On July 11, 1987, the world population passed the five billion mark – since then the figure has risen steadily to 7.9 billion in 2021. The UN expects the world’s population to grow to 10.9 billion by 2100.According to the International Monetary Fund, t…
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India recorded another 320,000 Covid-19 infections on Tuesday as the country struggles to cope with a deadly surge of the disease. Hospitals in Delhi and many other cities have run out of beds and oxygen and patients are being turned away. Countries ha…
After a year where the pandemic devastated the film industry, the number of TV viewers watching the Academy Awards collapsed to an all-time low, according to Nielsen data. The event’s viewership has fallen every year since 2015 with one exception in 20…
The short term outlook isn’t positive, but the longer intermediate cycles remain on the buy side. There’s just one thing to look out for, and…
It’s 2 AM in New York. Do you know where your stonk market is?
One of the key features of the Covid19 pandemic to-date has been a relatively low level of corporate insolvencies. In fact, if anything, we are witnessing virtually dissipation of the insolvencies proceedings in the advanced economies, and a simu…
The takeaway here is obvious: earn as little money as possible and invest your surplus labor in assets that can’t be expropriated.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2020 U.S. defense spending outstripped that of China, India, Russia, UK, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Italy and Australia combined. When it comes to spending as…
The New York Times has reported that President Biden is seeking to increase taxes on the rich in order to fund spending on childcare and education. Dubbed The American Family Plan, it is expected to involve investments aimed at reducing poverty, loweri…