Two recent trials indicate that the family of rapalog drugs may extend humans’ healthy lifespan. The family’s best-known member is rapamycin, which is used in organ transplants to suppress rejection. In studies, rapalogs have shown an ability to extend the health spans of yeast, worms, flies, and mice by as much as 20 percent. That...
Tag: jan 12 2021
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GOING DOWN, GOING BUST, GOING OUT
CRUISE LINES TO STAY DOCKED. Carnival Cruises’ flagship Carnival line, as well as its Princess and Holland divisions’ ships, with stay in ports through March in the U.S. as the company works to satisfy health restrictions imposed by state and federal authorities. Its P&O Cruises Australia division suspended New Zealand trips through 25 April. Trips...
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TOP TRENDS 2021: THE RISE OF CHINA
As we have forecast, the 20th century was the American century – the 21st century will be the Chinese century. The business of China is business; the business of America is war. While America spent countless trillions waging and losing endless wars and enriching its military-industrial complex, China has spent its trillions advancing the nation’s...
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PEAK ROCK GOBBLES SHIPLEY DONUTS
Shipley Do-Nuts, a Houston-based coffee and pastry chain of about 300 stores in the southern U.S., has been bought by Peak Rock Capital, a private equity firm headquartered in Austin. The purchase includes the Shipley Franchise Co. and the Shipley Do-Nut Flour & Supply Co. The price and terms of the deal were not made...
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CAR SALES SLUMP: 2021 JUMP-START?
The U.S. auto industry closed 2020 as its weakest year since 2012, but automakers see a rebound in 2021’s second half as vaccines are widely distributed, the job market strengthens, and consumers begin to spend again. Consumers bought about 14.5 million cars and light trucks last year, 15 percent fewer than in 2019 and the...
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CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: BLEAK 2021
With lockdown rules keeping people home and the media and politicians selling heavy daily doses of COVID Case hysteria, the construction industry will slump this year. While new home construction is up, most other sectors of the construction industry are languishing as clients delay construction in the face of an uncertain economy, according to a...
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RENTAL HOUSING BUILDING BOOM
As people lose their jobs and wages diminish, the “rent but can’t buy a house” trend will continue to escalate. Just as they did back when the Panic of ‘08 hit, the Bigs will build new houses and buy ones in foreclosure to rent out to cash-strapped consumers. New home construction is speeding at a...
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U.S. MANUFACTURING STRONGEST IN TWO YEARS
Defying a glum outlook by analysts, U.S. manufacturing strengthened in December, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). The ISM’s December index-tracking factory output rose from 57.5 in November to 60.7 in December. Economists had expected the pace to retreat to 56.6. The survey’s price index surged from 65.4 to 77.6, the highest since...
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COVID WAR PUSHES UP BANKRUPTCIES
More than 7,100 U.S. businesses sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year as the world’s economic crisis crippled manufacturing, shut down exports, and kept consumers at home according to Epiq Systems, a legal services provider. The number was about 29 percent above 2019’s, the company noted. As federal subsidies shrink or end, the pace of...
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NEW YORK CITY BUDGET BLUES
As a result of politicians’ draconian lockdown orders, New York City will collect $11.3 billion less in taxes through fiscal 2023 than it had expected according to a 6 January report from NYC’s Independent Budget Office. Through that time, employment in the City will remain below 2019 levels, the report added. New York City lost...