Grab your calculator, since this seems like a “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” and it may be too difficult to believe your eyes just reading it. You may need to actually press the calculator keys; $809 (the average US worker’s weekly salary in 2015) times 52, equals $42,068. Okay, now multiply that by 10 to […]
When this sticker price parity is met, electric vehicles will hit a tipping point in mainstream adoption. A recent Bloomberg article titled, “Here’s How Electric Cars Will Cause the Next Energy Crisis,” neatly sums up why this rosy future for EVs scares the petroleum industry. By 2040, it claims, 35 percent of autos will come […]
The work stoppages have hit France’s oil infrastructure particularly hard. Protests and blockades have disrupted all eight of the country’s fuel refineries, and at least one-fifth of gas stations around the country have totally or nearly run out of fuel. On Wednesday, the French government released its strategic oil reserves for the first time in six […]
That’s what happened to Frank, who helped clients in writing their books. He made arrangements with one client, Nathan, which turned into something of a nightmare, because Nathan was co-writing the book with another person who was paying the bills. So at one point, Nathan had trouble getting his partner to pay in a timely […]
“We have definitely reached that tipping point, where veterans know we are no longer, ‘My father’s VA,’” Frueh said. “We are agile, we are responsive, and we are definitely meeting their needs.”
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 (Reuters) – A U.S. jury handed Alphabet’s Google a major victory on Thursday in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Oracle Corp, saying the law allowed Google’s use of Oracle’s software to create its Android smartphone operating system. The jury unanimously upheld claims by Google that its use of Oracle’s Java development […]
This post appeared first on Investment Zen Remember your first real job, when you stopped earning $7.25 an hour at the neighborhood’s fast food chain and started negotiating a yearly salary? I bet you felt like a millionaire. I know I did. My first job out of college paid around $50,000. Almost $1,000 a week, […]
Throughout this post, I’ve been skeptical of giving too much weight to trying to find “the right” color for your brand or your CTA. Still, it’s true that, generally speaking, we do associate certain colors with specific traits (e.g., brown is associated with ruggedness, red is associated with sex and excitement), studies show that when […]
