Morning News: January 20, 2022

China Cuts Benchmark Rates to Bolster Flagging Economy

The U.K. Is Two Months Away From a Brutal Cost-of-Living Crisis

Australia’s (Brief) Idea to Ease Supply Chains: Juvenile Forklift Drivers

El Salvador’s Plan to Create the First Bitcoin-Powered Nation Is Tanking the Economy—and Is a Mess by Every Measure

Bank of Russia Seeks to Outlaw Mining and Trading of Crypto

Crypto Enthusiasm Prompts Philippine Bank to Launch Trading

Market, Omicron Risks Pose New Challenge for Fed Policy Pivot

Surging Real Yields Rattle Markets Eyeing End of Easy-Money Era

Wall Street Traders Are Placing Fresh Bets on a Post-Covid World

Something Has to Give in the Housing Market. Or Does It?

How 5G Clashed With an Aviation Device Invented in the 1920s

‘It’s All Just Wild’: Tech Start-Ups Reach a New Peak of Froth

Microsoft-Activision Deal Gives Merger Speculators A New Darling

What the Metaverse Has to Do With Microsoft’s Deal for Activision

Starbucks Drops COVID Vaccine Mandate After Supreme Court Ruling

The Calculators Behind the Music-Catalog Megadeals

What California’s Most Celebrated Writer Got Wrong About Capitalism Today And The Middle Classes

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Posted by on January 20th, 2022 at 7:05 am


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