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Remember when bank deposits collected interest rates that exceeded the rate of honestly-measured inflation? Neither do I.

May 26, 2023 11:49 am

A long time ago in the 1980s, banks gave high interest rates for savings due to high government interest rates. I believe I got 8% while federal rates were 13%. Today. Banks give 1% or less while federal rates are …

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FCC has fined robocallers $208M. It’s collected $6,790

March 28, 2019 7:17 pm

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com America’s telecommunications watchdogs have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims. But years later, little money has been collected. Since 2015, the Federal Communications …

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Should Facebook and Google Pay Users When They Sell Data Collected from Users?

March 22, 2018 9:02 pm

by Charles Hugh-Smith Let’s imagine a model in which the marketers of data distribute some of their immense profits to the users who created and thus “own” the data being sold for a premium. It’s not exactly news that Facebook, …

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1918 FLU SAMPLES were collected in the 1990s from bodies in ice

March 3, 2018 12:43 pm

They collected actual 1918 flu samples from bodies buried in the Alaskan permafrostice to use in research Maybe the research was successful, eh? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070702145610.htm “In a mass grave in a remote Inuit village near the town of Brevig Mission, a …

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