Update: The “digital dollar” provision of the Democrats’ version of the coronavirus stimulus bill has been scrubbed. However, the “digital dollar” is now mentioned in a separate bill introduced by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), titled the “Financial Protections and Assistance for America’s Consumers, States, Businesses, and Vulnerable Populations Act.” In the latest step toward a cashless... 

We have come across an interesting article recently which suits the exact situation of the coronavirus pandemic these days. The article is from 2018 and Christine Lagarde, Director of the International Monetary Fund said that “Old people live too long and this is a risk for the global economy. We must do something, urgently.” Now the most interesting coincidence about Coronavirus is that... 

The European Union will offer migrants illegally present on Greek islands 2,000 euros (~$2,217) to return to their homelands, according to reports. The repatratiation scheme will effectively reward economic migrants who are seeking a more comfortable lifestyle in Europe, as the program would not apply to refugees with viable asylum claims. “Refugees will not return, of course, they can’t return,... 

For Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, it is not mass migration or virulent racism against Swedes that are behind the wave of sadistic child robberies in the country. Instead, he blames the former conservative government’s tax cuts. Löfven claims that he reacts strongly to the sadistic, brutal humiliation robberies that have been carried out on multiple occasions against Swedish children. He... 

A new survey has revealed that French President Emmanuel Macron’s confidence rating is the lowest it’s ever been. The poll, carried out by French daily newspaper Le Figaro with pollster Kantar-One Point, showed that the French people’s confidence in their Head of State continues to decline. Since last September, Macron has lost 8 points on his score, stooping to just 24 percent. If things continue... 

A deeply divided United Kingdom has officially ended its 47 years of European Union membership as the clock strikes 11pm in London and midnight in Brussels — and the slated 11-month ‘transition period’ has formally begun. The long and rocky road to the divorce began three-and-a-half years ago when 52 percent of Brits voted to cut their losses and take their country out of the 28-member bloc... 

The Buchach Cemetery is the largest jewish cemetary in the Ukraine, and work on a perimeter security fence has just been completed, all at the expense of the German taxpayers: The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, or ESJF, based in Germany announced Monday that the fencing of the late-16th century Buchach Cemetery in western Ukraine has been completed. Among the town’s illustrious progeny were... 

New footage has emerged of emaciated lions living in horrific conditions at a zoo in Sudan where a lioness died this week. The video taken at the Al-Qureshi Park in Khartoum showed visitors looking at starving lions kept in rusty cages, while others roam around dirty enclosures. The bones of the big cats could be seen through their skin as they ambled around the nightmare animal park in an upstate... 

The international financial watchdog earlier estimated the recent trade rows had already cost the world economy about $700 billion or an 0.8 percent slump in global GDP, outlining the data in a soon-to-be-published annual report by the IMF. Chief of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva has described the fearsome possibility of a repetition of the Great Depression, in light of today’s... 

When we get to a point where literally just about everything can be done more cheaply and more efficiently by robots, the elite won’t have any use for the rest of us at all. For most of human history, the wealthy have needed the poor to do the work that is necessary to run their businesses and make them even wealthier. In this day and age we like to call ourselves “employees”, but in reality... 

The extremely rare, silvery-colored metal rhodium has extended its multi year growth, surging 32 percent so far this month and touching the highest mark since 2008. The metal which is mainly used in autocatalysts for cars has risen 225 percent year on year. It has rallied 12-fold in the past four years, far outperforming all major commodities, on rising demand from the car sector. “Rhodium is subject... 

Australia is expected to face up to AU$5 billion (US$3.5 billion) in losses as fires continue to rage across the continent, according to an Australian Westpac bank forecast. The natural disaster could also cut 0.2 to 0.5 percent of the country’s GDP, the bank said in its preliminary analysis released on Monday. The tourism and agricultural sectors have been hit hardest, while the most severely affected... 

Washington has managed to “cut off probably over 95 percent of the oil revenues” of Iran, according to US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. He told Fox News that US officials are now working on the issue with China, as the country accounts for a significant part of Iran’s remaining oil exports. “I sat down with the Chinese officials. They flew in a delegation to meet with us and... 

A committee of the Lithuanian parliament is drafting legislation declaring that neither the Baltic nation nor its leaders participated in the Holocaust, a lawmaker working on the bill said: Arūnas Gumuliauskas, chairman of the Freedom Fights and State Historical Memory Commission at the Seimas, said this at a conference last month, the 15min.lt news site reported on Dec. 28. The Simon Wiesenthal... 

Despite the fact that most European regimes refuse to consider removing sanctions on Russia under various pretexts, some EU politicians and parties have been calling for an end to economic and political confrontations and a mending of ties with its eastern neighbour. However, it is the peoples of Europe and importantly the most intelligent of respondents who demand that the political elite stop ignoring...