All posts tagged with commerce
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-(Natural News) A Supreme Court decision may force over 70,000 truck owner-operators in California to stop driving, creating another choke point in the already stressed West Coast logistics networks. The AB5 law restricts the use of independent contractors and will soon be enforced against the trucking industry after the court declined to hear their appeal. […]
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-(Natural News) Something strange is going on at one of America’s largest truck stop and travel center chains, which was just told by North America’s largest railroad that it must drastically reduce rail shipments of diesel and diesel exhaust fuel (DEF) or else face embargoes. Shameek Konar, the CEO of Pilot Flying J truck stops […]
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-(Natural News) The Venezuelan government recently lopped off six zeros from its hyperinflating currency, the bolivar. The highest denomination currency note of 1 million bolivars, worth less than $0.25, was replaced by a one-bolivar note. At the same time, a 100-bolivar note, worth about $25.00, was introduced as the new highest denomination of the bolivar. The currency conversion […]
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-(Natural News) The global economy is all out of whack thanks to a year’s worth of COVID-related lockdowns which led to hundreds of millions of people being thrown out of work, factories and warehouses to close, and other businesses to dramatically slow down. Now that countries including the United States have been reopening for months, one […]
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-(Natural News) Thanks to its acquisition by Amazon, Whole Foods Market is quickly morphing into the grocery store of the New World Order with a new cashless payment system that allows customers to wave their palm over a scanning machine in order to pay for their food. Instead of having to hand over cash or […]
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-(Natural News) Big Tech was taken to task during a recent hearing put on by the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law. But entirely missing from the conversation was the active role that Wall Street and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) played in paving the way for Big Tech to become […]
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-(Natural News) The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Damodardas Modi, initiated a sudden lock down of the entire country on March 24th. The lock down went into effect at midnight, the same day it was announced. Overnight, tens of millions of hardworking men and women were told they could no longer work and collect a […]
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-(Natural News) Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced that gun stores would be declared as “nonessential” businesses and ordered all gun stores in the L.A. county to close down on Tuesday. “There are hundreds of businesses which, through no fault of their own, do not fall under the Governor’s definition of critical infrastructure,” Villanueva said […]
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-(Natural News) What would happen if the world’s second-largest economy were to grind to a halt for any length of time? And what impact would the collapse of the second-largest economy have on global commerce, especially if that country was responsible for grinding out the lion’s share of consumer goods and spare parts for most […]
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-(Natural News) Throughout most of the country, it’s actually a “crime” to sell farm-fresh food and other homemade edibles to others without the government’s permission – which is typically contingent upon paying hefty fees and wading through lots of bureaucratic red tape. But in West Virginia, those fees and red tape are now a thing […]
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