Nine months into the pandemic, an expected torrent of virus-related personal-injury lawsuits hasn’t materialized, as plaintiff attorneys find it more challenging than anticipated to hold a business responsible for spreading Covid-19. Negligence lawsuits brought against businesses by infected customers are nearly nonexistent in state and federal courts, apart from a […]
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Why the OPEC+ agreement to boost production in 2021 hasn’t tanked oil prices
It was obvious that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies, collectively known as OPEC+, would have a difficult time reaching a decision on oil production levels in the new year when the group postponed its meeting this week. The big surprise, however, may be that oil […]
Silicon Valley crackdown hasn’t killed QAnon
The result is an ever-widening conspiracy-theory movement that, despite efforts by Silicon Valley to clean up its services, remains a primary fount of disinformation in the closing days of the hotly contested presidential election. QAnon accounts have been particularly aggressive recently in spreading unverified claims about the supposed business dealings […]
Biden lavishes time and money on key industrial states, but hasn’t locked them down yet
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigns in Warren, Mich., on Wednesday. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) The worst strategic mistake Hillary Clinton made in her 2016 campaign for president, many analysts believe, was overconfidence about three states Democrats had won in every presidential election since 1992 — Michigan, Pennsylvania and […]