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Creo que arruinarte después de ganar un premio de 200M€ es muy muy dificil, esta es la excepción que confirma la regla. Todas las semanas hay nuevos millonarios en los distintos sorteos y son muy pocos los casos conocidos de ruina tras el premio.

Set Jet.

Set Jet

• Set Jet is a private airline offering private jet flights for similar prices as domestic first class.
• A monthly membership costs $99.95 and flights on wide-cabin Bombardier jets start at $449.95 one-way.
• A total of 11 year-round routes are offered with a New York-Los Angeles route coming in the next year.
• See more stories on Insider's business page.

One company is bridging the price gap between flying first class and flying private and opening up the glitzy side of aviation to those that were traditionally priced out of it.

Set Jet is a membership-based private airline offering seats on a true private jet for as low as $449.95 one-way. Members pay a monthly fee of $99.95 and are given access to flights on 11 year-round routes throughout the American West.

The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company isn't the first to sell seats on shared private aircraft but its founders say they've found a way to make the business model sustainable, and open up private flying to a larger audience. Having the monthly fee also discourages those that truly aren't able to fly private from signing up, for which companies like JetSmarter were infamous.

How it works

Only Set Jet members can fly on Set Jet aircraft and a limited number of memberships are available in each market so flyers can get a seat when they want. Anyone can sign up for a membership and the only initiation fee is a one-time "security fee" of $99.95.

Members can then initiate or buy seats on flights throughout Set Jet's network, which covers four states and Mexico. Flyers can book a seat up to 30 minutes before a flight's scheduled departure time.

Not all routes are operated daily, though, and some are offered as little as twice-weekly. Once a flight is initiated, Set Jet will perform it even if there's just one person onboard paying that's paying $449.95.

Set Jet's flagship jet is the Bombardier Challenger 850 that rivals in size to wide-cabin Gulfstream or Dassault aircraft. The cabin is tall enough for most to stand up in and as many as 19 people can be seated comfortably.

Set Jet.

Set Jet

It's open seating onboard the plane but there are no bad seats, as Insider found on a demonstration flight from Scottsdale to San Diego, California. A cabin attendant welcomes passengers onboard the aircraft and offers complimentary snacks and drinks, with in-flight WiFi also available.

Private terminals are used at all destinations to complete the private jet experience. Security checkpoints are non-existent and flyers can arrive just minutes before the flight's scheduled departure.

How Set Jet makes money

Set Jet has the heart of a low-cost airline that's offering an incredibly luxurious product, and its choice of aircraft is the perfect example. Buying parts for Challenger 850s is cheaper because of the aircraft's second life as an airliner known as the CRJ200.

"If you go to buy a set of brakes for a Challenger 604 and you tell them you're buying them for a Challenger 604, it's going to be a $55,000 set of brakes," Trey Smith, Set Jet's chief operating officer, told Insider. "You go to buy a set of brakes for a CRJ200 - same brakes, same part, different part number - it's $5,000."

Flying on private jet firm Set Jet.

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Thousands of memberships offset the cost per passenger and memberships have skyrocketed during the pandemic. "We did see a lot of new memberships that were from people who normally would never have flown with us but they were looking for alternatives to commercial travel because of COVID," Smith said.

Read More: Private jet industry CEOs say business will boom as the wealthy abandon airlines and reveal what they're doing now to take advantage

Smith says that it's easy for wealthier clients to purchase one and forget about it, attributing to a low attrition rate during the pandemic.

Set Jet is eyeing new markets like the Texas triangle and the Northeast. One route launching in the next year will be between New York and Los Angeles.

A higher membership tier will be required, costing $1,000 per month, and the price of a one-way fare will be $3,500. The Embraer Lineage 1000, the private jet version of the Embraer E190, will fly that route.

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Pubs In England Will Sell 13 Million Pints During The Euros Final, Despite "Disappointing" COVID Restrictions

With Covid restrictions still in the process of being lifted, one might guess that the sales forecast for restaurants and pubs for Sunday's Euro 2020 soccer championship between Italy and England could be uncertain.

But that doesn't seem to be the case, according to a new report in The Guardian, which estimates that pubs in England will sell 13 million pints on the day of the final. However, the report still notes that "strict rules" in place, for many pubs, means that hosting the finals "will not be enough to rescue their struggling finances."

While pub crowds are usually higher by about 200% to 300% on match days, Covid restrictions have meant that sales for the Euro 2020 have only been up about 60% on match days, the report says. 

Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of industry trade body UKHospitality, said: “We are seeing an uplift in drinks sales on match days but because of capacity constraints it is nowhere near as much as it would usually be.”

For example, one pub in Norwich will be "full" - but the owner notes that this only means 30 customers. The owner said: “We are obviously fully booked. I’ve been turning away people for weeks who want to watch the football but social distancing and the need to be seated limits our capacity. I think everybody’s grateful to be trading again but it’s still very difficult.”

Still, The British Beer and Pub Association says 13 million pints will be sold on Sunday and 7.1 million will be sold during the match itself. Without Covid restrictions, that number would be likely closer to 17 million, the report says. 

“It has brought people together though and pubs are the next best thing to being there,” one owner said, also commenting he was disappointed about the restrictions and could have "taken a lot more" customers. 

But make no mistake about it: if England wins the Euro, restrictions may not be able to keep the crowd in check. Another pub owner stated: “Publicans have worked incredibly hard to abide by the rules and regulations, but whatever the rules are, people will sing and celebrate if England win.” 

“Our main tactic has been to inform customers what is expected when they arrive, not after they have had a few,” Alistair Skitt, who runs the Lord High Admiral pub in Plymouth said. “Our staff make it very clear Covid rules are still being enforced: that customers have to wear masks when they go to the toilet, and there should be no excessive shouting and screaming at the screen, which is very difficult to enforce as I’m sure you can imagine.”

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/11/2021 - 07:35

Co-founder of &pizza Steve Salis (left) and CEO Michael Lastoria (right).

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• The CEO of restaurant chain &pizza says there's no labor shortage, only a wage shortage.
• He's been paying employees $16/hr since before the pandemic and says he's fully staffed.
• He said he'd received more than 100 applications for each job this year.
• See more stories on Insider's business page.

Business owners say they're struggling to find staff. Not so the CEO of &pizza, a restaurant chain in Washington, DC, who claims that he's been bombarded with job applications.

Michael Lastoria told Insider that business was booming at the pizza chain's 51 locations and all were fully staffed. He said that the secret was paying staff a proper wage.

The crippling US labor shortage has been felt in all corners of the economy, including hospitality and ride-hailing. It's caused some businesses to slash opening hours, cut production, and raise prices. Nearly half of US restaurant owners said they struggled to pay their rent in May because staffing shortages hurt their revenues.

But it hasn't knocked &pizza, Lastoria said.

While opening 12 new locations this year, Lastoria said he'd received well over 100 applications for each job. "Our new locations are fully staffed and we plan to open another 15 by the end of the year," he said.

Lastoria said he'd been able to dodge the labor shortage by leveraging an employee-centric business model that involves paying staff $16 an hour on average, among other benefits.

"We are living proof that the claims that business owners are making about the impossibility of paying people enough money to live on are false," Lastoria said. Those claims were designed to protect the old corporate mindset that permits shockingly high executive pay and staff exploitation, he said.

Employees working at &pizza are entitled to benefits such as paid leave for activism and healthcare, Lastoria said. "We built this company around taking care of workers because without them we wouldn't exist," he said.

The fact that the average minimum wage worker has to work 79 hours a week to afford rent for a one-bedroom apartment is the real crisis, Lastoria said. "There isn't a labor shortage, there is a shortage of business owners willing to pay a living wage.

"The idea that wages couldn't possibly rise even once over the past 12 years while prices went up, while inflation went up and while the cost of living went up, has resulted in the 'shortage' [business owners] are experiencing today.

"Higher wages lead to greater consumer spending and greater workforce productivity, things every company benefits from."

A competitive labor market has led to workers "rage-quitting" their jobs to protest poor pay and working conditions. A former employee at Dollar General recently told Insider how she rage-quit her job in the spring of 2021 because of the fraught work environment. Similar incidents have occurred at McDonald's, Chipotle, Hardee's, and Wendy's locations around the US.

Lastoria said: "If you aren't paying your employees enough to cover basic survival costs, what possible incentive could a person have to take that job?"

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Their massive long-term outperformance occurred despite world wars, the Depression and the global financial crisis

An aerial view shows former docks on the beach at Salton Sea in California.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

• An extreme drought in California is drying up lakes and reservoirs and straining electrical grids.
• Agriculture and tourism could be severely impacted, and wildfires are likely to rage this summer.
• Aerial photographs show how much the drought has already devastated California's landscape.
• See more stories on Insider's business page.

Boats sit on dry land. Once-lush palm trees are now brown and shriveled. And waterways that were formerly deep and flowing have been reduced to puddles of toxic residue.

This is the landscape in parts of California, which is experiencing a historic mega-drought that is expected to strain the state's electrical grid and dry up water supplies - water levels are 50% lower than normal at more than 1,500 reservoirs statewide, Jay Lund, codirector of the Center for Watershed Sciences at University of California, Davis, told Morning Brew. Given that 25% of the nation's food is grown in California, extreme droughts could decimate crops like avocados and almonds.

The drought has also made is harder for ranchers to supply water to their livestock, the state's boating industry is taking a hit, and tourism, which supports roughly 2 million jobs in California, could be severely impacted by the dangerous heat waves.

As of Friday, more than 85% of the state was classified as being in "extreme drought," according to the National Integrated Drought Information System, and experts say this is only the beginning: The dry conditions make California even more susceptible to deadly wildfires, which burned more than 4 million acres last year.

Read more: Meet the West Coast entrepreneurs founding startups to fight wildfires, combat the effects of climate change, and tap into a market potentially worth billions

"This current drought is potentially on track to become the worst that we've seen in at least 1,200 years. And the reason is linked directly to human-caused climate change," Kathleen Johnson, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California, Irvine, told The Guardian.

On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked residents to cut back on their water usage by 15% by taking shorter showers and running dishwashers and washing machines more sparingly.

Amid the devastating conditions, Reuters photographer Aude Guerrucci captured aerial photos of the impacts of the drought on California's landscape. Take a look:

Inside Shadow Lake Estates in Indio, California, an artificial lake glistens despite the scorched landscape surrounding it. Reservoirs and lakes are drying up statewide, with some turning completely to dust with no rain expected until later this year.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: Insider, Insider

Elsewhere, dropping water levels have forced houseboat owners to remove their vessels from the water. These boats are anchored in Laka Oroville, the second-largest reservoir in the state, which is at less than 40% of its normal capacity.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: The Weather Channel

This canal in Salton City, California, is almost completely evaporated, leaving being only toxic residue. Salmon that typically swim in rivers and canals like this one between California's Central Valley and the Pacific Ocean have had to be transported to the ocean via truck as those waterways become shallower and shallower.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: The Guardian

The dried up bodies of water are visible from space. Here, boat pillars that used to be submerged in the Salton Sea in Southern California are exposed by the receding water levels.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: Insider

Heat waves are sending temperatures into the triple digits. As another heat wave arrives, the Central Valley could see temperatures as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit, while Southern California, where this boat became beached, could reach 117 degrees.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: The New York Times

These heat waves are occurring more often, starting earlier, and continuing later into the year now than they did in the 1960s, according to Environmental Protection Agency records. At the Salton Sea, docks sit on dry land, hundreds of feet from the water.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: Insider

The extra-dry, extra-hot conditions are obliterating vegetation like these palm trees, and taxing power grids. As temperatures rise, people tend to turn up air conditioning units, increasing the potential for rolling blackouts.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: Insider

In Mecca, California, in the Coachella Valley, agricultural fields reside amid a parched landscape. Agriculture is a roughly $50 billion business in California, and the severe drought could hamper the industry for years to come.

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: Insider

The conditions mean this year's wildfire season could surpass the record-breaking devastation of 2020. "Much of the western United States will continue the trend of hot and dry weather, much like the summer of 2020," Brandon Buckingham, a meteorologist at AccuWeather, recently told Insider. "Each and every western heat wave throughout the summer will only heighten wildfire risks."

Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

Source: Insider

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Bill and Melinda Gates head up the Gates Foundation.

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• Gates Foundation staff are "freaking out" about its future, a former exec told the Financial Times.
• Staff worry that "the credibility and standing of the foundation is in jeopardy," they said.
• Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates will continue as co-chairs for at least two years.
• See more stories on Insider's business page.

A former top executive at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has said that staff are "freaking out" about the nonprofit's future, according to a report in the Financial Times.

"I think people are freaking out a little bit," the unnamed former insider told the newspaper. "People are really worried that the credibility and standing of the foundation is in jeopardy now, especially in areas like gender empowerment."

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, who co-chair the foundation, announced their divorce in May after 27 years of marriage. An investigation by Insider later found that Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, was an office bully who pursued sexual affairs.

The Financial Times on Sunday reported hearing "murmurs of dissent and doubts" about the organization's future.

Insider has reached out to the foundation for comment.

On Wednesday, the foundation announced that it would add trustees, saying those new voices would help drive its "strategic direction." Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates also committed another $15 billion to the foundation.

"These new resources and the evolution of the foundation's governance will sustain this ambitious mission and vital work for years to come," Gates said Wednesday.

French Gates said: "I believe deeply in the foundation's mission and remain fully committed as co-chair to its work."

However, the release also signaled a shaky bond at the foundation's highest level, with Gates and French Gates agreeing to only a two-year committement as co-chairs.

The press statement said the decision for both to remain was to "ensure the continuity of the foundation's work."

But, it said that "if after two years either decides they cannot continue to work together as co-chairs, French Gates will resign her position as co-chair and trustee."

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El precio máximo se situará hoy domingo en 103,63 euros/MWh y el mínimo en 67,98 euros/MWh, según datos del Operador del Mercado Ibérico de Electricidad (OMIE) recabados por Europa Press.

El precio medio de hoy supera, por tanto, la marca alcanzada en junio, en el que se registró una media mensual récord de 83,30 euros y está solo nueve euros por debajo del récord anual absoluto de 99,8 euros el MWh alcanzado el pasado 2 de julio.

Fuentes del sector consultadas por Europa Press atribuyen este máximo a una combinación de factores, como la ola de calor que se extiende este fin de semana por gran parte de la península, los costes de los derechos de emisión de CO2 -que han superado los 50 euros por tonelada-, y la subida en el precio del gas.

Estos factores pesan más que el hecho de que se trate de un domingo, un día en el que la actividad industrial se reduce notablemente.

Estos elevados precios penalizan a la industria y a los particulares, especialmente a los 10,5 millones acogidos al precio voluntario para el pequeño consumidor (PVPC), que ven cómo las medidas de contención de precios adoptadas por el Gobierno no están propiciando aún el efecto deseado.

Están exentos los consumidores que están en el mercado libre -unos 17 millones-, ya que cuentan con un precio pactado con su compañía.

Cabe recordar que en julio han entrado en vigor las medidas de suspensión temporal del impuesto del 7% a la generación eléctrica para el tercer trimestre de este año. A ello habría que añadir la reducción del IVA del 21% al 10% aplicada para contener el coste del recibo de la luz.

El precio de la energía tiene un peso cercano en la factura eléctrica de en torno al 24%, mientras que alrededor del 50-55% corresponde a los peajes (el coste de las redes de transporte y distribución) y los cargos (los costes asociados al fomento de las renovables, a las extrapeninsulares y a las anualidades del déficit de tarifa), mientras que algo más del 21% corresponde a los impuestos.

El alto precio de la electricidad se registra después de que en junio entrara en vigor el nuevo esquema por periodos horarios. Así, los precios de los peajes y cargos son diferentes entre los periodos horarios, tanto de potencia como de energía.

LOS ALTOS PRECIOS SE MANTENDRÁN EN LOS PRÓXIMOS MESES

La vicepresidenta cuarta del Gobierno y ministra para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico, Teresa Ribera, advirtió hace unos días de que los altos precios de la electricidad registrados en las últimas semanas, así como el impacto que ha producido tanto en consumidores domésticos como industriales, se mantendrá durante los próximos meses.

La ministra manifesó que su principal objetivo es paliar el efecto negativo que estos precios están ocasionando en los consumidores, aunque ha admitido que esta situación seguirá manteniéndose en el tiempo.

En su opinión, la solución es conseguir que el 100% del sistema eléctrico sea capaz de abastecerse sin depender de combustibles internacionales y de los costes de emisión de dióxido de carbono (CO2).

Por el momento, Ribera ha puesto en valor los esfuerzos de este Gobierno en intentar alcanzar ese objetivo, después de que, en los últimos tres años, la generación de electricidad dentro de este perímetro haya pasado del 25% a entre el 10% y 12% actual.

La entrada La ola de calor hace que el precio de la luz alcance hoy su récord histórico aparece primero en DiarioAbierto.

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Assange To Be "Moved Around" Sine Die

Authored by Ray McGovern via AntiWar.com,

Very bad news for those who still care about freedom of the press and what the fate of Julian Assange means for the artifact-First Amendment added to the US Constitution 240 years ago. The UK High Court just announced it will hear the US appeal of a lower court decision against extraditing Julian Assange. Godot is likely to arrive before the US/UK finish the legal pantomime denying Assange his freedom.

The High Court decision solidifies Britain’s status as a US vassal state – the 800-year legacy of the Magna Carta be damned. Giving obsequious hypocrisy a bad name, the High Court’s announcement comes a week and half after the prime witness for the latest indictment of Assange recanted his testimony.

It should come as no surprise that British "Justice" officials are following the detailed "Washington Playbook" approach that was exposed by WikiLeaks itself in Feb. 2012.

Some readers may recall that WikiLeaks-revealed confidential emails from the US private intelligence firm Stratfor mentioned that the US already had a secret indictment against the WikiLeaks founder. Bad enough.

Inspector Javert

What also showed up in the Stratfor emails was the unrelenting, Inspector-Javert-type approach taken by one Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice-President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security. (Burton had been Deputy Chief of the Department of State’s counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service.)

Here’s Javert – I mean Burton:

"Move him [Assange] from country to country to face charges for the next 25 years. But seize everything he and his family own, to include every person linked to Wiki." [my comment: "country to country", or – equally effective – court to court]

"Pursue conspiracy and political terrorism charges and declassify the death of a source, someone which could link to Wiki."

"Assange is a peacenik. He needs his head dunked in a full toilet bowl at Gitmo."

“Take down the money. Go after his infrastructure. The tools we are using to nail and de-construct Wiki are the same tools used to dismantle and track al-Qaeda."

"Bankrupt the arsehole first; ruin his life. Give him 7-12 years for conspiracy."

"Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He’ll be eating cat food forever... extradition to the US is more and more likely."

Published by WikiLeaks in 2012: Correspondence from private security contractor Stratfor on how to handle arrest of Julian #Assange

"Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years.." https://t.co/8gAOsF4dGQ pic.twitter.com/iUO4IkdKEL

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 8, 2021

Nice people – once sworn under oath "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic". Since comparisons are invidious, apologies to "Javert" and Victor Hugo.

Meanwhile Back at Belmarsh

It is not clear whether the likes of Fred Burton have been able to dictate the menu for Julian Assange (but who would be surprised?). What is clear is that, unless a major grassroots campaign can gather more steam, and soon, Julian is likely to be moved from court to court, prison to prison – all under color of law – until they destroy what is left of him. It is a sad pantomime, a mockery of justice. Talk about Les Miserables!

As UN Rapporteur for Torture Nils Melzer has pointed out, Julian Assange is being subjected to psychological torture – in full view of the rest of the world. And, as reprehensible as this crime is – still more is at stake for democracies, which cannot exist without a free media.

Last Saturday Julian Assange "celebrated" his 50th birthday in London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison. I was asked to record a message to be loud-speakered at the demonstration in support of Julian before the prison that day. Here is the recording. For those lacking appreciation for my singing, the 8-minute talk is transcribed here.

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/11/2021 - 07:00

El 70% del suministro de la Plata proviene como un "subproducto" de metales básicos, como el Plomo, Zinc, Cobre y menor medida del Oro.

The world’s largest crypto exchange has no headquarters, making it difficult for disgruntled traders to complain about the May crash.

Plaintiffs allege that the billionaire entrepreneur led Tesla to overpay for SolarCity in 2016. Mr. Musk has defended the deal.

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El plazo se cerró el 30 de junio para los empleados de estructuras intermedias, servicios centrales y centros corporativos finalizó, mientras que el periodo para la red se extiende hasta mañana.

Según los datos de la última comisión de seguimiento, hasta el 2 de julio BBVA había recibido 4.730 peticiones de adhesión voluntaria: de 3.696 trabajadores de la red y de 1.034 de servicios centrales, centro corporativo y estructuras intermedias.

Teniendo en cuenta que el acuerdo de despido colectivo contempla un máximo de 2.177 salidas de la red de oficinas y 758 de servicios centrales y estructuras intermedias, en principio hay alta probabilidad de que el proceso se cierre de forma totalmente voluntaria, sin necesidad de despidos forzosos.

En todos los grupos de edad las solicitudes exceden el cupo máximo fijado por la empresa, a excepción del colectivo de mayores de 63 años, para el que se determinó un máximo de 206 salidas, mientras que por el momento se han apuntado 171 empleados.

Así, hasta el pasado 2 de julio BBVA había recibido comunicación de 2.308 voluntarios de 55 a 62 años que querían apuntarse al ERE (el máximo contemplado es de 1.254 salidas), de 686 empleados de 53 y 54 años (máximo 405), de 505 de entre 50 y 52 años (máximo 239) y de 1.060 trabajadores menores de 50 años.

En cualquier caso, BBVA cuenta con un máximo de once días desde la finalización del periodo para aceptar o no las solicitudes. Podría rechazarlas en los casos de que el número de adscripciones supere el excedente señalado para cada puesto en cada una de las áreas, unidades o provincias identificadas, cuando por razones organizativas sea necesario mantener al empleado en la empresa o cuando la adscripción voluntaria supere el cupo establecido para cada medida del acuerdo.

El acuerdo contempla que la ejecución de las medidas se extienda hasta el 31 de marzo de 2022. Las fechas orientativas previstas para extinguir los contratos de los empleados de servicios centrales España, estructuras intermedias y centro corporativo es el 31 de julio (aunque algunos podrían salir más tarde por necesidades organizativas).

En cuanto a las salidas de empleados de la red de oficinas, se hará en cuatro ventanas, que coincidirán con las cuatro tandas en las que se cerrará un total de 480 oficinas, según recoge el acuerdo consultado por Europa Press.

La primera será a partir del próximo 18 de julio y, posteriormente, habrá otras tres en los meses de septiembre, octubre y noviembre, en función de las oficinas que se cierren en estas fechas. También en este caso es posible que algunas personas trabajadoras salgan con posterioridad por causas organizativas.

Los empleados que dejen BBVA podrán incorporarse al plan de recolocación externa concertado con Randstad Outplacement. Se trata de un programa de un año de duración, ampliable hasta dos años y medio, para recolocar con contratos indefinidos o mediante autoempleo al 100% de los empleados afectados por el ERE que quieran seguir trabajando.

La entrada BBVA cierra este lunes el plazo de adhesión voluntaria al ERE para 2.935 empleados aparece primero en DiarioAbierto.

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Los de Adrian y Gillian Bayford es de aurora boreal; una pesadilla. Hace 10 años, esta pareja británica ganó 148 millones de libras esterlinas en la lotería (unos 200 millones de euros al cambio actual). Sin embargo, lejos de cumplir el sueño que...

Cómo he leído por otro sitio, la gente que no se arruinaría si le tocase la lotería no juega a la lotería.

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures:

• Five undervaccinated clusters put the entire United States at risk Clusters of unvaccinated people, most of them in the southern United States, are vulnerable to surges in Covid-19 cases and could become breeding grounds for even more deadly Covid-19 variants: Starting in Georgia and stretching west to Texas and north to Missouri + include parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Tennessee. see also (CNN) Trump Country Rejects Vaccines Despite Growing Delta Threat President Biden missed a July 4 target for shots after politically conservative areas balked (Bloomberg)

• This Is Tax Evasion, Plain and Simple The race to the bottom on corporate taxes has gone on for too long. Since the 1980s, countries have competed for business by reducing companies’ taxes. A few nations, like Ireland and Bermuda, have adopted extremely low rates and become tax havens for companies like Google and Apple. Last week, 130 countries, including the United States, agreed to a blueprint to tax their companies’ profits at a minimum 15 percent rate — no matter where the profits are booked. (New York Times)

• The Hidden Costs of Dollar General When the dollar stores moved in, they started driving grocery stores out. Local grocers blamed it on what they called the Walmart effect. When Walmart Supercenters arrived in neighboring areas, offering huge selections of goods at low prices, people started driving to them rather than shopping locally. Smaller stores couldn’t compete. (Slate)

• A Banking App Has Been Suddenly Closing Accounts, Sometimes Not Returning Customers’ Money Chime, a “neobank” serving millions, is racking up complaints from users who can’t access their cash. The company says it’s cracking down on an “extraordinary surge” in fraudulent deposits. That’s little consolation to customers caught in the fray. (ProPublica)

• Ransomware Is the IRS of Bitcoin: It doesn’t really matter how inconvenient it is to pay in bitcoin when you don’t have any other choice (Wall Street Journal) see also How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers ‘You’re a very talented hacker, and we’d like to pay you for that. But we can’t pay what you’re asking.’ ” (New Yorker)

• You Really Need to Quit Twitter: How could I have succumbed to this common, embarrassing habit that just about everyone on Earth knows is a scourge? (The Atlantic)

• The Secret History of Gavin McInnes: In the ’90s, he played punk rock and helped create Vice magazine. Five years ago, he founded a very different organization: the Proud Boys, the far-right group that came to personify the vilest tendencies of Trump’s America. A former Vice editor interviews one of our era’s most troubling extremists. (Vanity Fair)

• What Makes a Cult a Cult? The line between delusion and what the rest of us believe may be blurrier than we think. (New Yorker)

• While Trump planted the seed for Jan. 6, others — including Fox News — watered it A former Fox executive, for example, blames the network (Washington Post) see also From corporate America to conspiracy theory promotion: How a Minnesota man made a career out of anonymously amplifying dark plots  For more than a decade, the 53-year-old has also pursued a less conventional path: anonymously promoting conspiracy theories about dark forces in American politics on websites and social media accounts in a business he runs out of his home. (Washington Post)

• ‘In the End We Felt Betrayed’: Vietnamese Veterans See Echoes in Afghanistan Those who continued fighting for South Vietnam in 1975 know what it’s like when an American-made military is suddenly left with little support. (New York Times)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Christine Hurtsellers, CEO of Voya Investment Management. The firm manages over $245 billion in assets. Hurtsellers was recently named to Barrons’s top 10 most influential women in wealth management.

 

There’s A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States’ Vaccination Rates

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