Home Depot is holding firm on its promise to keep prices steady despite mounting pressure from tariffs, even as President Trump escalates his public feud with major retailers like Walmart and Mattel by warning consumers of potential price hikes. The home improvement giant has been quietly working with suppliers to shift production away from China…
At one call center in the Philippines, workers help Americans with diabetes or neurological conditions troubleshoot devices that monitor their health. Sometimes they get pressing calls: elderly patients who are alone and experiencing a medical emergency. “That’s not part of the job of our employees or our tech supports,” said Ruth Elio, an occupational nurse…
We’re in the middle of the Gold Rush 2.0. But this time folks aren’t making money finding gold – they’re making money selling it. With gold near an all-time high, selling for over $3,200 an ounce, folks are raiding their jewelry boxes and heading to pawn shops, jewelers and smelters to turn their little-worn necklaces, watches, bracelets…
When Los Angeles City Council members took up a plan to hike the wages of tourism workers this week, they received some carefully worded advice from city lawyers: Don’t vote on this yet. Senior Assistant City Atty. Michael J. Dundas advised them on Wednesday — deep into their meeting — that his office had not…
Ballooning hopes. Companies are betting that diesel-powered zeppelins will be part of the next wave of innovative air travel that will be remarkably safer and greener than Hindenburg-era balloons, according to a report. Eco-friendly airships are being brought to market by several start-ups, which believe that the newfangled zeppelins could satisfy a market niche of…
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to approve a sweeping package of minimum wage increases for workers in the tourism industry, despite objections from business leaders who warned that the region is already facing a slowdown in international travel. The proposal, billed by labor leaders as the highest minimum wage in the country, would…
The father-and-son fraudsters who pleaded guilty in a $100 million pump-and-dump scheme involving a New Jersey Deli were sentenced to serve jail time on Tuesday Peter Coker Sr. 82, received a six-month stint and was also ordered to serve six months of home confinement after his release, as well as pay a $500,000 fine and…
In the coming weeks, Congress will write tax and spending legislation that should include relief for many victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires. But apart from the cash assistance Gov. Gavin Newsom has already requested, California’s congressional delegation should work to include two urgently needed changes to the tax code in that same legislation….
Donald Trump was already playing with economic fire with his tariff plan, something that is all but certain to stoke some degree of inflation, and slow the economy at least in the short term. So why would he threaten to throw gasoline on the blaze over his weird flirtation with a millionaire’s tax, something that…
Three Democratic U.S. representatives for California visited the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Friday to voice their concerns after President Trump told reporters that the slowdown of activity at the ports was “a good thing.” Trump has argued that tariffs are needed to boost manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and that the…
