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Excerpt from www.benzinga.com
The first Neuralink patient has passed the 100-day milestone since the Elon Musk founded company’s chip was implanted in his brain.
Noland Arbaugh is now ready to begin earning money or raising money as his story grows in popularity.
What Happened: Arbaugh, who was previously the anonymous Neuralink patient, is now publicly known and has done a series of interviews with Bloomberg, “Good Morning America,” and several social media influencers.
After announcements by Red Lobster they would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closing a significant number of stores, TGI Friday’s announced they would be closing select restaurants as well. Applebee’s kicked off the month with an announcement it would be closing 35 more locations after closing 46 in 2023.
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When people can barely afford to eat at home, they can’t exactly go out to dinner. That’s a lesson in Bidenomics that several chains are finding out the hard way.
The latest chain casual restaurant to feel the pinch is TGI Friday’s; according to an article in the U.K.’s Daily Mail on Tuesday, the restaurant announced it had closed one restaurant in New Jersey on Sunday and was planning to close another in Buffalo, New York in June.
That would bring the total for restaurants the family dining chain has closed to 40 this year, including eight in New Jersey and six in New York.
“We’ve identified opportunities to optimize and streamline our operations to ensure we are best positioned to meet — and exceed” a “brand promise” to close “underperforming” restaurants, said Ray Risley, TGI Friday’s U.S. president.
Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, has let the world know the United States will not be participating in the global billionaire tax scheme cooked up by nations like Brazil and France. The global tax would be intended to redistribute wealth to poor countries, though the methodology through which that wealth would be distributed was not made clear.
Yellen said of the imitative, “We’re not supportive of a process to try to achieve that. That’s something we can’t sign on to.”
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The U.S. has taken a firm stance against a proposed global wealth tax on billionaires, as announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.This idea, championed by Brazil, France and other nations, aims to reduce economic inequality by targeting the global billionaires.
Yellen emphasized that while the U.S. supports progressive taxation, it cannot back a worldwide initiative of this nature, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
“We’re not supportive of a process to try to achieve that. That’s something we can’t sign on to,” she said.
As the leader of the Group of 20 major economies, Brazil has urged the group to develop a unified approach to taxing extremely wealthy individuals who often relocate their funds to low-tax jurisdictions.