Dow sinks 1000 points as tech woes, currency markets shake investors
Stock markets took a big hit on Monday as investors sold shares in U.S. companies and unwrapped positions in the Japanese yen, which has strengthened against the dollar after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is made up of the largest U.S. companies, closed down 1,033 points, or […]
The Administrative State’s Digital Currency Ruse
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes When I read about an executive order issued by the Biden administration last year regarding a plan for digital currency, I naturally suspected something quite dire. Generally speaking, whatever the modern, self-described “liberal democratic” administrative state claims to be doing to help supposedly disadvantaged people is actually intended primarily, if […]
‘How many aura points did I lose?’ The new coolness currency has hints of Aristotle | Life and style
yesYou can count your calories, your steps, the number of streams of your favorite songs. And now you can assign a number to how cool you are. See your Aura Points, which is how you calculate your attractiveness. (This is what the kids call charisma, and if you didn’t know that, you just lost 100 […]