Our trend “From Dirty Cash to Digital Trash” has been embraced to the COVID-minded public who fear the virus can be lurking any place and on anything. An August survey conducted by Rapyd, a global payment network, shows more than half of all Americans are fearful of catching the coronavirus from touching paper money and coins....
Tag: aug 18 2020
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MASK MADNESS CONTINUES
Many nations across the globe are continuing to mandate that people out in public must wear masks. As we have long been reporting, there is no hard, scientific data that wearing masks effectively stops the spread of the coronavirus. We noted that the CDC; the WHO; and America’s “most respected infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony...
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LOCKED DOWN & MORE LOCKING DOWN
Mainstream media and politicians continue to focus on rising cases while ignoring the fact that deaths and case rates are dropping overall across the globe, both deaths and case rates are much lower than when the virus first hit… and the recovery rate of the virus is around 99.5 percent. Despite harsh lockdowns in Italy,...
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NEW ZEALAND: “FREAK-OUT” TIME
Last Tuesday evening, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared she was again locking down Auckland, the nation’s largest city. The cause of the drastic measure: Four family members tested positive for COVID-19. This was the first locally transmitted case of the virus in 102 days. Yet, now Auckland residents are being ordered to stay...
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STRATEGIES FOR “RELATIVELY” SAFE DAILY LIVING
I was deliberate in including the word “relatively” in the title of this article because surviving chaotic, dangerous times is never a cake walk. And, as the trend lines are showing, there is real danger ahead. There is risk for all of us, and this applies not only for the urban survivor, but also for...
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GOING DOWN, GOING BUST, GOING OUT
Each week we highlight how the COVID War waged by politicians has destroyed market sectors and devastated business. Here are some of the latest companies that have taken an economic hit. CISCO SYSTEMS MAKES CUTS. The network equipment company will cut more than $1 billion in costs over the next several quarters and offer early...
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BIG LUXURY BRANDS OUTPERFORM THE SMALL
Dior, Gucci, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and other marquee luxury brands have outperformed their smaller counterparts as the world’s economic shutdown began to ease. LVMH, which owns Dior, Luis Vuitton, Moët champagne, and Hennessy cognac reported a loss of 27 percent in revenue during the worst of the shutdown; Kering SA, which owns Gucci, lost 30...
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RETAIL CHAINS ABANDON MANHATTAN
In one of the U.S.’s marquee retail centers, the trendy Kate Spade fashion stores are boarded up for good. Victoria’s Secret and Gap have reopened stores in other states but not here. Subway and Le Pain Quotidien have walked away from dozens of sites. Chipotle and Shake Shack report stores in the northeastern U.S., including...
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PAVING ROADS WITH TIRES
by Bennett Daviss The rubber is hitting the road. Engineers at Australia’s RMIT University have developed a paving material made from ground-up tires and crumbled building materials. The project stems from concerns about the billions of old tires trashed annually and the mountains of useless rubble left over from constructing and demolishing buildings. Building waste...
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HELPING THE HEART REGENERATE ITSELF
by Bennett Daviss Scientists have known for a decade that if a mouse’s heart is damaged during the first seven days after its born, the heart will regenerate new tissue to replace the damaged portion. Now researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center think they’ve found a way to help people regenerate heart...