(Natural News) The World Bank on Tuesday has committed $12 billion in aid to help countries with the health and economic impacts of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The emergency aid package will include low-cost loans, grants and technical assistance, and is designed to provide a fast and reliable response for developing countries, especially those […]

(Natural News) It’s not surprising to see airlines like Flybe go under as the mass panic surrounding coronavirus has slowed down air travel in many areas, but it’s also affecting some industries you might not expect. While there’s no doubt a worried public is staying on top of the latest news about the virus, the […]

(Natural News) What do you get when you combine a ‘just-in-time logistics’ economy with a global slump in the most common form of transportation for getting goods to market — shipping? In short order, you get chronic shortages of virtually everything. And that seems to be the course we are on right now, thanks to […]

(Natural News) ‘That is all that can be said now’ An environmental group at Harvard University has promised an “escalation” to its tactics if its demands to the institution are not met, though a group member declined to elaborate on what that escalation would look like. (Article by Brianna Kraemer republished from TheCollegeFix.com) Last Thursday […]

(Natural News) Whoever came up with the idea of the global village clearly never thought about how a disaster in one part of the village would affect all the other residents. The 2008 global financial crisis is a prime example of why interconnecting the entire planet’s financial health is a seriously bad idea. Depreciation in […]

(Natural News) If Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout China at its current rate and the government finds no good way to control it, millions of workers are going to be laid off from their jobs as two-thirds of small-to-medium businesses fail. According to a Google translation of a Yahoo! Taiwan story, the virus […]

(Natural News) About a decade ago, thanks to crazy loose government rules that allowed mortgage companies to offer insanely low payments and interest rates on insanely expensive property to people who had no ability to pay for it, we seem on the precipice of repeating that disaster. In 2007, the bottom fell out of the […]

(Natural News) Federal Reserve officials are afraid that digital currencies will take power away from the central banking system. Central bankers are afraid that private financial transactions and human freedom will weaken currencies and potentially destroy banking procedures that currently dictate the economy and hold the general population back. This is why the central bankers […]

(Natural News) There was a time when John McAfee of antivirus fame predicted that Bitcoin would reach $1 million by 2020. But he’s since changed his mind and decided that Bitcoin will eventually reach $0 because the cryptocurrency is based on “ancient” technology. Part of McAfee’s former $1 million claim included a personal promise; if it didn’t […]

(Natural News) Stocks fell on Wall Street Monday as fears of a global Coronavirus pandemic affected market forecasts as traders appeared cautious and concerned. As reported by Breitbart News, “the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 440 points, or 1.52 percent. The S&P 500 dropped 1.32 percent. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.75 percent. The Russell […]