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Oil Spikes As OPEC+ Bicker Over How To Equitably Reopen The Spigots

Crude oil prices advanced to three-year highs above $76 a barrel as a diplomatic impasse hit the OPEC+ meeting

08 июля 2021 4 мин. 5302

NEW YORK – It appears that the international community is moving toward what many are calling a historic agreement to set a global minimum tax rate on multinational corporations (MNCs). It’s about time – but it may not be enough

07 июля 2021 5 мин. 6565

The G7 Vaccine Charade

AUSTIN – In a recent essay on Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s new administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times writes – correctly – that Power’s “first big test … lies in what America does to help vaccinate the rest of the world against COVID-19”

03 июля 2021 5 мин. 5932

$6 Billion NCR Opens Bitcoin Purchases To 650 Banks And Credit Unions

650 U.S. banks will soon be able to offer bitcoin purchases to an estimated 24 million total customers

02 июля 2021 7 мин. 8029

Here’s How Much Money Jeff Bezos Has Reaped From Selling Amazon Stock

Since Amazon’s 1997 IPO, Bezos has sold off or given away more than half of his Amazon shares. He’s now got enough cash to likely buy just about anything in the world he wants

01 июля 2021 5 мин. 4753

Reform or Revolution in Global Health?

CAPE TOWN/RIO DE JANEIRO/BRUSSELS – The World Health Organization’s governing body of health ministers has responded to a call from dozens of world leaders for a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response, and will hold a special session in November devoted to such a treaty

29 июня 2021 5 мин. 6297

A Digital Bridge to Social Support

JOHANNESBURG – For all its devastation, the COVID-19 crisis does have a silver lining: it has shone a spotlight on important policy lapses – beginning with the lack of social protection for the world’s two billion informal workers

28 июня 2021 5 мин. 5157

The Virus Next Time

BRISBANE – As more developed countries begin to feel as though they have made it to the other side of the COVID-19 crisis, two striking realities are coming into view