By 2030, the population that is over the age of 65 will rise by nearly 40%. gzeromedia.com/graphic-truth-…

It's official: the $3 billion that Cuomo & de Blasio offered Amazon for its #HQ2 would have been for nothing. Pure giveaway. Bezos has been exploiting gov't policy since 1995. It's a core part of his strategy, a big factor in Amazon's rise. We need #antimonopoly politicians.

“'Central banks can’t come up with vaccines.' It's time to get ready for what that implies." wired.com/story/covid-19…

Majority of the world's solid waste is food (from our groceries, restaurants, fridges). In US, 30 mn acres, 4.2 tn gallons of water & 2 bn lbs of fertilizer are used to grow food that’s never eaten. W/ a billion hungry, it's one one of greatest mismatches of supply & demand UBS

Fed interest rate now: 1.55% (with market pricing in further 0.75% cut) Fed rate before 2008 crisis: 5.25%

One of the most popular apps in S Korea: Corona 100m, which will alert users if they come within 100m of a location visited by someone who’s had COVID-19 qz.com/1810651/south-…

And tourism is in free fall.

1. Building a strong social welfare state and competent public health bureaucracy is now inevitable. Here's why. In China, S. Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, the key to stopping the virus, and restarting activity, is ensuring that people do voluntarily quarantining when necessary.

>15.5m Americans work in restaurants. Of those workers, roughly 3m live in poverty. Most don’t have paid sick leave. That includes 517K McDonald’s workers, 180K Subway workers, 165K Burger King workers, 156K Pizza Hut workers, and 133K Wendy’s workers medium.com/@13DResearch/w…

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Movie theaters were hanging on, now finished off. Movie production is also in remission. So it all goes to laptops, streaming, and AI-powered video production. The virus is killing Hollywood and decentralizing movie making.

Last month was the first March without a school shooting in the United States since 2002.

"The largest five stocks in the S&P 500 now account for 22% of the broad market, well beyond the peak of 2000." ft.com/content/843d6c…

Official triumph for FT Weekend Our first full-on gourmet and fine wine Lunch with the FT iv since lockdown - and also some super smart exchanges on debt and the future via Rana Foroohar with Kiril Sokoloff ft.com/content/b8639a… via Financial Times

Must Read. A virtual lunch of Russian meatballs, Brussel sprouts, soufflé, and sobering investment insights. ft.com/content/b8639a… Rana Foroohar

Net savings across income distribution blogs.wsj.com/dailyshot/2020…

It was really rewarding to report on this story for my local paper IdahoMountainExpress How kratom, a legal 'herbal opioid,' tore one family apart. mtexpress.com/news/health/ho… via IdahoMountainExpress

The corporations and billionaires who run them are taking over our government. Five major financial institutions were all under federal investigation for fraud. All five cases were just dropped by Trump and Musk. It's now legal to cheat consumers. npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-…

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Is America losing the ability to grow our own food? The data says... yes. thebignewsletter.com/p/is-america-l…