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☆ Trump's plan to build 10 new American cites is a right-wing dream of 'trad havens for beautiful families,' the internet's favorite architecture critic says
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Architecture critic Kate Wagner says Trump's plan to build "freedom cities" is nothing new. There's a whole eco-system of classical architecture proponents on Twitter with Roman statues as their avatars who decry modernism. The order made classical architecture — think columns, marble, symmetry — the preferred style for federal buildings. Wagner says Trump's embrace of classical architecture echoes the right-wing war on modernism that began in the 1980s. "For some reason, there also emerged alongside of those advocates a group of people who started to make statements that people neurologically prefer classical architecture."
☆ Pfizer ready to launch RSV vaccines for older adults, pregnant women in US, Europe
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Maggie Fick | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
PUURS, Belgium March 9 (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer (PFE.N) is ready to launch its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for both older adults and pregnant women in the U.S. and Europe later this year, executives said on Thursday. Both Pfizer and British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L) have RSV vaccines they hope to launch in the U.S. and Europe this year, pending regulators’ approval. “We are anticipating approval in both the U.S. and Europe in time for rollout in the fall,” Kena Swanson, Pfizer's head of viral vaccines research & development, told a media briefing at the company's biggest manufacturing and packaging site globally. GSK told Reuters on Wednesday that it is also ready to launch its RSV vaccine for older adults in the U.S. this year without supply constraints. GSK last year voluntarily stopped its clinical trial of its own RSV vaccine on pregnant women and is currently only pursuing the use of its vaccine on older adults, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.
☆ 3 big questions about the state of Goldman Sachs heading into its second-ever investor day
  + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
All eyes are on 200 West Street in lower Manhattan today, the global headquarters of Goldman Sachs and site of the bank's second-ever investor day. Goldman's first investor day, in 2020, included plenty of discussion about the importance of building out its consumer bank. Will new details emerge regarding the asset and wealth management division that show the business is heading in the right direction? Goldman's asset and wealth management division will likely get plenty of attention today. Speaking of David Solomon... Goldman's CEO appeared on a recent episode of the bank's podcast, "Exchanges at Goldman Sachs."
☆ A leaked Google memo compared it to slime mold
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
It's like the start of a joke: What do Google and slime mold have in common? A lot, says a memo from an ex-Googler comparing the org to a "slime mold." (A key difference: Stanford grads aren't desperate to intern at a slime mold.) But with ChatGPT setting off alarm bells inside and outside the org, Google should probably move faster and with more intention than slime mold. The most memorable part of the memo compares Google's bottom-up organizational structure to a "slime mold," highlighting how both Google and a slime mold can work independently but still come together to solve complex problems.
☆ Here's what Black Friday sales tell us about the retail sector — and our top pick
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
The holiday shopping season got off to a solid start over the weekend, as Black Friday's online sales beat expectations and started to build some much-needed momentum for the retail sector. According to Adobe's online sales tracker, consumers shelled out a record $9.12 billion shopping online on Black Friday. In another early look report, traffic on Black Friday at brick-and-mortar retail stores rose about 3% over 2021, according to retail tracker Sensormatic, which attributed the rise to increased promotional activity and "favorable in-store experiences." The analysts point out that this year's holiday shopping calendar is one day longer than in 2021. Bottom line With holiday shopping underway, we continue to like off-price retailers in these trying times.
☆ Walmart, Best Buy, Trader Joe's and other retailers will be closed on Thanksgiving this year — see the list
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Ann Matica | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Stores like Walmart and Best Buy will be closing their doors on Thanksgiving again this year. Here's a list of retailers that have decided to stay closed on Thanksgiving Day. AppleREUTERS/Alyssa PointerApple stores located in the US will be closed this Thanksgiving, according to a company spokesperson. NordstromJeff Greenberg/Contributor/Universal Images Group Editorial via GettyNordstrom will not be opening its doors for business this Thanksgiving, according to Forbes. PetcoEducation Images/Contributor/Universal Images Group Editorial via GettyA company spokesperson confirmed to Insider that Petco will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day.
☆ Retailers are starting to charge fees to return stuff you bought online. Here's why free returns may be a thing of the past — and how you can avoid getting charged.
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The easiest way to avoid paying a return fee is to bring your items back to the store in person. Here's how we got here, which retailers are changing their tune, and what shoppers can do to avoid paying for returns. Which means retailers are losing, on average, millions of dollars every year by letting you return your unwanted goods for free. Some companies have taken a different approach by offering free returns only to its most loyal shoppers. Translation: Retailers are hoping something else will catch your eye when you come into the store to make your return.
☆ The definitive oral history of how Trump took over the GOP, as told to us by Cruz, Rubio, and 20 more insiders
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Adam Wren | Tom Lobianco | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +61 min
Christopher Gregory/Getty ImagesDonald McGahn, Trump campaign counsel: I was at the top. Trump's 2016 campaign aides said they paid about 50 people, including part-time actors, to appear as supporters for his 2016 campaign announcement. Corey Lewandowski, Trump campaign managerCorey Lewandowski: I called my wife just as we were getting onto the plane. Stuff that would be from Mars on any other campaign was perfectly normal for the Trump campaign. Mark J. Terrill/AP photo Show less Trump at the Republican National Convention while Cruz speaks on July 20, 2016.
☆ Twitter insiders are getting more worried that the site is at massive risk of crashing under Elon Musk's reign
  + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Kali Hays | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Thousands of Twitter employees have been laid off, and Twitter cut costs in infrastructure. Twitter is already under strainA big test for Twitter will be the FIFA World Cup, which kicks off this weekend. In 2018, Twitter boasted its "massive role" in World Cup fandom that year and live matches, which drove 115 billion views of tweets with the World Cup hashtag. The tool was affected by Musk's decision on Monday to turn off the many "microservices" at Twitter, a current employee said. But convincing people to return to the chaos under Musk has been a tough sell, two current employees said.
☆ Degrowth: A dangerous idea or the answer to the world's biggest problems?
  + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Julia Horowitz | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +10 min
“An innocent 2 or 3% per year, it’s an enormous amount of growth — cumulative growth, compound growth — over time,” said Giorgos Kallis, a top degrowth scholar based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Action Press/ShutterstockThe UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently cited degrowth in a major report. Investment bank Jefferies said investors should consider what happens if degrowth gathers steam, noting “climate-anxious” younger generations have different consumer values. She’s criticized “fairy tales about non-existent technological solutions” and “eternal economic growth.” And she’s touched on another point degrowthers raise: Is our current system, which has produced rampant inequality, even working for us? Gates, the Microsoft co-founder who’s prioritized investing in climate innovations, admits that overhauling global energy systems is a Herculean task.
☆ Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and at least 15 other retailers will be closed on Thanksgiving this year — see the list
  + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Ann Matica | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Retailers like Walmart and Target are closing their stores on Thanksgiving Day again this year. The following year, Target followed suit, announcing it would be closed on Thanksgiving for good. Here's a list of retailers that have decided to stay closed on Thanksgiving Day. While a small number of employees still work on Thanksgiving Day to keep things operating smoothly, they all receive holiday pay, according to Target. PetcoEducation Images/Contributor/Universal Images Group Editorial via GettyA company spokesperson confirmed to Insider that Petco will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day.
☆ The era of free returns may be coming to an end. Here's why retailers have started charging return fees – and how you can avoid them.
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Some retailers have started charging customers a fee to ship back their returns. The easiest way to avoid paying a return fee is to bring your items back to the store in person. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyThe era of free returns may be coming to an end. Here's how we got here, which retailers are changing their tune, and what shoppers can do to avoid paying for returns. Some companies have taken a different approach by offering free returns only to its most loyal shoppers.
☆ REI dumps Black Friday — permanently
  + stars: | 2022-10-05 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
New York CNNBusiness —REI has quit Black Friday, forever. For the past seven years, the retailer has closed its doors on the day after Thanksgiving to give its employees a day off. A woman walks past a closed REI store in New York on Black Friday, 2016. Walmart (WMT), for example, is getting the ball rolling on its year-end holiday shopping season even before Halloween. Still, REI’s move to permanently dump Black Friday, as part of its “Opt Outside” movement to mark the day, is noteworthy because most retailers are continuing to keep their stores open.
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