For more than 60 years, Cuba supplied at least some rice, milk, beans, sugar, chicken, electrical power and even cigarettes to its people nearly free of cost regardless of whether they worked, […]
When it came to financial markets in 2020, the most frequently asked question was why. Why, in the midst of a global pandemic that has killed some 1.7 million people worldwide and plunged the economy […]
At the start of November, in a moment of brutal honesty, JPMorgan’s quant strategist Nikolas Panigirtzoglou made a remarkable admission: there is nothing better for stocks than another economic catastrophe such as a new […]
Cuba’s economy was already struggling before the coronavirus pandemic, due to persistently poor domestic productivity, declining oil shipments from Venezuela and the ratcheting up of U.S. sanctions. But now, the closure of […]
Speaking at the New York Times’ DealBook Online Summit on Tuesday morning, SoftBank CEO Masa Son warns about the possibility of an impending “disaster” that could tank global markets in the coming months […]
In a huge bet that the global travel industry will one day come roaring back to pre-pandemic life, home-sharing giant Airbnb filed for its initial public offering of stock this afternoon. The […]
Buffeted for six decades by the U.S. economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to COVID- 19, Cuba’s already shaky economy is deteriorating. […]
As a result of the economic crisis created by the expansion of COVID-19 and its effects on reducing family income, the rate of severe food malnutrition in the Dominican Republic could increase […]
The government does not ignore the needs of the people. Especially the very weak will receive the necessary support in this period of the economic crisis facing Suriname. “On an annual basis we have […]
Thinking back to the start of 2020, it held so much promise. Not just a new year, but a whole new decade. A chance to reflect on where I’d come in my life […]
