Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Britcoin
July 25th, 2021Via: Daily Mail: Cash in people’s pockets would be superseded by a new ‘Britcoin’ digital currency in a plan being pushed by Chancellor Rishi Sunak. In what Treasury insiders say would be the biggest upheaval in the monetary system for centuries, the Bank of England would establish a direct digital equivalent to physical money and […]
Daimler to Invest $47 Billion Into Electric Vehicle Production
July 22nd, 2021Via: Reuters: Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler plans to invest more than 40 billion euros ($47 billion) by 2030 to be ready to take on Tesla in an all-electric car market, but warned the shift in technology would lead to job cuts. Outlining its strategy for an electric future, the inventor of the modern motor car said […]
How Google and Wikipedia Brainwash You
July 14th, 2021Via: Off-Guardian: It would also appear that Google is inherently biased towards pro-drug, pro-vaccine, Big Pharma medicine. In 2019, the search engine made an update to its algorithm that just so happened to shadow-ban health websites not affiliated with billion-dollar corporates.
Inflation Climbs Higher Than Expected in June as Price Index Rises 5.4%
July 14th, 2021Via: CNBC: Inflation surged in June at its fastest pace in nearly 13 years amid a burst in used vehicle costs and price increases in food and energy, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The consumer price index increased 5.4% from a year earlier, the largest jump since August 2008, just before the worst of the […]
A Manufactured Illusion, Dr David Martin with Reiner Fuellmich: “It Is a RICO Case”
July 12th, 2021Update: I requested a sanity check on this from Robert W Malone, MD right after I posted this. He did not respond. I will let you know if he does. — There is a text summary of the points made in the video at the link below. Via: Denis Bider: Martin’s favorite quote of the […]
The Potential Orwellian Horror of Central Bank Digital Currencies
July 11th, 2021Via: Adams Economics: As citizens around the world are confronted with the severe curtailment of political, economic and cultural freedoms associated with COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies (e.g., lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations and/or vaccine passports), new risks to economic freedom and prosperity are quickly emerging which citizens must be aware of and remain vigilant about. … Specifically, […]
Ending Anonymity: Why the WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens the Future of Privacy
July 10th, 2021Via: The Last American Vagabond: Of particular interest is the call by both FS-ISAC and the WEF Partnership against Cybercrime to specifically target cryptocurrencies, particularly those that favor transactional anonymity, as well as the infrastructure on which those cryptocurrencies run. Though framed as a way to combat “cybercrime”, it is obvious that cryptocurrencies are to […]
‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off
July 9th, 2021Via: Wall Street Journal: Recent film program graduates of Columbia University who took out federal student loans had a median debt of $181,000. Yet two years after earning their master’s degrees, half of the borrowers were making less than $30,000 a year. The Columbia program offers the most extreme example of how elite universities in […]
The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection
July 7th, 2021Via: Internet Archive: The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection includes books from the Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA, The Bancroft Library at The University of California, Berkeley, and the Prelinger Library. These fascinating books take us back to an America in the early decades of the 20th century covering topics on […]
Supermarkets Are Stockpiling Inventory as Food Costs Rise
July 6th, 2021Via: Wall Street Journal: Supermarkets are stocking up on everything from sugar to frozen meat before they get more pricey, girding for what some executives anticipate will be some of the highest price increases in recent memory.
