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FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: Update: The Gadsden Kid Is Undefeated, Has His School Running for the Hills. What’s wrong with the Gadsden flag, you ask? According to school staff, it has its roots in slavery and …
via publicintegrity.org: After U.S. and allied warplanes destroyed a key bridge carrying 15 oil and gas pipelines in northern Iraq during the 2003 conflict there, officials in Washington and Baghdad made its postwar reconstruction a top priority. But instead of …
by ihasanemail [So I’m a Mandarin-speaking Asian dude from Texas. This is all anecdotal, so this is only my first-hand observations. Feelings are useless in trading. You a moron if you trade off a story versus hard facts.] I was in …
No one takes you seriously — 𝐁𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥 (@RealSaltySlim) August 1, 2023
https://twitter.com/_/status/1685089013609218048 A Japanese man who spent more than $20,000 to become a dog has finally taken his first walk and immediately made some canine friends. Known only as Toco, the man spent two million Yen (A$22,000) on a hyperrealistic border …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/personal-income-and-outlays-june-2023 Wut mean?: In June, people earned $69.5 billion more, which is a 0.3% monthly rise–more money earned more money to spend, adding to inflation… Prices of things people bought (PCE price index) went up slightly by 0.2%. Even …
The FDIC “mistakenly” releases complete version of a document showing U.S. government spent $12,700,000,000 to bail out 10 wealthy depositors amid banking crisis in March. “10 depositors had $13.3B in SVB, that’s why the FDIC bailed them out. (Spoiler alert: They …
Interest costs are a quarter of the deficit, leading to unsustainable debt. Latest US Treasury data show we're on unsustainable path: interest on the debt was a whopping $61 billion in May, more than was spent on veterans benefits and …
Costco has spent $1 billion to ensure a steady supply of their famous in-store rotisserie chicken – setting up their own massive farm and slaughterhouse in Nebraska, with 500 chicken houses each containing 42,000 chickens. The Washington-based company is the …
A scientist claims he has increased his lifespan by 20 percent after living 93 days underwater. Joseph Dituri, 55, a retired Naval officer, has been living inside a 100-square-foot pod at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for 93 days, …
The system design is that who ever closest to the money will get richer and those who furthest away from money/fiat source will be poor. That is why bankers, politicians, and elites wealth increase exponentially with each crisis. https://youtu.be/aXXB8ETjEVc The …
Guest Post from Wolf Richter at WolfStreet.com: Where does the money come from? They now out-earn inflation, they earn interest income, and they dipped into their assets whose prices ballooned over the years. Consumer spending, adjusted for inflation and for …
