John Ing
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The greatest blackout in US history saw millions of Texans without heat as a polar vortex knocked out half of the United State’s energy grid, shutting down more than 4 million barrels a day of output or 40 percent of US production....
Despite the arrival of numerous vaccines, Covid-19 is still having a huge impact, with bankrupt businesses, lockdowns and full hospitals in the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. In fact, the unprecedented economic...
All in all, with risks of higher taxes, healthcare spending, technology regulation, climate change and a festering Trumpian Republican party, America’s reputation is taking a battering. Adding to this concern is that while inflation would...
If there ever was a year when the unforeseeable can happen, this is the year. Covid-19 plunged economies into a recession, but the turbulent markets reached all-time record highs as interest rates collapsed to near zero levels as part of...
Today, social media platforms like, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok are reinforcing our individualistic narcissistic society. No wonder that despite more than 4.5 million coronavirus cases in the United States and rising, the...
With the pandemic disrupting lives and the global economy, government borrowings have climbed ever higher. US unemployment is nearly at Great Depression levels and a summer of civil unrest raises the stakes in an upcoming US election...
During the Great Depression, stocks lost 90 percent of their value, people lost savings and jobs. Today there are a record 33 million jobless Americans, double the 15 million jobless in the Thirties or 25 percent of the population then....
Countries closed borders as the pandemic spread beyond the Chinese, Iranian and South Korean borders. At risk are lives but the economic impact already is large. The world is in lockdown mode. The economic fallout is only beginning with...
In his State of the Union victory lap, the president crowed that the “great American comeback” entered this decade with the longest bull-run in American history. Unsaid is that in dancing to all time highs, the bond and stock markets are...
Once again, like his reality show, Mr. Trump orchestrated a spectacle choosing the optics of progress to meaningful progress itself. After the most recent G 20 meeting, Mr. Trump was more interested in a photo op with Kim Jong Un and...
