To the Moon and Back
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash Two companies, Lunar Outpost and AstroForge, just received a combined $25 million to develop technologies for off-Earth mining. Lunar Outpost is developing lunar rovers to retrieve minerals from…
Target Misses Its Inventory Target
Photo by Abhinav Bhardwaj on Unsplash Retail giant Target has announced plans to reduce an excess stock of inventory. At the end of April, the company had $15.1 billion in inventory, which is…
Oil is Surging, Apple is Falling
Image by John R Perry from Pixabay In the wake of rising oil and gas prices globally, Saudi Aramco, the company that manages the oil supply of the Kingdom of…
USWNT Scores a Big Goal
Photo by Emilio Garcia on Unsplash In February 2022, the US Women’s National Soccer Team reached an agreement with the US Soccer Federation to settle a lawsuit filed in 2019 over equal pay.…
Does WeWork Work?
Office space rental company WeWork reported a loss of $803 million for the fourth quarter of 2021. This puts their total loss for the year at $4.4 billion, after losing…
Walgreens’ Rxbots
Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Drugstore chain Walgreens has begun using robots to fill prescriptions. The robots can reportedly fill 300 prescriptions per hour, roughly the same number a…
Competing Solutions to a Lack of Competition
Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash Over the last decade prices in the US for insulin has more than tripled, and is more than ten times the average price in other countries. More…
The Guac is Going to be Extra
Photo by Isabella and Zsa Fischer on Unsplash.com The US has announced it is suspending all imports of avocados from the Mexican state of Michoacan. At the heart of the…
The Citrus Market is Getting Squeezed
Photo by: RaquelxBaires After years of declining demand, orange juice sales have hit their highest level since 2016. Health-conscious consumers, who had previously shied away from OJ due to concerns…
Murano Glass vs Expensive Gas
Photo By: kaijaalioglu from Pixabay.com In the face of rising natural gas prices, many of Murano, Italy’s world-famous glass artists are shutting down their furnaces. Artisans on the small island…