The council raised the cost of gasoline 50 percent, up to a minimum of 15,000 rials (13 cents) per liter, or about 50 cents per gallon. Under the measure, consumers can purchase up to 60 liters at the minimum price, after which they will be charged 30,000 rials per liter. Previously, consumers could buy as many as 250 liters at the subsidized price.

US backed blockade slowly starts to work.

Old but useful.

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Toys and many similar recommendations and guides on Amazon are not made by some experts, they are being made by private auctions and agreements and filled by leading corporations.

Amazon sells Holiday Toy List sponsorships for as much as $2m (£1.6m), according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg. The more sponsors pay, the more products they can nominate to be on the list and the more prominently their own products will be featured on the popular website. Amazon aimed to sell at least $20m in sponsorships for this year’s list, the documents show. Amazon also published a summer toy list with lower sponsorship prices.

For smaller sellers and manufacturers it is now usual to buy reviews, it is big industry around it.

Also note that bestsellers in category is also not simply list sorted by number of cameras/other products that had been sold, instead it is complex algorithm based mostly on potential and current profits from product and manufacturers payments.

Recall of boxed CPU due to "smart" decision to cut cooler cost by another $1 (rumors are that by $0.7) by removing small copper insert.

Intel already optimized stock coolers for a while, increasing fan maximal speed and cutting metal amount and reducing copper insert.

Total savings can reach $2-2.5 (while Intel profit on this Xeon can reach 80% of the retail price).

Around 90% of such savings go to bonuses and premiums of top and middle management.