After feeling more positive through the first half of February, U.S. consumers took a darker view of the nation’s economy just before March.
Category: 5 March 2024
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U.S. NATIONAL DEBT GROWING BY $1 TRILLION EVERY 100 DAYS
The U.S. national debt reached $34.4 trillion on 28 February and added its two most recent trillion-dollar increases in about 100 days each, CNBC reported.
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FED’S FAVORITE INFLATION MEASURE FALLS: WILL INTEREST RATES FALL?
The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index (PCE), the U.S. Federal Reserve’s most closely watched inflation indicator, slowed to an annual rate of 2.4 percent in January, matching analysts’ expectations and within a short reach of the central bank’s 2-percent overall inflation target.
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STOP TAKING OZEMPIC, BLIMP UP
Patients who have been prescribed Ozempic have realized that the moment they stop injecting themselves with the GLP-1 medication, they “spiral” out of control and gain most of the weight back in a relatively short time.
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SYNTHETIC FOOD WARS HEATING UP
As the time tables of radical climate initiatives continue to kick in, the costs of “net zero” are becoming harder to disguise—or defend.
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APPLESAUCE POISONED AMERICAN CHILDREN BECAUSE THE FDA FAILED IN ITS JOB
Hundreds of American children were poisoned last year after eating cinnamon-flavored applesauce, which health regulators blamed on a spice grinder that contaminated three million individual pouches, according to a report.
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AGI A DANGER TO HUMANKIND: ELON FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST OPENAI
Perhaps no one except Sam Altman and the upper echelons of DARPA know more about just how imminent—or existent—Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is right now, than Elon Musk.
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WORRIED ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE? YOUR TUNA SANDWICH WILL GET YOU FIRST
French researchers found that mercury levels in tuna remained essentially unchanged since 1971 despite the International effort to curb human activities known to increase these levels, like burning coal and mining.
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AI IS READY TO COLLABORATE WITH COMPOSERS
SPIN, an AI-enabled music synthesizer fitted with a turntable and drum machine, enables a composer to hear different versions of a work instantly in real time, using an AI called MusicGen.
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GAZA HAS BECOME ‘HELL ON EARTH’ AS MORE CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH, TURKEY ACCUSES ISRAEL OF USING STARVATION AS WEAPON OF WAR
The number of children starving to death in Gaza continues to increase, with the number hitting at least 15 on Monday, including 10 who have died of dehydration and malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip.