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| Good morning and happy Wednesday, Daily Money readers. Jayme Deerwester with you once again. |
🗞 News you should know 🗞 |
| A Coast Guard investigation is underway after the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Harmony of the Seas was responsible for Sunday evening's scrub of a SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. |
| The ship veered into the exclusion zone along a Falcon 9 rocket's flightpath just before the 6:11 p.m. EST launch, forcing SpaceX to stand down from the mission and prepare for a 24-hour turnaround. Harmony of the Seas is the world's third-largest cruise ship at 226,963 gross tons. It has 2,747 staterooms, a passenger capacity of 6,687 and a crew of 2,200. |
| Launch engineers waited as long as possible for the Coast Guard to resolve the situation, but ultimately ran out of time to meet the instantaneous window's deadline. It marked the fourth delay for the mission that was previously scrubbed due to inclement weather around Launch Complex 40. |
| Speaking of all things Elon Musk, guess how much it costs to build a Tesla? |
| 💡 Daily insight 💡 |
| Job openings neared an all-time high of 10.9 million in December despite the spread of COVID's omicron variant while quitting dropped modestly from its record level as workers continued to hold the cards amid labor shortages. The 10.9 million openings translate to 1.7 available jobs for each unemployed person, the most on record dating back two decades. |
| The rise in openings was driven by an increase of 133,000 in restaurants and hotels, the industries hit hardest by COVID-induced shutdowns and that have struggled most to bring on workers. |
| The strong showing underscores that despite omicron's emergence, the Great Resignation is expected to continue in full force even if the COVID variant fades as expected within weeks. Forty-one percent of professional service workers say they plan to look for a new job in the first half of the year, according to a recent survey by Robert Half staffing, up from 32% who intended to search in the second half of 2021. |
🚨 Other stories you shouldn't miss 🚨 |
| GM-UAW workforce to get $10,250 profit-sharing check. GM "proud to provide our hourly employees with among the highest profit-sharing payments in the auto industry." |
| 3,000+ US flights canceled Wednesday, Thursday amid huge winter storm. Wednesday's flight cancellations include more than one in 10 Southwest flights. |
| Small business and bankruptcy. What should you do when your company has too much debt? |
| More Spotify defectors. Graham Nash, India Arie join Neil Young's Spotify-Joe Rogan protest. |
| Be your own delivery guy. Domino's will give you $3 to order your pizza online and pick it up yourself. |
💵 Smells like tax season 💵 |
| Have you received recent mail from the IRS? If not, be on the lookout for Letter 6475, which the Internal Revenue Service began issuing in late January, that offers details about your 2021 Economic Impact Payment. |
| The IRS letter can help tax filers determine whether they are owed more money and if they are eligible to claim the Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax return when they file a return this year. Even if you are not owed additional money, you'll still need the letter to report any stimulus payments on your taxes. |
🎶 Mood music 🎶 |
| It's not a big surprise that one of the latest artists to join Neil Young's Spotify boycott is his former Crosby Stills Nash & Young bandmate, Graham Nash. After all, he did write these words in " Teach Your Children": "You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by. And so, become yourself because the past is just a goodbye." |
| Remember, you can find this and every past Mood Music track in our new Spotify playlist. |
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