Tomorrow marks the third anniversary since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Three years on and much has changed, including opinions on how the virus started, with one origin theory having taken particular hold in the United S…
As stock markets flailed and the age of zero interest was only slowly beginning to end, 2022 was not kind to investors. The year was also Wall Street’s worst since the Great Recession, causing most shareholders leaving markets owning less than what the…
After seeing its bookings cut by more than 40 percent due to the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, Airbnb bounced back remarkably well in 2021 and 2022. Fueled by the strong uptick in international travel in 2022, Airbnb saw bookings more than double compared…
The global number of internet shutdowns has been rising again for the second year in a row. A newly released report by Access Now puts the number of internet shutdowns in 2022 at 187. Just under half – 84 – happened in India.In the year of 2020, the nu…
Despite major efforts by the U.S., the EU and other countries to restrict Russia’s fossil fuel revenues, the country is still earning more than half a billion U.S. dollars from oil and gas sales per day, according to think tank Center for Research on E…
Statista’s Advertising & Media Markets Insights estimates that worldwide metaverse revenue will stand at $490 billion in 2030. This is a comparatively conservative forecast. Other analyst companies assume a market volume of between approximately 750 an…
As inflation cooled down slower than expected in January and overall consumer prices rose 0.5 percent compared to the previous month, U.S. consumers showed little signs of frugality. According to preliminary estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, total…
Despite the surge in consumer prices, Americans haven’t lost their appetite for dining (and drinking) out. That’s according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, showing that monthly sales of food services and drinking places amounted to…
Four flying objects have been shot down over the United States and Canada since February 4. The first, a 200-foot-tall balloon carrying an equipment-laden gondola the size of a regional airliner, was downed by a U.S. fighter jet off the coast of South …
How much more expensive is the U.S. healthcare system compared to other developed countries? There are many ways of approaching that question, but when comparing per-capita healthcare spending in different OECD nations, the answer is a lot more. As our…