You said "sectors" - this is about one sector - just one.
It's "Investment in information processing equipment & software", which is at least two. It actually appears they're picking and choosing subcomponents from multiple sectors to get this result.
... and the economy isn't growing as fast. You need a Harvard degree to see that?
Microsoft said in a statement Monday it remains committed to developing first-party Xbox consoles.
For some reason, corporations feel the intense need to deny unpopular things they are doing, to the point where if they issue such a denial, you know they are in fact doing the thing.
This also applies to internal communication. If the company swears it's not doing layoffs, closing your location, or being sold... time to polish the resume.
It would reduce or eliminate the need for quite a lot of rules, unfunded mandates such as the minimum wage, and government programs such as social security. It would shrink the government significantly. So conservatives should be on board with it, right?
Milton Friedman was. But that deal will never be on the table. If we get a universal basic income (or negative income tax as Friedman called it), we'll also still have the minimum wage, social security, and all the other programs and regulations the UBI is said to replace. If not immediately, then the first time some reporter does a story about some sympathetic-looking person who spent all her UBI and now her kids are hungry.
So-called 'disruptive' businesses represent profit for a few but exploitation for everybody else. The ultimate goal of society shouldn't be whiz-bang gadgets and billionaires, it should be prosperity and opportunity for all.
And there's a lot more of that in the US.
Although, I suppose, if I were going to pick a likely alternative to Alaska in this regard, the immediately obvious choices would be Texas and Florida.
Used to happen fairly often in Oregon.
AI is only a very small part of it. Before, during, and immediately after COVID, tech companies were hiring like mad. Way more people than they needed, warehousing software engineers either just because or perhaps to try to keep them away from competitors. Seeing this high demand, more people went into software; the number of bachelors degrees awarded went up from ~64,000 in 2016 (when it was already on a rising trend) to ~108,000 in 2022.
Then we got higher interest rates, Musk proving you COULD run a service with far fewer people, and the Section 174 R&D amortization rules kicked in. Tech companies started cutting back hiring, even doing layoffs, at the same time a lot more graduates entered the market. Result: a shit hiring market for new grads. The Section 174 rules have mostly been reverted and interest rates are starting to drop, so the job market will probably get better. Prospective students are noting the shit hiring market now and (on the margins) choosing other majors, so in a few years we'll probably hear shrieking about shortages again. But for now, it sucks to be a CS grad.
Not illegal for exempt employees, which nearly all Google employess are. At least not Federally, it might be illegal in California.
It's called commingled inventory, and whether you believe it or not it's true.
Digikey has 18650s but not from Panasonic, Samsung, or Murata (the brands called out as reliable in this article) That's because they don't sell retail, nor allow anyone else to do so. Anything you get is at best grey market, at worst fake.
It's long been a problem on Amazon that you can order an item from a legitimate seller and be delivered a counterfeit originating from another.
In any case, there actually aren't any Panasonic 18650 lithium cells available on Amazon. You can't get them from an official source as a retail buyer; you have to take your chances with unknown resellers. This is actually a general problem with a lot of things; the Chinese are willing to sell stuff to the general public (worldwide) whereas Western and Japanese manufacturers and their distributors want you to be a business with a procurement department and to work with them to get a quote and probably aren't interested unless you're buying at least by the palletload. So there's no point in saying "buy only brand-name lithium cells from a trusted source", you can't reliably get them.
Radiologists? Patient communication? Come on, now, pull the other one. Next to forensic pathologists, radiologists are the specialty least likely to communicate with patients. Maybe they're the absolute least likely, though the communications would be rather one way with the forensic pathologists. They do write reports, but they're short and typically intended for other doctors anyway.
The list for the US has one entry. Amazon. It's not known good.
It'd be nice if it were actually possible to avoid the fakes as a retail customer. The official distributors don't want to deal with small fry, so you're left with either ordering known crap by random Chinese brands, or ordering what you think are quality batteries which may actually be counterfeits from random Chinese brands.
(Meanwhile, Congress and the CPSC are trying to ban retail sales of cells entirely)
Nobody said computers were going to be polite.
