UAW wants EPA to soften vehicle emissions plan
The United Auto Workers union on Friday called on the Biden administration to soften its proposed vehicle emissions cuts that would require 67% of new vehicles to be electric by 2032.
Slowly but surely, auto dealers test ChatGPT waters
ChatGPT is drawing interest as a way to enhance dealership management systems and other platforms. Vendors predict wide adoption within months as users iron out kinks.
Calif. dealer exec creates weekly Clubhouse chat for auto retail tips
David Long of Hansel Auto Group launched the audio chatroom in November 2021. He’s hosted more than 100 episodes.
Disney: Muppet Labs cooking up dishes for Epcot food fest
Muppet Labs, along with the Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker characters, will be in the mix for this year’s Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, which begins at Walt Disney World on July 27. Brace yourselves: Pickle milkshakes are on the menu.
As the story goes, Honeydew and Beaker are cooking up new flavors for the Brew-Wing Lab inside Epcot’s Odyssey building. One of their concoctions will be the Unnecessarily Spicy, Yet Extremely Tasty Scotch Bonnet Pepper-Curry Wings, according to the official Disney Parks Blog.
Disney World’s website also mentions orange-cardamon wings as a new offering at Odyssey, which has had Figment- and Orange Bird-based makeovers during previous Epcot festivals.
The blog post also mentions four new marketplaces that will mark the Disney100 celebration: Char & Chop, Wine & Wedge, Bubbles & Brine and Swirled Showcase. There will be more than 25 marketplaces, Disney says.
Big Disney auction: Joel Magee collection features ride vehicles, rare theme-park items
Cooler hiring in June could help the Fed achieve an elusive ‘soft landing’ for US economy
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER (AP Economics Writer)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Another month, another solid gain for America’s job market.
The pace of hiring by businesses and government agencies in June — 209,000 added jobs — was the smallest monthly gain in 2 1/2 years. Yet it was still a healthy increase, enough to reduce the unemployment rate from 3.7% to 3.6%, barely above a half-century low. And it amounted to further evidence of an economy that has defied persistent forecasts of a recession.
The latest sign of economic strength makes it all but certain that the Federal Reserve will resume its interest rate hikes later this month after having ended a streak of 10 rate increases that were intended to curb high inflation.
Yet there were also signals in Friday’s government report that the job market is cooling to a more sustainable pace of growth — a trend that, if it continues, could reassure the Fed that its rate hikes are reducing inflation pressures without derailing the economy.
“This is kind of a Goldilocks report,” said Julia Coronado, president of MacroPolicy Perspectives, an economic research firm. “It’s a resilient labor market — not too hot, not too cool.”