Rim Numbers: Not Louder Than Doom

Thousands of warehouse employees will picket during the Christmas rush, mirroring a strategy used by airline and newspaper guilds this year. In a bold move aimed at hitting the company where it hurts most, Amazon workers are striking just in time for Christmas, its busiest, most profitable time of year.

Rising housing market inventory will slow national home price appreciation next year, predicts Bank of America.  Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter.

After reports of large drone sightings over New Jersey attracted national attention last week, an influx of drone-related merch has hit popular apparel sites. The devil works hard, but Amazon merch sellers work harder.

Reliance on school buses has been waning for years as districts struggle to find drivers and more students attend schools far outside their neighborhoods. Ismael El-Amin was driving his daughter to school when a chance encounter gave him an idea for a new way to carpool.

Musk recently escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence “dictatorship” is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker’s ongoing shift into a for-profit company.

Colorado oil and gas regulators will conduct a site-by-site review of 344 oil and gas locations where they say environmental consultants submitted false data on cleanup and restoration work. Julie Murphy, director of the Energy and Carbon Management Commission, said the agency is also more broadly evaluating the integrity of the data it receives.