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Standard Lithium's Koch investment more than just capital funding, Roth says
Standard Lithium (SLI +9.1%) powers higher as Roth Capital reiterates a Buy rating and raises its stock price target to $11 from $10.50, after the company said last week it will receive a $100M direct investment from Koch Investments Group.
Standard Lithium will issue nearly 13.5M common shares at C$9.43/share - while somewhat dilutive, Roth analyst Joe Reagor says the value of the strategic partner outweighs the dilution.
While the funding should provide Standard Lithium with the necessary capital to cover its portion of the cost of developing its first commercial direct lithium extraction plant, it also allows the company to aggressively advance its SW Arkansas project, and adds credibility to its technology amid a period of volatility in the company's share price.
Standard Lithium shares have recouped losses that followed a short report from Blue Orca that said the company was "massively overvalued."
Now Read: Standard Lithium: 100 Million Ways To Wreck A Short Seller
Standard Lithium's Koch investment more than just capital funding, Roth says
Standard Lithium (SLI +9.1%) powers higher as Roth Capital reiterates a Buy rating and raises its stock price target to $11 from $10.50, after the company said last week it will receive a $100M direct investment from Koch Investments Group.
Standard Lithium will issue nearly 13.5M common shares at C$9.43/share - while somewhat dilutive, Roth analyst Joe Reagor says the value of the strategic partner outweighs the dilution.
While the funding should provide Standard Lithium with the necessary capital to cover its portion of the cost of developing its first commercial direct lithium extraction plant, it also allows the company to aggressively advance its SW Arkansas project, and adds credibility to its technology amid a period of volatility in the company's share price.
Standard Lithium shares have recouped losses that followed a short report from Blue Orca that said the company was "massively overvalued."
Now Read: Standard Lithium: 100 Million Ways To Wreck A Short Seller
LAC hit over $41. Trend is your friend -- until it isn't. Think it's going to be generally friendly for the time being.
.03 shy of 41 for a high so far. Also it stayed pretty steady Fri when most of the market was taking a pretty good hit. Just a short time ago there was discussion of where the support would be projecting above 30 somewhere. Well, I guess it's above $30. LOL
ASTR has lately given a few good trades for 2-4 bits profit, oscillating around the $11. Near future catalysts will have an effect also. Been increasing my core, betting on a continued successful launchings. We'll see in the next month or two.
An interesting article earlier this month, which Astra is included in the dealing of the new RE wave.
In race to provide internet from space, companies ask FCC for about 38,000 new broadband satellites
A flurry of space companies filed requests with the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for new or expanded broadband networks, asking for approval of nearly 38,000 total satellites.
Amazon, Astra, Boeing, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Hughes Network, OneWeb, SpinLaunch, and Telesat are among those asking the FCC for access to what is known as V-band spectrum, a range of frequency the companies can use to provide global broadband.
“The most difficult aspect of building a [low Earth orbit] broadband system is acquiring the spectrum, not building and launching satellites. This is an attempt by every company with any future plans to stake a claim on beachfront that’s currently unclaimed,” Quilty Analytics founder Chris Quilty told CNBC.
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A flurry of space companies filed requests with the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday for new or expanded broadband networks, asking the regulator for approval of nearly 38,000 total satellites.
Amazon, Astra, Boeing, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Hughes Network, OneWeb, SpinLaunch, and Telesat are among those asking the FCC for access to what is known as V-band spectrum, a range of frequency that the companies hope to use to provide global broadband service from space.
The FCC’s deadline for its latest processing round of proposals to use V-band was Thursday at midnight, driving the influx of applications.
“It’s just a land grab,” Quilty Analytics founder Chris Quilty told CNBC. Quilty’s boutique research and investment firm focused on the satellite communications sector.
“The most difficult aspect of building a [low Earth orbit] broadband system is acquiring the spectrum, not building and launching satellites. This is an attempt by every company with any future plans to stake a claim on beachfront that’s currently unclaimed,” Quilty added.
Notably, the companies which applied on Thursday have a variety of backgrounds and existing plans.
Amazon is working toward an initial constellation of 3,236 satellites called Project Kuiper. Astra is a rocket-builder that previously announced plans to begin building spacecraft. Boeing earlier this week received FCC authorization for a constellation of 147 satellites. British-owned OneWeb is about halfway through deploying its initial constellation of 648 satellites in orbit. Canadian operator Telesat is working on a constellation of 298 satellites called Lightspeed. SpinLaunch is focused on building an alternative launch system, while Inmarsat, Intelsat, and Hughes have existing satellite communications networks.
The number of satellites in each company’s new or expanded constellation proposed on Thursday:
Amazon - 7,774
Astra - 13,620
Boeing - 5,789
Inmarsat - 198
Intelsat - 216
Hughes - 1,440
OneWeb - 6,372
SpinLaunch - 1,190
Telesat - 1,373
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has deployed 1,740 of its Starlink broadband satellites already, was not among the recent batch of applicants. The FCC previously authorized SpaceX to launch about 7,500 V-band Starlink satellites, and the company is working on plans for nearly 30,000 satellites in its “Gen2” system.
Why companies are filing
How the FCC responds to the flood of applications, and which ones receive authorization to move forward, is unclear. But the motivation is, Summit Ridge Group president Armand Musey said. His consultancy specializes in valuations for companies in the telecom and satellite industries.
“Everybody wants to put a stake out there and one way to put a stake out there is to file for a constellation and then, down the road, they’ll figure out how exactly they want to implement it or if they want to propose some changes to their initial filing. But if you don’t have a sort of a stake in the ground in terms of a filing, you’re kind of giving up your option to participate,” Musey told CNBC.
Additionally, the FCC’s historical role in this is analyzing whether applicants filed correctly, Musey said, rather than “make judgments based on evaluating business plans.”
One major issue from the potential jump in the number of satellites in low Earth orbit is the risk of collisions and creating new space debris. Companies’ proposals include maneuvering systems and using the atmosphere to burn up any defunct satellites, as a way to combat that risk. The proposals also include a wide range of altitudes, ranging anywhere from as little as 600 kilometers above the Earth to 10,000 kilometers or more.
“Space debris is one of the issues that’s becoming increasingly important in the industry,” Musey said. “If you have too many satellites up there and you have them starting to crash into each other, you can create a chain reaction that sometimes called the Kessler syndrome.”
“That’s the existential threat that people are concerned about with all these satellites, and there’s not really a great central authority, outside of individual governments, to police and make sure that satellites are put up responsibly,” Musey added.
The V-band challenge
Satellite communications systems have traditionally focused on lower frequencies of spectrum, such as C-band, but have increasingly moved toward higher but more difficult to utilize frequencies such as Ka-band, Ku-band, and now V-band.
“It’s harder to work with, but you can get actually get more bandwidth and more throughput, and the technologies to use V-band are becoming more and more viable,” Musey said.
The business model is “still being speculated” with market focus, potential broadband speeds and more reflected in the “wide variety of different constellation proposals out there” Musey said. For now, V-band is “essentially an asset you can trade to get business.”
Making use of V-band “is a bottom line issue of physics,” Quilty said.
“The higher the frequency you go, the more susceptible you are to rain fade and weather attenuation and other issues that degrade the signal,” Quilty said.
That means companies need better antennas, more powerful satellites, and improved processing algorithms to make V-band service work for providing consumer service. However, firms have overcome technological hurdles, which increases the potential use of V-band.
“The whole history of wireless communications, satellite or terrestrial, has been a slow migration to higher frequencies over time,” Musey said. “The issue is: When do you get it down to the prices that are commercially viable?”
Quilty also highlighted the lack of a robust supply chain as another challenge for companies wanting to build V-band satellites and ground systems.
“It’s expensive, it’s early stage, and there are limited sources of supply,” Quilty said. “I would argue that companies that are trying to build these components on their own are going to run into significant engineering challenges.”
Another note/article on that;
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/28/fauci-lying-covid-research-cruz-523412
Fauci said that the accusations are dangerous, not only to him, but the scientific community.
“It's easy to criticize, but they're really criticizing science because I represent science. That's dangerous,” he said. “To me, that's more dangerous than the slings and the arrows that get thrown at me. I'm not going to be around here forever, but science is going to be here forever.”
"I'm just going to do my job and I'm going to be saving lives and they're going to be lying," he added.
Fauci’s remarks have come under fire not only from Cruz, but other Republican lawmakers such as Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.), though NIH maintained it had not provided money for such research. Cruz and Cotton have pointed to an October letter highlighting specific grant funding from the NIH that aided a certain aspect of coronavirus research at the lab to bolster their claim that Fauci lied.
When asked if the recent accusations are a way for Republican lawmakers to use him as a scapegoat to deflect criticism from former President Donald Trump, Fauci said, “You have to be asleep not to figure that one out.”
On another board, I was scolded and stated that I was wrong for the way I was using the term "right-wing" as some incredibly mixed up description or improper usage. I was not and the word was used correctly.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/583256-gop-becoming-a-cult-of-know-nothings?rl=1
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GOP becoming a cult of know-nothings
BY BILL SCHNEIDER, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 11/28/21 10:00 AM EST 8,906THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
The Republican Party is becoming a cult. Its leaders are in thrall to Donald Trump, a defeated former president who refuses to acknowledge defeat. Its ideology is MAGA, Trump’s deeply divisive take on what Republicans assume to be unifying American values.
The party is now in the process of carrying out purges of heretics who do not worship Trump or accept all the tenets of MAGA. Conformity is enforced by social media, a relatively new institution with the power to marshal populist energy against critics and opponents.
What’s happening on the right in American politics is not exactly new. To understand it, you need to read a book published 50 years ago by Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, "The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970." Right-wing extremism, now embodied in Trump’s MAGA movement, dates back to the earliest days of the country.
The title of Lipset and Raab’s book was chosen carefully. Right-wing extremism is not about the rational calculation of interests. It’s about irrational impulses, which the authors identify as “status frustrations.” They write that “the political movements which have successfully appealed to status resentments have been irrational in character. [The movements] focus on attacking a scapegoat, which conveniently symbolizes the threat perceived by their supporters.”
The most common scapegoats have been minority ethnic or religious groups. In the 19th century, that meant Catholics, immigrants and even Freemasons. The Anti-Masonic Party, the Know Nothing Party and later the American Protective Association were major political forces. In the 20th century, the U.S. experienced waves of anti-immigrant sentiment. After World War II, anti-communism became the driving force behind McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Goldwater movement in the early 1960s (“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”).
The roots of the current right-wing extremism lie in the late 1960s and 1970s, when Americans began to be polarized over values (race, ethnicity, sex, military intervention). Conflicts of interest (such as business versus labor) can be negotiated and compromised. Conflicts of values cannot.
You see “the politics of unreason” in today’s right-wing extremism. While it remains true, as it has been for decades, that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to vote Republican (that’s interests), what’s new today is that the better educated you are, the more likely you are to vote Democratic, at least among whites (that’s values, and it’s been driving white suburban voters with college degrees away from Trump’s “know-nothing” brand of Republicanism).
Oddly, religion has become a major force driving the current wave of right-wing extremism. Not religious affiliation (Protestant versus Catholic) but religiosity (regular churchgoers versus non-churchgoers). That’s not because of Trump’s religious appeal (he has none) but because of the Democratic Party’s embrace of secularism and the resulting estrangement of fundamentalist Protestants, observant Catholics and even orthodox Jews.
The Democratic Party today is defined by its commitment to diversity and inclusion. The party celebrates diversity in all its forms — racial, ethnic, religious and sexual. To Democrats, that’s the tradition of American pluralism — “E pluribus unum.” Republicans celebrate the “unum” more than the “pluribus” — we may come from diverse backgrounds, but we should all share the same “American values.”
One reason right-wing extremism is thriving in the Republican Party is that there is no figure in the party willing to lead the opposition to it. Polls of Republican voters show no other GOP figure even close to Trump’s level of support for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. The only other Republican who seems interested in running is Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, who recently criticized “Trump cancel culture.”
If Trump does run in 2024, as he seems inclined to do, can he win?
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It all depends on President Biden’s record. Right now, Biden’s popularity is not very high. In fact, Biden and Trump are about equally unpopular (Biden’s job approval is 52 to 43 percent negative, while Trump’s favorability is 54 to 41.5 percent negative). Biden will be 82 years old in 2024. If he doesn’t run, the Democrats will very likely nominate Vice President Harris. When a president doesn’t run for reelection, his party almost always nominates its most recent vice president, assuming they run (Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Walter Mondale in 1984, George H.W. Bush in 1988, Al Gore in 2000, Joe Biden in 2020). Democrats would be unlikely to deny a black woman the nomination. There is also some talk of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg running if Biden doesn’t.
The 2024 election could be a rematch between Trump and Biden. Or a race between Trump and a black woman. Or between Trump and a gay man with a husband and children. Lee Drutman, a political scientist at the New America think tank, recently told The New York Times, “I have a hard time seeing how we have a peaceful 2024 election after everything that’s happened now. I don’t see the rhetoric turning down. I don’t see the conflicts going away. ... It’s hard to see how it gets better before it gets worse.”
Bill Schneider is an emeritus professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and author of "Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable" (Simon & Schuster).
If we are to look at the shear volume of the filings of SPACs and trend along with the past entries and results, then it would seem that the ones filing with their sole purpose and assumptions of profitability (and the power that they hold to make that happen), that the least risk is theirs. Which makes the most risk somewhere else.
I'm sure their thinking they need to get a handle on it. And they are right. Seems like the pinky scams of yesterday are moving up into the SPACs of today. They definitely need to nip this crud in the bud, and fast. More abuses than uses going on I'm afraid.
Yes, like it they do. Going to hit the $40 today. Oops, they just did. LAC.
JAAC I'm going all in. Don't know what they are going to do, but I know I always wanted one, Just Another Acquisition Co.. LOL
LAC reached all time high at $39.79 Lithium Americas still trending up.
I'm ok with wealth creation, there will always be ones on top, but wealth theft and destruction at the expense of others is what I'm against.
But maybe I'm just wanting a utopian world. No, I don't expect perfection, just a working for betterment.
You still didn't address the points. As far as your response, I'll just agree to disagree with some of it and give you the last words. Your welcome to it, as I am welcome to mine.
You may be subjecting a little of "my interpretation" with my explanations. Which I admit can be a bit awkward sometimes and a wrong view or meaning comes across. I'm not a Scholar, nor exclaimed writer, just one of the middle class joes with observations of the whole. We all do have different interpretations and what you just stated as some your interpretations are not so different from parts of what is mine.
Again, what we are discussing is not my points or my issues. I'm saying that some of our system and society, however one wants to interpret it, has some major problems caused by that system and society, and needs to be addressed, responsibility taken, realized, corrected, or changed.
The ones that have most of the money and power need to stop or be stopped with their "greed and power mongering" and start creating an environment for the good of the whole and not just themselves.
Again, deflecting from the original issues. It is the abuses of Capitalism that I'm am discussing, the need for it to work better for the whole of society, not against it as a whole. Addressing the parts that need to be addressed instead of deflection and ignorance, the negatives of certain results and consequences of our current Capitalistic systems that are in place today. The need for responsibilities and proper actions and direction from the ones at the top and the ones in most of the control to address it.
Arguing that Socialism is not part of today's Capitalism and can not or should not work together or there is just one or the other at play is a lost cause. The reality is that it is a hybrid and that reality is not going away, no matter how much it is argued, ignored, or denied. Sure each form is inherently different and labeled as such and one can get into scholastic, historical readings, origins, and formal description, but that doesn't address the issues of today or tomorrow.
You say "Capitalism is truth", some could say (and do) that with every other form. I am only discussing and trying to address the particular "truths" of our society that need work and improvement and most importantly the recognition of those "truths", instead of blaming, ignoring, or deflecting. Our Capitalism of today (no matter how one wants to describe it or argue about it's existence) create certain problems in economics, environment, morality, health, etc. These things are ignored in favor of abuses, misdirection, "greed and power mongering". I don't give a pass to the ones creating those problems. News flash, it isn't the ones on the bottom, but ones among the top.
We could recommend readings back and forth till the cows come home, not sure if it will get where we want to go, but I will give it some thought and consider. I'm not totally against that, it's just there's only so much time and I already read a lot, and have a lot more to read. So "getting back with you" on that particular reading may be quite some time and maybe never. You are probably in the same place with time and wants.
My quote from Keynes has only to do with the market today and nothing to do with any political beliefs or anything else. The story behind when he was believed to be quoted is quite informative and a nice thing to remember at least in my trading strategies. But shouldn't be taken for or evolved into anything than what it is. I'm not against profits just against profiteering.
If you think that "right wing supremist" is just a "staple term", something just to "stick" somewhere and laugh about, you are either one of them or sadly, sadly unaware (maybe by choice). Since it doesn't seem like your an extremist per se, I'll assume the latter. I'm not writing to have an English professor red pen my work or be published or correct terminology that the masses use, so don't really give a sh! about two adjectives, but do give a sh! with the way "greed and power mongering" is using that crowd for their own nefarious purposes. It is very valid terminology and I used it in a very valid way.
Trumpism is a new word of course brought in by Trump himself and his enablers in the political language and policy. I'm positive that you are way too intelligent to be saying "I have absolutely no idea what "Trumpism" is" or you don't know what the connection is to Totalitarianism, nor is it based on any "thinking based on some form of hatred or biased belief". So I won't even go there other than to say that it contains a perfect example of "greed and power mongering".
But, pushing the argument aside of different views of what Capitalism is or what the differences are between other forms, what is your input on the problems caused by the way we think, live and breath, and the way we are governed that we are facing with economy, Virus wars (health), environment, etc and if there is anything we should be doing, or is it that you honestly think that our Capitalistic environment of today is perfect and no improvement is necessary or required, just continue to blame the "other side" and "Socialism" or all the other deflecting subjects, letting further degradation of what could be a decent system. You did ignore any of that.
And so it goes. I understand that my clarity and bluntness upsets the ridged mind and goes against the conformity that one is used to and creates their only defense that I am the one confused rather than give it any thought. Such is reality. But I will succumb to the fact that neither one of us can teach the other and shouldn't try. Your "generosity" is not needed. Good Day.
Baloney, the statement you made is part of exactly one of my points, and confirms of how wrong you are.
Trying to cover up an elephant with a blade of grass isn't any way to address any problem.
Socialism and/or Communism is the save all for the world
We have a new fancy name now.
Covid live: WHO names new variant ‘Omicron’; EU states agree on need to halt travel to southern Africa
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/nov/26/covid-news-live-new-variant-sparks-tougher-restrictions-in-india-and-singapore-ahead-of-who-meeting
Is ISPC coming down for an entry? Dip or sinking ship?
It's also been halted on the downside right now. BFRI
I pickup some more of ASTR premarket in the 9's. It did fill the gap in pre, but I guess that doesn't really count, or does it in this market, a lot of gaps have been made in a lot of stocks. It will be a pretty good correction if the SPY fills all of it's gaps.
I thought about you were maybe talking about a general market correction. That effects everyone and everything and can definitely be a negative effect on any run, can also create a few also. But that hasn't anything to do with any certain "disrupting tech" coming into play. That's a very long term process if successful. Market corrections are relatively short term effects in the whole scheme of things. I've had a lot of long term hold exits just waiting for a dip that to this point seems illusive. Making up for the missed gains with swing and day trading. Maybe this week we've seen the start of the expected and necessary correction. Here comes the confusion and art of guessing the degree of severity and when to come back in. But the market will do what it has always done since it's existence. Barring a nuclear disaster, a meteor crashing the earth, or virus inhalation, a year from now I will presume that we all will be listening to different tunes, maybe some better music by then, maybe just a more scratched up record, there is no gypsy blood in me.
TRHAR? Is that a stock or acronym? I'm still in the US, have pity. LOL Nothing wrong with profit taking and playing the dips but a little rough betting against an overall trend and industry (timing the end to irrational exuberance is a really hard game to play), especially when $billions and even $trillions, governments, and the big Boyz are working against you.
No, it is part of the new world that's here already and will become part of the new world a coming. The inabilities caused by unwillingness. The odds between are just a nice way to list the battles for greed and power. Acceptance and realization of what a problem is, is always the first step to the solutions. Hope is not lost if that happens and hopefully those solutions will be part of New World A-Comin. We'll see.
It isn't just the vaccine, any and all forms of mitigation has been attacked. From the very start, acceptance and awareness of the virus existence (used for selfish greed and political power means). knowledge misdirected from what a virus is and how it works, misdirection of the masses of what are all the mitigation methods and why they are necessary, attacking and eliminating science input, using and nourishing the dark sides of society instead, creating division instead of teamwork, what is best for human life given way for fear of losing power and money, religious beliefs over science, mask wars with mask burnings, misinformation crusades, selfishness and greed (part of the dark side of society), on and on, could write a book (books have been written already).
All before the vaccine even existed, then more continued attacks and fuel on the fires from so called leaders, all for a few with the many used as cannon fodder and acceptable collateral damage. It is still continued, exasperating, extending, and magnifying all the domino effects in our economy, well being, and soul of society. All of which feeds and propagates a virus which knows no boundaries, sides, or teams, continuing to spread across the least resistance causing more mayhem and death.
May seem like such a dreary outlook, but no matter how one paints it like a rose or hide the ruthlessness of it all, it still smells of reality. It is what it is.
The Covid Wars continue. The War on Covid Mitigation here may weaken if a new more deadly mutation arrives in the US, but it already has done so much irreversible damage to so much of society and will do more, so much that a more deadly virus or version was projected to when, not if.
Well that didn't work out very well and you should of gone back in. Would've been a lot worse if you shorted lithium I guess (unless you could get in on the Big Boyz short). I did the opposite of you and bought a whole lot at lows of SLI (along with increased trading of a few other lithium stocks that were positive). Lucky for me, my larger SLI money gets $100 mil investment from Koch and goes up over 22% while my lower GMGMF money gets hit down over 10%. Of course this stuff is a heavily manipulated market, and it will go where the big money wants it to go. Regardless of what or any other "disrupting" and/or better options that might be available. What we had with SLI is big money going down on a short and then purposely putting out a hit piece to make their payday (planned and orchestrated). Then coincidently we have big money going in when the pps is at it's lows (after the short covering and that money made) and I suspect that SLI will generally trend up over time for that payday (the house always wins). Conspiracy thoughts might suggest that the two were in cahoots with each other and all part of some combined plan. Regardless, it had nothing to do with lithium, battery, or any product, just control and manipulation of big money and market.
From what I'm seeing the big money going into lithium right now is not worried one bit about any "disruptive technology" and big money will be what controls the general usage, views, and trends. Just like big oil with our dependency, wants, and need for it. The power the oil industry has over governments, consumer, and other industry controls the market. There's been many instances over decades of big oil just shelving tech and patents, tech and processes that were better ways of going at it, more economical for the consumer, better environmentally, it just interfered with what they already had in place, their profits. Tire industry, another example, "disruptive tech" has been out there a generation ago to only buy one set of tires for a lifetime, but that's against big money, and that doesn't go away with the new EV's (neither does oil in the making of rubber). The current environment and public opinion is being more disruptive to them now, and they can't hold it back any more, but we still are going to have a very large dependency on big oil for decades to come (along with more money per unit covering for less units produced).
Even if a new "disruptive tech" battery arrives (and there is many working on it including China and the well established names for decades), it will take years to actually just start to "disrupt" and decades to finish disruption. This company or any company making some small little batteries, no matter how great the tech is, in a relatively small factory is not going to have any effects at the level being discussed in lithium downside or reasons to "short" the industry for many years to come. And then there is more yrs moving to higher voltages and bigger applications mass produced to be worked on. None of it happening over short periods of time. I'm not saying that Graphene Manufacturing can't be a success story and profitable for share holders (it may not too), it just won't have success in overpowering investment in lithium any time soon.
Nascent technology (in which AIBs still are) takes a very long time to work through all the trials and tribulations on the road to main usage of the masses.
The Covid Wars continue having effects. Namely the Covid Mitigation War. Sure there are other factors with some percolating for decades, but all those other factors have been extremely magnified or even caused by the Covid Mitigation War that was purposely waged for nefarious reasons and is continually waged from the very start of the Covid Virus War. This is only one resulting aspect in the massive and wide-reaching myriad of effects.
Retail workers weigh in on why they plan to quit before the busy holiday shopping season, as the Great Resignation continues to shake the industry
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A sign reads "We all quit" at a Burger King in Nebraska
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Following record resignation rates in September, retail employees are continuing to put in their two weeks ahead of the holidays.
Workers told Insider they're leaving due to low pay, poor working conditions, lack of scheduling flexibility, and pandemic burnout.
"Many of my friends are just tired of it, they don't want to deal with the chaos," one employee said of quitting before the holidays.
As the Great Resignation roils the
retail industry
, some employees are strategically looking to call it quits ahead of the busy holiday shopping season.
Retail workers who have recently left their jobs, or are otherwise seriously considering it, told Insider they are opting to quit for a variety of reasons, including what they describe as low pay, poor working conditions, lack of scheduling flexibility, and coronavirus pandemic-driven burnout. The departures come after a record number of more than 685,000 retail employees quit in September, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Adding to the inherent stressors for employees navigating a flood of shoppers during the hectic holiday season, many Americans are still refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and eschewing mask mandates, leaving frontline retail workers exposed to the contagious Delta variant.
"Many of my friends are just tired of it, this is the first holiday after COVID lockdowns and with anti-vax and anti-mask customers wanting to shop during the holidays, they don't want to deal with the chaos," a Midwestern warehouse employee told Insider.
The employee, like the others who spoke to Insider for this story, did so on the condition of anonymity citing fear of retribution from current employers or risk to future opportunities. Their identities, as well as their work statuses, have been confirmed.
The pre-holiday resignations also come amid a period of unrest that has prompted a wave of protests at companies ranging from John Deere to Kellogg's during "Striketober" and that have continued into November, including a forthcoming Black Friday strike planned among Amazon workers in more than 20 countries.
"The pandemic has exposed how Amazon places profits ahead of workers, society, and our planet," Make Amazon Pay wrote in a list of demands shared on its website. "Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. It is time to Make Amazon Pay."
'I would rather place my efforts elsewhere'
For one California-based worker, her recent departure from a gig as a mall concierge marks the second time in the past year that she's left a retail job ahead of the holidays, after she first left her role as a sales lead at Ann Taylor Loft in November 2020.
While she told Insider the mall concierge job had been an improvement — the primary reason she's leaving has to do with a lengthy commute caused by a recent move — she experienced similar struggles to her time at Ann Taylor, including low pay and scheduling difficulties. California's minimum wage is $14 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees.
"My manager's pretty politically aware of everything going and she agreed that they're not paying enough, but it's really not in her control," she told Insider. "There's really not anything she can do about it, but she understands that it's difficult to find people with the very small amount that they're paying."
Rigidity around holiday scheduling — including the common retail industry practice of enforcing "black out periods" where staffers are prohibited from taking time off during the holiday shopping season — has also prompted many already fed-up workers to resign.
Among them is a sales associate at a Vans store in Seattle, who told Insider she recently put in her two weeks notice after butting heads with management when she asked to take time off in January to visit her long-distance boyfriend, despite her request coming after the store's designated December black out period.
The employee said the incident piled on to her existing frustration and burnout, stemming from a recent period of over-scheduling. Though she was hired as a part-time employee for up to 25 hours a week, she said lately she has been asked to work upwards of 45 hours a week.
"If [management] cannot recognize how hard we are working for a store that is severely understaffed, then I would rather place my efforts elsewhere," she told Insider.
Representatives for Ann Taylor and Vans did not immediately respond to Insider's request to comment.
John Deere workers on strike in Davenport, Iowa.
John Deere workers on strike on October 15, 2021 in Davenport, Iowa. Scott Olson/Getty Images
And while companies are hoping to retain workers and attract new talent using tactics like signing bonuses or increased salaries, some workers said its simply not enough.
According to recent report fron Appcast, a programmatic job advertising software company, the only sector experiencing a boost in applications tied to offer signing bonuses is warehousing and logistics. "The issue may be that when job ads mentioned signing bonus, it was likely to be the only benefit included in the ads," Appcast wrote.
The Midwestern warehouse worker told Insider that though he plans to stay in his job through the end of December to collect higher holiday pay, his aim is to quit before the start of the new year.
"I'm going to wait till I get holiday pay, but I'm definitely quitting before New Years," he said. "Nobody likes to work during the winter time, and I won't risk myself like last year just trying to get to work on snowy days. I'm in Illinois, so when it snows some country roads are the last ones to get plowed."
Ultimately, the former mall concierge employee said that she hopes the mass departure of retail workers will make a statement that has a lasting impact for improving the working conditions of retail workers.
"I just really hope something comes of this," she said. " We've never had more opportunity to change working culture, and I really hope that we don't waste it."
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-retail-workers-plan-to-quit-before-the-holidays-2021-11
Bingo! Give that person a cigar! (or whatever suits) Also look at the guidance and pps projections and compare that. RIVN is adding 2+2 to equal 10. One would think reality has got to set in at some point and reset, but who knows with the irrationality of this market.
So far this year, NIO sold over 66,000 electric cars. Cumulatively, NIO sold 142,036 electric cars and over 83,700 fall on the most recent 12 months. The result of 24,439 in the Q3 2021 is above the higher end of the company's quarterly guidance. Price ps. $42.00.
It's green right now, why is it going red today (it may, I just can't project the close at this point) and why is it a POS? Please share.
Maybe some ASTR traders were on the wrong side of the trade with last launch and disappointed in the level of pps that occurred, but ASTR is still in play for the next launch and the one after that and after that, etc. In my opinion, this level around $10 is a good place for long and the next short trade. In my experience, scientist and engineers are not the type for stock scamming and really work hard and have extreme focus on their projects succeeding. I don't believe the ones at ASTR are any different.
What’s the point this POS going red again today
Closing price of ASTR before successful launch was $9.53 (it hasn't got back down to that low yet). Price now is $10.36 an increase of over 8% in a few trading days. Why is it a "POS turd and f'ing scam"?
Wow!!! This POS turd is now worth less than before their successful launch, what a f’ing scam
I think we might have some more downside surges to the market before the end of the year or first part of 2022. Might relax a bit in very short term, But I don't think it's done with the overall correction yet.
SLI I was just going to note that. I'm in that one. Koch group put a &100 Mil in boosting it.
That's for sure.
Well it was sure manipulation at it's finest. At that volume, it sure wasn't MOMO that was involved. One of those "ought to be a law" things and maybe is, just not enforced.
AERC got halted downside after over a $100 high. Now down about 25% from that. Some regulator should be looking into that one.
I was expecting a very slow day today, but not so much I guess.