First, a little background: Over the past decade, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, as well as the central banks of Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden have experimented with negative interest rates. In other words, banks are being forced to pay more of their park cash to the central …
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‘It feels like a placebo’: Mexico’s vaccine program sees catastrophic launch Global development
Rodfo spent hours after his elderly mother tried to register for the Covid-19 vaccination through the Mexican government website, only to have the system crash repeatedly. “I spent three days fighting with the website,” he said. “My mom wouldn’t be able to do that without me.” Since the site launched …
Read More »Opposition groups called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi
A witness in the former capital, Yangon, told CNN that Sunday’s crowds were mostly young people and appeared to be significantly larger and better organized than Saturday’s protests. People’s participation was also seen to be increasing, according to witnesses. The Reuters News Service said tens of thousands were on the …
Read More »Santa Clara County Launches Fair Data Dashboard for Truck Access – Helping NBC Bay Area
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department has launched a new COVID-19 vaccine data dashboard, public health officials said Thursday. The dashboard contains information on the total number of residents vaccinated to date, race / ethnicity, gender, and age information from the state Department of Public Immigration’s California Department of …
Read More »SpaceX Nabd NASA’s SPARX launch deal
Example of an article titled Image: NASA SpaceX can be a lot of contradictory things, but you have to accept one thing: NASA has approved. So much so that it will use SpaceX as the launch company for the SPHREX program. The SPHEREx project is seriously great. Used for the …
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