Month: February 2021

The UK chairman of accounting firm KPMG is resigning after he told staff in a meeting to stop complaining about the pandemic and said that there was “no such thing as unconscious bias.” In a video of the meeting published by the Daily Mail, Bill Michael can be seen telling employees they “are in a

American households making less than $75,000 are feeling especially pessimistic about their financial futures, despite promises of more federal stimulus measures in the coming months, according to the latest University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey. That’s a bad sign for the broader US economy, which runs on consumer spending. And it further underscores the gap

The UK economy suffered its biggest slump in more than three centuries last year, with GDP falling by nearly 10% over the course of 2020. That means the Covid-19 pandemic has effectively wiped out all growth in the United Kingdom over the last 7 years, returning the economy close to the size it was in

Ken Goldin has sold sports trading cards for four decades. What happened earlier this month still shocked him. In early February, a Michael Jordan rookie basketball card in pristine condition sold for a record $738,000 at an auction run by Goldin’s company. The kicker? The exact same item went for nearly $215,000 just weeks before.