Talking Biz News — Oct. 25, 2021

Some of Monday’s top business news stories:

Associated Press

Business economists less optimistic about next year’s growth, by Martin Crutsinger

Critics question utility’s bitcoin-mining data center

CNN

Everything is still getting more expensive, by Julia Horowitz

Nearly half of American companies say they are short on skilled workers, by Anneken Tappe

The Wall Street Journal

Tax on Billionaires’ Unrealized Gains Will Likely Be in Budget Package, Democrats Say, by Kristina Peterson, Richard Rubin

Home Prices Rise, and Single People Are Running Out of Houses to Buy, by Julia Carpenter

CNBC

Movie ticket sales have topped 2020′s paltry box office, but still trail 2019′s haul by 70%, by Sarah Whitten

Walmart’s corporate workers will return to the office in early November, by Melissa Repko

Reuters

PayPal says is not pursuing acquisition of Pinterest

Tesla pulls its new Full Self-Driving beta due to software ‘issues’, by Marcelo Teixeira, Hyunjoo Jin

News about business journalism 

Topeka biz reporter Yarborough joins local business partnership

SABEW, South Carolina name recipients of Morrow Scholarship

Insider hires Lalljee to cover economy policy

Axios hires Moriarty of Investment News as senior editor

Ad Age hires Wingate to cover agencies

Insider hires Lazzaro as editor for enterprise and tech coverage

Michaud joins Crain’s New York as AME

Times Radio signs O’Connell as biz correspondent

Bloomberg’s Cai joins Axios politics team

Bloomberg appoints Winters editor in Singapore

Fair to oversee regional legal industry coverage for Law360 Pulse