Economist: America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars…Business Insider: Housing is so unaffordable that banks are losing money for each mortgage they finance for the first time ever

They said: Over the past year those in commercial banks have sunk by half a trillion dollars, a drop of nearly 3%. This makes the financial system more fragile, since banks must shrink to repay their deposits. Read more: https://t.co/qaaObFsmKK …

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Elon Musk – “Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump even though he didn’t violate the rules“

Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump, a sitting US President, even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn’t violate the rules: https://t.co/60PplztV4k — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022 1. On the morning of January 8, …

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Hundreds Marching Across the Border

A video has surfaced showing hundreds of illegal immigrants casually crossing the southern border in Normandy, Texas, a vast majority of whom are single adults, appearing in good spirits and good shape, meeting absolutely no resistance from authorities. This, friends, …

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People like the idea of solar farms in the abstract, but hundreds of communities around the world are currently fighting them because they require 300-600x more land than other energy sources, produce 300x more toxic waste, and devastate critical wildlife habitats.

Many rich nations dump used solar panels and batteries on poor African nationshttps://t.co/CEsQcJP3xA — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) October 16, 2022 By 2035 there will be 3x more used solar panels than new ones, which will make them 4x more expensive. …

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8 dead after severe thunderstorms in Ontario and Quebec; hundreds of thousands without power

At least five people are dead after a severe thunderstorm swept through southern and eastern Ontario and parts of Quebec on Saturday, downing trees and power lines and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ontario/gallery-in-photos-severe-thunderstorm-sweeps-across-southern-ontario-quebec/ h/t Goneviral

Supermarkets slash hundreds of prices as customers face cost-of-living crisis: Asda and Morrisons reduce price of tea-bags, eggs, meat and cereal by up to 13% on average

by Boo_Randy Are the first signs of deflation appearing? Tapped-out consumers in our oligarch-looted, inflation-ravaged economies (f**k you, central bankers) can’t afford to buy items priced out of reach, forcing retailers to start cutting prices (and slashing their own profits, …

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