It has truly been a year like no other, with the pandemic dominating not just every news cycle but each of our lives. From work to family life, where we went, and what we did, nothing was untouched by Covid-19. …
Read More »U.S. Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion Since The Pandemic Started
American billionaires haven’t been just immune to the pandemic, they have been thriving in it, drastically increasing their collective wealth. An analysis by Chuck Collins at the Institute for Policy Studies found that American billionaires have been their wealth grow by $1 trillion since …
Read More »America’s Most Important Trading Partners
The 2020 US Presidential election is one of the most important in decades – not just for Americans but also for its trading partners. As our Statista chart shows, when it comes to overall trade with the United States, Mexico and Canada …
Read More »The Countries With The Most COVID-19 Cases
This regularly updated infographic keeps track of the countries with the most confirmed Covid-19 cases. The United States is still at the top of the list, with a total now over the nine million mark, according to Johns Hopkins University figures. …
Read More »COVID-19 Deaths Per 100,000 Inhabitants: A Comparison
The Johns Hopkins University looked into the number deaths per 100,000 of the population in the top-10 countries worst affected by COVID-19. The United Kingdom had over 300,000 confirmed cases as of August 10, according to the Johns Hopkins University, along with 70.16 deaths …
Read More »Where Do U.S. Overseas Adoptees Come From?
In a landmark case decided this week, U.S. citizen Kara Bos has won the right to be recognized as the daughter of her biological father in a Korean court. Bos, who was adopted from South Korea at the age of …
Read More »The Countries With The Most COVID-19 Cases
This regularly updated infographic keeps track of the countries with the most confirmed Covid-19 cases. The United States is unlikely to be overtaken in the near future, with a total now north of one million as of 30 April according …
Read More »Precarious reliance on remittances
Does the last Wednesday speech of the US President Donald Trump in which he declared that the USA is 100% self-sufficient in meeting its energy needs raise alarms for the overseas workers working in the Gulf? Majority of the overseas …
Read More »Lopsided reporting on US-Iran conflict
Without mincing words, it may be said that Pakistani readers/viewers get no clue of the current United States–Iran conflict. To be precise they are lost by reading reports released by international media houses. The reason in most obvious, these media …
Read More »Where U.S. Troops Are Based In The Middle East
After the death of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. missile on Friday in Baghdad, the Iraqi government has voted in a non-binding resolution Sunday to expel U.S. troops from the country. Prime minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi could now …
Read More »When China and other big countries launch cryptocurrencies, it will kick off a global revolution
One of the hottest topics in cryptocurrencies is the prospect of major economies launching state-backed digital coins. China’s central bank recently accelerated plans for what is currently known as the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP). It could launch within the …
Read More »Future of oil prices in short to medium term
Presently, US-China trade war is the single most important factor that is governing oil demand and hence its international price. Even global economic growth hinges upon striking a deal between the two power houses. The markets appear to have turned …
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