Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway can afford almost any of America’s public companies following the coronavirus sell-off. The billionaire investor’s conglomerate held $125 billion in cash and short-term investments at the …
Read MorePope Francis on Friday night delivered a message of hope to the world amid the coronavirus pandemic. He did so in a hauntingly empty St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, …
Read MoreEnvision, for a moment, a world in which the rapidly spreading coronavirus is mostly infecting people under the age of 50. Imagine that the death toll is highest among children …
Read MoreThis story was originally published in The New York Times. Used with permission. The only thing that should have been different about the first Friday in March was the apple …
Read MoreWall Street has been roiled by the fastest and most extreme sell-off in its history, said Michael Santoli at CNBC. With the coronavirus pandemic worsening, it took the S&P 500 …
Read MoreHere in the U.S., a lot of us are suddenly spending a lot more time at home with our pets. My social media feed is filling up with photos of …
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Read MoreBerlin-based Arweave is a startup which is building a decentralized internet archive that it calls its ‘permaweb.’ This permaweb contains information from across the globe that Arweave says cannot be …
Read MoreOne of the best ways to improve as a designer is to study the greats. There’s no doubt that Candy Crush is one of the best selling mobile games of …
Read MoreBefore dawn one morning last week, Karlena Dawson waited in line for her medications at the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, an immigrant lockup outside Seattle. Surrounded by more than 20 …
Read MoreWith Bernie Sanders all but defeated and Joe Biden a near lock for the Democratic presidential nomination, the American left should be inconsolable right now. But these are not normal …
Read MoreGermany’s death rate from the coronavirus is substantially lower than that seen in Italy, Spain, and the UK. 49,603 Germans had tested positive for the coronavirus as of March 27, …
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