You're a central bank, you manage the economy giving out dollars.
Do you lend to people directly or do you think, "no, we should guarantee private individuals tremendous power and profit so that the financial system can collapse due to their mismanagement every couple decades"
When you say travel insurance, are you thinking of overseas medical expenses?
I cut my foot on some rocks in the US and that insurance claim paid for all the previous travel insurance I'd taken out previously.
Travel insurance is very much required travelling to many countries. Basically the same category as health insurance.
Insuring travel itself is a scam.
In fact, “There weren’t that many people involved and the economic repercussions were pretty minor,” Goldgar says. “I couldn’t find anybody that went bankrupt. If there had been really a wholesale destruction of the economy as the myth suggests, that would’ve been a much harder thing to face.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/
Would Japan realistically go to bat for Taiwan? It's the nightmare scenario for all Asian and Pacific countries that are trying to balance between the US and China
Excluding London, that's only 152 percent of China's per capita GDP (PPP adjusted)
Press the button Xi!
at what cost!?
The standard of living was higher in the North until, I think, the 70s?
I blame taxes for giving this person access to the internet and the ability to read and write