Economic Indicators9 hours ago (Apr 12, 2020 07:55PM ET) (C) Reuters. UK government daily briefing on coronavirus updates (Reuters) – Britain’s gross domestic product (GDP) could fall by up to 30% between April and June, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak told his colleagues as members of the cabinet call for easing […]
The New Math Bridge Beyond Fermat’s Last Theorem
When Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in the early 1990s, his proof was hailed as a monumental step forward not just for mathematicians but for all of humanity. The theorem is simplicity itself–it posits that x n + yn = zn has no positive whole-number solutions when n is […]
French Regulator Says Google Must Pay to Link to News Sites
France’s competition authority says that Google must go back to the bargaining table to negotiate a rate that the search giant will pay to link to articles on French news sites. So far, Google has flatly refused to pay fees to link to news articles, despite a new EU copyright […]
The Real Reason Veterinarians Gave a Tiger a Covid-19 Test
Nadia had a cough. A dry cough, to be specific, and it wasn’t just her. The 4-year-old Malayan tiger lives in an exhibit in the Bronx Zoo with her sister, Azul, who had also started coughing at the end of March. Altogether, seven of the zoo’s big cats appeared ill, […]
Gold Arrives At The Threshold For Hyperdrive
Gold Scoreboard In concert with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s Thursday announcement of a $2.3 trillion monetary injection for the U.S. economy — on top of the federal government’s $2.2 trillion economic aid package and with even more trillions tentatively to be tendered — a valued core reader of The […]
Global Shutdown And Gold
Have you read Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged? The main theme of the book is that – overwhelmed by growing statism – entrepreneurs at one point say finally “basta!” and announce a strike. They disappear, leaving their businesses to their fate. The symbolic Atlas who carries the world, shrugs. As […]