How Can the Fed Pay Dividends to Its Shareholders When It Has No Profits?
If the Fed really believes that its technical insolvency doesn’t matter, why is it intent on hiding the numbers?
If the Fed really believes that its technical insolvency doesn’t matter, why is it intent on hiding the numbers?
The past year has shown that a lot of anti-imperialists tend to exaggerate the strength of the US empire’s enemies. After October 7 many said the attack would unify the Axis of Resistance against Israel and the Zionist entity would fall in short order, but that unified confrontation never materialized because Iran wasn’t willing to take on an entire global empire backed only by a few small militant factions scattered around west Asia. Now Syria has been captured, […]
With Cris Sheridan Dec 26, 2024 – Well, the exponential curve in AI progress continued in 2024, and it’s likely that we’re going to see some big advancements for 2025 as well. We’ve already been given an early glimpse of what’s to come with OpenAI’s big jump in their…
I can’t really post this anywhere else so you guys get to deal with it. Given how machine learning works, feeding it a bunch of data on political leanings could give it the ability to accurately manipulate the public. Doing this manually was the thesis behind the notion that Russians somehow brainwashed the public in 2016, which means there might be genuine concerns that this is possible. If an AI was trained with political rhetoric, the locations and […]
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Daniel Raisbeck In November 1881, Juan José Dardo Rocha, governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, passed a decree that forbade the use of a widely used torture device called the cepo. The Cambridge Dictionary defines a cepo thus: “formerly a wooden frame in which a criminal was fastened as a punishment.” The Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary goes into greater detail: Cepo: An instrument made of two thick pieces of wood, which when joined together form round holes in the middle, in […]
In a recent blog post, Dr. Jeffrey Singer, speaking on the Biden Administration’s plan to reduce nicotine content in cigarettes by up to 95 percent, highlights the potential drawbacks of this measure. He states, “While the intention is to nudge smokers to quit, evidence suggests that decreasing nicotine might not significantly change smoking behaviors,” as many smokers may resort to compensatory practices like increased puff volume or consuming more cigarettes. Dr. Singer also warns that such a policy […]