(Reuters) – Ford Motor Co has tried and failed to generate interest in utilitarian electric vehicles such as a battery-powered Focus compact car. Now, the company is using the high-performance image of its Mustang muscle cars to sell an electric SUV. Here are…
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Month: November 2019
Paypal’s mafia of misfits who became kingpins of tech
When David Sacks left PayPal, shortly after eBay paid US$1.5bn for the company in 2002, the first thing he did was finance a movie. The result, 2005’s Thank You For Smoking, became a sleeper hit and returned its US$10m budget many times over. The dotcom bub…
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NewsWatch: Seeing America again through new eyes
In 2011, at 50, I took early retirement from my job as an air-traffic controller, left Texas and began traveling the world. See full story. How to dig yourself out of debt There are four basic ways to get out of debt, big or small. Here they are, along with…
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Climate Change’s Great Lithium Problem
When he was first elected in 2006, Morales led a charge against such extractive dynamics, canceling contracts that inordinately benefited foreign capital, redistributing land, nationalizing the natural gas industry and seizing mines. All this sparked inte…
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Wall Street Breakfast: What Moved Markets This Week
Alibaba’s sets new Singles’ Day record Final figures from Alibaba’s (NYSE:BABA) 24-hour Singles’ Day event showed that sales hit a record $38.4B, more than Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) haul last quarter from online store sales. The news didn’t move the stock on Mo…
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