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. …
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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 Bank released last week its report “Human Capital Index 2020 Update.” It notes how certain countries, namely South Korea and Iceland, “successfully implemented” contract tracing strategies early on in 2020, while most countries employed lockdowns and movement restrictions.
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…
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…
Afrikanus Kofi Akosah Adusei (Frisco d’Anconia) is a journalist by profession and a Free Market Policy analyst. Through Africa Youth Peace Call which he founded…
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…
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,…
“The coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States,” the Federal Reserve said as it cut interest rates to essentially zero and embarked upon a $700 billion quantitative easing program to shelter the economy from the effects of the virus.
Before we begin, some thoughts by the late comic George Carlin: Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you…
With unemployment claims above 26 million, reports have surfaced that state UI systems cannot handle the volume of applications, leaving millions of laid-off and furloughed…
Global central banks have already set interest rates at record lows and earmarked trillions of dollars on asset purchases as an economic response to the coronavirus pandemic.
With 1 in 6 U.S. workers out of work, U.S. unemployment is reaching Great Depression levels. More than 4.4 million laid-off Americans applied for unemployment…
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.
Jordan Gitterman is a founder of Item Banc, a global parity valuation engine utilizing the latest technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and economic calculations to provide the market with the best relative valuations. Item Banc incentives producers, farmers and manufacturers, to bring to market BHN (basic human needs – food, shelter, clothing, medical/hygiene, paper) products.
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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.
Professor Dr Sucharit Bhakdi, an infectious medicine specialist and one of the most highly cited medical research scientists in Germany, believes the response to coronavirus is grotesque, absurd, and very dangerous.
With much of the western world locked down as coronavirus cases increase, we decided to take a look at our bug out options, and we found one in particular: a flight from Toronto to Wuhan via Beijing.
Will the U.S. Mint create two $1 trillion platinum coins in order to bailout Main Street America?
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) has proposed the “Automatic BOOST to Communities Act” in response to the Coronavirus crisis. The Act would provide a U.S. Debit Card preloaded with $2,000 to every person in America. Each card would be recharged with $1,000 monthly until one year after the end of the coronavirus crisis.
Indebted companies are feeling pressure as funding markets dry up.
Of #ToiletPaperGate #ToiletPaper
They’re trending across social media.
We thought it would be masks and latex gloves flying off the shelves.
Instead, it is toilet paper.