parkgoers and worrying executives.
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Hard-Working Americans
Longshoremen won a tentative 61.5 percent pay increase over six years. The Wall Street Journal editorial page notes “the astounding fact” that there are only about 25,000 port jobs, so about half of ILA members do not have to show up for work daily. The rest stay home collecting payments previously negotiated in contracts protecting “jobs” (loosely — very loosely — defined). In 2010, [Harold] Daggett said his members should make more than $400,000 annually. Today, the Journal says, “some now do with overtime.”
Daggett, however, threatened another strike on Jan. 15 unless any additional automation — e.g., automated cranes loading and unloading containers — is banned. Resistance to automation is why no U.S. port ranks among the world’s 50 most efficient. The strike could “cripple” and “crush” (his promises) the nation’s economy before Trump’s promised tariffs do.
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Like his soulmate Trump, Daggett is a 78-year-old child of Queens. His helper with the task of striking the chains from workers’ ankles is ILA’s executive vice president, his son Dennis, who says the ILA “does not support any kind of automation.” “Machines don’t pay taxes,” says the automation-opposing president of the ILA local in Mobile, Alabama. But the more productive the workforce is, the more taxes it pays.
During the three-day October strike, Kamala Harris said, “This strike is about fairness.” But Reason’s Eric Boehm noted two discordant X posts from a progressive, ILA-supporting news outlet. One praised workers for blocking “job-killing automation.” The other lamented that ILA members’ jobs are “backbreaking.--Will
Hard-Working Americans
Longshoremen won a tentative 61.5 percent pay increase over six years. The Wall Street Journal editorial page notes “the astounding fact” that there are only about 25,000 port jobs, so about half of ILA members do not have to show up for work daily. The rest stay home collecting payments previously negotiated in contracts protecting “jobs” (loosely — very loosely — defined). In 2010, [Harold] Daggett said his members should make more than $400,000 annually. Today, the Journal says, “some now do with overtime.”
Daggett, however, threatened another strike on Jan. 15 unless any additional automation — e.g., automated cranes loading and unloading containers — is banned. Resistance to automation is why no U.S. port ranks among the world’s 50 most efficient. The strike could “cripple” and “crush” (his promises) the nation’s economy before Trump’s promised tariffs do.
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Like his soulmate Trump, Daggett is a 78-year-old child of Queens. His helper with the task of striking the chains from workers’ ankles is ILA’s executive vice president, his son Dennis, who says the ILA “does not support any kind of automation.” “Machines don’t pay taxes,” says the automation-opposing president of the ILA local in Mobile, Alabama. But the more productive the workforce is, the more taxes it pays.
During the three-day October strike, Kamala Harris said, “This strike is about fairness.” But Reason’s Eric Boehm noted two discordant X posts from a progressive, ILA-supporting news outlet. One praised workers for blocking “job-killing automation.” The other lamented that ILA members’ jobs are “backbreaking.--Will
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