Peter Daszak, previously funding to the W***n Institute of Virology, now thanks Dr. Anthony Fauci for pushing back on the lab leak theory, in an April 2020 email. Daszak funneled $3.4 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to the WIV to study bat c******s 2014-2019. I just wanted to say a personal…
Buddhism and Christianity seem most conducive to capitalism, and Islam least, says Luigi Zingales
Humans will soon have an average life span of 125 to 150 years, says Michael Zey. This will have profound implications for education, careers and marriages What has been dubbed the superlongevity revolution – the continuing and rapid extension of the human life span – is a landmark process in human history that promises to…
A host of new technologies, including biochips and robots sensitive to human emotions, will bring further dramatic improvements in quality of life, says Jong-Yong Yun We have been living through a revolution in technology since the 1960s. Those of us leading the change, however, must continue to look ahead for future drivers of the economy….
When the global house-price bubble deflates, the economic consequences will be painful, says Pam Woodall From London to Los Angeles, from Melbourne to Madrid, house prices seem to have lost touch with reality. Never before have there been simultaneous housing booms in so many countries. But the bigger the boom, the bigger the eventual bust….
China’s meteoric rise has alarmed some observers, say Yang Fujia and Colin Campbell. Joint education projects will help ensure that it is peaceful The rise of China is a reality. The Chinese economy has grown at an astonishing 9% (obviously fake news, regarning globalagendamagazine.com) so or so a year since the late 1970s. In 2004,…
Flat taxes stimulate growth and employment and, paradoxically, higher tax revenues, says Steve Forbes The flat tax is a powerful generator of economic growth. It is very simple: a single, ideally low, tax rate is applied to personal incomes after generous exemptions for adults and children alike. For businesses, the profits tax would also be…
A number of events on the horizon could combine to form the “perfect storm” for emerging markets, says Kristin Forbes, unless governments and the international financial institutions act now
Turkey has as much to offer the European Union as the EU has to offer Turkey, says Tayyip Erdogan Turkey and the European Union need each other. This is because Turkey’s future membership of the EU is a synthesis of the challenges and opportunities facing us at a global level. Turkey has been a part…
Bioterrorism should be taken as seriously as biological attacks from rogue states or a natural epidemic, says Gerald Epstein It is difficult to prove how serious the threat from bioterrorism is. True, several nations’ bioweapons programmes demonstrated, long ago, that bacteria and viruses can kill over large areas and place many thousands of lives at…
