Tag Archives: Political

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The political pressure on Powell is heating up. The Fed chair has a plan for that.  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Crypto just became a political football, and ether is the early winner  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump’s son Barron, 18, pulls out of political debut  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sundar Pichai tells Google staff he doesn’t want any more political debates in the office after firing 28 employees over …  Yahoo Finance Google fires 28 workers over Project Nimbus contract with Israeli government  NPR Google’s firings show bringing your whole self to work isn’t great  Business Insider Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]IDFA Guest of Honor Wang Bing Discusses Chinese Censorship, Upcoming Trilogy and Politics: ‘I Don’t Want My Films to Become a Political Tool’  Variety Source link

Google launched the program last September in response to Republican accusations that the company’s algorithms disproportionately flag conservative fundraising emails as spam. The program allowed candidates, political party committees, and leadership political action committees to sign up with Google to make their messages exempt from the company’s spam detection systems.  “We will keep investing in spam-filtering technologies that protect people from unwanted messages while still… Source link

LONDON: TikTok will begin requiring accounts belonging to US government departments, politicians and political parties to be verified and will ban videos aimed at campaign fundraising, the short-form video app said on Wednesday.The move comes as TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, and other social media platforms are working to clamp down on political misinformation ahead of the US midterm elections in November, after years of being criticized for allowing such content to flourish on… Source link

Our society is not just divided along political lines — media, culture, and even coffee shops have become delineated between red and blue. So perhaps it is inevitable that these fissures would come to the world of investing. I’m speaking about the growth of so-called ESG investing — which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance — and the growing backlash against this trend. Battle lines are being formed in the heretofore apolitical, clubby world of money management. The roots… Source link

U.S. stocks continued a steep selloff on Thursday after disappointing earnings reports from Target and Walmart affirmed fears over inflation, which remains close to its highest level in 40 years. In a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, hedge fund founder Josh Friedman acknowledged that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is currently doing a good job of trying to “wring out” this sky-high inflation. Still, he suggested that the Fed may have stoked inflation with its response to the… Source link

Nothing escapes the partisan divide — or so it seems. Party affiliation shapes opinions about inflation, clothing brands, and even America’s pastime — Major League Baseball. But actor Matt Damon — who himself has been criticized as a “Hollywood liberal” — says a worldwide aid effort to expand worldwide water access resonates with Democrats and Republicans alike. Damon, the co-founder of a global water access philanthropy called Water.org, rebuked the notion that liberals tend to be… Source link