Happy monday! In recent months, the stock markets and pandemic deaths have exploded. It turns out, as you will read today, that death may be the safest investment of 2021. Don’t worry, there’s a lot of hope in today’s lineup as well. Meet the banjo-playing Democrat trying to push America toward fiscal discipline, join a dissenting basketball league, watch great music documentaries … and vote for whiskey in your cafe at the prestigious Webby Awards!
Charu Sudan Kasturi, editor, and Shaan Merchant, content marketing and communications
The choice has always been between patents and patients. Months after India and South Africa urged the West to relax intellectual property laws so COVID-19 vaccines can be made at affordable prices, the US finally begins talks with the World Trade Organization on ways to distribute vaccines more equitably. (Sources: Al Jazeera, Lancet)
3. Pay a political price?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party lost an election in the key state of West Bengal over the weekend as it comes under increasing criticism for mismanaging the COVID-19 crisis in the country. Meanwhile, thousands of supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets to protest a congressional inquiry into his mismanagement of the pandemic. (Sources: BBC, Al Jazeera)
4. Beijing Bully?
The Philippines on Monday warned China to avoid “dangerous maneuvers” in the Southeast Asian nation’s maritime territory, even as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was becoming increasingly harder to work with Beijing amid differences over China’s human rights violations. (Sources: Bloomberg, Reuters)
Moderates in Congress
Politicians with polarizing ideas often catch the spotlight. But if President Joe Biden is to get Congress to approve his ambitious agenda, it is these scheming moderates that he will need to convince.
This Tennessee Democrat, a long-time member of the Blue Dog Coalition, who advocates fiscal responsibility, might be what comes closest to a politician Ron swanson could be late. the play banjo, we know that the congressman spent weekends with his chainsaw help remove fallen trees after storms. Can he break the partisan grudge of Congress to gain bipartisan support for economic discipline?
TED or Coachella? Why not the two of them?! From May 15-16, join us for a virtual celebration of big ideas at OZY Fest, aka “The New SXSWâ€. Spend a weekend with game changers, from Dr Anthony Fauci and Condoleezza Rice to Sevyn Streeter and Mark Cuban. Register now.
Upcoming IPOs to watch
The first quarter of 2021 saw a record number of IPOs, as economies struggled after last year’s setbacks. Here are some of the next big IPOs to watch.
1. Grab
Take a piece of the Southeast Asian super-app when it goes public through a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), as its share price is only expected to skyrocket. The Singapore-based company, which started as the region’s Uber, but has since grown into payments, delivery and more,expects a valuation of $ 40 billion, the largest PSPC launch ever.
3. Robin Hood
Many of its users outmaneuvered Wall Street sheriffs earlier this year, when they inflated shares of the struggling GameStop company, stunning the financial world. Now the digital brokerage, which had 19 million users at the end of February, is turning atWall Street for funding, with an IPO which he hopes will bring him a valuation of 40 billion dollars.
Separatist sports leagues
Modern football’s biggest rebellion, the rebellious European Super League, collapsed within days in April. It is not alone. Rebellions in sport have a mixed record.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the sport’s governing body, called the FIA, introduced a rule whereby teamsintroduced a spending limit would benefit from greater technical and design flexibility. Several top teams, led by Ferrari, protested the creation of two sets of rules and threatened to form abreakaway racing league. But the FIA ​​ultimately compromised, anew agreement has been signed and the screaming tires of elite auto racing stuck with Formula 1.
3. EuroLeague basketball
The best Spanish football clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​among the pilots of the concept of the European Super League, have a history of rebellion that extends to basketball. In 2000, they were part of theEuroLeague Basketball, breakaway led by Spain, which sought to replace the dominance of the world’s leading sports body, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), on the continent. It worked, and two decades later,several attempts by FIBA ​​to compete for influence in Europe have largely failed.
Today on ‘The Carlos Watson Show’
Get to know the real Chelsea Handler. The famous comic makes Carlos laugh while discussing how she fights injustice and encourages us to “come out of your own holes†and approach others with empathy. Look now.
Great documentaries on new music
You never knew these great artists like you will now.
Imagine the scene: the four British geniuses, all on drums, smiling even as we know they’re about to go their separate ways. Unlike the 1970 documentary So be itthere is nothing melancholythis Peter Jackson movie, where he brings together never-before-seen images to recreate the last days of the Fab Four. He is ready for aAugust version.
3. “Tina”
She is simply the best. ButTina turner had to beat all the odds to become better than all the rest. From the violent relationship with her ex-husband Ike to her journey of rediscovery, Tina is a story of pain and glory that will leave you even more in awe – if possible – with one of rock music’s greatest icons.
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