The “obesity epidemic” is old news by now: 13 percent of the world’s adults are obese—defined as a body mass index of 30 or higher— including 36 percent of Americans, according to Harvard University. Among people in the U.S. under age 20, more than 19 percent are affected and the proportion is growing.
Data shows that electric vehicles (EVs) do less damage to the natural world over their lifespans than gas-powered cars and trucks do.
If someone has a stroke that affects mobility and isn’t treated within a few hours, the person’s chances of significantly recovering their movement diminish greatly.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”—H.L. Mencken
When China launched the COVID War in January 2020, on its Lunar New Year, “The Year of the Rat,” it not only destroyed its economy, it destroyed the lives and livelihoods of billions across the planet.
With more countries trading directly in their own currencies instead of converting to dollars as the world’s standard of value, the dollar is on the way out as the world’s leading currency, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced last week at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
By the year 2100, there will be less humans on earth than there are today, and exponentially more AI machines.
Those AIs will use far more energy, and far more of virtually every other crucial resource, in one capacity or another, than humans.
As we had long forecast, the higher central banks raise interest rates, the lower the Merger and Acquisition trend... which hit record highs during the COVID war when interest rates sank and governments pumped in countless trillions to artificially prop up sinking economies. Now M&A activity has slowed to a trickle as we have continued to detail.
As we correctly predicted, loans on office properties are increasingly hard to come by as property values and lease rates fall while landlords’ costs rise.