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Business in Times of Corona
Ten weeks ago, CFI.co published a series of five reports on the portent of a novel economic event. Some 70,000 words later, that event has become – not arguably, but factually – the most significant news story of our lives.
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The Value of News
Lee Enterprises for Davenport, Iowa, is a leading US provider of local news. In January, the company paid $140 million to add 31 smaller-circulation newspapers to its burgeoning stable that includes such hallmarks of print as the St Louis Post-Dispatch
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Ayah Bdeir: Innovation, Invention from Mouths and Hands of Babes
Get them while they’re young and make it fun, says littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir, and we can ignite a child’s innate curiosity for STEM subjects. Innovators of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are researching and collaborating to deliver solutions
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Recession or Depression: Nadir Has Passed, Recovery Delayed
The shape of things to come seems not to resemble the ‘V’ promised early on in the Corona Recession. With a little luck, growth graphs may yet turn into a hesitant ‘U’ shape. Die-hard optimists took heart from the latest
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Money for Nothing
From a mere medium of exchange, money has turned into a pixie dust that, sprinkled liberally, brings economies to bloom and wards off evil thoughts and spirits. The idea that coin is just a more refined and convenient form of
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Innovate to Overcome: Financing Health Systems Against NCDs
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for a growing global health burden — and 41 million mortalities each year. Low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately affected by NCDs. An estimated 97m people (or 1.4 percent of the world’s population) fell below
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Europe’s Golden Eleventh Hour
In true EU fashion, a compromise solution is taking shape for member states unable to power up their economy for the post-corona recovery. French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel have proposed the creation of a €500 billion
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No Quick Recovery for Europe
Just before the weekend, Germany nosedived into a recession after the Statistisches Bundesamt, the country’s statistics bureau, announced a 2.2 percent contraction of GDP over the first three months of 2020. The economy shrank 0.1 percent in Q4 2019. A
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Sobering Words from Fed Chairman Powell
This morning, investors are taking stock after being administered a measure of sobering realism by Jerome H Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank. Exchanges in Asia and Europe opened on a low and showed little oomph as the
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Carmakers Running on Fumes
French car manufacturer Renault can be bought for a mere €5.7 billion, a trifling sum in an environment defined by trillions gushing from central banks and state coffers to troubled businesses. Already before the pandemic hit, the company was suffering.
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