Why the Bank Crisis is Not Over The crashes of Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and the related bank insolvencies are much more serious than the 2008-09 crash. The problem at that time was crooked banks making bad mortgage loans. Debtors were unable to pay and were defaulting, and it turned out that the Continue Reading
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Maybe Ivermectin will cure it? Okay, wokesters, remember when teens tossed out “like” every other word? Adults lampooned this verbal pandemic decades before COVID-19. The legendary Frank Zappa’s only top-40 hit came in 1982 with a largely spoken-word Valspeak performance by his then-14-year-old daughter, Moon Zappa. Valspeak launched Whoopi Goldberg’s acting career. Wikipedia: Linguistic characteristics of valleyspeak are often thought to be “silly” and “superficial” and seen as a sign of low intelligence. Speakers are also often perceived as “materialistic” and “air-headed”. And your point is? Conservatives don’t have one, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes observed Tuesday evening. Wokety-woke rhetoric aimed at blaming women, gay people, and minorities for conservatives’ comically pervasive sense of victimization is “equal parts offensive and preposterous” and not meant to persuade anyone, but to keep their base in line, Hayes said. They are not being serious. Their aim is deflection.
BBC sources reportedly confirm a Doctor Who/UNIT spinoff with Jemma Redgrave... and David Tennant & Catherine Tate in the Christmas Special?
Look, I’m not like other tenants. People often ask, how am I still renting? They don’t understand that not everyone needs a house to be satisfied. Some people prefer to rent apartments. Like me. It’s not that I find ownership intimidating or am afraid of commitment; I just haven’t met the right income bracket or fixed-rate mortgage. Anyway, it’s not the size of the dwelling that matters, it’s what you do with it. I’m going to stick this out, and one day, my place is going to be really nice. All it needs is some new furniture and a few snap traps, and it will be good.
I put in a lot of effort to get here. They checked my credit scores, references, and verified my income. I’ve earned the right to call this “my apartment.” Even though, technically, it’s not. But I’m not so insecure that I have to count my living space as an asset. That’s part of the charm. Like how everything is covered in thick, white paint. Even things that shouldn’t be. The painted-over dust bunnies have a certain charm.
Messages sent between BBC editors and reporters appear to confirm longstanding suspicions of a pro-Government bias inside the corporation, writes Adam Bienkov
By David DeCamp / Antiwar.com On Monday, the US, Britain, and Australia unveiled their plans to develop nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS, a military pact the three countries signed in September 2021 to coordinate on advanced military technology against China. President Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese formally announced the plans at […]
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The legendary whistleblower has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
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An LITG runaround the previous day on Bleeding Cool, and the past three years to boot, as well as which comic book industry folk are celebrating their birthday today.
By Alex Binder / Unicorn Riot Decatur, GA – The family of Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Esteban Paez Terán held a press conference Monday morning outside the Historic DeKalb Courthouse to release the full autopsy of Tortuguita and to discuss the lawsuit the family filed this week against the City of Atlanta under the Georgia Open Records […]
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In The World in the Model, Mary Morgan characterizes the modelling tradition of economics as one concerned with “thin men acting in small worlds” and writes: Strangely perhaps, the most obvious element in the inference gap for models … lies in the validity of any inference between two such different media – forward from the […]
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The US share in global arms exports increased from 33% to 40% in 2018-22, and its ally France, the third-largest exporter of weapons, was also a significant beneficiary, with its share increasing from roughly 7.1% to 11%.
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A new paper recaps what the more solid studies have found about how SARS-CoV-2 does harm.
Barrister Gareth Roberts explains how the European Convention on Human Rights affects the lives of British citizens
A collaborative operates the GOODS program, which gets groceries to residents of several rural Mississippi towns lacking grocery stores.
D.C. hawks say American military might brought order to the Middle East, but without U.S. meddling, regional rivals finally made a deal.
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The money could be 'much better spent providing the support that disabled people need to take part more fully in society' – Chaminda Jayanetti reports
A case study in sanctions blowback: how the Rosneft refinery, an important provider of diesel and jet fuel, looks like a stranded asset.
Welcome to my Wednesday Blog! And a new project was announced at the end of last week! Con and On Con and On is my forthcoming series from Ahoy Comics with artist Marika Cresta. It’s a tragicomic satire of five decades of the world’s biggest comics festival, and the industry that parties there. This is […]
Questioning why the US has gone into belligerence over its belief that China will occupy Taiwan.
The transitory view of the current inflation episode is getting more support from the evidence. Yesterday’s US inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (March 14, 2023) – Consumer Price Index Summary – February 2023 – shows a further significant drop in the inflation rate as some of the key supply-side drivers abate. All…
A new AFL season is upon us and after 11 years, having defeated Sydney to win the grand final last year, Geelong is once again the hunted. read now...