TIME: Empty Cities and Stalled Industrial Production, New Analysis Shows Coronavirus Has Cut China’s Carbon Emissions by 100 Million Metric Tons

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TIME: Empty Cities and Stalled Industrial Production, New Analysis Shows Coronavirus Has Cut China’s Carbon Emissions by 100 Million Metric Tons One of the deadliest epidemics in decades has dented energy demand and industrial output in China, cutting carbon dioxide emissions by about 100 million metric tons—close to what Chile emits in a year. https://time.com/5786634/coronavirus-carbon-emissions-china/ … Read more

Bernie Sanders Boycotts the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Accusing Them of Bigotry – AIPAC Responds

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Bernie Sanders Verified account @BernieSanders The Israeli people have the right to live in peace and security. So do the Palestinian people. I remain concerned about the platform AIPAC provides for leaders who express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights. For that reason I will not attend their conference. 1/2 The Israeli people have the … Read more

3 Energy Sectors Most Threatened By The Coronavirus

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By Alex Kimani At a time when the energy sector is weighed down by debt and reeling from low commodity prices, American energy producers are now bracing for the biggest demand shock to hit the markets in decades: the effects of the coronavirus outbreak in China and beyond. The outbreak has already claimed more than 2,600 … Read more

Stocks Plunge (or Dip?), Traders Confused: This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen. Complacency Exacts its Toll

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The coronavirus is just the latest in a long series of issues successfully brushed off as irrelevant because all that mattered was that stocks went up. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. “Complacency” – brushing off big issues as irrelevant or nonexistent because they don’t fit into the buy-buy-buy scenario – has a way of serving up a … Read more

Youth behavior trends in the United States, 9th grade, 14-15 years old

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by theimpossiblesalad   Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/yrbs. Accessed on 2/22/2020. Tools: Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop for the visualization Interesting note: back in 2006, a secondary analysis of data explored the correlation between television viewing and the risk of sexual initiation by young adolescents. It concluded that … Read more

Europe is over (central)banked: BofE employs 4,502 staff. Bank of Japan 4,636. Fed system has 21,181 in total. The Eurosystem employs a staggering 48,509.

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Europe is over (central)banked: BofE employs 4,502 staff. Bank of Japan 4,636. Fed system has 21,181 in total. The Eurosystem employs a staggering 48,509. 10k each at Bundesbank and Banque de France.https://t.co/WWsT8FDHU0 pic.twitter.com/6HfiHCNbhA — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) February 24, 2020

The market has been on such an insane run that even after losing over 1500 points in the recent sessions, the DOW is only back down to about where it was in mid-November 2019.

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Chart here: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=.DJI Obviously, it can keep falling if coronavirus continues to spread, I get that. But I wonder if part of this isn’t JUST the virus, although that was the major causative factor. I think people were generally thinking this market needed a bit of a correction, and the virus, while a major danger to … Read more

Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20 is a U.S.-led multinational exercise, including NATO’s largest deployment in 25 years

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Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20 is a U.S.-led multinational exercise, including NATO’s participation. It is the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to Europe in more than 25 years with 20,000 soldiers deployed directly from the U.S. to Europe. https://thewatchtowers.org/exercise-defender-europe-20-is-a-u-s-led-multinational-exercise-including-natos-participation-it-is-the-largest-deployment-of-u-s-based-forces-to-europe-in-more-than-25-years-with-20000-soldier/ Some Chinese and Russians are speculating this is a pretext for an actual engagement…     h/t Google_It

Coronavirus Fears Are the Catalyst for Gold’s Surge

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Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped   From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: How the coronavirus could be the catalyst to push gold over $2,000, gold’s perfect storm is here, and how concerned should investors be about the dizzying repo … Read more