Soon enough, Wall Street will have to take millennial investors seriously
There is more to young investors than Robinhood and TikTokOct 20th 2020THINK OF A millennial investor, and you might picture someone like Vincent Iantomasi, one of a legion of amateur traders dishing out investment advice on TikTok, a social-media app. With “Blueberry Faygo” by Lil Mosey, an 18-year-old rapper, playing softly in the background, Mr…
In Myanmar, Facebook struggles with a deluge of disinformation
MG MG KYAW can still remember the day he got his first mobile phone. It was 2012, and Myanmar was emerging from decades under the heel of a military junta. In a country where GDP per person was $1,000, SIM cards, which sold for as much as $2,000, were like gold dust. Only North Korea…
Sick of Social Censorship Amid Hunter Biden Cover Up? There’s Another Option
You’ve likely heard the news of Facebook and Twitter’s unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story surrounding Hunter Biden. This unprecedented election has left many wondering where to get the facts about candidates and where they can go to freely express opinions. Amid recent events, it has become exceedingly clear that Facebook…
Teen Girl Falls to Her Death After Being Chased by Monkeys
A 13-year-old girl has tragically perished after being chased off a roof by a clan of marauding monkeys. Earlier today, the teen plummeted to her death in Uttar Pradesh, authorities have said. The girl had gone to collect laundry on the roof that had been hung and left to dry prior to being chased by…
An American spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, grabs a bit of an asteroid
A sample should now be on its way to EarthOct 21st 2020ON OCTOBER 20TH an American spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx played tip and run with Bennu, an asteroid it has been orbiting since December 2018. At 10.12pm Universal Time its three-metre-long sampling arm puffed a blast of nitrogen onto Bennu’s surface. This liberated small pieces of…
Should covid be left to spread among the young and healthy?
Oct 21st 2020Editor’s note: Some of our covid-19 coverage is free for readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. For more stories and our pandemic tracker, see our hubAS NEW WAVES of covid-19 sweep the world, lockdowns are back in fashion. This time, though, they are a harder sell. They certainly save lives. But…
Peaceful protesters against Nigerian police violence are shot
The army showers bullets on a demonstration in LagosOct 21st 2020The soldiers waited until it was dark. They took down CCTV cameras. They turned off streets lights. Then they started shooting, automatic gunfire ringing out late into the night. Their targets were young people kneeling peacefully in the street, waving the Nigerian flag. They were…