Futures Rise On Fresh Push Higher In Tech

The Economic Tsar Who Built Modern China-And Whose Reforms The CCP Is Dismantling Authored by Heng He via The Epoch Times, Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the hard-edged reformer who engineered China's rise from planned-economy backwater to global manufacturing giant, died this month at the age of 97. Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji poses during a working session at the Europe-Asia summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sept. 22, 2002. Gerard Cerles/AFP via Getty Images His legacy-tax centralization, mass layoffs, China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and a brief, forgotten moment of tolerance...

Tech CEOs: Just Kidding About That Jobpocalypse For three years, everyone from Goldman, to Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin, to tech CEOs have been forecasting mass unemployment due to AI wiping out jobs - which would only be accelerated by the proliferation of cheap(er) Chinese models. Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley said last year that AI would replace "literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S."  And while that may only be a matter of time, tech CEOs have changed their tune - albeit while facing public pitchforks over data centers, the cost of...

Near the southern Lebanese town of Jezzine, Israeli forces directly and repeatedly attacked a marked press vehicle, killing three journalists and wounding a number of others. The IDF fired four missiles at the vehicle during the attack. The confirmed fatalities were Fatima Ftouni of al-Mayadeen, Ali Shuaib of al-Manar TV, and Fatima’s brother Mohammed, last […]