Stimulus checks, vaccine progress, warmer weather and business reopenings combined for a perfect storm of consumer spending in March. According to new figures published by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, retail sales jumped 9.8 percent on a seasona…
What originally started out as a meme, and for the most part became a novelty cryptocurrency, Dogecoin has been building up a real head of steam recently. As figures from CoinDesk show, the currency’s price is currently skyrocketing. Having been valued…
The Chinese economy continued its recovery in the first quarter of 2021, as GDP growth accelerated to the fastest rate on record. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the country’s GDP grew by 18.3 percent year-over-year in the thre…
A new survey by Ipsos paints a bleak picture of the return to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic. Fewer than one quarter of respondents across 30 countries believed that a return to normal was possible within six months. An average of 34 percent across…
Over half a million Americans are currently homeless. After a period of progress and decline, the U.S. homeless population has increased slightly by two percent according to a report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It now stands a…
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released its latest report into homelessness in the United States, finding that some 580,000 Americans were sleeping rough in 2020. Last year, levels of homelessness climbed for the fourth consec…
Numbers by the Federal Student Aid office show that even a forgiveness of $10,000 would free 15 million Americans of their federal student loan debt completely. A forgiveness amount of $20,000 would render more than 24 million former students debt-free…
While all attention in Westminster is currently on the Greensill Capital lobbying scandal, a survey by YouGov reveals that the story has failed to grab the attention of the British public so far. Despite three separate committees of MPs saying they wou…
According to website CoinMarketCap, the market cap of cryptocurrencies exceeded 2 trillion U.S. dollars as of April 15, 2021. Bitcoin – by far the biggest cryptocurrency – makes up around half of that, while the next biggest coin, Ethereum, accounts fo…
With the whole world still battling the Covid-19 pandemic, each country has its own unique story to tell. While differing government responses and strategies had direct and sometimes devastating effects on the human toll of the crisis, the manner in wh…