When is enough enough?
We re still doomscrolling through gloomy news about the coronavirus and the rest of your daily routine is probably something like mine while at home in the pandemic: Divided among streaming movies on Netflix, watching home improvement videos on YouTube and playing video games. All of these activities involve staring at a screen.
There has to be more to life than this. With the new year upon us, now is a good time to take a breather and consider a digital detox.
You could set modest goals. If that feels doable, shorten the time limit and make it a daily goal. Repetition will help you learn new habits.
Is a home office actually more productive? Some workers think so livemint.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from livemint.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some Americans have a new outlook on remote working: They prefer it.
In June and July, a group of 1,388 people working from home were asked for their impressions of the experience by workplace consulting firm Global Workplace Analytics and video technology company Owl Labs.
The new arrangement, it turns out, suited many of them.
While roughly 27% said they would have considered such a setup to be ideal before the coronavirus pandemic started, 80% said they would like to continue working remotely for three days of the week or more once the pandemic is over. Many of these people said they would prefer remote work all five days of the workweek.
from Liberty Street Economics
Even after the unprecedented stimulus by central banks in Europe following the global financial crisis, Europe’s economic growth and inflation have remained depressed, consistently undershooting projections. In a striking resemblance to Japan’s “lost decades, the European economy has been recently characterized by persistently low interest rates and the provision of cheap bank credit to impaired firms, or “zombie credit.
In this post, based on a recent staff report, we propose a “zombie credit channel that links the rise of zombie credit to dis-inflationary pressures.
How does zombie credit affect inflation?
Weak banks have an incentive to extend zombie credit to avoid, or at least delay, the realization of losses on their outstanding loans. While the earliest evidence of zombie credit goes back to Japan in the 1990s, more recent studies document an increase in zombie lending globally and, in particular, in the European context. The char
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Scopus BioPharma Announces Appointment of Additional Directors
December 29, 2020 GMT
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NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Scopus BioPharma Inc. (Nasdaq: SCPS) today announced the appointment of additional members to its Board of Directors. Scopus is a biopharmaceutical company whose lead drug candidate is a novel, targeted immuno-oncology gene therapy for the treatment of multiple cancers.
Joshua R. Lamstein, Chairman of Scopus BioPharma, stated, “We are delighted to be in a position to attract prominent industry leaders to our Board. Our new directors are well-recognized for their leadership and accomplishments in the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, as well as in public capital markets and corporate governance.”