The economy is growing. Corporate profits continue to skyrocket. So, where’s your share? For millions in the U.S., U.K., and beyond, it feels like paychecks aren’t moving. But the numbers don’t lie – the middle class is being squeezed today harder than ever before. [Read More]
Did Elon Musk just admit he is creating a robot army? See for yourselves what he said during an interview with Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Y Combinator’s AI Startup School.
“Is it true that you’re planning a robot army?” Tan asked Musk. [Read More]
“If you reach Net Zero by 2050, if you do it worldwide, you avoid about a third of a degree of warming. If it’s just Europe and the Anglosphere, it’s closer to a tenth of a degree,” says Dr Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and professor emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “So you have avoided a tenth of a degree of warming at a cost of probably tens of trillions of dollars. Doesn’t seem like a bargain to me,” he adds. “How far will the population go in saying, we will sacrifice ourselves for a symbolic gesture?” [Read More]
Using a credit card or mobile pay option has become the new normal everywhere. Cash transactions are becoming increasingly rare. Cash is still legal tender, and governments have not banished physical currencies - yet. It will be easier for governments to mandate CBDC as the majority of citizens have already gone digital. [Read More]
The World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) International Negotiating Body (“INB”) continues to work on a draft that will be accepted by a sufficient number of countries. To be adopted by the World Health Assembly, the INB needs 60 countries to ratify its text.
Dr. Meryl Nass highlights some points from the latest draft of WHO’s Pandemic Treaty, which was published by Politico on Sunday.
The Pandemic Treaty will not only apply to pandemics but will apply at all times, she warned. [Read More]
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has announced that the digital euro will be ready for October 2025.
However, she stressed the importance of moving forward with the legislative process that would impose the digital euro, urging the European Commission, the European Council, and member states parliaments to accelerate the laws and directives that are required to make the digital euro viable. [Read More]
