The Kellington Times
Elon Musk's Wealth Tumbles By $15 Billion...
The billionaire Elon Musk has yet again slipped to second place on Bloomberg’s index of the world’s richest people after his net worth dropped by $15 billion on Monday. His wealth fell to $183 billion, allowing the outgoing Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, to reclaim first place, after Tesla’s shares tumbled 9% on Monday – their biggest one-day decline since late September.
The arrest on drug trafficking charges of Emma Coronel Aispuro, a former beauty queen and wife of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, follows a telenovela-style life that straddled hyper-violent Mexican cartels, fame and motherhood.
When the future looks uncertain and bleak, companies will hit the brakes on bringing aboard new people, enact freezes and start to downsize workers. A new survey from Robert Half, the large recruiting firm, found that “hiring managers are taking longer to hire [and] stringing along candidates thinking that a ‘better hire’ may come along.” The firm reported, “One-third of senior managers surveyed said their company is taking more time to hire today in hope that better candidates will come along.”
Federal regulators are looking closely at the Texas energy market after natural gas prices rocketed during last week’s deep freeze. And they’re warning that extreme weather will continue to stress the power grid.
So true, the hiring process is painfully slow....