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(Bloomberg) — While a wave of employee activism marked by walk-outs and protests has rippled through Silicon Valley the past few years, Oracle Corp. glided along unscathed.Now, a symbol of tech’s old guard is facing the stirrings of a worker uprising as well. People left their desks Thursday at Oracle offices around the world to protest Chairman Larry Ellison’s fundraiser a day earlier for President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The protest, called No Ethics/No Work, involved about 300 employees walking out of their offices or stopping work at remote locations at noon local time and …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. has overcome a legal roadblock standing in the way of Elon Musk’s plan to build an electric-car factory in Germany.A Berlin-Brandenburg court on Thursday ruled that Tesla can resume cutting down trees at a forest site in the small town of Gruenheide to make way for its first assembly plant in Europe. That puts the U.S. carmaker on track to start construction before the start of a crucial breeding period for local wildlife in March.The court found that local authorities didn’t violate laws when they allowed work on the factory to start, throwing out a complaint …read more […]

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Former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee called out Bloomberg’s mischaracterization of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. …read more […]

In our experience one of the best tools for ordinary investors who are on the hunt for new ideas is 13F filings. Once every quarter, hedge funds with at least $100 million in total positions in publicly traded US stocks are required to disclose the number of shares and the total value of its positions […] …read more […]

Shopping malls have been part of the American way of life for many decades now. But unfortunately, many seem to be withering on the vine these days.
I live in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and we seemed immune to this “Mallmageddon,” as it’s been termed, until about 18 months ago when one of the four anchor stores in our regional mall closed, followed by another about six months ago.
We’re lucky, though – replacements for those storefronts have already been announced. Meanwhile, 30 minutes away in York, Pennsylvania, half the stores are shuttered in the regional mall.
It has been announced that a mini-casino …read more […]

You might want to borrow a pair of examination gloves the next time you visit your doctor…
Or bring a tub of hand sanitizer to use afterward.
Because the doctor’s office is one of the germiest places around. And you won’t believe which part of your visit packs the biggest punch for bacteria.
Gross, Grosser, Grossest
The average toilet seat has 172 colony-forming units (CFUs). That measures bacteria’s potential to live and reproduce more bacteria.
Pretty nasty, right?
Well, we’re just warming up.
The armrest in a waiting room chair packs a whopping 173,050 CFUs. That’s more than 1,000 times as gross as a toilet seat.
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