Downtown Seattle Lost 30,000 Jobs Since 2020 Payroll Tax: Report

El Nino Fuels Atlantic Hurricane Drought As Dolly Eyes Florida The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has yet to produce its first hurricane, putting the Atlantic Basin within reach of its latest start on record. There's a big reason for this: The intensifying El Niño is largely responsible for the strong wind shear that disrupts tropical system development. Four named tropical storms have formed through late August, including Tropical Storm Dolly, but none has strengthened into a hurricane during the season's first three months as peak hurricane season nears, around Sept....

Russian Oil Refineries Boost Output Following Ukraine's 3-Day Pause On Energy Attacks Just after Ukraine's President Zelensky conceded Tuesday that he did in fact hold to a brief energy ceasefire at President Trump's insistence, Reuters is reporting a major rebound in Russian crude output."Russian oil refineries increased crude processing by 25% in the second half of October compared to the beginning of the month ​after persistent drone attacks on the plants ceased, three industry ‌sources told Reuters." via Bloomberg "Since mid-March, Russian refineries had faced weekly attacks by Ukrainian drones that caused...

AI Price Wars Begin: OpenAI Considers "Drastic Price Cuts" In Pursuit Of Anthropic Customers Earlier today, in a report discussing how "AI bills are out of control", JPMorgan tech guru and TMT salesman, Mark Schilsky wrote that "most of my high level investor discussions focus on one major topic: when will the party end? Put another way, tech investors have made so much money in Semis so quickly that they are looking for potential warning signs that the music is about to stop. Predicting such an end is incredibly difficult. As...