KWAME

How Would You Decide to Restart the Economy? – “There are likely to be unknown unknowns and, with that, a high risk of collateral damage and unintended consequences — whatever decision you make.”

A Reckoning for China’s Opaque Overseas Lending – “With a systemic debt crisis before us, the Chinese government’s willingness to report its data will be essential for any coordinated debt restructuring to go forward. In the absence of transparency from China, other government creditors (European governments, Japan, the United States, etc.) will balk at proceeding amongst themselves.”

Bernie Sanders’s Full Speech on Ending His Campaign – “As many of you will recall, Nelson Mandela, one of the great freedom fighters in modern world history, famously said, ‘It always seems impossible until it is done.’ And what he meant by that is that the greatest obstacle to reach social change has everything to do with the power of the corporate and political establishment to limit our vision as to what is possible and what we are entitled to as human beings.”

Statement From Vice President Biden – “It’s voices like Bernie’s that refuse to allow us to just accept what is — that refuse to accept we can’t change what’s wrong in our nation — that refuse to accept the health and well-being of our fellow citizens and our planet isn’t our responsibility too.”

Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now It’s Falling Apart – “There was a period of 20 years where people were sure COBOL was dead, so there was nobody teaching it, nobody learning it…COBOL started before there were disc drives, let alone the internet.”