Malaria, Qatar, Digital Currency

January 6, 2021

Yesterday’s Newsletter / January 6, 2021

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News

A new strain of drug-resistant malaria has sprung up in Africa
—Scientific American

BC renews state of emergency declaration after record-breaking 42 weeks
also: Zimbabwe enters COVID lockdown amid fears over crowded new year parties
also: Germany extends COVID lockdown until January 31
—CTV News, The Guardian, Deutsche Welle

Qatar ruler lands in Saudi Arabia for summit to end blockade
—The Associated Press

Pennsylvania Republicans refuse to swear in reelected Democratic senator
—NPR

Ukraine chooses Stellar blockchain network as platform for state digital currency
also: Venezuela’s Maduro plans shift to fully digitalized economy
—Coindesk, Bloomberg

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Visual

Of the countries that make up 90% of the world’s economy, only two nations—Argentina and Nigeria—are expected to increase interest rates in 2021, while the majority of governments seem poised to keep interest rates low or cut them lower; ostensibly to help their economies heal in the midst and wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. —Bloomberg

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$830 million

Amount spent by donors large and small on a pair of senate elections and subsequent runoffs that took place in the US state of Georgia in November and yesterday, respectively.

More than $490 million of that total was spent in the final two months leading up to the runoffs, alone, and the aggregate cost has earned these elections the distinction of being the first and second most expensive legislatives races in US history.

—The New York Times

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Yesterday’s Newsletter is published by analytic journalist and host of the Let’s Know Things podcast, Colin Wright.