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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has banned almost all noncompete employment agreements that prohibit workers from switching to competing businesses or starting one of their own.
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A former Amazon AI scientist, Dr. Viviane Ghaderi, has filed a lawsuit against the tech giant, claiming she faced discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination after disclosing her pregnancy and raising concerns about copyright infringement in AI research.
The post Lawsuit: Amazon AI Exec Was Pressured to Ignore Copyright Violations appeared first on Breitbart.
In a bizarre twist that seems straight out of a dystopian sci-fi movie, U.S. residents can now legally purchase a flame-throwing robot dog named Thermonator for just under $10,000.
The post Department of Bad Ideas: Flamethrowing Robot Dog Can Torch Anything in Its Path appeared first on Breitbart.
President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday a $95 billion war aid measure that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that also includes a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in U.S.
The post Joe Biden Signs Bill Potentially Banning TikTok, Bundled with Ukraine-Israel Aid appeared first on Breitbart.
Tesla shares jumped almost 12 percent in pre-market trading on Wednesday after CEO Elon Musk announced that the company aims to start production of affordable electric vehicle models by early 2025, or possibly even late this year. The bounce comes despite dismal earnings, including net income that dropped 55 percent in the first quarter.
The post Tesla Stock Surges Despite Dismal Quarter as Elon Musk Promises Affordable EVs by 2025 appeared first on Breitbart.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is up for reelection against Trump-backed Republican businessman Bernie Moreno, was silent on Capitol Hill Tuesday when asked if he thinks gas-powered cars "should be banned."
The post Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown Refuses to Answer Whether ‘Gas Cars Should Be Banned’ or Not appeared first on Breitbart.
The big driver of General Motors' great earnings report has been the Detroit automaker's decision to focus on selling the gas-powered vehicles their customers want to drive instead of the electric vehicles the Green New Deal activists think they should be driving.
The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Gas-Guzzling Secret of GM’s Success appeared first on Breitbart.
Sanctuary states are planning to dish out billions in American taxpayer dollars to migrants in 2024, offering housing, food, and health care.
The post Migrants Secure Billions of Dollars in Taxpayer Funding for Housing, Food, Health Care Across Sanctuary States appeared first on Breitbart.
Money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The post Bidenflation Warning: Money Supply Surges To Highest Level In Over A Year appeared first on Breitbart.
Google has fired more than 50 employees in the past week for participating in protests against the company's cloud computing deal with the Israeli government, according to activist group No Tech for Apartheid.
The post Google Fires 50+ Employees for Protesting Israeli Government Contract appeared first on Breitbart.
UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest health insurance providers in the United States, recently disclosed that a ransomware attack on its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, has led to a significant theft of private healthcare data belonging to a "substantial proportion of people in America."
The post UnitedHealth Confirms Massive Ransomware Hack Affects ‘Substantial Proportion’ of Americans appeared first on Breitbart.
Santa Monica approved construction for a $1M per unit apartment building for the homeless after an audit found the state lost $24 billion.
The post Santa Monica to Construct $1M Per Unit Apartment Building for Homeless appeared first on Breitbart.
A new phenomenon known as "serial churners" spells trouble for streaming services wherein people subscribe only temporarily.
The post ‘Serial Churners’ Emerge as Latest Hollywood Streaming Profit Nightmare appeared first on Breitbart.
Almost 38 percent of renters in the United States do not believe they will ever be able to call themselves homeowners, per a survey.
The post Survey: Nearly 38 Percent of U.S. Renters Do Not Believe They Will Ever Be Homeowners appeared first on Breitbart.
Hollywood has insulted, demeaned, attacked, condescended to, and alienated half the country, all while attempting to “queer” and groom our kids.
The post Nolte: Lousy Movies Drive Box Office Down 21 Percent over Last Year appeared first on Breitbart.
Residents of Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) California may soon be slapped with a fixed electricity charge in the state's push toward green energy.
The post California May Hit Residents with Fixed Utility Rates in Push for ‘Clean Energy’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Argentine President Javier Milei announced that Argentina registered a 0.2 percent surplus of its GDP for the first time since 2008.
The post Javier Milei Announces First GDP Surplus for Argentina Since 2008 appeared first on Breitbart.
People hoping to find work assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades at the Port of Coeymans in New York are out of luck.
The post Hundreds of Local Jobs Vanish as New York Offshore Wind Projects Canceled appeared first on Breitbart.
A historic vote to unionize among auto workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant will open new doors for the United Auto Workers.
The post Red State Road Map: Volkswagen Workers’ Vote to Unionize in Tennessee Opens Doors for UAW in the South appeared first on Breitbart.
Breitbart Economics Editor John Carney is calling for a national Inflation Day protest this June to demand policy change on the most pressing issue for Americans.
The post Carney on ‘Kudlow’: We Need a National Inflation Day Protest This June appeared first on Breitbart.
Prices for luxury homes in the United States have reached a record high, rising nearly nine percent in the first quarter of 2024, twice as much as the prices of non-luxury homes.
The post Report: Luxury Home Prices Reach Record Highs appeared first on Breitbart.
United States fashion retailer Express Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it plans to shutter more than 95 stores.
The post Fashion Retailer Express Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection, Shutters Nearly 100 Stores appeared first on Breitbart.
In response to the growing issue of boys using AI apps to create and share sexually explicit images of their female classmates, state legislators across the United States are introducing bills to protect minors from this new form of exploitation. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley continues to make billions with the very AI models boys are exploiting.
The post States Rush to Combat AI-Generated Deepfake Nudes Targeting Minors appeared first on Breitbart.
Perhaps if we started an Inflation Day movement, more attention could be drawn to the fact that rising price levels are the results of public policy choices.
The post Breitbart Business Digest: Earth Day Is Over. Let’s Talk About Inflation Day. appeared first on Breitbart.
More and more young people considered "Gen Z" are choosing to skip college and go to a trade school, one reason being the cost of a degree.
The post VIDEO — ‘Toolbelt Generation’: More Young People Skipping College for Trade School appeared first on Breitbart.
The already insane cost of purchasing a home has hit a new high, thanks to the ongoing horror show that is Bidenomics.
The post Nolte: Bidenomics Drives House Prices to Another Record High appeared first on Breitbart.
President Biden signature issues are ranked low among Americans' national concerns.
The post Earth Day: Americans Are Far More Worried About Bidenflation Than Climate Change appeared first on Breitbart.
In a desperate attempt to stimulate sales and prop up a stock price dropping like a rock, Elon Musk's Tesla has reduced the prices of three of its five models in the United States.
The post EV Demand Challenges: Elon Musk’s Tesla Slashes Prices on Most Models appeared first on Breitbart.
The FBI has issued a warning about a new phishing scam that targets Americans using toll roads via SMS text messages. The messages typically claim that the user's toll account is overdrawn with a link to the hacker's site to make a false payment.
The post Consumer Alert: FBI Warns of Text Scam Targeting Toll Road Users Across Multiple States appeared first on Breitbart.
A software bug in Star Casino's ticket redemption machines resulted in the Sydney-based casino inadvertently giving away more than AU$3.2 million ($2.05 million) to gamblers over several weeks.
The post Jackpot! Australian Casino Loses Millions in Mistaken Payouts Due to ‘Software Glitch’ appeared first on Breitbart.
China has reportedly ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, among other popular messaging apps, from its iPhone app store in order to comply with the Chinese Communist Party's censorship demand.
The post TikTok’s Real Owners: China Orders Apple to Censor Popular Messaging Apps Including WhatsApp, Telegram appeared first on Breitbart.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has taken a comical stance against using the ultra woke company's offices for political debates and protests after terminating 28 employees who participated in anti-Israel sit-ins at various Google locations.
The post Ultra Woke Google Claims Company Is Not Place to ‘Debate Politics’ After Firing Anti-Israel Radicals appeared first on Breitbart.
A homeless Los Angeles man has garnered attention for constructing a house, with a front door and electricity, on the side of the freeway.
The post Homeless Los Angeles Man Constructs House on the Side of the Freeway appeared first on Breitbart.
Model Kristen Gaffney says she is leaving California for Tennessee after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass asked the wealthy to pay for housing for the homeless in the city.
The post Model Kristen Gaffney Leaving California After L.A. Mayor Asks Rich to Pay for Homeless Housing appeared first on Breitbart.
I am so old, I can remember when “public servants” used to earn less money than they could have expected in the private sector. But those days are long gone. Now, government employees have the rest of us by the throat. Our tax dollars are enriching them, on the average, far beyond what they could earn anywhere else.
This is from Stephen Moore’s Committee to Unleash Prosperity:
The average cost for a government employee in December was $60 per hour, or 40.5% more than his or her private sector counterpart.
Benefits to government employees cost 80.3% more.
This chart shows the numbers:
I would think that if we looked at federal employees, the discrepancy would be even greater. And government employees pretty much can’t be fired, either, so they have these sweet gigs forever.
One interpretation of these numbers is that the rest of us are just serfs on the government’s plantation.
DEI (racial and other quotas) is intrinsically evil. At The Hill, Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson reveal a shocking, practical downside to DEI hysteria: “DEI killed the CHIPS Act.”
The issue is critical because Taiwan now produces 90% of the world’s advanced microchips, and China has indicated its intention to annex Taiwan in the near future. So the CHIPS Act sought to incentivize chip production in the U.S. Unfortunately, that isn’t what is happening.
Handouts abound. There’s plenty for the left—requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as “justice-involved individuals,” more commonly known as ex-cons. There’s plenty for the right—veterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. …
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Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity’s most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as [the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company] discovered to its dismay.Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren’t skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.
Now TSMC has revealed plans to build a second fab in Japan. Its first, which broke ground in 2021, is about to begin production. TSMC has learned that when the Japanese promise money, they actually give it, and they allow it to use competent workers. TSMC is also sampling Germany’s chip subsidies, as is Intel.
It isn’t only TSMC that is being stymied by DEI:
Intel is also building fabs in Poland and Israel, which means it would rather risk Russian aggression and Hamas rockets over dealing with America’s DEI regime. Samsung is pivoting toward making its South Korean homeland the semiconductor superpower after Taiwan falls.
In short, the world’s best chipmakers are tired of being pawns in the CHIPS Act’s political games. They’ve quietly given up on America. …
[C]hipmakers have to make sure they hire plenty of female construction workers, even though less than 10 percent of U.S. construction workers are women. They also have to ensure childcare for the female construction workers and engineers who don’t exist yet. They have to remove degree requirements and set “diverse hiring slate policies,” which sounds like code for quotas. They must create plans to do all this with “close and ongoing coordination with on-the-ground stakeholders.”
No wonder Intel politely postponed its Columbus fab and started planning one in Ireland.
Access to microchips is a national security issue, as well as being fundamental to a modern economy. And yet Congressional majorities care more about DEI shibboleths and feeding pork to their constituencies than about American security and prosperity. Of course, that isn’t really an irony. The whole point of DEI is hating America, and if it imperils our security and our prosperity, so much the better.
Earlier today, I posted the official GOP response to Joe Biden’s SOTU hate-fest, by Senator Katie Britt. Britt’s speech was an impressive performance in its own way; if I were a Democrat, I think she would scare me.
But for us data guys, Stephen Moore’s Unleash Prosperity Hotline has the numbers:
A lot of tall tales and a few outright fabrications in the Biden speech last night – and far too many to enumerate here. But we will revisit three here.
“My administration cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion.”
This isn’t just a little bit false, it’s an extraordinary and audacious misstatement of fact. The baseline deficit over 10 years, as measured when Biden came into office versus the latest forecast, shows nearly $6 trillion added to the debt since Biden arrived on the scene.
So how does a $6 trillion addition of red ink possibly equate to a $1.7 trillion reduction in the deficit. Someone didn’t pass his basic math exam in high school.
“We will make the rich pay their fair share.”
The top 1% of American tax filers now pay an all-time record high 46% of taxes. This is according to Biden’s own IRS. Does he think the rich should pay ALL the taxes?
That is actually a good question. I think that for many Democrats, the answer may be Yes. But within reason, experience shows that lower rates mean higher collections, especially from high earners.
“I inherited an economy [from Trump] that was on the brink…”
Actually, the economy grew by – ready for this? 33% in the third quarter of 2020 and 4.1% in the 4th quarter of 2020. The economy was in a full-scale COVID recovery when Biden came into office.
Oh, and Inflation was 1.4%.
Gas prices were $2.39 per gallon.
If you think of it as a relay race, Trump handed the baton to Biden in first place, with a rapidly growing lead. But Biden tripped over his own feet–both literally and figuratively–and turned the strong position that he inherited (and not only economically) into a fiasco. That I why I don’t see how he can be re-elected, despite Trump’s manifest flaws.
If you don’t get the Unleash Prosperity Hotline, you should. You can sign up for its frequent and always informative emails here.
Brian Deese is “an MIT Innovation Fellow, focusing on the impact of economic policies that strengthen the United States’ industrial capacity and on accelerating climate investment and innovation.” Before that, Deese assisted Joe Biden as Director of the National Economic Council. Asked in 2022 how American families could cope with surging gasoline prices, the NEC boss said, “this is about the future of the liberal world order, and we have to stand firm.” As Sir Bedevere(Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of economics?
Deese is the son of Boston College political science professor David Deese, who “researches the international and comparative politics of energy and climate policies worldwide.” Brian’s mother, Patricia Stanton, served as deputy commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and assistant commissioner of waste prevention at the state Department of Environmental Protection.
At Middlebury College Deese earned an undergraduate degree in international politics and economics. He got into Yale Law School but left a few credits short of graduation to work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Composite character president Obama tapped him to help out with climate change.
In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, Obama touted the “amazing” Brian Deese, who “engineered the Paris Agreement, the Aviation Agreement,” and “may have helped save the planet.” The auto industry was also in trouble.
“The wunderkind in charge of saving our auto industry is a 31-year-old with about as much experience as a summer intern,” noted Glenn Beck. “Despite having no formal business education, no business experience and no auto industry experience, 31-year-old Brian Deese is now in charge of dismantling General Motors.” David Sanger of the New York Times also weighed in with, “Meet the 31-Year Old in Charge of Dismantling GM.”
In 2017, Deese became a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. From there it was on to BlackRock, where Deese headed the sustainable investing division, advising clients on meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. Deese was reportedly bagging some $2.8 million a year, and building a net worth of $4 million.
In June of 2021, the amazing Deese outline his vision for a “new industrial strategy,” an “activist government,” approach including “targeted public investment, public procurement, climate resilience and equity.” As Deese contends, “markets on their own will not make investments in technologies and in infrastructure that benefit an entire industry.”
And so on, in what Olson Johnson of Blazing Saddles might call “authentic statist gibberish.” Or, in the style of Monty Python, the wealthy MIT Innovation Fellow could qualify for “upper class twit of the year.”
Jeffrey Anderson presents a comparative analysis of presidents and inflation. The mainstream press to the contrary notwithstanding, he explains what Biden has done to make us feel so black and blue. It’s not our imagination. It’s the inflation, stupid! See his City Journal column “No great mystery.” Anderson manages to review the data and perform the analysis with a sense of humor.
The daycare minders at the White House have persuaded Biden to single out “shrinkflation” as the villain. However, “shrinkflation” reflects “inflation.” It is a manifestation of rising prices. Sentient observers understand that Biden economic policies have triggered the inflation that we have suffered, just as they understand that Biden’s senescence has slowed the windmills of his mind. Biden trusts we won’t notice he indicts himself when he decries “shrinkflation.”
Biden’s daycare minders take us for fools. Thus the administration’s critique of Republicans for causing the invasion of illegals that Biden invited, facilitated, and denied. They think we are stupid.
We hear that Biden threatens to point the finger at alleged corporate wrongdoing as the source of our pain in tonight’s State of the Union address. For some reason or other this wave of alleged wrongdoing has run riot under the regime of…Joe Biden. It was somehow held in check under the regime of…Donald Trump. James Bovard seeks to immunize us against the foolishness of the Biden party line in his New York Post column “Joe Biden’s State of the Union ‘shrinkflation’ swindle.”
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