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The Pentagon Brought on Both Nuclear Crises

I fully realize that when it comes to Ukraine, one is supposed to focus exclusively on Russia’s invasion and not on what the Pentagon did to gin up the crisis, a crisis that has gotten us perilously close to a world-destroying nuclear war with Russia.  Nonetheless, the Pentagon’s role in this crisis needs to be emphasized, over and over again, just as the Pentagon’s role in ginning up the Cuban Missile Crisis also needs to be emphasized, over and over again. Yes,...

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Dollar Slumps, Yuan Rallies by Most this Year amid Intervention Talk

Overview: The US dollar is having one of toughest days of the year. It has been sold across the board and taken out key levels like parity in the euro, $1.15 in sterling, and CAD1.36. The Chinese yuan surged over 1%. Chinese officials promised healthy bond and stock markets. There is some talk that the PBOC may have intervened directly in the forex market. Large bourses in the Asia Pacific region rallied and the CSI 300 rose by 0.8%, its first gain of the week. After...

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Credit Suisse to settle tax probe in France

Credit Suisse is one of Switzerland’s systemically important banks. © Keystone / Christian Beutler Credit Suisse Group and the French financial prosecution office have agreed to settle a tax fraud and money laundering case in France with a €238 million (CH234 million) payment to the state, a French court heard on Monday. The settlement still needs to be approved by the court. If approved, the payment would resolve the investigation led by the France’s financial...

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neon’s Crowdfunding Campaign Reaches CHF 5 Million on Its First Day

Swiss neobank neon’s crowdfunding campaign reached CHF 5 million of its CHF 10 million target with more than 2,000 investors participating on the first day of the campaign. The campaign, which runs from October 25 to 31, is offering two to 250 non-voting shares priced at CHF 200.00 per share. The company aims to sell a total of 50,000 shares. According to the campaign page, neon’s recent milestones include hitting 130,000 users, generating CHF 3.5 million in revenue...

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N26 Launches New Cryptocurrency Trading Feature With Bitpanda

German neobank N26 has launched its cryptocurrency product in Austria to enable customers to buy and sell 194 cryptocurrencies in their app. The N26 Crypto feature will be made available progressively to eligible customers in Austria over the coming weeks, as well as in other key markets over the next six months. The launch addresses strong local demand, where internal research showed that 40% of N26 users are either actively trading, or have expressed interest in...

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Myth versus Ideology: Why Free Market Thinking Is Nonideological

I’ll begin with a provocative thesis: socialism is ideological and free market thinking, while involving myth, is nonideological. I will show why socialism is ideological and why free market thinking involves myth but is nonideological by defining the terms myth and ideology and distinguishing them from each other. The term “myth” has several connotations. The most common connotation today is that myth represents false belief. Thus, we see many uses of the term myth...

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How to Build and Destroy a Pension Fund System in 22 Easy Steps

CEO of Monetary Metals Keith Weiner gave a talk at the New Orleans Investment Conference on how to build and destroy a pension fund system in 22 easy steps. If you’d like to see an excellent case study of these steps in action, see the United Kingdom. This is a summary of Keith’s talk published with his permission. Our interest rate system is like a wrecking ball. It swings to one side of the street and destroys one side of town (the falling interest rate). Then when...

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Now That Housing Is Rolling Over, Is That Fixer-Upper a Deal?

So-called “cosmetic work” can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Now that housing is finally rolling over due to rising mortgage rates and bubble valuations, many of those who have been priced out of the market are hoping to take advantage of lower prices. In many cases, the most affordable segment is fixer-uppers, homes that are distressed for any number of reasons: a lack of maintenance; construction or drainage deficiencies; obsolete or defective foundations,...

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Coup d’Etat planétaire, le livre qui annonçait le great reset en 2019 en lecture libre.

Chers amis lecteurs, Après le succès de la diffusion de Dépossession en libre accès, voici la suite indispensable Coup d’Etat planétaire. Ce livre est la suite de Dépossession et je le mets lui aussi en libre accès. coup_etat_planetaire_liliane_held_khawamTélécharger Je rappelle que ce livre a été publié en septembre 2019, soit plusieurs mois AVANT le Covid-circus. Or, il y est soigneusement décrit les bases contractuelles (Traités supragouvernementaux) qui...

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Twitter arbeitet an Crypto-Wallet

Noch bevor Elon Musk den Staffelstab offiziell übernimmt, kommen Gerüchte auf, dass Twitter an einer Crypto-Wallet arbeitet. Bereits Jack Dorsey war dafür bekannt, den Crypto-Markt auf der Social Media Plattform einbinden zu wollen. Crypto News: Twitter arbeitet an Crypto-WalletDie Meldung kommt allerdings nicht von offizieller Seite und wurde von Twitter weder bestätigt noch verneint. Jedoch kommt sie von einem Developer, der bereits in der Vergangenheit...

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