Open this photo in gallery: Mikael Olsson, a Gripen test pilot, in front of a JAS 39 Gripen E in Lindkoping, Sweden, last week. Felix Odell/The Globe and Mail Every so often, the economic stars align to allow a country to create a new industry, or put an ambitious new spin on an old one
If this is the year of publicly-traded companies signaling to Wall Street that they’re going to do more with less, in preparation for an AI-driven economy, add Verizon to the list of giants cutting a substantial number of jobs in a pivot. The company, newly led by former PayPal mogul Dan Schulman, said Thursday that
This is what needs to happen and is the only way this nonsense will stop. Start arresting employers for hiring illegals and they’ll stop doing it. The owners of a Michigan-based plumbing company were just arrested for employing and harboring nearly 250 illegal immigrants across 4 states, generating $75M in revenue. This is only the
Jonathan Reynolds’s decision this summer to protect the British steel industry from cheaper Vietnamese and South Korean imports seemed to be universally welcomed. “This government is unapologetic in our support for the UK steel sector,” said Reynolds, then the business secretary, as he unveiled stringent rules on import quotas and tariffs. “It underpins Britain’s industrial