More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in December 2017:
CNBC: Facebook just admitted that using Facebook can be bad for you
Alaska: Alaska Communications asking 30 employees to voluntarily quit (buyouts) “in the best interest of having a healthy company over the long term.”
Arizona: Chandler […] Continue Reading…
Sears Holdings ends the month of January by suddenly laying off 220 corporate level employees!
KUTV 2News: Sears takes woman’s money for new appliances then shuts down without delivering!
PRNewswire: Sears Holdings now begging investors to buy its ‘distressed debt’!
Times Colonist: Sears Canada under investigation for massive dividend payout
KSDK: Kmart being sued for failing to pay […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns for the month of December, 2017: Many food suppliers/distributors are consolidating operations and killing jobs due to the collapsing grocery store and restaurant industries, as well as rising costs of food production, spread of disease and extreme weather.
The Star Beacon: Weather has affected agriculture nationwide
St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri Department […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct announcements for December 2017:
New York Magazine: How Wealthy People Use the Government to Enrich Themselves
Washington Post: How to score big at government auctions
NPR: States Say They Need Federal Government’s Help To Secure Midterm Elections
Associated Press: Global Cooling Requires More Government Money
According to CNBC there are only 13 U.S. cities where you can actually survive […] Continue Reading…
29 DEC 2017 (13:11 UTC-07 Tango 06) 08 Dey 1396/10 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1439/12 Ren-Zi (11th month) 4715
“Is the fate of banks that they will eventually disappear? Yes. The answer is yes. Does it need to happen tomorrow? And do we need to do it through Bitcoin? That’s a question mark.”-Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel
According to […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of healthcare related layoffs and shutdowns, announced in December 2017:
Israel based drugs pusher Teva Pharmaceuticals confirmed leaked reports that 14-thousand of its employees, including thousands in the U.S., are about to be laid off. Investors loved the news and drove up Teva stock prices.
More proof ‘Mericans are druggies; opioid related hospital deaths quadrupled from 1993 to 2014: “Mortality […] Continue Reading…
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
There’s been a lot of focus on graduation rates for schools across the U.S. This focus seems to be missing a major […] Continue Reading…
25 DEC 2017 (05:37 UTC-07 Tango 06) 04 Dey 1396/06 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1439/08 Ren-Zi (11th month) 4715
Xmas morn, Tahoe Place, Chubbuck, IdahoWhat’s wrong with this pic? Where are all the Xmas lights in the Cotant Park area of ‘christian’ dominated Chubbuck, Idaho?
About 15 years ago 90-95% of the homes around Cotant Park […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of U.S. retail/banking/service sector job loss WARNings and store shutdowns made or announced in November 2017:
Department store Bon-Ton (with HQ operations in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania) announced it will shutdown a minimum of 40 stores by the end of 2018, affecting hundreds of jobs, supposedly due to never ending crashing sales. But wait, somehow the […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of U.S. Mining/Industrial/Logistics job loss/shutdown announcements made in November 2017.
U.S. layoffs as of May 2017California: APS West Coast issued a shutdown WARN for Oxnard, 46 jobs gone by the end of January 2018. Clothing maker Burleigh Point shutting down its Billabong operations in Irvine, 50 jobs gone by August 2018. Clothing maker United […] Continue Reading…