Capsule hotels, once thought the domain of overworked underpaid Japanese salarymen, have exploded across Asia. Creative designs for small sleeping spaces have attracted a broad spectrum of customers from young creatives to high-end business travelers. Source: Asia’s Booming Pod Hotel Market Projected To Reach $226M — Why Are Travelers Downsizing?
The Netherlands, at only 1/270th the size of the US, is the world’s second largest food exporter by value…behind only the US. How did they do this? It’s all about the efficiency. Source: This Tiny Country Feeds the World
Silicon Valley is digging around for new startups to grow and is betting the farm that high-tech agribusiness won’t be small potatoes for long. Big data and AI are being applied in more and more ways to better understand how we can improve agricultural systems around the world. Source: Agribusiness Gets Less Hands-on and More High-Tech […]
Cheekys founder, Jessica Roberts, started out as waitress and ended up with a $2.8 million fashion brand for country gals. Source: How This Former Outback Steakhouse Waitress Built a $2.8 Million Retail Brand | Inc.com
In this 2015 interview renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky reveals the ten principles the wealthy ruling elites have used to acquire the bulk of America’s wealth. The film was quite prescient in predicting many of the symptoms we have been experiencing since the 2016 presidential election through the first month of the Trump administration, but explains that they have been present throughout […]
Donald Trump is assembling a team of elites in the service of populism. That could make him the first “populetist” president. Can he make the “trickle down” theory work this time? Check out his appointments and decide for yourself. Source: Trump is enlisting the rich to help the downtrodden
According to CNBC, Squawk on the Street, the recent US Department of Labor November Employment Report indicates that the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.6%, the lowest level since 2007. On the surface, this would be encouraging news if it weren’t for the Labor Participation rate which dropped to 62.7% with an estimated […]
Dear Republican and Democrat friends. I urge you to take a few minutes to read this article, which may give you fresh perspective on the recent presidential election and what long-term trends have brought us to this point. Chris Martenson wrote an excellent article on the Peak Prosperity website which suggests that long-term economic policies pursued by […]
According to Salvador Rodriguez, an Inc. Magazine staff reporter, MyKai is a revolutionary AI bot created to manage all your financial activities right from your phone. Although the concept is exciting and a lot of people, including me, could certainly use the assistance, the reality of flawless integration still lies a bit in the distant future. #AIbot #digitalmoney […]
CNBC commentator Michael Pento, producer of the weekly podcast “The Mid-week Reality Check,” and author of The Coming Bond Market Collapse, presents data from leading economic indicators and argues that the U.S. has already entered a recession when factoring in CPI inflation. He warns that equity markets have priced themselves for a strong recovery and are ill-prepared for […]