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Violent clashes continued this week at colleges and and universities across the country as Police Departments from New York City to los angeles moved in to clear propalestinian encampments and Arrest Protesters in scenes reminiscent of the vietnam war era. After more than a week of silence, President Biden addressed the growing campus chaos on thursday. Theres the right to protest but not the the right the cause chaos with. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcin...

Suffered last year. anything thatis suffered last year. anything that is different is the convergence of change and an extremely extreme set of effects of el nino. but there are also forest fires in the amazon. so the country are set “p amazon. so the country are set up a crisis room. —— llanos orientales. there will be running to the end of the el nino phenomenon, expected to be the end of march. there are five regions of colombia on red alert, for serious weather affectations, over the n...

Than 1200 corporate workers would be let go. overall, nbc news estimates 90,000 workers have been laid off at tech companies with workforces of 100 or more. back with us tonight, the woman who knows tech better than anyone else on the planet, my dear friend -- editor at large of new york magazine, and host of the podcast -- kara, always amazing to see you, lets start with the layoffs. for the last decade, tech has been the sector, it was endless hiring, not just hiring anybody, the smartest, top...

They really, groupings there was an opportunity for their businesses, their businesses and stop grew like crazy. they hired, up amazon hired 500,000 people, overall a lot of them in warehouses, but a lot of people. each of these companies could afford, it when things were going well, now that there is a downturn whether advertising at meta, or something at google, et cetera, they had to realize that way too many employees, productivity drops, significantly, so they lay people off. it is not a ne...

So it is an opportunity for a lot of entrepreneurs to go out, maybe they were meta, amazon, and go out and make new companies. it is an excellent time to start a company. so you will see a lot of innovation in a few years, and most of the class of companies we know now as large, all were born during a downturn whether 2008, 2001. it is definitely significant across these companies, but this is an opportunity to right size their companies, why not take it if nobody else is. you can make your stoc...

Et cetera, they had to realize that way too many employees, productivity drops, significantly, so they lay people off. it is not a new thing to have this happen, but a lot of these companies are overstaffed and need to cut bodies. >> but in previous years, if there were layoffs, there were other tech companies hiring, this does seem like a unique moment where unilaterally they are all letting thousands of people go. so the question is, with the lead the in the street, go back to traditional indu...