As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, and the ensuing lockdown, the commercial property market has essentially frozen. Buildings that were used for all types of purposes: offices, diners, restaurants, hotels – they’ve all been shut down. And industries like the travel industry are forgoing $1.4 billion per week in revenue, according to Bloomberg. Source The shutdown is also having an effect on apartment buildings and […]
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Digital asset issuer Securitize has launched a tokenized platform aimed to encourage funding in under-invested real estate in rural Japan. Built in collaboration with Tokyo-based fintech firm LIFULL Social Funding, the crowdfunding platform has just finished undergoing joint tests, according to a Securitize blog post on Tuesday. Calling the project “very exciting”, Securitize CEO and co-founder Carlos Domingo said this was the beginning for both Securitize […]
Clearview is the newest company in the surveillance space we love to hate. The app, an “after-the-fact research tool,” allows thousands of government and corporate agencies to match photos of suspected criminals against a catalogue of 3 billion images culled from the internet. A New York Times report found more than 600 police agencies have started using Clearview last year, and Buzzfeed expanded that list to […]
Former top Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin says he was pushed out under pressure from US Vice President Joe Biden, after he seized the assets of the oligarch behind Burisma, the gas company that employed Biden’s son. President Donald Trump’s efforts to investigate Biden’s role in getting Shokin fired served as a pretext for his impeachment in the House of Representatives back in December. However, after Trump […]
India 13:33 GMT 19.02.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): India has been put on the priority watch list in US Intellectual Property documents under a law called Special 301 that is prepared annually to identify trade barriers to United States companies and products due to intellectual property laws, such as copyright, patents, and trademarks in other countries. The Indian cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to […]
As we enter the second decade of the new century, signs of crisis are all around us. Climate change, rising economic inequality, assaults on workers’ rights and wages, unchecked corporate power, financialization, entrenched racism, misogyny, and xenophobia, and emboldened neo-fascism and right-wing populism, to name a few. These are not simply isolated phenomena or unexpected byproducts of an otherwise healthy economic model. The entwined crises we […]
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. You can now pay $2500 to be told you’re racist Are you a liberal white woman who wants to pay money to be told that, deep down, you’re subconsciously […]
US 22:50 GMT 14.02.2020Get short URL The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is expected to elect a new Director-General in spring. Wang Binying, a Chinese official with a working law background, is reportedly a current frontrunner for to run the international body that protects inventors across the globe. Binying, current deputy director-general of WIPO, has reportedly seen her candidacy come under fire as relations between the United […]
In our ongoing attempts to glean some objective insight into what is actually happening “on the ground” in the notoriously opaque Chinese economy which has been hammered by the Coronavirus epidemic, yesterday we showed several “alternative” economic indicators such as real-time measurements of air pollution (a proxy for industrial output), daily coal consumption (a proxy for electricity usage and manufacturing) and traffic congestion levels (a proxy […]