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India tries to calm financial market exuberance and support the Rupee with higher interest-rates

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by Shaun Richards This morning has brought another interest-rate rise as the season continues. On a strategic level that poses more than a few questions. One clear one is that those raising interest-rates are invariably contradicting their own forward guidance as we noted with Australia yesterday. I am not sure at what level we can … Read more

War Against Conservatives

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by Martin Armstrong People are leaving Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and were moving to Parlar. Google and Apple removed the Parlar APP and then Amazon kicked then off of AWS. This is a complete purge going on of all conservatives. We are in the midst of nothing short of a real live Russian version of a … Read more

ABC News: “6-year-old repeatedly raped by older boy on Aldine ISD school bus, his mother says”

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View post on imgur.com HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston mother is demanding answers from Aldine ISD officials after she said her 6-year-old son was sexually assaulted while riding the school bus for months. “I’m angry. I have no words,” Latoya “Stormie” Monroe said outside the Aldine ISD bus barn alongside several community activists Monday … Read more

Fed Chair Powell Says “Long Way to Go” in Inflation Fight, Calls U.S. Debt “Unsustainable”

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The United States is watching disinflation travel through the national economy, but “it has a long way to go” before price stability is achieved, says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington on Tuesday, the Fed chair acknowledged that the country is in the “very early stages of disinflation.” However, … Read more

AMC to Charge More for Good Seats in Movie Theaters

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NEW YORK—Middle seats at many U.S. movie theaters just got more expensive. AMC Theaters, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, on Monday unveiled a new pricing scheme in which seat location determines how much your movie ticket costs. Seats in the middle of the auditorium will cost a dollar or two more, while seats in … Read more

Arizona Border Hospital Faces Financial Crisis After Treating so Many Illegal Alien Patients: ‘Not a Sustainable Model’

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A hospital near Arizona’s southern border is facing a financial crisis on account of the thousands of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, and its president and CEO is now taking to the media to help draw attention to the issue since so many governmental leaders have refused to address it. Dr. Robert Transchel, … Read more

YSK: Android users can dramatically increase the speed of their device animations/transitions/pop-ups with a simple settings change.

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by deep6er By making a minor adjustment in your device settings, you will immediately notice how much faster your device will perform. Why YSK is that Android default is set to much slower settings and your device can be noticeably faster. Edit: for those who tried and were unsuccessful, I had a typo in the … Read more

SoftBank virtually halts new funding as it contends with persistent losses

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https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/softbank-loses-nearly-6-billion-in-a-quarter-as-downturn-continues/ SoftBank Group’s investment vehicles posted a loss of nearly $6 billion in the quarter that ended in December as the Japanese tech investor continues to bleed through the market downturn and significantly pares back new backings. This is the fourth straight quarter in which SoftBank Group has lost money, prompting many to challenge the … Read more