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via CNN: The fate of Credit Suisse could be decided in the next 36 hours after a torrid week for Switzerland’s second biggest bank. Investors and customers pulled their money out of Credit Suisse over the past several days as turmoil swept the global banking industry following the collapse of two US lenders. Shares of … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-1T03u31c McCarthy says he’s going to crackdown on political prosecutions. AC
Melted plastic has become intertwined with rocks on the island, located 1,140 km (708 miles) from the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, which researchers say is evidence of humans’ growing influence over the earth’s geological cycles. “This is new and terrifying at the same time, because pollution has reached geology,” said Fernanda Avelar Santos, a … Read more
by confoundedinterest17 Strange days, indeed. Despite endless promises from Washington DC that there would never be another bank bailout, the Biden Administration bailed out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) by removing the $250,000 cap on deposit insurance. Then Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen added that in the future, only banks that posed SYSTEMIC RISK to the economy will … Read more
Comedic gold! You know we are in trouble when a comedian has to tell people this. h/t HAWK-03
via YAHOO: The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will launch its long-awaited instant payment service FedNow in July. The instant payment network will settle payments in seconds, with the capability to support consumer-to-consumer, consumer-to-merchant, merchant-to-merchant, and bank-to-bank transactions. “With the FedNow Service, the Federal Reserve is creating a leading-edge payments system that is resilient, adaptive, … Read more
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told Insider he had to borrow $10 million in 2022 to keep MyPillow afloat. Lindell said he’d also sold a building for $2 million and borrowed a further $2 million for himself. Lindell says he’s burning through $1 million dollars every month on causes related to voter fraud. Mike Lindell, the … Read more
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We know that President Trump is innocent. People are not stupid.” pic.twitter.com/CZZqYkOLdv — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 18, 2023
Robert Munro, 37, hurt his back in December while on the job, delivering furniture. He filed a WorkSafeBC claim and ended up in physiotherapy. But while reviewing his WorkSafeBC file, he came across comments referring to him as a “redneck hick to death” and an “uneducated massive redneck p—y,” and claimed he was “playing the … Read more
Guest post from John Rubino, you can find him at his Substack: Watching almost any U.S. policymaker try to explain what they’re doing these days is a surreal experience. Whether it’s foreign policy — especially our multi-front plan to start World War 3 — or public health or border security, it’s clear that these guys … Read more
UPDATE: Youtube just demonetized an objective and fact-based interview between three human beings with 1st amendment rights over a scientifically-conducted public opinion poll. Thanks to @elonmusk for the continued 1st amendment protection.@KariLake https://t.co/WwJv299fTI — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 18, 2023 It hasn't been copied over yet, but when it is, Rumble will of course keep … Read more
h/t Jim Lakely (Heartland): The British government has caved in to the reality that renewables don’t work, and will now include nuclear energy in its plan to transition to “sustainable” power. UK ‘to class nuclear as environmentally sustainable’ 15 March 2023 The UK’s Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that nuclear will “subject to consultation, be classed as … Read more
by hkboy3 I’m sure many of you know the Fed’s balance sheet increased by 300 billion last week. At the same time we have a sharp drop in treasury yields. This is a pretty good indication the Fed bought bonds to support the market. Also to prevent the collapse of FRC the fed basically had … Read more
Live version allows you to hover over the nodes to see the names of the banks which are too small to have labels. Colour represents the year. Online Editor (Inflation Adjusted) Sources: https://www.fdic.gov/ https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/usa-historical-cpi/ h/t dbacciPBI
https://twitter.com/Smurfs34Stephen/status/1636939928939687937
GPT is the acronym for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. GPT is a large language model and artificial neural network that can generate human-like poems, rap songs, tutorials, articles, research papers, and code websites. GPT-4 is bigger and better OpenAI touts GPT-4 as “more reliable, creative, and able to handle much more nuanced instructions than GPT-3.5.” GPT-4 … Read more
North Korea claims that about 800,000 of its citizens volunteered to join or reenlist in the nation’s military to fight against the United States, North Korea’s state newspaper reported on Saturday. About 800,000 students and workers, on Friday alone, across the country expressed a desire to enlist or reenlist in the military to counter the United … Read more
ESA/A.Gerst, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO via Flickr From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group Today, March 16th, is the 15th anniversary of the first bank failure of the Global Financial Crisis. If you were paying attention to financial markets back then, you probably remember… On March 14, Bear Stearns, an 85-year-old Wall Street investment bank with a … Read more