At an event, Araujo also commented about the status of the development of the digital real, stating that his organization hopes to add smart functions to the currency. Read original article. Source: SERGIO GOSCHENKO | BITCOIN.COM

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With Ukraine claiming that Russia has committed as many as 25,000 war crimes, more than a dozen organizations are busy putting together indictments that they hope will eventually land soldiers, commanders and even Vladimir Putin in court. Newsweek examined the 25 top incidents of civilian deaths in the war. That two-month investigation has found that there is some truth […]

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“”This classwide settlement providing compensation and the opportunity to return to work is the first of its kind in the nation involving COVID shot mandates. This settlement should be a wake-up call to every employer that did not accommodate or exempt employees who opposed the COVID shots for religious reasons. Read original article. Source: LIBERTY COUNSEL […]

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Astudy published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that people vaccinated against COVID-19 remained contagious with the virus for a longer period of time than their unvaccinated counterparts. From July 2021 through January 2022, researchers studied 66 participants who contracted COVID-19, including 32 people with the Delta variant and 34 with the Omicron variant. When the data […]

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I have had the great privilege of travelling to 40 American cities in just about as many states and to 15 European countries in the last four months, in the waning days of the great COVID panic, and I have learned many things about our great and self-conscious nation. It may have escaped Canadians’ notice, but virtually nowhere else […]

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PM Justin Trudeau has decided to move forward with his cap on nitrogen emissions by reducing fertilizer use even as provincial Agriculture Ministers beg him to stop. As per a Government of Saskatchewan news release, both Alberta and Saskatchewan’s Ministers of Agriculture have expressed «profound disappointment» in Trudeau’s decision to attempt to reduce nitrogen emissions from fertilizer. «We’re […]

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Readers of the Mises Wire are most likely familiar with the Volcker moment. This was when former Fed chair Paul Volcker, in the face of steep price inflation, skyrocketed rates to nearly 20 percent. While critics of the Volcker moment complain that such a move also skyrocketed unemployment to almost 11 percent, it cannot be ignored that the price inflation […]

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Consequently, it does not follow that an increase in government outlays and loose monetary policy will lead to an increase in the economy’s output. It is not possible to lift the overall production without the necessary support from the flow of savings. Assume the baker has decided to build another oven in order to be able to increase […]

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Inflation is a mechanism that government people use to fund wars, tyrannical governments, and favors to cronies. Inflation takes away significant fractions of the real value of savings. Savings are accumulated slowly. Inflation depletes savings’ real value quickly. Inflation most greatly hurts the people who earn less income and retirees, whose income doesn’t inflate as much and who therefore can’t reaccumulate […]

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Shares of AT&T fell on Thursday after CEO John Stankey said that customers are starting to put off paying their phone bills – which resulted in the wireless carrier cutting this year’s forecast for free cash flow by $2 billion, Bloomberg reports. Shares fell as much as 11% in early trading, the company’s largest slide since 2022 which […]

Read more "The State Of The US Consumer: AT&T Crashes As Americans Can’t Afford To Pay Their Phone Bills"