Fortune calls “vaccinating the global population” against COVID-19 as one of the most “immense and logistical challenges humanity has ever faced.” According to the magazine,…
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The World Bank is working closely with 100 countries to undermine rules that ensure individuals injured by vaccines can sue vaccine makers through legislation or…
“After the Internet of Things, which transformed the way we live, travel and work by connecting everyday objects to the Internet, it’s now time for…
2020 was a revolution. Here is what actually happened. The IMF-dubbed Great Lockdown saw fear taking the front seat and the social contract rewritten posthaste. …
The outlook for the gold price in 2021 is still positive, although the recent news about COVID-19 vaccines has taken a bite out of this latest brief…
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic will bring about serious change. Factory and service jobs, for instance, will be assumed by robots. There will be…
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to economic disruptions, causing drastic loss to our livelihood and exposure of inequity in the health system. Hundreds of thousands fell into extreme poverty while risking themselves as a consequence of the virus.
The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset initiative is picking up steam on Twitter. The Great Reset is basically the organization’s plan to impose socialism on…
There’s been a lot of talk about how the travel industry will get back to normal in a world marred by COVID-19, but JetBlue CEO…
Throughout his whole life, Ed Bugos, Senior Investment Analyst and Financial Editor at The Dollar Vigilante, always thought that the common cold would wipe humans…
Although public debt has swelled to the highest in history, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Friday that cutting stimulus could undermine the recovery and…
The worst global economic crisis since World War II might push up to 100 million people into poverty, warns the World Bank. The international financial…
Leading international organizations on nutrition, including Action Against Hunger, Concern Worldwide, the Eleanor Crook Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, and World Vision, wrote a letter…
A China-based vaccine company teamed with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in pursuit of producing the world’s first vaccine, earning the first approval for the…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Wednesday that the economy needs more help to economic stimulus to power through the economic impacts of…
Nearly two billion people, more than half of the world’s workforce, could lose their job or move into part-time work in 2020, according to a…
Jayant Bhandari, who MBA from Manchester Business School (UK) and B. Engineering from SGSITS (India), believes we are now coming to realize how excessively governments…
Public trust has waned since the Eisenhower presidency, and sits at near historic lows. Yet, Americans still want more of it. Whether it is a…
American entrepreneur Jim Cantrell, the first VP of SpaceX, woke up one day recently feeling like he had been transported back to the Soviet Union,…
Before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, total household debt was more than $1.6 trillion higher than during the previous peak in 2008, increasing to $155 billion in Q1 to total $14.3 trillion, according to data released by the New York Fed.
The House passed a $3 trillion Democratic economic stimulus bill on Friday that was largely rejected by Republicans and President Donald Trump. Passed 208-199, the bill would provide insolvent states and local governments with more than $1 trillion, and most Americans with another $1,200 check.
Americans seeking unemployment benefits increased by nearly three million last week, bringing total jobless claims to 36 million––nearly a quarter of the American workforce of about 156 million. “Today’s unemployment claims continue their ascent on a cumulative weekly basis; not since the Great Depression has the US job market been in such a sorry state,” said Richard Flynn, UK managing director at Charles Schwab.
The World Bank Group has been hands on in the response to COVID-19 with one goal in mind: “to build a more resilient and sustainable future.”
In the near future, your daily routine at the office might be drastically changed, starting with a morning self-administered Covid-19 symptom and temperature check. Your boss will receive the results through an app, and if you’re cleared, a low-occupancy company shuttle will take you to work, and everyone on it will wear a mask.
After 200 employees reportedly had come down with COVID-19, Smithfield Foods Inc. will shutter its major Sioux Falls, South Dakota, pork-processing facility, where four to five percent of U.S. production takes place.
Vaccine or not, the United States either needs economically ruinous levels of social distancing, a digital surveillance state of shocking size and scope, or a mass testing apparatus of even more shocking size and intrusiveness. That’s the word from U.S. think tanks.
The lock downs, which have swept the globe, are unprecedented. The U.S. economy is expected to wither by at least a quarter––as much as during the Great Depression. While the reduction after 1929 took place over a four-year period, the recent decline will take place over a few months.
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari said on Sunday the U.S. economy faces a “long, hard road” to recover from the hard stop implemented to fight the coronavirus outbreak.
Nearly a third of tenants in the U.S. did not pay their rents during the first week of April, according to a landlord group. The research division of The National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), which accounts for monthly rent payments, found a 12 percentage point decrease in share of apartment households that had paid rent by April 5.
Truckers have warned that the nation’s supply chain is in jeopardy. Truckers argue they are hauling goods into COVID-19 hot spots sans protective equipment, testing capabilities or ways to self-quarantine or seek treatment if they become sick.
Last week, Ammon Bundy, who led the 2014 standoff regarding unpaid grazing fees on federally-owned public lands in Oregon, spoke to a few dozen people in a meeting that violated orders by Gov. Brad Little of Idaho to avoid groups. Bundy called it his constitutional right to peacefully assemble. He had created a network of people ready to aid those facing closures of their business and other interference from the government amid the coronavirus outbreak.
With Italy having reached its crest of the world’s most deadliest outbreak, Italian health officials and politicians have looked towards reopening the country. Their thinking revolves around the idea that you may only go back to work if you’ve the right antibodies in your blood, though researchers are not completely sure that antibodies indicate immunity.
While most crime is down in New York City during the coronavirus lockdown, burglaries are the exception. They were up approximately 22% in March. The City That Never Sleeps is not the only city dealing with an uptick in burglaries. Towns and cities across the country have experienced the same trend.
The global economic crisis linked to the coronavirus has wiped out jobs for millions across the African continent, many of whom live hand-to-mouth in slums and without clean water.
American politician, diplomat and geopolitical consultant Henry Kissinger wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal about Covid-19. Kissinger became National Security Advisor in 1969 and U.S. Secretary of State in 1973.