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Dave Portnoy Confronts ‘Rat’ Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev Over GameStop Saga
Congress is nothing compared to Davey Day Trader. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy put the screws to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev as he accused the stock-trading app of turning its back on amateur investors during the GameStop saga.
Two men walk into a temporary staffing agency near O’Hare International Airport to inquire about a job. They are both in their 50s, with similar work histories. One is Black, the other Latino. The Black man, who arrives first, is told the agency is not hiring at the moment. He leaves his contact information and never gets a call. The Latino man, who arrives 20 minutes later, is told about a warehouse job at an electronic assembly plant that pays $11 an hour. He is given a work order to start the following Monday and is encouraged to refer friends.
Japan like many other developed nations witnessed an alarming rise in suicides or attempted suicides over this past year of pandemic shutdowns and social distancing measures. The country was already at crisis levels even before the pandemic (though generally on a downward trajectory the prior decade), with recent studies showing it to be “the leading cause of death in men among the ages of 20-44 and women among the ages of 15 to 34.”
Jeff Bezos has been eyeing a major investment recently. Front Office Sports‘ A.J. Perez reports Bezos, the Amazon CEO, owner of The Washington Post and ‘World’s Richest Man,’ has a strong interest in owning an NFL franchise and is believed to have the Washington Football Team on “his private wish list.”
The US economic recovery “remains uneven and far from complete,” Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell told a committee of US senators Tuesday. In his semi-annual update on monetary policy, his first delivered under Joe Biden’s presidency, Powell indicated the Fed would not be changing monetary policy any time soon, given the slow recovery in the labor market.
Well-paying blue-collar jobs have been skyrocketing across the country with many open positions returning to levels not seen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to EmployBridge workforce analyst Joanie Bily.
According to Pew, Gen Z is the most diverse generation of Americans, ever. Based on what our Gen Z respondents told us, that diversity seems to manifest as a sense of fluidity that seeps into all of their identifications.
