The first known U.S. death from Covid-19 occurred on February 06 2020 and the U.S. has now lost half a million lives in just over a year. Data from the Johns Hopkins University shows that the U.S. surpassed the grim milestone of 500,000 deaths on Monda…
Following a surge in new housing starts to end 2019, the global COVID-19 pandemic reached the private housing construction industry in the U.S. and caused a record-low number of new projects in the country. After several straight months of growth, howe…
As the United States pledges $4 billion to support COVAX and the equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines worldwide, a long list of governments still have not been able to secure enough doses to start inoculating their populations. New Zealand, one …
According to the Statista Advertising & Media Outlook forecast, 34 percent of global media sales were generated digitally in the past year – five percentage points more than in 2019. The growth in upcoming years is expected to be less steep, however. A…
Since the UK started recording public sector net borrowing on a monthly basis in 1993, the scale to which the government has taken on debt has never been higher. As the latest Office for National Statistics data shows, for the current financial year so…
As figures from the Office for National Statistics show, government borrowing exploded in 2020 as the finiancial toll of dealing with the coronavirus took hold. Up until the pandemic really hit the country in the spring, cumulative public sector net bo…
U.S. household debt climbed to a record high of $14.6 trillion at the end of 2020, as mortgage debt surpassed $10 trillion for the first time. According to the New York Fed’s latest Household Debt and Credit Report, mortgage debt increased by a whoppin…
As smart speakers are becoming more and more common in the United States and around the world, it’s important to take a moment to think of the many people who now share their name with a ubiquitous digital entity designed to serve its human overlords. …
The second wave of COVID-19 is slowing down in Europe. This time around, the virus wouldn’t budge easily, as ups and downs in the growth curves of cumulative infections show.According to numbers by Johns Hopkins University, the most-affected Western Eu…
While the January surge in consumer spending puts overall retail sales safely back on its pre-pandemic growth trajectory, not all retailers are created equal in face of this unprecedented crisis. While some types of retailers have quickly rebounded fro…