ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Series: The Extortion Economy U.S. Companies and Ransomware On Jan. 11, antivirus company Bitdefender said it was “happy...
Months into a debate at the World Trade Organization over suspending patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines in order to end the global pandemic, the delay has left Africa facing a third wave of deadly infections as countries across the continent...
Not much has been happening in the stock market in the past few days. Yesterday, the S&P 500 went down 0.15%. So, it barely moved at all. Really the markets rallied last month and came into...
Disruptive technology and science has become one of the biggest driving forces in global market acceleration over the past 20+ years. Many of you remember the DOT COM rally and how that technology disruption, even in an infancy stage,...
People caught on that the returns on the frenzied hamster wheel of "normal" have been diminishing for decades, but everyone was too busy to notice.The superficial "return to normal" narrative focuses solely on first order effects: now that people...
Summary AIER’s Leading Indicators Index posted another slight decline in May, coming in at 83 versus 88 in April. Despite the pullbacks, the May result marks the ninth consecutive month above the neutral 50 level. The Roughly Coincident Indicators index...
