New Study Says the Coronavirus “Could Impact More than Five Million Businesses Worldwide”
"...one CEO claims that there is virtually “no domestic consumption” in China right now..."
18 February 2020
Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Worldwide
"nearly 3,000 (about 40%) of all languages are at risk of being lost, or are already in the process of dying out today."
18 February 2020
Glenn Fahey: More Dollars Don’t Make Sense
"Teachers suffer, too, from the anti-performance crusade. That’s because their performance is never consistently, independently or objectively assessed once they’re at the chalkface. This denies them the benefits of further development from the basic performance management practices enjoyed in just about any other Australian workplace."
18 February 2020
Michael Snyder: Japan’s GDP Is Collapsing and Experts Are Warning that China Will Be Next
"Economists were projecting that Japan’s GDP would shrink by 3.8 percent on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter, but instead it greatly surpassed expectations by plunging 6.3 percent."
18 February 2020
Christian Convert in UK Faces Deportation to Iranian Persecution
"However, in a tribunal judgment on Reza’s case by the Home Office in 2018, it was ruled that if he was deported to Iran, it would not “expose him to a real act of persecution.” This is despite Reza’s Christian baptism alone being punishable by death under Sharia Law."
17 February 2020
Surprise: Massive Consumer Debt Is Fueling “Record” Economy
"In May 2018, we reported a 47% increase in total consumer debt. Today, that debt is still on the rise, now at a staggering 61% increase since 2008."
17 February 2020
Government Pledges Not to Criminalise Smacking in England
"The government does not wish to interfere in how loving families bring up their children"
17 February 2020
Corey Feldman Set to Name Elite Hollywood Abusers in Documentary Neftlix Deemed “Too Dangerous”
"After a lifetime of abuse … a lifetime of silence … a lifetime of living in fear … their truth is finally coming"
17 February 2020
Trump Does Not Trust the Coronavirus Numbers that Are Coming out of China
"According to the recruitment issued on Feb. 12, the funeral home needs 20 workers to pick up bodies from midnight to 4 a.m. Listed among the requirements for the job candidates are “16 to 50 years old…being physically strong and brave.”"
17 February 2020
Cities Create New Ways to Expand Neighborhood Surveillance Programs
"The name of the Dunwoody police cam-share program is called "Silent Partners" which encourages so-called silent partners" to secretly monitor vehicles and people not suspected of committing a crime."
17 February 2020
Egon von Greyerz: The Crisis Will Sink Stocks and Propel Gold
"...investors are living in cloud cuckoo land. They don’t understand that there are no safe assets today"
17 February 2020
Tim Dieppe: UK Government Islamophobia Adviser Should Step Down
"Qari Asim would like to have something like an Islamic blasphemy law."
17 February 2020
Intangible Assets: A Hidden but Crucial Driver of Company Value
"By undertaking rigorous analysis, managers may uncover hidden competitive advantages—and generate higher potential returns in the process."
17 February 2020
Michael Snyder: “Like Something out of the Book of Exodus”: Locust Armies Are Devouring Entire Farms in Kenya in “as Little as Thirty Seconds”
"These locusts travel in swarms up to 40 miles wide, each one can eat the equivalent of its own body weight every day, and the swarms can travel close to 100 miles in a 24 hour period."
15 February 2020
Elizabeth Johnston: Shortage of Contraception Causing “Chaos” among UK Women
"What an utterly sad state of affairs that women are, apparently, unaware that there is yet another way to avoid unplanned pregnancy: abstinence."
15 February 2020
Patrick Hill: Will the Coronavirus Trigger a Recession?
"Manufacturing operations require workers to be at the factory to produce products. Thus, manufacturing is much more acutely affected by quarantines, shutdowns, transportation disruption, and other government actions."
15 February 2020
Police ‘Transphobia’ Investigation Breached Free Speech
“People must be able to speak their minds. If we don’t have free speech, we don’t have a free society.”
15 February 2020
Vladimir Putin Says Russia Will Never Legalize Gay Marriage
"Homosexual relations were decriminalized in Russia in 1993, and the nation declassified it as a mental illness in 1999. Under an unofficial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, gay people are also allowed to serve in the Russian military."
15 February 2020
Michael Snyder: World Economy Projected to Shrink for the First Time since 2009 as Coronavirus Plays Havoc with Global Supply Chains
"So here we are on the verge of the worst economic downturn in more than a decade, and even if this outbreak miraculously ended tomorrow it would still take quite an extended period of time for global supply chains to return to normal."
15 February 2020
The EU-Originated Revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) Has Made Monetary Privacy Increasingly Elusive
"Let's hope that powerful voices step forward in Parliament to make the case for privacy, monetary and otherwise."
15 February 2020
Simon Cowan: Brexit Lessons
"The removal of power over one’s circumstances, together with the creation of ongoing financial dependence, is poisonous for a body politic. It saps motivation and breeds resentment."
15 February 2020
Gold’s “Bottom” in 2019 May Mean Big Things for the Near Future
"Gold has been one of the few gainers in the past weeks as most assets have come under a sharp sell-off in response to the coronavirus outbreak and its potential ramifications on the global market."
15 February 2020
Flying High: The Top Ten Airline Routes by Revenue
"As Asian and African economies continue to evolve, what route could be the next billion dollar route for airlines?"
14 February 2020
Larry C. Johnson: The Numbers Spell Trouble for the Democrats
"The bottomline is this: the weak Democrat field is not generating much enthusiasm."
14 February 2020