The first week of 2021 brought a lot of surprises. Investors seemed unfazed, continuing to push stock prices higher. The S&P 500 logged a 1.8% gain,...
Escobar: The Assange Saga - Practicing Real Journalism Is Criminally Insane Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonderwalls....
Amid the chaos that was 2020, crypto companies inked almost $700 million worth of mergers and acquisitions. The blockchain industry shrugged off the craziness of the...
California Reports Record COVID Fatalities; UK 1st In Europe To Top 3MM Deaths: Live Updates Summary: California sees record deaths Nevada suffers deadliest week yet US...
The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link! Coming every Saturday,...
How Bitcoin Hits $100,000 Next: Morgan Stanley Boosts Stake In Microstrategy, Opening The Floodgates Back on August 11, when bitcoin was still trading just above $10,000,...
US Reports Another Daily Case Record; COVID Deaths In UK, Germany Top 1K: Live Updates Summary: US sees record 310K new cases NJ reported nearly 20K...
Biden’s fiscal stimulus plan could send the BTC price rocketing higher. The incoming Biden administration’s plan to flood the U.S. economy with trillions of dollars could...
The Bitcoin network as we know it today officially kicked off exactly 12 years ago when Satoshi Nakamoto released the first software client. Satoshi Nakamoto, the...
Welsh Scientists Develop COVID Vaccine 'Smart Patch' Scientists at Wales' Swansea University have developed a plan to create a "smart patch" that would administer the COVID-19...
A BTC pullback takes Bitcoin away from the $42,000 price range posting its first negative open after three days of continuous surge. In our latest BTC...
U Alabama Under Investigation For Possible Ties To Wuhan Lab Authored by Wyatt Eichholz via Campus Reform, The U.S. Department of Education has requested information from...
China Power Demand Hits Record As Polar Vortex Split Pours Arctic Air Into Region The Beijing meteorological station recorded one of the coldest temperatures in decades this...
Children's Hospitals Grapple With Wave Of Mental Illness Authored by Carmen Heredia Rodriguez via Kaiser Health News, Krissy Williams, 15, had attempted suicide before, but never...
Twitter permanently removed the president of the United States from its platform Friday, citing concerns over the “risk of further incitement of violence” and Trump’s previous...
Nearly Half Of U.S. Voters Believe Health Officials Have Been Misleading With COVID Data Submitted by Planet Free Will Nearly 50% of U.S. voters believe that...
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care in the early months of the pandemic were subject to a significantly higher burden of...
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Succinct Summations for the week ending January 8th, 2021 Positives: 1. Markets rally on hopes of more stimulus – and less chaos – as Democrats sweep...
The Cultural Purge Is Now In Overdrive Authored by Mark Jeftovic via OutOfTheCave.io, Four years ago, after the unthinkable happened and the 'wrong guy' won the...
Attention slowly shifting from US politics What an extraordinary start to the year. While next week should be much quieter, it won’t be without action. US...
New S&P Analysis: Banking M&A 2020 Deal Tracker: 10 deals announced in December 2020 Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more According to a new...
We now have a full year of jobs data for 2020. This is an important moment to take stock of where things stand in the labor...
National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) issued semi-monthly by Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ –...
Credit: Duo Xu Before the pandemic, the lab of Stanford University biochemist Peter S. Kim focused on developing vaccines for HIV, Ebola and pandemic influenza. But,...
The Great Britain pound was one of the strongest major currencies on Friday despite plenty of negative fundamentals that were weighing on the currency. Over the week, though, the sterling kept losses versus most of its...
On January 6, 2021, while members of Congress met to certify the election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States, a pro-Trump...
The year 2020 gave us a huge amount of evidence about the relative merits of government intervention and free markets. The bottom line is that government...
Fed's Vice Chair Sees No Tapering Until 2022, Is "Not Concerned" With Surging 10Y Yields Yesterday we addressed what is perhaps the most important issue for...
President-elect Joe Biden will aim to release more available doses of coronavirus vaccines when he takes office, a departure from Trump administration strategy of holding back...