World's Largest Muscle Car Collector Set To Auction 200 Rare Vehicles At No Reserve
While current market euphoria has surpassed dot com levels, what is going on now is absolutely astonishing and gets crazier by the day. The on-going Federal Reserve’s QE purchases, plus all other major central banks, are plowing $1.3 billion into capital markets every 60 minutes since March. And, of course, all this newly printed money has…
The World's Most Controversial Pipeline Project Enters Its Final Phase
Authored by Viktor Katuna via OilPrice.com, It took more than a year to break the Nord Stream 2 stalemate and now – amidst the world expecting full-scale coronavirus vaccination, amidst the United States expecting the inauguration of President-elect Biden and Europe preoccupied with the future of the EU-UK cooperation rather than energy issues – Gazprom…
World's Top Economies Brace For $13 Trillion Debt Maturity Vortex
To kick off the New Year, the world’s largest economies face a massive global debt overhang due to the coronavirus-downturn; some $13 trillion in debt is coming due and will need to be refinanced in an ultra-low rate environment. Seven top economies plus several major emerging markets economies “face the heaviest bond maturities in at…
Mapping The World's Most-Surveilled Cities (London Leads The West)
Since the world’s first CCTV camera was installed in Germany in 1942, the number of surveillance cameras around the world has grown immensely. In fact, as Visual Capitalist’s Avery Koop notes, it only took us 79 years to go from one camera to nearly one billion of these devices. In the above interactive graphic, Surfshark…
World's First COVID 'Human Challenge' Begins As UK Prepares To Infect 2,500 Volunteers
2,500 healthy Britons are about to participate in the world’s first COVID-19 ‘human challenge’ – letting the government infect them with SARS-CoV-2 in order to see how the virus reacts to an experimental vaccine, according to The Times. The fist stage of the study, conducted by Imperial College, the National Health Service’s Royal Free Hospital…
"Cancel Culture" Is Decimating Free Speech At World's Leading Universities, New Study Finds
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A study by leading education focused think tank Civitas has found that free speech at the world’s leading universities is being eroded at an alarming rate owing to the rise of “cancel culture”. The study found that within the past three years, more than 68 per cent of universities in…