In November 2023, Argentina faced a staggering inflation rate of 211.4 percent and a poverty rate of 41.7 percent, affecting 19.5 million people living below the poverty line. The country was heading into elections with…
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“Europe is a museum, Japan is a nursing home, China is a jail, and bitcoin is an experiment.” These were former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers’ now classic words to investors at a 2023 Morningstar Investment…
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Benefit cliffs occur when earning slightly more — through a raise or extra hours — leaves people worse off because they lose government benefits. Many economists believe these cliffs can be “smoothed out” through better…
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Amid growing calls for the Federal Reserve to begin lowering interest rates, White House officials (and the president himself) have adopted the tactic of pointing to the nominal policy rates of foreign central banks as…
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Economy
Energous Introduces Battery-Free e-Sense Tag, Establishing First End-to-End Wireless Power Platform for the Ambient IoT
Energous Corporation d/b/a Energous Wireless Power Solutions, a leader in over-the-air (OTA) wireless power networks, today announced the launch of the e-Sense tag, a battery-free, maintenance-free wireless sensor for location and temperature monitoring in retail,… -
By Ryan Condon, Head of Content at Comparesoft. Real-time asset visibility isn’t a luxury; it’s a necessity. In the construction sector alone, loss of untagged equipment results in losses of £800m a year. For companies…
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By Gloria Trujillo, eSIM Group Director at GSMA, and Pablo Iacopino, Head of Research at GSMA Intelligence. IoT is at the forefront of a new evolution, as industrial digitalisation accelerates rapidly across vertical sectors. The…
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Amid growing calls for the Federal Reserve to begin lowering interest rates, White House officials (and the president himself) have adopted the tactic of pointing to the nominal policy rates of foreign central banks as…
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Benefit cliffs occur when earning slightly more — through a raise or extra hours — leaves people worse off because they lose government benefits. Many economists believe these cliffs can be “smoothed out” through better…
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“Europe is a museum, Japan is a nursing home, China is a jail, and bitcoin is an experiment.” These were former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers’ now classic words to investors at a 2023 Morningstar Investment…