Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
The amount of liquidity pumped into the markets and the economy in the last year dwarfs anything we’ve seen in history. Markets certainly have reacted to it with exuberance and the bounce […]
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially announced that COVID-19 could be classified as a pandemic. “The WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and seve…
The 2021 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders, was released this week. The report states that “journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73% of the 180 countries ranked by the or…
Among the products Apple is rumored to unveil at its spring event on Tuesday, a new iPad Pro currently looks like the safest bet. Having refreshed both, the entry-level iPad and the iPad Air to great success in the fall of 2020, an upgrade to the high-…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
There had been rumblings of it for a while, but yesterday the bombshell finally dropped. An initial twelve football clubs announced that they have signed up for a ‘European Super League’ – a mid-week competition essentially designed to replace the Cham…
The scandal around government influence on smartphone maker Huawei has created doubt around Chinese companies in international collaborations and ultimately led to several countries banning and restricting the company from participating in 5G network u…
Scientists inititally estimated that 60 to 70 percent of a population would have to acquire resistance to Covid-19 in order for herd immunity to take effect, a threshold that has been revised upwards since the start of the year with 80 to 85 percent qu…
The world of football, or soccer for our American readers, was rocked by an earthquake on Sunday, as twelve of the largest European clubs announced the formation of a breakaway league, that would effectively upend the current structure of the world’s m…