BITCOIN PERFORMED 10 TIMES BETTER THAN GOLD IN 2020
Bitcoin has risen in price by nearly 300 per cent in 2020, outperforming the combined gains of gold and the Dow Jones stock market by
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The economic chart of the year: Morning Brief
About 70% of U.S. GDP growth comes from consumer spending. And this spending can basically be broken into two categories — goods and services.
A theory of (almost) everything for financial markets
Two young fish swim through the ocean, passing an older fish, whosays: “Hey boys, how’s the water?” The two younger fish swim on, untilone turns
Coronavirus has been with us for a year. Here’s what we still don’t know
When China first reported cases of coronavirus to the World HealthOrganization on December 31, 2019, it was described as a mysterious newstrain of pneumonia. It
Does working from home make employees more productive?
REMOTE WORKING, relatively uncommon before the pandemic, has gone mainstream. Before covid-19 roughly 5% of Americans worked from home. By May the figure had risen
How California went from a leader in the Covid fight to a state in despair
California was the first state to lock down and avoided overwhelming its hospitals. Nine months later, its leaders are struggling as conditions worsen
Global banks generate record $125bn fee haul in 2020
Investment banks across the world have generated a record $124.5bn in fees this year as companies raced to raise cash to outlast the pandemic. The
Tech was ahead of Covid curve at every stage, but it couldn’t bring the rest of us along
The tech industry was ahead of the Covid curve from the beginning. Faster than the public and even governments, tech companies were among the first
The year when everything changed
Warren harding built a campaign for the presidential election in 1920around his new word “normalcy”. It was an appeal to Americans’supposed urge to forget the
PODCAST: A Century Of Money
Recessions, depressions, bubbles, and blue skies — our economy has ahistory of soaring and plummeting. This hour, TED speakers look to thepast for lessons on