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#Sweetgreen’s profitability problem: why the #salad chain is struggling #shorts
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- #Sweetgreen’s profitability problem: why the #salad chain is struggling #shorts
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- 6 months ago
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- Russia’s Low-Cost Explosive Drones: Lancet, Shahed and More Explained | WSJ
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- 6 months ago
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- At the start of its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military lagged behind Kyiv in its use of low-cost explosive drones. But by mid 2023, Russian UAVs were targeting Ukrainian forces, copying some of Kyiv’s most successful tactics. In response to Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Russia has been increasingly producing Lancet drones, which explode when they hit targets from armored vehicles to groups of infantry.
WSJ explains how Moscow is building up its arsenal of low-cost explosive drones.
0:00 Russian production of low-cost drones
0:46 How tactics evolved
2:07 Russian drones
3:12 Challenges and limitations
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
WSJ’s latest news coverage around the 2022-2023 Russia-Ukraine conflict.
#Russia #Ukraine #WSJ
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- #Apple #iOS17 lets you now text someone automatically when you get to a destination #shorts
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- 6 months ago
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- Why Sweetgreen Is Losing Millions of Dollars Every Month | WSJ The Economics Of
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- 6 months ago
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- Sweetgreen’s fast-casual $15 salads have a cult following. But even as the salad chain has sold millions of these bowls to its customers, net profits still remain elusive with so much overhead. The company’s value has dropped about three-quarters since its peak and it’s been operating with significant losses every month.
WSJ explores the headwinds Sweetgreen faces in turning profitable.
0:00 Changing the fast food system
0:48 Expenses
3:04 Cutting back
4:20 Automation and loyalty programs
6:05 What’s next?
The Economics Of
How do the world's most successful companies generate revenue? In this explainer series, we'll dive into the surprising stories behind how businesses work--exploring everything from Costco's "treasure-hunt" model to the economics behind Amazon's AWS.
#Sweetgreen #Salad #WSJ
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- iOS 17: 17 New Features for Apple’s New iPhone Software Update | WSJ
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- 6 months ago
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- Apple just-released iOS 17 and there are many new features to learn about. It gives your iPhone’s call screen a makeover while allowing for custom contact posters. Other big new updates include live voicemail, FaceTime video messages and custom stickers.
WSJ’s Joanna Stern helps you find all the new stuff.
0:00 iOS 17
0:46 Contact Poster
1:32 NameDrop
2:23 FaceTime video messages
3:03 Live voicemail
4:02 StandBy mode
4:46 Duckin’ autocorrect
5:15 Measure screen distance
5:53 Personal voice
7:17 Custom stickers
7:40 Check In messages
8:28 Seven bonus tips!
Tech Things With Joanna Stern
Everything is now a tech thing. In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, services and trends that are changing our world.
#Apple #iOS17 #WSJ
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- How South Korea is Transforming Into a Weapons Export Giant | WSJ
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- 6 months ago
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- South Korea is the fastest-growing arms exporter in the world, with their defense exports growing by 177% in just a five-year period. Although the U.S., Russia and France have larger defense industries, analysts say the pace at which Seoul is expanding marks a shift for their future.
South Korea’s largest defense company, Hanwha, is quickly constructing K-9 Howitzers for Poland and new submarines called KSS-iii that could help bolster NATO’s arsenal in the future.
WSJ takes a rare look inside Hanwha’s facilities to see how South Korea is transforming into a defense giant and explores what this means for the Western military alliance.
0:00 South Korea’s defense industry
0:47 K-9 Howitzers and speed of production
2:11 Submarines
3:22 Supply chain
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into ...
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- UFOs: What Mysteries Could NASA’s New UAP Report Help Solve? | WSJ
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- 6 months ago
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- An independent study team appointed by NASA say that they haven’t found evidence of “extraterrestrial” unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, but a number of these discoveries are still a mystery.
Here’s why the government hasn't been able to explain what they are, and why NASA’s involvement could be a big step.
0:00 UAPs, explained
0:50 Limited data
1:57 Siloed agencies
2:52 Stigma around UAPs
3:58 What’s next?
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#UAP #UFO #WSJ
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- Robinhood CEO’s Plan to Reinvent Investing Again | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Robinhood gained millions of users during the GameStop craze. But many have left as interest rates have gone up. CEO Vlad Tenev is now focused on growing Robinhood into more than just a trading app. Along with expansion into retirement accounts and credit cards, Tenev discusses Robinhood’s 24-hour stock trading.
WSJ sat down with the Robinhood CEO at the company’s headquarters to hear how he hopes to make his business the most trusted name in finance.
0:00 Robinhood and GameStop
0:55 Democratizing finance
2:16 Robinhood’s new moves
3:48 24-hour stock trading
5:19 Cryptocurrency
6:21 Robinhood’s reputation
#Robinhood #Finance #WSJ
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- Inside the World’s Largest Cargo Shipping Bottleneck Today | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- The Panama Canal is running out of water, threatening to slow down the global supply chains and economies that depend on it. 40% of all U.S. container ship traffic passes through the canal, but now a severe, historic drought threatens the artificial waterway’s future. The disruption at the Panama Canal complicates all the logistical systems associated with cargo and commerce.
WSJ takes you inside the canal’s operations to understand what this means for the future of this vital shipping waterway and looks at how the canal is adapting to meet the need for more water.
0:00 Traffic jam in the Panama Canal
0:46 How the canal works
2:42 Impacts on cargo shipping industry
6:12 Ripple effects on global economy
7:47 How the canal is adapting
#PanamaCanal #Economy #WSJ
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- How the U.S. #Army's new M10 Booker can go where Abrams #tanks cannot #shorts
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- 7 months ago
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- How the U.S. #Army's new M10 Booker can go where Abrams #tanks cannot #shorts
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- Why the Wagner Group Started a Brewery in Africa | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Most Wagner businesses in Africa are centered on natural resources like gold, diamonds and timber. But in 2022 the Russian paramilitary group started a brewery in the Central African Republic and used it as a way to compete with the French in the larger struggle for influence on the continent between Russia and the West.
0:00 Wagner arson attack on Castel
1:14 Online influence operation
2:59 Wagner’s brewery
3:40 What’s next?
#Wagner #Russia #WSJ
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- iPhone 15 First Look: Why Apple Switched to USB-C Ports | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Sure, Apple's new iPhone 15 features have improved designs and cameras, but the tech company’s switch from the Lightning to USB-C port is the biggest iPhone news to affect consumers in years. All of its new models, including the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, have USB-C ports.
WSJ’s Joanna Stern breaks down everything you need to know about the update, including why Apple did this in the first place.
0:00 USB-C to iPhone 15
0:41 What is this port?
1:58 Why Apple is doing this
3:39 What to do with old cables
Tech Things With Joanna Stern
Everything is now a tech thing. In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, services and trends that are changing our world.
#iPhone15 #Apple #WSJ
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- #Apple's #iPhone15 to use USB-C: So are all cables equal? #shorts
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- 7 months ago
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- #Apple's #iPhone15 to use USB-C: So are all cables equal? #shorts
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- Elon Musk Biographer on How the Tesla CEO Acts Behind Closed Doors | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Elon Musk, leader of companies like Tesla, SpaceX and X, is one of the most influential and unpredictable CEOs in the world. Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson, spent two years at the billionaire’s side learning about his life and leadership qualities.
In this full, extended interview with the Wall Street Journal, he shares an inside look at the Tesla CEO’s psychological struggles, his business strategies and what it’s like to experience his ‘demon mode.’
0:00 Musk’s multiple personalities
1:15 Access to Musk
4:26 Musk’s childhood and father
7:36 Musk losing his temper
9:58 Musk’s ‘demon mode’
15:17 Musk compared to Steve Jobs
17:32 Negative feedback and the algorithm
20:10 Musk’s geopolitical power with Starlink
23:33 Why Musk wanted to own Twitter
27:03 Will Musk turn into his father?
#ElonMusk #Tesla #WSJ
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- Russia-North Korea Talks: Behind Kim’s First Trip Abroad Since 2019 | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took a train to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin, in his first trip abroad since 2019. U.S. officials said the talks could advance ammunition sales between the two countries as Moscow looks to replenish its weapons depleted by the war in Ukraine.
WSJ’s Dasl Yoon explains what the pair stand to gain from the talks.
0:00 Putin and Kim meeting
0:34 What Kim wants
2:13 What Putin wants
3:04 What’s next?
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Russia #NorthKorea #WSJ
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- Elon Musk's Biographer: 'He's Addicted to Drama, He's Addicted to Risk' | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Elon Musk, leader of companies like Tesla, SpaceX and X, is one of the most influential and unpredictable CEOs in the world.
WSJ sits down in an interview with his biographer, Walter Isaacson, to learn about the billionaire’s childhood, leadership and ‘demon mode’ during his two years at Musk’s side.
0:00 Musk’s multiple personalities
0:45 Access to Musk
2:22 Musk’s childhood and father
4:06 Musk’s leadership and ‘demon mode’
9:26 What we can learn
#ElonMusk #Tesla #WSJ
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- What This $100B Ghost City Reveals About China’s Property Crisis | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Country Garden, once seen as one of China’s most stable property developers, is now struggling financially, leaving the future of unfinished megadevelopments like the $100 billion Forest City in doubt.
The real estate project in southern Malaysia was planned to house around 700,000 people, but only 9,000 people live there with most units left empty. So why are Chinese real estate companies like the Evergrande Group and Sunac falling into financial distress?
WSJ explains why China’s real estate developers are in the red.
0:00 Forest City
0:48 China’s real estate market
2:56 What’s next?
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#China #RealEstate #WSJ
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- Thousands Dead in Morocco’s Largest Earthquake in Decades | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck Morocco, killing and injuring thousands. The powerful quake hit outside the ancient city of Marrakesh, destroying buildings and damaging a historic mosque. Rescue efforts are underway.
Photo: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
#Morocco #Earthquake #WSJ
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- Intelligence Expert Breaks Down China’s Secret Spy Bases in Cuba | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- China is using bases in Cuba to monitor communications and gather intelligence throughout the southeastern U.S., a practice known as signals intelligence. Beijing and Havana have both denied planned facilities, but U.S. officials say China and Cuba already jointly run four eavesdropping stations on the island.
Satellite dishes and elephant cages are being used to listen in on military communications and tech industry secrets from the U.S. WSJ explains the technology involved, and what the U.S. is doing to defend itself.
0:00 China’s surveillance on the U.S.
0:38 Signals intelligence programs
2:19 Satellite dishes
3:33 Elephant cages
4:42 Counters
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#China #Cuba #WSJ
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- Why It's So Hard for Meta, PayPal and X to Build a Super App Like WeChat | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Meta. PayPal. X. All of these tech companies have made attempts at a “super app” in the U.S., following the success of WeChat in China, but have yet to get one off the ground. Tech leaders have struggled to combine elements like social media, messaging, payment and more into one place. So what’s holding the U.S. back from having a super app available?
WSJ explains why, despite challenges, companies still see it as their holy grail product.
0:00 App efficiency
0:37 The appeal
2:18 U.S. issues
4:03 Regulation
4:48 What’s next?
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Superapp #WeChat #WSJ
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- Why These Tiny U.K. Islands Are Moving to Power Their Economy With Wind | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- For 50 years, the Shetland Islands in the North Sea have relied on nearby oil resources to keep its economy humming. Now, as oil fields dry up, this tiny U.K. archipelago is shifting to offshore and onshore wind farms to power its economy. New windmills could enable all households in Shetland plus half a million U.K. homes to be powered by wind as soon as the The Viking Energy Wind Farm is completed.
WSJ explains what’s at stake as the small islands north of Scotland overhaul their economy from relying on fossil fuels to clean energy.
0:00 The Shetland Islands
0:43 What’s happening?
1:50 Challenges
3:13 Potential solutions
#Scotland #RenewableEnergy #WSJ
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- How Ukraine’s Secret Boat Raids Are Exposing Cracks in Russian Front | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Small, secret boat raids along the Dnipro river are playing an outsized role in Ukraine’s counteroffensive strategy – revealing cracks in Russia’s southern front and creating tough choices for Russian commanders.
Slipping through Russian defenses here could allow Kyiv to cut off Russian supply routes and reach Crimea’s doorstep.
0:00 Secret Ukrainian River Raids
0:28 Importance of Dnipro River
1:18 How Ukrainians Execute River Raids
1:43 Penetrating the front line
2:27 Stretching out Russian forces
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
WSJ’s latest news coverage around the 2022-2023 Russia-Ukraine conflict.
#Russia #Ukraine #WSJ
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- Why Many of China’s College Grads Are Becoming ‘Full-Time Children’ | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- A record number of Chinese college students will graduate this summer, but landing their dream job may be a long shot as there aren’t enough high-skill, high-wage occupations. More than one in five young people are out of work with many in China becoming “full-time children,” spending all their time at home doing chores for their parents.
WSJ takes a look at why China’s youth unemployment continues to hit record highs.
0:00 ‘Full-time children’
0:46 China’s youth
2:43 Job expectations
3:22 Repercussions
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#China #Jobs #WSJ
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- ‘Modern Day Gold Rush:’ The Tax Break That Promoters Claim Can Mint You Millions | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Unbeknownst to many Americans, a modern day “gold rush” is underway to take advantage of an obscure pandemic era tax rebate. One of the biggest players in this employee-retention tax credit is Bottom Line Concepts, a consulting firm that could receive more than $1 billion in fees. Founder and CEO Josh Fox has teamed up with “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary for advertising to help get thousands of small businesses and nonprofits billions of dollars in tax breaks.
WSJ breaks down the details behind ERC credits and explores whether this “gold rush” is too good to be true.
0:00 Josh Fox’s empire
1:04 ERC background
2:58 BottomLine Concepts and the sales army
7:08 Fraud
News Explainers
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#SmallBusiness #IRS...
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- Elevator Expert on How to Move 10,000 People Up a 118-Floor Skyscraper | WSJ Pro Perfected
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- 7 months ago
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- The global elevator and escalator market is expected to be over $145 billion by 2027 as skylines increasingly become taller. The Merdeka 118 building in Malaysia will become the world’s second tallest skyscraper in 2024 at 2,233 feet. But how do the elevators efficiently transport more than 10,000 people up and down the building every day?
WSJ spoke with an elevator engineer expert who breaks down the strategies and challenges that come with designing an elevator system to service each of the Malaysian skyscraper’s 118 floors.
0:00 Elevators in skyscrapers
0:53 Optimizing for traffic flow
2:28 How to handle capacity
4:44 Speed of elevator
5:29 Innovations
#Elevator #Design #WSJ
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- Airlines Are Offering Ultra-Cheap Transatlantic Flights, but How Long Can They Last? | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- As revenge-travel booms post-pandemic, a slew of low cost airlines like Norse Atlantic Airways, French Bee and Play have begun advertising cheap transatlantic flights. Their tactics for getting prices down go far further than simply ‘unbundling ancillaries’ – charging separately for everything other than the plane seat – yet still their prices aren’t that much cheaper than legacy carriers like United and Delta.
With the summer travel season coming to an end, and international demand set to drop, WSJ’s George Downs visits Norse to find out whether the company’s low fare, low-margin approach will withstand the winter.
0:00 Cheap fares for transatlantic flights
0:55 How low-cost airlines get prices down
2:56 Delta and United offer low fares
5:00 Why Norwegian stopped flying transatlantic
6:24 How low cost carriers can survive winter
#Flights #Aviation #WSJ
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- How Russia’s Blockade of Black Sea Ports Is Hitting Ukraine’s Economy | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been attacking Kyiv’s economy by taking aim at its crucial ports on the Black Sea. Moscow’s economic war against Ukraine has caused Ukrainian exports to plunge while allowing its own exports to reach record highs. NATO countries have helped establish solitary shipping corridors for Ukrainian use as a result of Russia withdrawing from the grain deal that was brokered by the UN.
WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how Moscow’s strategy has worked, and what the West is doing to try and counter its blockade.
0:00 Ukraine’s Black Sea ports
0:36 Russia attacking shipping
1:44 Countering Russia’s blockade
3:08 Risk of war in the Black Sea
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
WSJ’s latest news coverage around the 2022-2023 Russia-Ukraine conflict.
#Russia #Ukraine #WSJ
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- What Shows Like ‘The Office’ and ‘Friends’ Can Teach Us About Negotiating | WSJ As Spent on TV
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- 7 months ago
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- What can you learn from negotiation scenes in TV shows like “The Office,” “Friends,” “Mad Men,” “Entourage” and others?
WSJ spoke with Guhan Subramanian, professor at Harvard Business School and head of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. He breaks down scenes and grades characters like Michael Scott, Chandler Bing and Ari Gold on their negotiation skills.
0:00 Meet Harvard Law’s head of negotiation program
0:30 The Office
2:00 Intolerable Cruelty
3:19 Entourage
3:55 How to Get Away With Murder
6:34 Mad Men
8:04 Friends
#TheOffice #Friends #WSJ
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- Why a Pennsylvania Dirt Farm Supplies Most MLB Teams’ Infields | WSJ A to B
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- 7 months ago
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- Duraedge Products, Inc. creates infield mixes for 26 out of 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, including the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies. Their key ingredient: Pittsburgh red bed claystone. Excavators will mine and process approximately 30,000 tons of clay over the course of a year for Duraedge; then the company mixes it with silt and sand to create infield mix. But how does the clay get from mine to the MLB ballpark?
WSJ explains how a single dirt farm in Pennsylvania takes clay and turns it into infield mix used in MLB stadiums.
Additional camera work by Nikki Walker, Amber Bragdon, and Kaitlyn Wang.
0:00 Infield mix
0:46 What makes this clay special
1:46 Processing facility
3:35 Baseball stadiums
#MLB #Logistics #WSJ
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- How Banning Most Chinese Cotton Has Shifted Global Supply Chains | WSJ U.S. vs. China
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- 7 months ago
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- The U.S. and China are two of the world’s biggest cotton producers. In 2021, President Biden signed a law banning many cotton imports from China out of concerns that most of the crop is grown and harvested by forced labor in Xinjiang. But industry experts say much of that cotton is still entering the U.S. as the chemical component and DNA of the cotton is being tested to validate supply chains.
WSJ explains how the U.S.’s effort to stamp out forced labor has affected the cotton market and unpacks the complexity of the supply chain to explain why the U.S. is struggling so hard to compete against Beijing.
0:00 The cotton situation
1:21 Cotton processing
2:42 Finished goods
4:31 Verification
7:12 What’s next?
U.S. vs. China
This original video series explores the rivalry between the two superpowers’ competing efforts to develop the technologies that are reshaping our world.
#Cotton #China #WSJ
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- Why the Army’s New $13 Million Combat Vehicle Is 'Not a Tank' | WSJ Equipped
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- 7 months ago
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- The M10 Booker was unveiled by the U.S. Army in June after more than $1 billion was spent to build this new military combat vehicle. The Booker is armed with a powerful 105mm cannon and a highly accurate targeting system. This lightweight vehicle can easily move around the battlefield, giving ground troops new capabilities.
WSJ explains how the M10 Booker differs from tanks like the M1 Abrams and why this vehicle is filling a gap for the infantry forces.
0:00 U.S. Army’s new vehicle
0:32 M10 Booker’s specs
3:47 Use in battlefield
5:30 Challenges and cost
WSJ Equipped
Equipped examines military innovation and tactics emerging around the world, breaking down the tech behind the weaponry and its potential impact.
#Army #Military #WSJ
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- Prigozhin Plane Crash Analysis: Early Evidence Suggests Bomb, Sabotage | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Visual evidence from Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane crash in Russia supports early assessments from U.S. Intelligence, which say Prigozhin was killed in an assassination plot.
WSJ analyzed video footage of the plane crash that suggests the Prigozhin-owned Embraer Legacy 600 jet was bombed or sabotaged, rather than shot down.
0:00 Early intelligence suggests Prigozhin was assassinated
0:45 Plume of smoke
1:08 Intact plane and fuel spraying
1:53 Wreckage pattern
WSJ video investigations use visual evidence to reveal the truth behind the most important stories of the day.
#Prigozhin #Russia #WSJ
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- Fed Chair Powell Speaks at Jackson Hole Symposium | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Watch live coverage of remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.
#Fed #Powell #WSJ
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- Tesla vs. Ford vs. Hyundai: Which EV Has the Best Tech? | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- Battery charging. Semi-autonomous driving. Giant touchscreens. EVs have become computers on wheels. But which EV is the best within a $60,000 budget: the Tesla Model Y, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Kia EV6, Hyundai Ioniq 5 or the Volkswagen ID.4?
WSJ’s Joanna Stern put three of the leading car options to the test on a road trip and then leased the best one. She also called MKBHD for some advice.
0:00 Computers on wheels
1:15 Battery range
3:07 Charging infrastructure
5:19 Infotainment (Tesla vs. Carplay)
7:07 Semi-autonomous driving
8:48 MKHBD’s advice and results
Tech Things With Joanna Stern
Everything is now a tech thing. In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, services and trends that are changing our world.
#EVs #Cars #WSJ
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- Why Blue-Collar Workers Are Finally Getting Paid More | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Wages are outpacing inflation, driven largely by wage gains for low-income workers. These pay gains have helped close a gap that’s only grown over the last several decades between blue-collar and white-collar employees. The pandemic has helped lead to this wage gain difference as demand has gone up for low income jobs in places like restaurants, hotels and construction.
WSJ explains why blue-collar workers are finally seeing higher gains, and whether they’ll stick around.
0:00 Wage gains for blue-collar workers
0:47 History of white-collar vs. blue-collar jobs
1:52 Wage growth
3:35 The economy
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Jobs #Labor #WSJ
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- Prigozhin Is Dead: A Timeline of the Wagner Boss Since His Failed Mutiny | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The final two months of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s life were full of speculation about his whereabouts and status.
WSJ breaks down what happened between his failed mutiny and his death in a Russian plane crash.
0:00 Prigozhin and nine others dead
0:31 Wagner mutiny
1:00 Prigozhin and Wagner in Belarus
2:26 Prigozhin and Wagner in Africa
#Prigozhin #Russia #WSJ
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- Wagner boss #Prigozhin is dead: Watch his plane crash in #Russia #shorts
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- 7 months ago
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- Wagner boss #Prigozhin is dead: Watch his plane crash in #Russia #shorts
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- Yevgeny Prigozhin Dead: Wagner-Owned Plane Crashes in Tver, Russia | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed Wednesday after a plane he was aboard crashed northwest of Moscow, according to Russian authorities. Prigozhin led a short-lived mutiny attempt against the Kremlin in June.
#Prigozhin #Russia #WSJ
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- Why India and Russia Were Racing to the Moon’s South Pole | WSJ
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- 7 months ago
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- India became the first country to successfully land on the moon's south pole with its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, just days after Russia’s Luna-25 crashed in the same region. Both countries launched rockets in recent weeks, hoping to be the first to successfully complete the mission.
Why were they racing to reach the lunar south pole? WSJ explains the significance of both missions for Moscow and New Delhi.
0:00 India lands on the south pole of the moon
0:53 Why the south pole?
2:37 Why Russia and India want to be first
4:32 New space race
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Russia #India #WSJ
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- Brics: The G-7 Economic Alliance’s Rival, Explained | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The Brics economic alliance – formed by China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa – is considering an expansion, with more than 20 countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran having formally applied to join the bloc. Brics countries already make up more than 40% of the world’s population and almost a third of the world’s GDP.
WSJ’s Alexandra Wexler analyzes the membership frenzy and whether an enlargement can ultimately threaten the powerful G-7.
0:00 Brics vs. G-7
0:49 What’s at stake?
2:12 Why Brics wants to expand
3:11 Strongest candidates to join
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#BRICs #Economy #WSJ
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- How Russia Sowed 900 Miles of Ukrainian Frontline With Mines | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Ukraine’s push to retake territory back from Russia has been slow, as its forces face a deadly problem: landmines. Russian troops spent months fortifying the 900 mile-long front line with anti-tank ditches, concrete obstacles, trenches and minefields. How is the Ukrainian military adapting to account for these mines?
WSJ explains how Moscow created one of the largest minefields in the world in the occupied regions and what it means for Kyiv’s counteroffensive.
0:00 Tanks being destroyed with mines
0:46 Mined territory
1:36 How Russia mines the territory
2:32 How Ukraine adapts
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
WSJ’s latest news coverage around the 2022-2023 Russia-Ukraine conflict.
#Russia #Ukraine #WSJ
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- How Goldman Sachs Fumbled Credit Cards, Personal Loans and More | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- When Goldman Sachs entered the credit card space in 2019 with a partnership with Apple, many consumer banks were concerned that a new competitor had emerged. But just four years later, the firm is pulling back. The banking giant’s move from Wall Street to Main Street came at a time when Goldman wanted to diversify its funding sources. It introduced a high-yield savings account with Marcus and rolled out personal loans. But what was the turning point that led them to start to retreat from this space?
WSJ explains why Goldman Sachs entered consumer finance and what the firm pulling back means for the company as a whole.
0:00 Goldman Sachs isn’t used to failing
0:20 Entering the consumer space
2:22 Acceleration of consumer finance efforts
3:32 Turning point
4:55 Goldman’s retreat
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's b...
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- This 60-Mile Strip of Land Is NATO’s ‘Weak Spot’ Against Russia | WSJ
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- As Wagner troops relocate to Belarus, NATO allies have expressed concerns about a small strip of land known as the Suwalki Gap on the Poland-Lithuanian border. Belarus has served as a base for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and gaining access to this land in Eastern Europe would link Kaliningrad with Moscow’s ally. But NATO’s additions of Finland and Sweden means that Kaliningrad is effectively encircled by NATO.
WSJ explains why this corridor has been described as a ‘weak spot’ and how it could be vulnerable to Russia.
0:00 Suwalki Gap location
0:43 What Russia has to gain
2:54 Complications
4:13 What’s next?
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Russia #NATO #WSJ
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- How #Ukraine is challenging #Russia in the Black Sea with #drone boats #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- How #Ukraine is challenging #Russia in the Black Sea with #drone boats #shorts
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- Where’s the Recession? The Four Economic Factors Keeping It Off | WSJ
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Where’s the recession we were promised? In the summer of 2022, The Wall Street Journal surveyed economists from around the country and more than 60% said they predicted a recession within the next year. It wasn’t a wild assumption — the indicators were indicating. GDP was down as the Federal Reserve began to raise interest rates to fight inflation. Which, historically, usually brings a recession.
Yet now in the summer of 2023… where is it? WSJ looks at the four main economic factors that have so far kept the recession at bay. Though that doesn’t mean we’re in the clear.
0:00 Why a recession was predicted
1:07 The usual three suspects were strong
2:50 A “mortgage winter” buffered rising interest rates
3:50 Why the recession watch isn’t over
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pi...
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- Why the Ultra-Rich Want Extreme Travel | WSJ
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Extreme travel companies send tourists to the bottom of the sea, the heights of space and the most inhospitable places on earth. Despite the risks and costs – that can regularly total over $100,000 – business is booming. But why do more travelers want adrenaline-fueled vacations?
WSJ explains how these luxury travel companies are capitalizing on an appetite for adventure and trying to manage the risks.
0:00 Adventure travel
0:46 Antarctica trips
2:20 K2 trip
2:59 Risks and rescue
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Travel #Luxury #WSJ
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- Inside Taiwan’s Strategy to Counter a Chinese Invasion | WSJ
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- For decades, Taiwan has looked to its east coast as a safe haven to survive a Chinese invasion until allies, particularly the U.S., can arrive to assist. In the east, Taiwan’s rugged mountain terrain also helps create a natural shield in the event of an attack. But China’s PLA activity on the island’s east has thrown that strategy into question.
WSJ takes a look at how serious China’s threats to Taiwan’s east coast are and explores whether the island needs to change its defense strategy.
0:00 Taiwan’s current strategy
1:38 The problem
4:15 Taiwan’s reliance on allies
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#China #Taiwan #WSJ
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- Experts Break Down Trump’s Four Criminal Trials and Defense Strategy | WSJ
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Between the Georgia election results, Jan. 6 capitol riot, handling of classified documents and ‘hush money’ accusations, former president Donald Trump is facing four separate indictments at both state and federal levels.
WSJ breaks down each of the indictments and what they mean for his 2024 presidential campaign.
0:00 Trump has been in court a lot lately
0:33 Georgia
2:03 Jan. 6
3:45 Classified documents
5:04 Falsifying business records
6:24 What’s next for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign?
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Trump #DonaldTrump #WSJ
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- This Viral Mountain Village Hosts China’s Rural Version of NBA | WSJ
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- A grassroots basketball league in a remote part of China has the country excited for the American sport. The Village Basketball Association, or Cun BA, is played outdoors in Taipan Village located in one of China’s poorest provinces, Guizhou. These amateur games have blown up on social media, leading to a visit from NBA superstar, Jimmy Butler.
WSJ’s China Bureau Chief Jonathan Cheng went to one of the biggest games of the tournament to see what’s drawing thousands of villagers to take part.
0:00 Hottest sports ticket in China
1:00 What is the basketball league?
1:45 What makes the league special?
2:32 The NBA
#China #Basketball #WSJ
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- Superconductor Breakthroughs: Why Investors Are So Interested in Them | WSJ
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- A group of scientists claimed to have discovered a superconductive material nicknamed LK-99 that works at room temperature and ambient pressure, which could allow for huge technological advancements. Despite skeptical feedback regarding the research, stocks for companies with a perceived connection to superconductors have skyrocketed.
WSJ explains why investors are closely watching developments in superconductor tech and what would need to happen to bring a superconductor that works at room temperature and pressure to market.
0:00 Room-temperature superconductor
0:59 Before LK-99
2:40 LK-99, explained
4:04 What would it take to make this happen?
#LK99 #Superconductor #Investing