Wife told to stop spending more than $120 on weekly groceries for family-of-five

by Boo_Randy “And they started to fight when the money got tight…and they just didn’t count on the tears.” Billy Joel, “A Bottle of Red.” Heckova job, central bankers. https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/wife-told-to-stop-spending-more-than-120-on-weekly-groceries-for-familyoffive/news-story/2aa13da73bc6da7214e8bf09609ab605 A husband has come under fire for demanding his wife …

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The Tech bubble is DOOMED. It’s collapsing for the same reason it collapsed in Y2K – slowing growth AND a Fed eager to make up for lost time.

by BoatSurfer600 So why does EVERYTHING feel like it's about meltdown? Piper Sandler chart pretty much explains it. Financial conditions were tightened gigantically and quickly by the financial mkts themselves. Liquidity destroyed in unprecedented fashion. Severe economic slowdown coming. pic.twitter.com/MVqhP2Ed3D …

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China has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within two years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-06/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs ​ Staff were asked after the week-long May break to turn in foreign PCs for local alternatives that run on operating software developed domestically, people familiar with the plan said. The exercise, which was mandated by central government authorities, …

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Mic drop from Canada…

Conservative leadership candidates Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest square off over comment made about the ‘Freedom Convoy.’ “The average trucker has more integrity in his pinky finger than you had in your entire scandal-plagued Liberal cabinet."@PierrePoilievre slammed Charest's opposition to …

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