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The Dam Is Finally Cracking: Creating “money” out of thin air and spreading it around to satisfy every constituency doesn’t increase productivity. It destroys productivity by incentivizing waste – the waste is growth Landfill Economy – and speculative bets on bubbles never popping.

  The central bank problem will be impossible to solvehttps://t.co/3vbInmOcCl pic.twitter.com/0c4DW5nZVp — Patrick Artus (@PatrickArtus) April 21, 2022 https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1517246146086854656 3% 5s pic.twitter.com/PYM5roCN45 — Ed Bradford (@Fullcarry) April 21, 2022 Exactly and bond term premia could have a lot further to …

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Zelensky wants $7 billion per month…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine needs $7 billion per month to make up for economic losses caused by Russia’s invasion of his country.   Zelenskiy, in a virtual address to World Bank forum, …

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It’s official: Wimbledon announces all tennis players from Russia and Belarus – including those who have publicly condemned the war – will be banned from competing. Includes numerous top players.

REUTERS: Wimbledon, the world's most prestigious tennis tournament, to bar all Russian players They originally said they'd ban Russians unless they denounce Putin. Instead, they're banning all Russians, including those who bravely denounced the war:https://t.co/yZqZ99VpTg — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April …

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The most busted name in news: CNN+ ‘is to be shut down by Warner Bros Discovery’ after just 150,000 people signed up. they put 250 million into developing it. The CFO resigned. Failed after just 21 days.

JUST IN: CNN+ shutting down April 30th. Reminder, they put 250 million into developing it. The CFO resigned. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 21, 2022 JUST IN – WarnerBros Discovery terminates CNN+ streaming service at the end of this month, failed …

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What’s Your Plan A, B and C?

by Charles Hugh-Smith Nothing unravels quite as dramatically as systems which are presumed to be rock-solid and forever. Here’s the default Bullish case for stocks and the economy: let’s call it Plan Zero. 1. The economy and equities can grow forever …

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The Biden Inflation Scorecard! House Price Growth UP 69%, Food UP 58%, Gasoline UP 72%, Diesel Fuel UP 154%, Fed Bal Sheet UP 21% (Mortgage Rates UP 83.3%)

by confoundedinterest17 Under President Biden’s Reign of Error, inflation is the highest in 40 years. But Powell and The Fed are still overstimulating the economy, and Congress is contributing to the inflation disaster with short-sighted political policies and spending (flooding …

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Is this chart of bitcoin transactions per day really correct? If so, then this whole thing is a joke…

by smart_hedonism This is a chart of the number of bitcoin transactions per day from 2010. There’s been no significant change in the number of transactions per day since 2017! https://imgur.com/a/uJywc6v Is this chart really correct? It’s taken from here https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions All these …

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Former Intel Officials Want Efforts to Break Up Big Tech Stopped – Data Control and Retention of Social Media Partnership Is a National Security Imperative

by  Sundance  Put this in the tab labeled ‘conclusive proof of prior suspicions.’ Former Obama era intelligence officials, those who helped construct, organize and assemble the public-private partnership between intelligence data networks and supported social media companies, have written a …

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