More from Brent Jabbour
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Pet spending is off the charts in 2023. Here are 5 holiday splurges
Americans are expected to spend $143.6 billion on their pets by the end of 2023, according to the American Pet Products Association. Meanwhile, 89% of pet owners say they are going to dig into their pocketbooks to maximize the best friend’s holiday joy. Here are five furry holiday spending trends in this week’s Five For… -
Taylor Swift doesn’t top this list: The most-searched Wikipedia pages of 2023.
Libraries are so last century. These days, the answers people search for are found on the internet. Google showed off its trending topics of 2023, but the search engine isn’t the only game in town. The Wikimedia Foundation says people viewed Wikipedia pages 84 billion times this year. Here are the top 5 most-popular themes… -
Are college athletes students or employees? NCAA’s legal hurdles
The NCAA transfer portal is open for business and brimming with top-tier football talent, like Florida University running back Trevor Etienne. More than 1,400 players have entered the portal as of Wednesday morning, Dec. 13, according to On3. As the transfer portal gets more action than ever before, the NCAA is facing a lawsuit over… -
Why is Argentina’s economy so bad? Does Javier Milei have the answers?
People in Argentina are ready to take a chainsaw to their economy. On Dec. 10, President-elect Javier Milei will take office after his resounding electoral victory against the status quo candidate. Milei, a shaggy-haired, rockstar-esque, eccentric economist, fashions himself an anarcho-capitalist. People call him Argentina’s Trump, but former President Donald Trump never destroyed the U.S.… -
How conservative radio host’s Supreme Court case threatens to upend the courts
There’s a Supreme Court case that could turn the justice system on its head. But the scales of justice in question aren’t in the courts at all. Jarkesy v. SEC is all about the constitutionality of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s use of in-house judges. Administrative law judges, known as ALJs, are part of the… -
Power-ups & prestige: 5 epic video game x luxury brand collabs
The global video game industry is worth about $350 billion in annual revenue. The luxury goods market collects about the same amount each year. Believe it or not, these two opposites have powered up together many times in the past. Here are some of the biggest gaming-luxury collaborations in this week’s Five For Friday. #5:… -
The hidden hopes behind Mark Cuban’s $3.5B Mavericks sale to casino mogul
It’s a bombshell that shocked the worlds of business and sports. Billionaire Mark Cuban is reportedly selling a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Adelson — casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s widow. When news first broke Tuesday, Nov. 28, that Adelson was selling $2 billion in Las Vegas Sands stock to buy a sports… -
Luxury loot: The 5 most intriguing items seized and sold by US Marshals
There’s more to the U.S. Marshals Service than what you see from Tommy Lee Jones in “The Fugitive” and the follow-up film, “U.S. Marshals.” Part of what the real agency does is seize millions of dollars worth of goods from criminals and put up the pricey goods on the auction block. Bloomberg Businessweek analyzed the… -
US Army says soldiers discharged for refusing COVID vaccine may reapply
U.S. soldiers who refused the COVID-19 vaccine were discharged by the Army during the pandemic. Those same soldiers are now receiving invitations to rejoin the military since the services have rescinded the controversial vaccine requirement. The letters detail necessary steps for discharged members to correct their records and re-characterize the reason for their separation. The… -
Trump-like Milei elected president of Argentina by biggest margin in 40 years
Javier Milei has been described an an outsider and a far-right populist, and as of Nov. 19, he is Argentina’s next president. The 53-year-old libertarian secured his victory with 56% of the vote, surpassing his left-wing challenger, Sergio Massa, who received 44%. The Argentine president-elect secured the widest victory margin in 40 years. Milei, a… -
Raise taxes? Cut spending? Social Security? ‘Something has to be done’
The nation’s budget is in constant triage. Congress again packed the wound by passing a temporary funding patch to keep the government’s lights on until early next year, but fiscally, the U.S. is still bleeding. The federal deficit grew to $2 trillion in fiscal year 2023, double the prior year’s deficit, according to Congressional Budget… -
5 reasons stores should give self-checkout the pink slip
Self-checkout kiosks are commonplace at supermarkets and big-box stores, but some of the nation’s biggest retailers are now rethinking their self-checkout strategy. Walmart is pulling self-checkout lanes from some stores altogether and bringing back more cashiers. So why keep self-checkout around at all? Here are five reasons why self-checkout should be fired in this week’s… -
Can Biden and Xi hit a turning point with US-China relations near ‘rock bottom’?
President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping are coming together for a highly anticipated meeting Wednesday, Nov. 15 in San Francisco. It’s their first in a year, and what a year it has been. From a spy balloon to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit, many say the relationship between the globe’s two economic powerhouses…