Ep. 146: Knightscope sells 16 more machines with 3 new contracts.  Carvana shares tank as reports says that bankruptcy concerns grow for the used car retailer.  Wells Fargo and Bank of America say that there is a slowdown happening due to cooling consumers amid Fed hikes.  Freight rates from China to West Coast are down 90% as there are signs that global trade falls off fast.  Finally, the U.S. pledges to ramp up supplies of natural gas to Britain as Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak seek to cut off Russia.    

Ep. 145: Moderna claims that Pfizer copied its Covid vaccine which Pfizer denies.  Warner Bros. Discovery CEO, David Zaslav, plan to turn around the company is to get cash flow again for the company.  Paramount shares fall as CEO lowers fourth-quarter ad revenue forecast.  GM battery plant workers will be voting for union representation in the EV industry.  Finally, TSMC will invest $40 billion in a second semiconductor plant in Arizona and Apple's CEO says that Apple will buy its chips from that plant.       

Ep. 144: Electric air taxis could shake up the airline industry in the next decade.  Parking lots could become as important as cars are in the climate change efforts.  Foxconn expects their Covid-hit China plant to resume full production by the end of the year while at the same time Foxconn is reporting a slump in revenue for the month of November.  Finally, a global critical chip firm in the Netherlands is driving a wedge between the U.S. and the Netherlands over the China tech policy.  

Ep. 143: Nowrx's Pharmacy Patient Business is being acquired by Alto Pharmacy.  A new flying car company called Alef Aeronautics is planning to release a flying car by 2025.  China is loosening more on COVID-19 easing gathers pace.  Manufacturing orders from China down 40% in unrelenting demand collapse.  Finally, OPEC+ agrees to stick with its existing policy of production even though Russian sanctions are about to kick in.

Ep. 142: Elon Musk has suspended Ye's account after violating the social media platform's rules.  Tesla's CEO Elon Musk kicks off Semi Truck deliveries.  Toyota receives funding in order to make a hydrogen fuel cell for its Hilux pickups.  Silicon Valley is starting to invest in nuclear energy for the first time since 1970.  OPEC+ will meet on Sunday and there is a chance that they will make deeper oil output cuts.  

Ep. 141: Fox CEO Luchlan Murdoch to face questioning on Dominion Voting $1.66 billion lawsuit.  Tesla recalls 435,000 cars in China over rear light issues and software issues.  Elon Musk shows off updates for his Neuralink brain-implant technology during a  "show and tell" recruitment event.  Meta is downsizing its New York location that it opened up back in 2019.  Finally, there is a chance that India may become the third-largest economy by 2030.  If this happens, India will pass up Japan and Germany.   

Ep. 140: Russian oil sanctions are about to kick in and it could affect the oil markets in a big way.  This comes at a time when the White House is debating whether to release emergency heating and crude oil reserves as winter approaches.  Kroger reported earnings and they had strong grocery sales which topped estimates.  Reckitt believes that the U.S. infant formula shortage will be around until Spring.  FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried had an interview and he claims that he is broke and committed no fraud.  Finally, Kraken joins the tech layoffs by announcing that they will lay off 1,100 employees.      

Ep. 139: Knightscope receives 5 new contracts which will have a total of 22 machines.  Doordash is the latest tech company to lay off workers as they announce that they will lay off 1,250 employees.  Amazon touts record sales over Black Friday shopping weekend.  Elon Musk has criticized Apple for years and Apple has mostly ignored Elon.  Finally, Elon Musk believes that the Fed must cut rates "immediately" to stop a severe recession.    

Ep. 138: Knightscope Projects that they will triple their annualized revenue by the end of the year.  If they are able to do it their annualized revenue will grow by 300%.  Elon Musk claims that Apple has threatened to remove Twitter from the app store, this comes at a time when Twitter just will stop policing misinformation about COVID-19 and will be restoring 62,000 suspended accounts.  Biden urges Congress to pass legislation to avert a nationwide rail strike that could possibly happen on December 9.  Finally, Goldman Sachs sees a "high probability that OPEC will make a cut in oil production.  If this happens Goldman Sachs believes that oil will hit $110 dollars a barrel next year.   

Ep. 137: Knightscope signs the biggest contract with a Transit System client that decided to upgrade 97 Emergency Call Boxes with Knightscope K1 Technology.  Disney returning CEO Bob Iger will still freeze hiring at Disney.  Protests erupt across China due to Covid Controls, Apple shares slip on the unrest at a China factory.  Finally, Tech companies are beginning to reroute critical chip supplies to trucks with a potential rail strike looming, there is a chance that the oil market could be affected by this as well.