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KEEN, no doubt, to stay alive, drug traffickers tend to be prompter payers than most. For software firms, this is just one of many clues that may hint at the laundering of ill-gotten money. Anti-money-laundering (AML) software, as it is called, monitors financial transactions and produces lists of the people most likely to be transferring […]
The Canadian Paediatric Society says its members are “increasingly” being asked by parents about the option of seeking medically assisted death for children. CBC | Health News
BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. The downfall of US brick-and-mortar commerce is overblown — despite sharp gains in e-commerce, which will nearly double between now and 2021, the lion’s share of purchasing continues to take place […]
– If you are old enough to have a teenager living under your roof, you would recognize the Western Electric 500-series telephone in an instant. And yet, you’d also need to explain what it is to said teenager, notwithstanding the phone obsession of the current crop of adolescents. As wagons become subsumed and superseded by […]
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Some White House insiders and close associates of President Donald Trump have expressed concern about Trump’s behavior of late. Ongoing feuds with members of his own party have isolated Trump as he struggles to implement his agenda. Trump’s public fights on social media have only grown more intense including with members of his […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ben Jacobs, the Guardian reporter who was body-slammed by then-Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, has accused Gianforte of backing out of a promise to grant him an on-the-record interview, Jacobs said in a statement published Tuesday night. In a letter that Jacobs said was sent to Gianforte’s spokesman “after two months of going back […]
(AP Photo/Eric Gay) A community college instructor in Texas recently started off the academic year by wearing a bulletproof vest and army helmet to class. He did this to protest a law that, starting this August, authorizes individuals to carry concealed handguns at public community colleges in Texas. In 2016, the same law had already […]
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch (BAML) released its latest Global Fund Manager Survey earlier this week, capturing the views of hundreds of money managers on the current state of financial markets. It always provides a few talking points, and is often seen a contrarian indicator as to what will happen next. Here’s a few of the […]
Self-driving cars have the potential to drastically reduce the number of lives lost to traffic accidents, cut fuel consumption and vehicle emissions, and even alleviate frustration from sitting in traffic or looking for parking. Of course, automakers and others aren’t pouring billions into developing the technology purely for altruistic reasons. Google’s self-driving division Waymo states […]
Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider Walmart was once considered the symbol of everything that was wrong with the retail industry. Now, Amazon is taking on that undesirable role. Fish’s Eddy recently put a sign in its window reading “F*ck Amazon: Fish’s Eddy is prime!” The founder of the quirky New York City store assured Business Insider that the […]
