After U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell testified before Congress last week, the U.S. yield curve reached its deepest inversion since 1981.
Category: 14 March 2023
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BOND MARKETS BRACE FOR GLOBALLY HIGHER INTEREST RATES
Bond markets began the year betting that the world’s central banks would soon pause their campaigns of interest rate hikes and begin cutting their rates later this year.
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CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS USED CELL PHONE DATA, GEOFENCE SURVEILLANCE TO SPY ON CHURCH ASSEMBLIES DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
Government officials used cell phone data and geofence surveillance to track the number of congregants on church grounds during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
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WORRIED ABOUT COVID? ‘UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS’ OF PLASTIC POLLUTION IN WORLD’S OCEANS
A recently published study found that the plastic level in the world’s oceans has reached “unprecedented levels,” and there is an estimated 170 trillion pieces of plastic floating at sea level.
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U.S. CHALLENGES MEXICO’S IMPORT BAN OF ZOMBIE CORN
The U.S. upped the ante in its row with Mexico over genetically modified corn imports and requested formal consultations with Mexico for allegedly disregarding the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement.
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‘EXTREMELY IRRESPONSIBLE’: CHINA CONDEMNS JAPAN FOR PLANNED RELEASE OF FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR-CONTAMINATED WATER
Japan’s plan to release “treated” radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant badly damaged in an earthquake 12 years ago is “extremely irresponsible,” Mao Ning, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said.
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EX-CDC HEAD: COVID ORIGIN DEBATE ‘SQUASHED’ BY FAUCI
Dr. Robert Redfield, the former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said any discussion about the COVID-19 virus leaking from a laboratory was quickly “sidelined” by top U.S. health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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TOP TREND 2023, NEW POLITICAL PARTIES: AUSTRIA SEES RISE OF ‘FAR-RIGHT’ PARTY AFTER DISASTROUS COVID-19 MANDATE, UKRAINE WAR
Austria, which was the first Western country to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults, has seen the emergence of a political party that has been growing in popularity based, in part, on its opposition to the old mandates.
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SCIENTISTS “GROW” ELECTRODES IN LIVING BRAINS
Scientists at Gothenburg, Linkoping, and Lund universities in Sweden have grown electrodes in living brains and other tissues, bringing closer the time when humans can carry customized, internal electronic circuitry.
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FRANCE ABSORBS ANOTHER PUNISHING WEEK OF PROTESTS OVER MACRON’S PUSH TO RAISE RETIREMENT AGE
Protests broke out in France on Tuesday and Saturday last week in an effort to dissuade French President Emmanuel Macron from following through on his plans to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64.