Silvia Killingsworth

Feb 1, 2025 | bloomberg.com | Silvia Killingsworth

DeepSeek adds urgency to the job-loss debate, why the China bubble never quite popped and a democratic case against Fed independenceWelcome to the weekend, and to February. This week brought us several different flavors of chaos, from the panic about DeepSeek’s cheaper AI model to the frenzied 48 hours of a federal funding freeze. But as the dust settles and markets broadly recover their losses, we’re left wondering: what difference will it make, if any?

Feb 1, 2025 | flipboard.com | Silvia Killingsworth

16 hours agoCostco is raising pay — above $30 an hour for many workers — as the deadline looms for the company to reach a new contract with its unionized employees. The powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents about 18,000 Costco employees, or roughly 8% of the company's U.S. workers. The …

Oct 18, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Tariq Trotter |Vincent Schiraldi |Mark Bittman |Silvia Killingsworth

Francesca Peacock. Pegasus, $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63936-603-3Journalist Peacock debuts with an excellent biography of 17th-century English author and “proto-feminist” Margaret Cavendish (née Lucas). Born in 1623, Margaret grew up in a wealthy family whose Royalist sympathies during the English Civil War inspired her at age 20 to join Queen Henrietta Maria’s court as a lady-in-waiting.

Oct 17, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Tariq Trotter |Vincent Schiraldi |Mark Bittman |Silvia Killingsworth

Ryan Grim. Holt, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-86907-4The celebrated coterie of congressional progressives—representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, and their glamorous leader, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—has started a civil war in the Democratic Party, according to this insightful political study.