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May 28 2020 16:06:22 (EST)
www.foxnews.com...📁
@Jack
You were warned.
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originally posted by: socialmediaclown
a reply to: nugget1
This should give you some indication of how bad McCarthy sold out. Liberals are ecstatic twitter.com...
eft-wing extremism is linked to toxic, psychopathic tendencies and narcissism, according to a new study published to the peer-reviewed journal Current Psychology.
“Based on existing research, we expected individuals with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism to also report higher levels of narcissism,” the authors wrote.
As result of the new data, study authors Ann Krispenz and Alex Bertrams have coined a new term for such psychological behavior: the “dark-ego-vehicle principle.”
“According to this principle, individuals with dark personalities — such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits — are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality,” they told PsyPost.
Risk factors leading to attention seeking behavior include loneliness, jealousy, low self-esteem, narcissism, rejection, and self-pity.[7] A desire for validation is theorised as a motivation for attention seeking behavior.
originally posted by: angelchemuel
I heard last night, directly from an NHS source, that A&E depts across UK are already prepping for next 'pandemic' they are expecting to start next autumn in UK.
This time, and as I have been saying since last year, bacterial, not viral infections.
For example, there are already 600 cases of nectotising faciitis recorded. Not good and I'll readily admit scares the beejezus out of me.
Concerned Rainbows
Jane
PS, could somebody give me the link to the Covid thread please? I seem to have deleted it by accident Thank you
While it’s tentatively set to be announced this year, this plan has been in motion for quite a while. Back in 2019, members of the bloc were discussing the creation of a new digital currency for a unified payments system. China is already ahead of the game with its central bank digital currency project, and Brazil is right behind them with crypto adoption and legalizing it as a payment method.
originally posted by: crankyoldman
Elon Musk is once again ringing the alarm on the US real estate sector.
"Commercial real estate is melting down fast. Home values next," the Tesla and SpaceX chief tweeted on Monday.
JPMorgan has estimated that about of the $450 billion in commercial real estate loans due to expire this year could default. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management said commercial property prices could tumble 40% from their peak in light of the sector's troubles.
The US housing market is also dealing with similar problems, which likely explains Musk's view that prices are set to topple. Per Morgan Stanley, home sales have bottomed as higher borrowing costs cripple demand, with experts warning of a potential 15% to 20% plunge in prices.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Tuesday, while tech stocks kept running after President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling over the weekend. Meanwhile, tech titan Nvidia (NVDA) surged Tuesday, hitting the $1 trillion in market capitalization for the first time.
America’s credit card balance has passed $1 trillion, or it’s about to, depending on whom you ask.
The average interest rate on a new card is 24 percent, the highest figure since the Reaganomics era.
In 2021, we saw people paying off a record amount of debt,” said Jill Gonzalez, a senior analyst at WalletHub. “People had been saving through 2020, without much to do.”
And then, everything changed. Spending picked up. Saving slowed down. The Federal Reserve commenced an unprecedented campaign of interest rate hikes.
Credit card debt rose by $86 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, the largest increase on record.
Wuhan, the largest city in central China, has publicly demanded that hundreds of local companies repay their debts, in an extremely rare move that highlights the dire financial situation facing many of the country’s municipal governments amid economic uncertainty.
The city’s finance bureau said in a Friday statement published by the official Changjiang Daily newspaper that a total of 259 companies and entities owed it more than 100 million yuan ($14 million) combined. It urged them to pay their overdue debts as soon as possible.
Chinese companies are struggling with both weak demand at home and softening demand in the country's major export markets. Producer deflation deepened in April, with the producer price index (PPI) falling at the fastest clip since May 2020.
Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, said this week that quarterly revenue and profit tanked in January-March and it had cut 8% to 9% of its workforce to reduce costs, as global demand for personal computers (PCs) continued to slump.
The grim profit readings came after a batch of April economic indicators, spanning industrial output, retail sales and property investment, suggested that a recovery in the world's second-largest economy is losing momentum.
Wuhan, the largest city in central China, has publicly demanded that hundreds of local companies repay their debts, in an extremely rare move that highlights the dire financial situation facing many of the country’s municipal governments amid economic uncertainty.
The city’s finance bureau said in a Friday statement published by the official Changjiang Daily newspaper that a total of 259 companies and entities owed it more than 100 million yuan ($14 million) combined. It urged them to pay their overdue debts as soon as possible.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid campaign has exhausted the budgets of many cities and provinces, after they spent billions of dollars on frequent Covid lockdowns, mass testing and quarantine centers before last December’s policy U-turn. A real estate crash has exacerbated the problem, as local governments rely heavily on land sale revenues.
Ballooning debt, tepid consumption and worsening relations with the West to weigh on growth, economists say
China’s era of rapid growth is over. Its recovery from zero-Covid is stalling. And now the country is facing deep, structural problems in its economy.