Hiltzik: How the Fast Food Industry Uses Fraudulent Employment Numbers

The fast food industry has been wringing its hands over the devastating impact on its business from California’s new minimum wage law on its workers. Their raw numbers certainly bear this out. A full-page ad recently placed in USA Today by the California Business and Industry Alliance claimed that about 10,000 fast food jobs had … Read more

Cost reductions, China is put in focus

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares holds a press conference after meeting with unions, in Turin, Italy, March 31, 2022. Massimo Pinca | Reuters DETROIT – From the beginning of a union to create Stellantis in 2021, CEO Carlos Tavares has been on a cost-cutting mission. This is starting to pay dividends for the company and investors. … Read more

Elon Musk had sex with the SpaceX employee who started as an intern

Elon Musk had a sexual relationship with a SpaceX employee who started at the company as an intern and then was hired not long after she graduated from college before ending things, according to a report. Musk, who has a fortune estimated by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index at $198 billion as of Wednesday, also pursued … Read more