Monday morning news drop
Canada needs to jump-start a stalled first-dose campaign to avoid a fourth wave, experts say With more virulent variants in circulation, vaccination numbers need to be higher than originally forecast (CBC)
Who are America’s vaccine skeptics? Party politics is only part of the story when it comes to vaccine hesitancy (The Critic)
Your Brand Has Never Been Easier to Destroy Welcome to the wild world of product displacement, in which no brand is safe from “hatejacking” and other threats. (Bloomberg)
Welcome to the Church of Bitcoin Thousands gathered in Miami to talk about the OG cryptocurrency — but instead of your typical finance conference, it had the feeling of a fringe religious event (Rolling Stone)
Will ‘the Great Wealth Transfer’ Trigger a Civil War? Over the next quarter century, 45 million U.S. households will collectively bequeath $68.4 trillion to their heirs. This transfer will constitute the largest redistribution of wealth in human history. GenX stands to inherit 57% of that $68.4 trillion; millennials will collect the bulk of the rest. (New York Magazine)
Are the Roaring 20s Already Here? Things are far from perfect now (and they always will be) but you could make the case that our version of the roaring 20s is already here.(A Wealth of Common Sense)
The Pitchers Whose Spin Rates Fell Most After a Crackdown on Sticky Substances Strikeouts have decreased and on-base percentage has risen — midseason changes without parallel in decades of baseball in the majors. (Upshot)