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Dec 5, 2022: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hertz-to-pay-168-million-to-settle-vehicle-theft-allegations-11670270891 Over a year after that lawsuit was settled and rental car companies still haven't fixed their shit.

The physical evidence is pretty overwhelming that the NewNew Polar Bear (Chinese ship) is the culprit. They found the detached anchor that ripped up all the lines on the sea floor. They know the NewNew Polar Bear traveled the area at the time. They have photographic evidence that the NewNew Polar Bear is missing an anchor. The only real question is whether it was deliberate sabotage (which raises issues with NATO as it was an attack on Finland's assets) or massive incompetence.

Brazil has sent troops to their borders with both Venezuela and Guyana. They built a road through the disputed Essequibo region to the coast and they don't want Venezuela fucking with it. Venezuela has sent some troops to the border as well. Their military leaders are sabre rattling in the media.

More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ag-ken-paxton-pushes-false-narrative-in-lawsuit-over-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-grumet/ar-AA1kYc5k

If you folks are interested in reading about some case studies of countries that have dollarized their economies, check out: Ecuador https://www.aier.org/article/dollarization-in-ecuador-after-20-years/ https://www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-public-policy/events/2021-22/2021-22/How-we-Dollarized-Ecuador

Thank you Dr. Paul.

$2,070. Broke through $2,050 resistance. Powell indicated cuts not on the horizon, but no more rate hikes.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-pfizer-misrepresenting-covid-19-vaccine-efficacy-and-conspiring 54 page .PDF petition here: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Pfizer%20Vaccine%20Petition%20Filed.pdf THREAD: Texas AG Paxton Sues Pfizer for Misrepresenting Vaccine Efficacy and Censoring Critics

After the big 3 bank failures early this year, the Fed created the BTFP program to support the banks. The BTFP was touted as a temporary measure that is supposed to end in March 2024. However, it looks like a lot of banks are going to be in trouble without it. More: https://www.fxhedgers.com/p/powell-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud

Russian warship Disney, go fuck yourself.

This move in gold is largely in anticipation of the Fed being done with rate hikes and possibly cutting rates in 2024. If they actually do cut rates next year (I don't think they will - I think the markets are just Jonesing for the next hit of Fed crack), gold will really take off. I saw a few days ago where Goldman Sachs put out a forecast for gold to hit $2,050 by end of 2024. Lol. It's going to start the year higher than that.

Also, I'd suggest adding the Institute for Justice to your list of pro-freedom groups. They do amazing work: https://ij.org/

It's really too bad that there is no viable way to track/report on the number of incidents where a gun owner successfully defended themselves from assault or worse using a firearm (whether by brandishing or firing). It would be amazing to see that kind of statistic reported along side the various death statistics that are always presented in gun control arguments. A suggestion for your stat page that might be viable/possible is to show the number of licenses for concealed carry permits issued by the various states by year as well as the percent of those permit holders that were convicted of using a firearm in a crime (homicide/armed robbery/etc.) by year. It would really highlight that there are law abiding, responsible gun owners out there.

1727709850723905738 https://twitter.com/TremendaCarucha/status/1727709850723905738 Stupid tweets don't seem to be embedding at the moment...

We'll see what he's able to actually do. Blowing up the central bank was good campaign rhetoric, but now he has to deal with the legislature to actually accomplish anything.

No. Argentina acquires dollars by exporting goods (sold in dollars) on the global market. From a couple of months ago: More: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/milei-should-dollarize-at-once-says-man-who-did-it-in-ecuador-1.1970796