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''TRANSITORY'' pic.twitter.com/ifwoKnP8Ls — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) May 15, 2021 Chart of the week: #inflation pic.twitter.com/KhEFnGYQ4c — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) May 15, 2021 Good Morning from #Germany where the yield curve is the steepest in 2yrs due to inflation fears. Gerrman 2s/30s yield spread has jumped to 1.09%, the highest since Jul2019. pic.twitter.com/CcpfgWwndH — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) … Read more

PimEyes scans more than 900 million images across the web Privacy experts are concerned about its ‘serious privacy risks’  More than 25 searches were performed by DailyMail.com to test accuracy    DailyMail.com uploaded pictures of reports and random people  It finds results accurately and quickly for those in the public spotlight  Images that were a match … Read more

High costs and concerns about affordability threaten the future of the F-35 joint strike fighter, the program executive officer for the aircraft warned May 13. The jet is the most expensive acquisition effort in the history of the Defense Department. Current Pentagon plans call for procuring more than 2,400 of the platforms — including the … Read more

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From Birch Gold Group It certainly appears that central bank controlled digital currency is gaining even more popularity. These “Fedcoins,” according to The Economist, “are a new incarnation of money. They promise to make finance work better but also to shift power from individuals to the state, alter geopolitics and change how capital is allocated.” The same piece also … Read more

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/14/22436072/china-tianwen-1-mars-landing-zhurong-rover View post on imgur.com https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/china-becomes-only-second-nation-history-land-rover-mars-n1267410 View post on imgur.com https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/science/china-mars.html View post on imgur.com https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/14/22436072/china-tianwen-1-mars-landing-zhurong-rover h/t dr0id

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) may not be the biggest fan of police, but she apparently has no qualms about federal air marshals. The liberal lawmaker is among the members of Congress from both parties accused of turning a program created to protect airline passengers in the wake of 9/11 into a “concierge service,” Fox News … Read more

What a waste of time! Supreme Court considers hearing a case on ‘most offensive word’ If the justices agree, they could decide whether the use of one word alone allows an employee to sue under Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Capitol riot The word? BOY.   https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/nation-world/supreme-court-consider-hearing-case-offensive-word/507-414e1ba5-2fe0-4bff-868e-7a91346644fb   h/t Goneviral

By Thu Thu Aung, Shoon Naing and Antoni Slodkowski (Reuters) -If you need cash in Myanmar, you have to get up early. Queues start forming outside banks at 4 a.m., where the first 15 or 30 customers are given a plastic token that will allow them to enter the bank when it opens at 9:30 … Read more

Americans are shopping for cars in near-record numbers, but the world’s computer-chip shortage has left dealers with the fewest offerings in decades. The market mismatch is driving up prices, and many buyers expecting to drive new cars off the lot have to wait weeks or months for their vehicles to arrive. Some showroom models sell … Read more

#Bitcoin Let's see! Bubbles burst! Bitcoin has zero intrinsic value (apart from being a Collector's item). Deflationary bust and pop of equity bubble will take #Cryptos much much lower! pic.twitter.com/SSqDxQlAzi — Henrik Zeberg (@HenrikZeberg) May 15, 2021 Crypto is currently like the art market, but for poorer people with less imagination. A “store of value” … Read more

Wallstreetbets mania fading away 🚀 pic.twitter.com/WqlTcJYrm0 — Menthor Q (@MenthorQpro) May 15, 2021 Retail trading activity in stock and options markets ebbs after surging during pandemic – FT pic.twitter.com/vRAOjaNZp3 — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) May 15, 2021 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1393182560377839618 $spx put /call ratio pic.twitter.com/2ivQcjIXIz — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) May 15, 2021 https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1392842643034488833 $spx earnings pic.twitter.com/4D9KtxgRIM — Álvaro Oviedo … Read more

Elon Musk’s net worth has plunged roughly $20 billion since he appeared as the host of “SNL” last week, but it’s not because he got some pretty bad reviews for his performance. According to Forbes, which reported Musk’s drop in wealth Thursday, it’s a combination of two of Musk’s big financial interests — cryptocurrencies like … Read more