According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,[1] 90 percent of the annual health care expenditure which totals $4.1 trillion is directed to people with chronic and mental health conditions. One of those is cardiovascular disease, which is the cause of more than 877,500 deaths each year.
Consolidation is the name of the “Bigs” game. The more they own the more they control... it’s the way of the power hungry world. As we have noted since the Central Banksters started to rapidly raise interest rates, the decade’s long merger and acquisition spree is over.
“On the path ahead, winds and rain are the norm” for the Chinese economy, president Xi Jinping told his countrymen in a New Year’s Eve speech.
Controlling and restricting travel is becoming a more open objective of the green energy transition, also known to readers of these pages as the Degrowth agenda.
AI powered search engine startup Perplexity AI has gained backing by Amazon’s mega billionaire founder Jeff Bezos.
The European Union is following in the footsteps of China in the issuance of a digital currency that will monitor and exert control over commercial interactions of citizens there in unprecedented ways.
They’re being called Bitcoin Depository Receipts (BDRs). They represent a way for investors to gain exposure to bitcoin, by investing in securities backed by the world’s dominant cryptocurrency.
Tech companies from start-ups to the Fortune 500 are pouring money into AI, building data centers, investing thousands of hours in creating and training new platforms, and keeping the buzz alive.
Older adults are making fast friends with ElliQ, a new Alexa-like tabletop AI created by Israel-based Intuition Robotics to relieve loneliness among seniors.
On 27 December, The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, alleging the companies infringed the newspaper’s copyrights in using NYT articles to train ChatGPT without credit, compensation, or permission to the paper.