Trump’s trade war was a total flop

Donald Trump, the American president from 2017 to 2021, said he knew more about trade than most economists and foreign-policy experts. “Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump famously declared in 2018. He described himself as a “Tariff Man” and proved it by imposing new tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. imports, to be paid by the American firms buying those goods. Trump’s dubious logic was that making imports costlier to Americans would hurt the foreign… Source link

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Google Cuts User Account Compromises in Half With Simple Change

More than 150 million Google users have seen their chance of compromise drop by half following the adoption of two-step verification, a process where users logging in to a Google service will be asked to respond to a push notification sent to a second device, the company said today. The result is an early sign that Google’s effort to boost the overall security of its user base and protect accounts from compromise is paying off. Over the past six months or so, Google has turned on the… Source link

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Chipotle Q4 earnings boosted by digital surge, sees bigger restaurant footprint

Chipotle (CMG) on Tuesday posted fourth-quarter earnings report that mostly beat market expectations, with growth driven by a digital boom accounting for nearly 42% of sales, sending its stock on a tear in after-hours trading. Here’s what the California-based company reported, compared to Wall Street’s expectations, according to a Bloomberg consensus estimate: Shares of Chipotle, which were down nearly 3 percent compared to a year ago, spiked by over 7% in post-market trading after the… Source link

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More Deflategate details just make league look worse

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last week celebrated Tom Brady’s retirement by hailing him as “an incredible competitor and leader” and noting “his stellar career is remarkable for its longevity” and “sustained excellence.” Just seven years ago, Goodell and the NFL were using media allies to brand Brady as a cheater, wrongly suspending him after a federal court battle, and eventually ending and hiding the results of an experiment that would have all but cleared him of… Source link

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Biden’s grade on the economy rises to A-

President Biden has an enviable problem: The economy under his watch is doing a lot better than voters give him credit for. In the latest update of the Yahoo Finance Bidenomics Report Card, Biden’s grade on the economy rose from B+ to A-. This isn’t our opinion. It’s what the numbers tell us. We developed this methodology at the beginning of the Trump administration, with the help of Moody’s Analytics, and we’ve kept it in place for Biden. We determine each president’s grade by… Source link

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Pfizer eyes $100B year on pandemic boon for 2022

The pandemic has been transformational for many businesses, but few can boast near-global domination the way Pfizer (PFE) can. The Pfizer/BioNTech (BNTX) vaccine accounts for 70% of all doses in the U.S. and E.U., as of February 5, according to CEO Albert Bourla Tuesday. He added that the vaccine and other Pfizer medicines reached 1.4 billion patients in 2021, or about one in six people on Earth. As a result, the company saw a 92% increase in operational revenue growth in 2021 alone, of which… Source link

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Stars leaving first round of 2022 drafts

It’s the second week of February. We don’t even have an NFL champion yet. But fantasy football discussion is a year-long pursuit. Today’s assignment is to look at name-brand players who were previously first-rounders but likely to move out of that exclusive club next season. The arrow is moving in the wrong direction. Heck, in some cases, maybe the cheese has gone bad. Everything here is written in pencil, of course. Although I am a staunch advocate that high-volume Best Ball drafting is… Source link

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Stock market is starting to ‘show signs of cracking and bursting’: Harvard lecturer

The explosive growth in passive trading, a fear of missing out, and a blind faith in “celebrity CEOs” have contributed to froth in high growth tech names, according to Harvard lecturer and renowned writer Vikram Mansharamani. Now, the author who made a name spotting market bubbles in his book “Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst,” says another one may be about to pop. “I believe a passive investing bubble has been brewing and may, in fact, have started showing some… Source link

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Google’s latest Pixel 6 update breaks things, again

Google can’t seem to catch a break with software updates for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, the first phones that are powered by the company’s own Tensor chip. After having to pull an earlier update that caused a rash of bugs and connectivity issues for early buyers of the phones, Google tried to get back on track by taking its time with the January update. That seemed to go okay, and yesterday, the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro both received the February software release (with more bug fixes in… Source link

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Peloton is also losing the CEO of its biggest acquisition ever

The LinkedIn posts of departing Peloton employees (and those people in the industry willing to help them) are piling up on Tuesday, one comes from the former CEO of Precor. Peloton spent $420 million to buy commercial fitness giant Precor in December 2020 as it sought to build out production capacity to support its then views of strong future demand. It stands as the company’s largest acquisition in its history. The acquisition gave Peloton 625,000 square feet of U.S. manufacturing capacity… Source link

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