In The Stepford Wives, a novel with two film adaptations, men in a fictional Connecticut town have discovered how to turn their wives into submissive, overly attentive, eager to please robots. Spoiler alert: things seem to go quite well for the men, not so much for the women who are transformed. Given current (and presumably future) advances in robotics and artificial intelligence,
Existing homes sales were disappointing to start the second quarter of 2018 after moving higher in both February and March. Month-over-month, transaction volume fell 2.5 percent in April. Even more disappointing is the year-over-year tally which also fell, dropping 1.4 percent and declining for a second consecutive period.
America’s economy keeps churning out jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, firms added 223,000 net new jobs in May 2018, following April’s downwardly revised count of 159,000 (originally 164,000). Additionally, the unemployment rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point to just 3.8 percent, matching the lowest level since 1969.
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