Over the past few years, as Amazon's distribution network has grown at a near-exponential pace, so has its workforce. As the chart below shows, starting in 2010 and continuing through the third quarter, Amazon has seen a staggering increase in its mostly part-time employment: from 28,300 to over 306,000.
By EconMatters
We provide some game training for the uninitiated regarding financial markets, fund flows via the currency crosses, to move assets around the trading board in this video. Be careful of rallies in markets, that you don`t become the sucker that is taken advantage of to profit take at your expense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idQPH9Xk-hk
By EconMatters
We check out the year end EIA Reporting numbers for the Oil Market, focusing on stocks of Oil, Gasoline, Heating Oil and other Petroleum Products in this video. We now have two Strategic Petroleum Reserves, Government SPR & Private SPR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z44pt793itI
By EconMatters
We discuss the Housing Market in this video by looking through a bunch of data, and possible future drivers for the Market both to the upside and downside. I have mixed emotions about the Housing Market in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnqdNFbdbuw
Authorities in the U.S. are now accusing Russia of attempting to infiltrate the electrical grid, in a claim that threatens to destroy Russian-US relations even further. A Vermont electric company claims that it was alerted to the presence of malicious malware on a company laptop, apparently originating from Russia, by the Department of Homeland Security. CNN reports: The company, which serves 19,600 customers in Vermont, said the malware was on a laptop that is not connected to the organization’s power grid systems.