The U.S., after all, is running unprecedented peacetime deficits, with a new $1.9 TN stimulus package scooting through Congress. This legislation will be followed by what is sure to be a major infrastructure program. There is literally colossal deficits and Treasury issuance as far as the eye can see.
While the past decades have seen rapid urbanization in India and China, cities in Africa are growing fastest in the current one. In the first half of the 2020s, the U.N. Population Division expects 28 cities to grow at an average annual rate of more th…
The latest auto manufacturing figures released today mark “yet another month of decline for UK car production” and are “a grave concern” according to Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive. The total for January 2021 of 86,052 is the worst start to a year si…
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In Alternative View I highlighted the $VIX as a key chart to watch in 2021 for it showed longer term structures that suggest a major volatility event is to come at some […]
As Airbnb is slated to report its first quarter as a public company on Thursday, investors are eagerly waiting to find out how hard the short-term rental platform has been hit by the pandemic in the last three months of 2020. While monthly booking valu…
According to the Global E-waste Monitor, 53.6 million tons of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2020. The figure increased by 21 percent in just five years, making e-waste the fastest growing domestic waste stream in the world. The largest pr…
On Wednesday, U.S. regulators announced that Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine being developed by its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Belgium is effective at preventing moderate to severe cases of the disease. The jab has been deemed safe with…
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