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☆ Make America Build Again
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +37 min

America is the sixth-most-expensive place in the world to build subways and trolleys. The solutions will cost trillions of dollars and require a pace of building unseen in America since World War II. Perhaps the single most pressing question we face today is: How do we make America build again? "For this class of projects, federal environmental laws are more the exception." The prospect of overhauling our hard-won environmental laws might feel like sacrilege to anyone who cares about the Earth.

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☆ Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has been a fortress stock during recessions and bear markets. Here's how
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Since 1980, Berkshire shares have beat the broader market over the course of six recessions by a median of 4.41 percentage points. The iPhone maker has outperformed throughout the bear market, similarly driving outperformance for Berkshire Hathaway as Apple accounts for roughly 45% of the firm's portfolio, according to CNBC's Berkshire Hathaway portfolio tracker. That has helped Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares climb more than 4% this year. That's who's gotten rich from owning Berkshire Hathaway," said Bill Smead, founder and chairman of Smead Capital Management and a Berkshire shareholder. "People held Berkshire Hathaway to a fault and they got that benefit."

☆ China holds the key to understanding COVID-19 origins: WHO chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"Without full access to the information that China has, you cannot say this or that," said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in response to a question about the origin of the virus. That's WHO's position and that's why we have been asking China to be cooperative on this." Data from the early days of the COVID pandemic was briefly uploaded by Chinese scientists to an international database last month. The WHO's Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead for COVID-19, said the latest Chinese information offered some "clues" on origins but no answers. She added WHO still did not know whether some of the research required had been undertaken in China.

☆ Rikers expert says Allen Weisselberg will get better treatment as a prominent Trump supporter
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's ex-CFO, Allen Weisselberg, was sentenced Tuesday to five months in NYC's Rikers jail. Rikers guards love Trump and will give better treatment to Weisselberg, 75, one expert predicts. Being 75 years old and in the news will also help Weisselberg, predicted the expert, Five Mualimmak-Ak, a jail-reform activist and former detainee who visits Rikers frequently. "Ninety-percent of the guards are Trump supporters, even though most of them are Black and Latino women," said Mualimmak-Ak, program director for LIFE Camp, a city-based nonprofit. "So he'll get preferential treatment from the guards because he is a Trump supporter.

☆ Cramer's lightning round: I'm very concerned about Veru
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Loading chart...Veru Inc : "I'm very concerned about it." I think we're going to have to take a major league pass." Suburban Propane Partners LP : "[The] propane market is historically, let's say, too volatile and erratic for me." Loading chart...Axon Enterprise Inc : "It's a terrific law enforcement package that I think is really good for everybody. Loading chart...Nuscale Power Corp : "If you want small, nuclear modular reactors, I'm going to have to say, the Constellation Energy group.

☆ Paper shortages — and skyrocketing prices — are pinching political candidates during election 2022 crunch time
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Political candidates are facing an expensive enemy this election season: paper shortages. Distributors and printers told Insider that the cost of paper has risen anywhere between 10% to 60%. Political candidates use paper for a plethora of marketing materials, including mailers, posters, lawn signs, flyers, and, envelopes — and jurisdictions across the country also use paper for ballots. The majority of campaigns did not reply or declined to comment, but Republican candidates who responded universally blamed President Joe Biden for the paper shortage. The real reason for the shortageMilligan told Insider there's been a 40% reduction in paper consumption during the last 10 years.

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