Saturday last, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, shook the bitcoin world when he announced he would make bitcoin legal tender in his country. The hype after that was unbelievable, as the hodlers went into overdrive. There were some more intelligent takes, as from Caitlin Long on Twitter and Peter St. Onge, but in general the impression was that…

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The central bank’s dollar reserves dipped in May, as the government withdrew foreign currency to use for debt repayments.   Data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed the gross international reserves (GIR) declined by 0.67% to $106.978 billion as of end-May, from the $107.705 billion logged as of end-April.   However, this was 14.7% higher than the $93.288 billion in foreign exchange buffers…

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The Government spent more than £30,000 promoting the failed Pick For Britain scheme as farmers could not recruit the 60,000 British volunteers needed to save UK crops when the coronavirus pandemic stopped seasonal foreign workers from entering the last year. Yet £29,830 was spent between April 2020 and April 2021 on the failed scheme, the Department for Environment, Food and…

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We knew there was lead in paint, and that children were ingesting paint,” said Charles Rothwell, the director of the National Center for Health Statistics, which conducts NHANES.the economist magazine subscription canadaThere is team building and TEAM BUILDING - in this srticle you will find out how to avoid some of the pitfalls that wastes time and money when building…

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The twentieth century was a century of secession. Since the end of the Second World War, the number of independent states in the world has nearly tripled as new states, through acts of secession, came into existence. This was driven largely by the wave of decolonization that occurred following the Second World War.1 From the late 1940s through the 1970s,…

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BusinessWorld Insights, Eastern Communications hold webinar on SMEs in the Now Normal Being the backbone of the Philippine economy, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are vital as the country steps onto the recovery stage. According to a statement from the United Nations in 2020, MSMEs consists of 99.5% of the business establishments and employ approximately 63% of the workforce…

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British Airways is to put thousands of its staff on full-time furlough and thousands more on reduced hours — what it is calling “flexi-furlough” — in the latest setback in the opening up of aviation markets. BA staff were briefed on the plans today, just hours after Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, was lobbied by British airlines to extend his furlough…

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The organization understands the importance of good team and is ready with the support the teams may require in terms of time and resource allocation etc.corporate team building games onlineIn this excellent article from ebizq, the author examines why Mobile BPM has lagged behind other Enterprise applications. Last but not the least, implementing lean techniques as a lean system on…

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[This passage is excerpted from Murray N. Rothbard's Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] The Federalists shrewdly decided to strike hard and swift and drive the Constitution rapidly through the states. The Federalist leaders were a small and cohesive group concentrated in the cities of the eastern seaboard, knew each other, were often tied into the same merchant business…

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Another giant move for crypto currencies as Scottish crypto currency wallet Zumo announced as signatory to the global crypto climate accord. In cooperation with fintech and crypto industry leaders, Energy Web Foundation, the Alliance for Innovative Regulation and RMI created the Crypto Climate Accord. The Accord, inspired by the Paris Climate Agreement, is a private sector-led initiative for the entire…

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