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NASDAQ

Dow Jones Plunges 800 Points, As Coronavirus Stock Market Correction Continues; 10-Year Yield Slides Below 1%

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bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Chinese Economy

Finance trade group forecasts weakest global growth since the recession

The Chinese economy will grow by just 4% this year, and the U.S. gross domestic product will only expand by 1.3% because of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the Institute for International Finance said in a report Thursday. The IIF, the international trade body of the financial services industry,…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Brexit Negotiator

Boris Johnson refuses to commit to keeping UK in human rights convention

Boris Johnson is refusing to sign up to human rights protections in any Brexit trade deal with the EU, opening the door to the UK quitting the European convention. Speaking in Brussels after the first round of post-Brexit talks, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters that the UK "informs us…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Water Scarcity

Coronavirus, Synchronous Failure and the Global Phase-Shift

Published by Insurge Intelligence, crowdfunding systems journalism for the planetary emergency. Support us to report where others fear to tread. Five years ago, the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, an independent panel of distinguished scientists, issued a landmark report warning that over the next century, the world would inevitably experience…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Cold War

US Navy Looking To Retire Futuristic Prototype Ships

From the Age of Sail through to the Second World War, naval combat was done primarily in close quarters and with cannons. Naturally the technology improved quite a bit in those intervening centuries, but the idea was more or less the same: the ship with the most guns and most…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Blockchain

Citing Star Wars, Kleiner Perkins closes a $700M fund for early-stage companies

After going “back to the future” with a $600 million fund last year, VC firm Kleiner Perkins is aiming for some “returns of the Jedi” with its freshest (and refocused) fund. With Star Wars references on the forefront in its announcement, the firm today announced that it has closed its…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Doping in Cycling

Should You Do It In Jeans?

The bumper stickers about politicians skiing in jeans were first created more than a decade ago, but skiing in jeans has a much longer history than that. Whether or not it’s a faux pas is arguably in the eye of the beholder (or the wearer), and the fact is, no…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Christianity

C2E2 ’20: Spotlight on Iron Circus Comics

Chicago-based Iron Circus Comics came to this year’s C2E2, its home court, for a spotlight panel intended to highlight all the delightfully weird titles recently released or soon to be. On the panel were founder C. Spike Trotman, along with a few creators including Kel McDonald (Cautionary Fables and Fairytales),…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Checkpoint

Veritas Entertainment raises $10 million and unveils LVL esports venue in Berlin

Veritas Entertainment has raised $10 million in funding for its esports event business, and it is also unveiling LVL, a Berlin-based esports and gaming entertainment venue designed for community and competition. Bitkraft Esports Ventures and additional angel investors made the investment so that the company can build LVL’s infrastructure, scale…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Chernobyl

The case for making tiny nuclear reactors

Gas plants are cheap to build and run, have a smaller emissions footprint than coal and many see them as a safe bet, both economically and safety-wise. But General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy has started the ball rolling on an alternative that would cost the same as a gas plant,…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Dow Jones Plunges 800 Points, As Coronavirus Stock Market Correction Continues; 10-Year Yield Slides Below 1%

Finance trade group forecasts weakest global growth since the recession

Boris Johnson refuses to commit to keeping UK in human rights convention

Coronavirus, Synchronous Failure and the Global Phase-Shift

US Navy Looking To Retire Futuristic Prototype Ships

Citing Star Wars, Kleiner Perkins closes a $700M fund for early-stage companies

Should You Do It In Jeans?

C2E2 ’20: Spotlight on Iron Circus Comics

Veritas Entertainment raises $10 million and unveils LVL esports venue in Berlin

The case for making tiny nuclear reactors

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