Real Estate Agent Showing A Big, Beautiful House To A Couple

FEBRUARY HOME SALES UP MOST IN A YEAR

In February, 9.5 percent more U.S. homes sold than in January, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported. Although sales were down 3.3 percent year on year, February this year marked the largest monthly jump since February 2023.

 

 

Global Economy

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

Merger and Acquisition took a break when the Federal Reserve and EU began aggressively raising interest rates from their zero and negative levels back in March and July 2022 respectively. 

“REINVENT YOURSELF,” IMF TELLS CHINA

“REINVENT YOURSELF,” IMF TELLS CHINA

“China faces a fork in the road” and needs to "reinvent itself" with dramatically new economic policies that will end its 30-month-long property crisis, jump-start consumer spending, and raise productivity, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on 24 March.

CHINA’S MIDDLE CLASS GOING DOWN, GOLD BUYING GOING UP

CHINA’S MIDDLE CLASS GOING DOWN, GOLD BUYING GOING UP

China’s middle class blossomed from the 1980s until Beijing launched the COVID War in January 2020 on it Lunar New Year, “The Year of the Rat,” and imposed three years of draconian zero-COVID policy which destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of its citizens.

The Israel War

Little Girl With Partial Arm Prosthesis Holding Her Mother By The Hand

THOUSANDS OF GAZAN CHILDREN SEE THEIR LIVES SHATTERED AFTER LOSING LIMBS

By the end of December, at least 12,000 Gazans—including 5,000 children—had lost at least one limb in the Israeli bombardment of the small coastal enclave—with the number surely reaching much higher since but impossible to count because of the lack of telecommunications from the city.

AI

CAN AI BE MORE CREATIVE THAN PEOPLE?

CAN AI BE MORE CREATIVE THAN PEOPLE?

Researchers at the University of Arkansas tested ChatGPT-4 against 151 students to see which did better at divergent thinking, a standard measure of creative ability.

APPLE, GOOGLE MAY TEAM UP ON AI

APPLE, GOOGLE MAY TEAM UP ON AI

Apple is talking with Google about putting the latter’s Gemini AI into iPhones, people familiar told Business Insider. The combination could happen sometime this year.

Hi-Tech Science

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