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McDonald’s

McDonald’s To Close 200 Restaurants As COVID19 Takes Bite Out Of Profits

McDonald’s To Close 200 Restaurants As COVID19 Takes Bite Out Of Profits Via International Business Times:  McDonald’s (MCD) will permanently close 200 of its 14,000 U.S. restaurants in 2020. The restaurant closures will focus primarily on locations in Walmart stores that are “low-volume,” USA Today reported. The announcement was made during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday. McDonald’s said the closings are being accelerated after being planned for future years. […]

today07/29/2020 5

Tesla

Tesla To Open Cybertruck Vehicle Assembly Plant In Austin, Texas

Tesla To Open Cybertruck Vehicle Assembly Plant In Austin, Texas Via USA Today:  Electric car maker Tesla Inc. has picked the Austin, Texas, area as the site for its largest auto assembly plant employing at least 5,000 workers. The new factory will build Tesla’s upcoming Cybertruck pickup and will be a second U.S. manufacturing site for the Model Y small SUV, largely for distribution to the East Coast. Tesla will […]

today07/23/2020 9

Chick-fil-A

The Ballad Of The Chick Fil-A Betrayal By Mike Church

The Ballad Of The Chick Fil-A Betrayal From Mike "The King Dude" Church: I Told Ya So: Chick Fil-A Throws Christians Under The Profit Bus With the recent news about how Chick Fil-A has caved, lets take a trip in the way back machine. I called this one 7 years ago when the company was first confronted for its lack of health insurance coverage for same sex “married” employees. People […]

today11/19/2019 4

Poland enacts a new law banning nearly all trade on Sundays

Winchester, VA - U.S. News and World Report reports that stores in Poland were largely shut down yesterday as the new law banning nearly all trade on Sundays took effect. While some are very supportive of the laws, feeling that past exploitation of workers should be remedied with a mandated day of rest, others say that the benefits of the free market era should be expressed with no time limitations to […]

today03/12/2018 15

A MAJOR BLOW FOR THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY

Winchester, VA - Time reports that the United States dealt a major blow to the renewable energy industry yesterday in deciding to place tariffs on imported solar panels. Duties placed on foreign solar equipment could approach as much as 30%, which is devastating to a $28 billion industry which gets 80% of its parts abroad. Anticipating price hikes, some solar developers have been hoarding panels and others have been stalling projects. […]

today01/23/2018 9

EMPLOYEES OF CERTAIN BIG BUSINESSES ARE ALREADY REAPING REWARDS FROM THE PASSAGE OF THE TAX REFORM BILL

Winchester, VA - Fox Business is reporting that some of the largest companies in the United States are celebrating the passage of the new tax reform bill and its lowering of the corporate taxrate from 35% to 21% by rewarding their employees. AT&T announced yesterday that over 200,000 of its employees will be eligible for a $1,000 bonus check which might make it in time for the holidays if the President […]

today12/21/2017 6

Facebook has experienced worldwide outages

Winchester, VA - Just breaking in the last hour is news that Facebook has experienced worldwide outages this morning. The Daily Caller reports that the social media giant was registering 2,000 outage reports every twenty minutes, according to Facebook's outage reporter. Some of the areas experiencing the outages were the United States, Canada, Turkey, India, Russia, Australia and multiple countries in Europe. A Facebook representative could not identify the source of […]

today10/12/2017 14

AIRPORT COMPUTER CHECK-IN SYSTEMS HAVE CRASHED AROUND THE WORLD

Winchester, VA - Fox News reports that a computer glitch resulted in the crashing of airline check-in systems in over 100 airports around the world. Thousands of travelers remained grounded as a result of what Amadeus Alta, the company providing the check-in software,  called a “network issue that is causing disruption.” Some of the affected airports are London's Heathrow International Airport, Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport , and Washington D.C.'s Ronald […]

today09/28/2017 7

ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE HAS SUGGESTED 6 FINANCIAL TIPS FOR BUDDING ENTREPRENEURS

Winchester, VA - If there is one aspect of starting a business that is all-consuming, it is financial management. Entrepreneur Magazine has published a piece for budding entrepreneurs giving 6 money management tips to help you build your business. First, prioritize organization: Record all of your financial information in one place so that you can easily keep track of what is coming in and going out. Second, check your credit by […]

today09/26/2017 10

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