Even though influenza kills thousands of people in the US each year (Reed et al. 2015), infectious diseases get little attention and has been mostly perceived as a problem of the developing world. This needs to be revisited and more attention paid to research around the impacts of potential ...
Last week’s Toronto MoneyShow took place on the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis of 2008. I pointed out that Canada largely avoided the crisis because the banks never relaxed the lending standards like the United States did. There were virtually no ...
1. We have a Prime Minister for whom the Thirty Year Rule applies when she wants it to apply, for example when she does not want to give too much away by providing a “running commentary” on Brexit negotiations, but who is perfectly happy to see supposedly confidential proceedings of the...
While advancements in automation, robotics, and quantum computing may eventually return us to productivity growth levels enjoyed prior to the global financial crisis (GFC), greater adoption rates of existing technologies will be critical to next year’s productivity growth. The challenge is that ...
Hedges & Company estimates that there were286.9 million registered cars in 2020, up from 279.1 million in 2018. The year 2016 marked the first timemore than 70 million cars were manufacturedglobally in a year (72,105,435, to be exact). That same year, 17.5 million vehicles were sold in ...
Don’t forget that two big advantages of buying over renting: (1) with a multi-year mortgage, the monthly payment stays the same for the life of the loan. By contrast, rental rates rise with inflation. For this reason alone, buying is an advantage: it’s a huge inflation hedge. Even...
In fact, NYC schools charge some of the highest tuition rates in the entire country. Read More:NY's Most Expensive High School Costs Almost $100k a Year But New York City really doesn't speak for the rest of the state and residents tend to treat it as its own island. ...