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‘Oracle of Wall Street’ on why the ‘crisis of the American male’ will send home prices crashing 30%: Gaming, loneliness, and not enough single women buyers
Meredith Whitney, the one-time “Oracle of Wall Street” who predicted the Great Financial Crisis, doesn’t mince her words. Young single men living at home and playing video games are behind a “crisis of the American male,” she explained in an interview with Fortune. Her theory about dateless, spiraling young men ends with home prices declining …
America’s great forgotten solution to high rents and house prices.
Last fall, the Aspen Skiing Company had a problem. The operator of the famed Colorado slopes had a record number of job applications—but knew from experience that most workers would turn down offers or quit when they tried to find a place to live in the mountain towns that dot the valley of the Roaring …
Solar panel prices are tipped to fall after years of increases, so when’s the best time to buy?
After an unprecedented period of increases, the wholesale price of solar panels is tipped to fall, with some experts predicting sizeable drops of 10 per cent per year for the next decade. In 2020, the cost per watt of solar energy increased for the first time in decades, as manufacturing and shipping ran into the …
FREYR Battery Establishes Technology Center in Boston | News
NEW YORK & OSLO, Norway & LUXEMBOURG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug 22, 2022– FREYR Battery (NYSE: FREY) (“FREYR”), a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has opened its first U.S.-based technology center in Boston in accordance with the company’s expansion strategy. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, FREYR is collaborating with its joint venture (“JV”) …
Oregon health care costs rose 49% from 2013 to 2019, driven by prescription drug prices, OHA reports
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – According to a new Oregon Health Authority report, health care costs grew 49% per person across insurance markets between 2013-2019 in Oregon, outpacing national health care cost growth during the same time period. By market, Medicare costs per person grew 58%, commercial market costs per person grew 45%, and Medicaid costs …
Energy & Environment — Why gasoline prices keep rising
The price of gasoline continues to swell, and a trade group says that uncertainty is hampering the deployment of clean energy. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment and beyond. For The Hill, we’re Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk. Subscribe here. What’s up with gasoline prices? Prices at the …
NSW records 11,903 new COVID-19 cases, seven deaths; 11,083 new cases in Victoria, seven deaths; Anthony Albanese out of isolation; Electricity prices more than double; First BA.4 sub-variant detected in NSW; World Health Organisation verifies 11 more attacks on health care in Ukraine
A reporter has tried comparing Anthony Albanese’s response to his COVID-19 infection to Scott Morrison’s, asking Shadow Treasurer Jim Shalmers why Mr Albanese hasn’t held a press conference on his first day out of isolation, when Mr Morrison had when he got out of isolation in March this year. “Anthony Albanese is returning to …
Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
Amazon says it will add a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to fees it charges third-party sellers who use the retailer’s fulfillment services By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer April 14, 2022, 2:23 AM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs, …
This isn’t a recession – it’s a war-cession, David Roche says
LONDON — The global economy is likely entering a “war-cession,” according to veteran investment strategist David Roche, and markets are underestimating its duration. It comes as markets attempt to navigate a flurry of concurrent economic hurdles, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, soaring inflation, rising interest rates and supply disruption from China’s efforts to contain a …
Energy & Environment — Energy Democrats grill oil execs on gas prices
The Hill illustration, Madeline Monroe/iStock Today we’re looking at a House hearing with oil executives, as well as a tiff between a Democratic senator and EPA Administrator Michael Regan. Then we’ll examine the Supreme Court ordering a return to a Trump-era EPA rule. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news …
