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From the file labelled, "Sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart." JL Whitney Webb reports in Unlimited Hangout: Before Covid, Moderna was in danger of hemorrhaging investors, as persistent safety concerns and other doubts about its mRNA delivery...

Such initiatives - for computers, home monitoring devices or cars - always start with assurances that its only for safety. But the reality is that the real money is in capturing data and using it to monetize behavior. JL Gabi Zijderveld and colleagues...

The reality is that relative to the growth of the economy and to the lower inflation of the past few years, it is not extraordinary. But that is not the perception, and it is the latter which is influencing both attitudes and behavior about post-pandemic...

Uber was never going to be able to become profitable because its business model was based not on operating efficiencies or technological innovation, but on bullying its way to a monopoly by using investor money to subsidize rides and overwhelm government...

Work Black Friday and get college tuition paid for? It's not out of the question this year. Service industries, especially retail, ecommerce and logistics, need 500,000 holiday workers. But with 750,000 dead from Covid in the US - perhaps half of whom...