France Pension Strike has started

Nothing here so far. Co-worker traveling in Paris says it started this morning. Now hotel is packed and full as people come in from rural areas apparently. The protests over pension reform in France are getting tense. Big clashes with …

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Joe Biden surrounds China with nuclear strike group, Taiwan threatening to shoot down Chinese “military objects”

https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-politics-china-b8dd0a3b281c84c02b910d82f2eaa444 Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it would shoot down any suspected military object coming close to its shores from mainland China. Maj. Gen. Huang Wen-chi, the assistant deputy chief of general staff for intelligence, told reporters that the self-governing …

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US Recession May Strike In September 2023

by confoundedinterest17 Lightning strikes! The 12-month-ahead probability of recession spiked in November across all of yield curve models. The deterioration in the outlook was most significant in the one that relies on the 3-month/18-month forward spread — Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s …

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‘We don’t have enough trucks!’ Pete Buttigieg says rail strike – which could result in 60,000 workers walking out before the holidays and cost economy up to $2 BILLION a day – is ‘not acceptable’ and must be prevented

by Boo_Randy What’s “unacceptable” is that essential workers are seeing their purchasing power & standard of living destroyed by the Fed’s debasement of the currency, and inflation rates far in excess of what our lying, Soviet-style CPI stats say it …

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