[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Last year the WWF International released a shocking study revealing we could be ingesting a credit card’s worth of plastic a week. Recently Reuters used the findings of the study to illustrate what this amount of plastic actually looks like over various periods of time and we thought we’d take a look.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with China for decades, and in some respects, that battle has now begun. It’s not the final, titanic clash that Taiwan has long feared, […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Singapore has given U.S. start-up “Eat Just” the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Alarmed that so many young Hong Kongers showed hostility to the ruling Communist Party and its vision for a resurgent China, the leadership has turned to re-education – a tried and tested tactic of the Party through decades of extinguishing domestic opposition.
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Editorial by Economist and FISM Founder Dan Celia [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A very interesting report came out of the Institute of International Financing, indicating that the low interest rates are fueling a debt surge by corporate America. The world debt right now is over $275 trillion. This does not include national debt. We don’t know what […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Australian scientists pushed to list the platypus as a vulnerable species after a report showed the habitat of the semi-aquatic native mammal had shrunk more than a fifth in the last 30 years. Severe drought, partly brought about by land clearing for farming and dam-building, is what researchers at the University of New […]
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Editorial by Economist and FISM Founder Dan Celia [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Is there anyone who can show me a time when a severe economic recession or depression was overcome simply through a vaccine? That time is now. Once again, we see the party-run media — this time Reuters — as they describe the potential nomination of Janet Yellen […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A new organization called the “Voter Integrity Project” is in the midst of a campaign to cold call mail in or first time voters in swing states to uncover fraud. The group was started by Matt Braynard, who worked on the Trump campaign’s data team back in 2016. The project is not officially […]
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Editorial by Economist and FISM Founder Dan Celia [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] This week is probably one of the most important weeks since the founding of our nation. It is a week that can only be compared to the week leading up to that late summer day in 1787 at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where delegates from […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. economy grew at a historic pace in the third quarter as the government injected more than $3 trillion worth of pandemic relief, which fueled consumer spending. The Commerce Department reported a 33.1% annualized growth rate. The economy remains 3.5% below its level at the end of 2019, […]