Sixty-nine of the world’s poorest nations have $62 billion coming due this year in foreign debt payments, 35 percent more than during last year, the World Bank reported.
Category: HOMEPAGE
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HATE TRUMP, HATE BIDEN: AMERICA READY FOR THIRD POLITICAL PARTY
Should President Joe Biden run again? How about former President Donald Trump? How about neither?
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EAT ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS AND LOSE YOUR MIND
A newly released study found a link between ultra-processed foods and a significant increase in the risk of cognitive decline. The study was published by JAMA Neurology and its findings were based on the eating habits of 10,775 individuals over the course of 10 years. The study involved an ethnically diverse sample of people from 35 to......
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
Near the close of U.S. equity markets yesterday, CNBC wrote, “Stocks fell Monday on fears the Federal Reserve may continue tightening until it steers the economy into recession.”
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
Inflation and interest rate hikes are causing companies in many sectors to lay off employees. To illustrate the employment trends and the socioeconomic implications, each week we will list job losses. This is week 20.
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TOP TREND, GOING OVER THE DRIVERLESS CLIFF: INVESTORS PUT THE BRAKES ON FUNDING FOR SELF-DRIVING CARS
For years, developers have been pushing back their time frames for bringing self-driving cars to the market. Most recently, automakers have again scaled back their plans and timetables as the global economy darkens.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
“All your Coinbase info are now belong to US!” Yes, to paraphrase an old internet meme, U.S. Intelligence agencies, spearheaded by Homeland Security, have just purchased data analytics from the San Francisco based Coinbase crypto exchange.
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COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS LEFT CHILDREN BRAIN DAMAGED, NEW STUDY SUGGESTS
As we have extensively detailed over the past two-and-a-half years, the COVID War has destroyed the lives and livelihoods—mentally, physically, financially—of billions of people across the planet.
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RUSSIA AIR BASES BOMBED, GET READY FOR RAMPED-UP UKRAINE WAR
Two Russian air bases were attacked Monday by Ukrainian drones resulting in Russian troop casualties and damage to at least two aircraft, according to the Kremlin.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
It’s all about the bottom line. And since the Panic of ’08 when the Bankster Gangsters began a scheme called quantitative easing and shrunk interest rates to negative and zero rates...the bottom line was cheap money printed out of thin air and backed by nothing that artificially drove up U.S. and European economies.