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Venezuelan retailers can’t replace stock because of Maduro’s Petro ‘cryptocurrency’ Maduro

Venezuelan retailers can’t replace stock because of Maduro’s Petro ‘cryptocurrency’

Petro, the cryptocurrency pet project from Venezuelan President’s Nicolas Maduro, is causing headaches for the country. Retail stores in Venezeula are protesting the Petro by refusing to accept it as a payment method, local news reports. Retailers say that no supplier accepts the “cryptocurrency,” which means vendors have to exchange…
bubmag
February 4, 2020
Green economics is robust enough for policy makers to assess impact of their decisions: Pavan Sukhdev Bees

Green economics is robust enough for policy makers to assess impact of their decisions: Pavan Sukhdev

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February 4, 2020
Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’ Korean Peace Talks

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

Seventy-five years ago, in February 1945, some of the last battles of World War II were still being fought but the Allies—US President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin—knew the defeat of Nazi Germany was not far off. Their next great challenge was to…
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February 4, 2020
Tesla’s stock surge adds $13.5 billion to Elon Musk’s fortune, the biggest increase for anyone this year Elon Musk

Tesla’s stock surge adds $13.5 billion to Elon Musk’s fortune, the biggest increase for anyone this year

APTesla's surging stock means Elon Musk has grown his net worth the most of anyone this year. The electric carmaker's boss has jumped from 35th to 20th in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Tesla's market capitalization passed $150 billion on Tuesday, the second of 12 valuation milestones Musk needs to hit…
bubmag
February 4, 2020
Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing WEF

Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing

Yves here. One bit of good news with Uber and its allies’ launch of an empty charter to pretend to deal with the job conditions of gig workers is it appears to have gotten little notice in the US. Perhaps the fact that it was launched at Davos was more…
bubmag
February 4, 2020