Economy & Climate Change
While world leaders kept arguing over climate change in UN over the week, the new generation took to the street across the globe demanding action from the governments and the leaders to save their future. Scientific reports that have come from several UN bodies and independent research organisations have...
Rate cut, economy and growth
The latest consecutive two interest rate cuts in Australia does not necessarily project a gloomy future of the world economy and of Australia itself. It’s not just in Australia. Since the global financial crisis, central banks around the world have cut interest rates 716 times and purchased $1.25 trillions...
US-China trade war: a layman look
The US-China trade war is an illusion, not the reality. It is reality because the ripples of its impacts are felt across. It is the finest manifestation of the illusion of reality that we have observed in several decades. The situation is likely to worsen further not because of...
Why the land of happiness is unhappy?
In the age of militarisation, political conflicts, ethnic division and religious clashes, seeking happiness is an awkward but essential journey. Scientific development can no more necessarily measure the human progress but the personal wellbeing and satisfaction do. In recent years, the research on happiness have focused on the methods...
Resurgent of socialism in a different facet
Last month, Oxfam published a report saying 26 richest persons in the world hold wealth equivalent to poorest 50 per cent. The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, saw his fortune increase to $112bn in a year. Just one per cent of his fortune is equivalent...
The smart city
‘Smart city’ has become a popular jargon in recent times among the politicians, big companies and policy makers. Politicians might be using it to attract votes, companies to expand their business while policy makers to appear themselves more advances and ‘smart’. There’s little known to the general people about...