The birthrate in China fell last year despite the country easing its family planning policies and allowing all couples to have two children, a finding that some parents say reflects the stresses of urban life.
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Cryptocurrency boom creates insane global graphics card shortage
The market for high-end graphics cards used to work like the market for almost any other piece of computer gear. You’d go to your local electronics store, pick one up off the shelf, and pay an amount right around the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. But the rise of cryptocurrency mining has created an unprecedented global […]
Ford is cutting back on sedans to build more SUVs — and it could mean a boom for its business (F, GM, FCAU)
Matthew DeBord/BI Ford announced that it’s reducing its commitment to passenger cars. For over a year, the auto industry has been grappling with a market shift toward pickup trucks and SUVs. Ford hasn’t followed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in deciding that passenger cars are all-but dead in the US market. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne, […]
Meteor lights up night sky, rattles Michigan with ‘loud boom’ (VIDEOS)
Residents in several cities across Michigan reported seeing a bright and colorful flash travel through the sky before hearing a loud boom. The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it was a meteor fireball. Numerous videos recorded by security cameras and dashcams in the Metro-Detroit area and surrounding cities Tuesday night show a flash […]
Imports boom as solar tariff deadline looms and ITC reaffirms position
Enlarge / A young woman looks at a photovoltaic installation at a booth at the InterSolar Europe trade fair in the southern German city of Munich on June 1, 2017. (credit: Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images) In anticipation of tariffs that may be levied on solar cell and module imports, foreign solar manufacturers doubled what they shipped […]
MIZUHO: AMD and Nvidia’s crypto boom is officially over (NVDA, AMD)
Thomson Reuters Nvidia and AMD have enjoyed strong demand for their chips that could be ending soon. The companies will have to focus on other areas of their businesses to continue to do well in the future. Watch the price of Bitcoin move in real time. As bitcoin crashes through multiple $ 1,000 milestones, it […]
Do we need a tech boom for the elderly?
Enlarge / What’s he doing? (credit: Hugo Bernard / Flickr) Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like childhood, adolescence, and gender—is a social construct, and a modern one at that. Coughlin argues that […]
House prices UK: Property up North will BOOM in 2018 – but it's bad news for London homes
The outlook from RICS for 2018 would appear to be steady yet subdued, with their forecast suggesting that house price growth in the UK will likely come to a halt over the course of next year as the number of transactions reduces slightly. However, the overall headline figures from the report are expected to remain […]
China has a ‘mega’ oilfield that’ll never boom
Reuters/China Stringer Network China announced the discovery of the Mahu field located within the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang province. The field is estimated to hold between 0.52 and 1.24 billion tons of crude oil. Infrastructure in the region is poor so it’ll never reach the level where it is economically viable to develop it. 2017 will most likely […]
The euro zone’s boom masks problems that will return to haunt it
“WHAT does not kill me makes me stronger,” wrote Nietzsche in “Götzen-Dämmerung”, or “Twilight of the Idols”. Alternatively, it leaves the body dangerously weakened, as did the illnesses that plagued the German philosopher all his life. The euro area survived a hellish decade, and is now enjoying an unlikely boom. The OECD, a club of […]
