With the advent of Covid-19 which inspired working from home, as many as 300 Wipro employees’ were fired for moonlighting, as they took advantage of working from home and worked parallelly with another company. Digital India has the means to expose the culprits. Wipro’s motto is “everything starts with an ambition” but when this becomes…
Kim Kardashian has been fined £1.2m ($1.26m) by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for advertising EthereumMax on her Instagram page. According to US Securities and Exchange Commission said the reality TV star had received £250, 000 for advertising the cryptocurrency without disclosing she has been paid to do so. She agreed to pay the…
Inflation leaps from seven per cent in March was as much in a single month as the Bank of England’s inflation target for an entire year, as the petrol prices hit a new all-time high of £1.67 at the pump and City experts cautioned that supermarket and energy bills, as well as the mortgages, will…
Christopher Leonard, the New York Times business journalist, infiltrates the Federal Reserve to show how its policies steered by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have accelerated income equality and put America’s economic stability at risk. The press credited the Fed when the economy grew and also when the economy imploded in 2008,…
Diane Coyle, distinguished academic economist with Harvard PhD, Cambridge Chair, and professional, ex-UK Treasury, CBE, explores enormous problems but also opportunities and explains how economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy – Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionising both the tools…
The UK government continued to support the economy during the pandemic by borrowing soared in November hitting £31.6bn the highest level on record according to the office for National Statistics and the third-highest figure in any month since records began in 1993. The Independent Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated that the amount of borrowing…
In August as the effect of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme which ran from Monday to Wednesday, and offered 50 per cent off food up to the value of £10, pushed down the restaurant prices and July’s consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation figure had been1 per cent. The VAT cut in the hospitality…
The UK economy suffered its worst and biggest slump on record between April and June due to coronavirus lockdown measures, shrinking as much as 20.4 per cent compared with the first three months of the year. The UK is officially into recession. Household spending plunged as shops were ordered to close, while factory and construction…
The UK government borrowed £127.9bn between April and June for tackling the coronavirus pandemic, taking the total government debt to £1.98 trillion. The difference between spending and tax income was more than double the £55.4bn borrowed in the whole of the previous year. The borrowing in June was lower in May at £35.5bn, as…
Trade conflicts caused by governments promoting the interest of the elite at the expense of workers. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. The class wars of rising inequality are a…