Japan and China offload U.S. Treasuries ahead of Trump’s anticipated victory. Japanese investors sold a record $61.9 billion in U.S. bonds during Q3, while Chinese funds shed $51.3 billion—the second-largest amount on record for China.
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🚨 Brazil 🇧🇷 : Morgan Stanley downgraded Brazilian stocks to underweight, warning that the country's growing fiscal deficit could overwhelm the central bank's attempts to control inflation, forcing interest rates to rise.
🚨 Russia 🇷🇺 : Russia has begun mass production of radiation-resistant mobile bomb shelters.
According to the Emergencies Ministry's research institute, mobile bomb shelters can protect against a variety of man-made threats and natural disasters, including radiation and shock waves.
🔮 Hal Finney’s prophecy is very close to coming true.
“The ultimate destiny of #Bitcoin is to be a high-powered money upon which private banks will issue their own digital currencies.”
United Kingdom 🇬🇧 : In her book, the professor argued that the extraction of gold, iron and other metals was racist. She wrote that geology began as a “colonial practice” that created hierarchies, promoted materialism, destroyed environments and led to climate change.
Kathryn Yusoff, an academic at Queen Mary University of London, said the hard science discipline of geology was “torn apart by systemic racism” and colonialism.
United Kingdom 🇬🇧 : Meat packaging like cigarette packaging (with health warnings on the label) ?
Ecological tycoon Dale Vince suggested that health warnings similar to those on cigarette cards be placed on bacon packaging (como in the photo)
Vince even proposed introducing a "meat tax" as a way of discouraging people from eating bacon.
He said changing what we eat is “the biggest thing we can do” to make people healthier and reduce carbon emissions.
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🚨 Brazil 🇧🇷: “Lula's economic policy is taking the country down a familiar banana republic path by abandoning fiscal restraint,” says an opinion piece published in the “Wall Street Journal” by journalist Mary Anastasia O'Grady
UK 🇬🇧 : Nearly 1,000 historic cathedrals, churches and chapels are at risk of falling into ruin amid a funding crisis, a charity has warned.
The National Churches Trust said 53 more places of worship were added to Historic England's 2024 Heritage at Risk Register last year, bringing the total to 969, according to the Daily Telegraph.
🚨 In addition to MicroStrategy, Semler Scientific also announced the acquisition of 215 BTC.
The company also began using the term "BTC Yield" as a performance indicator, to reflect the growth of Bitcoin reserves in relation to each share issued.
Saylor’s playbook has already spread and several companies have become passive buyers of BTC via excess cash flow.
Are you paying attention to this movement?
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🚨 Credit card default rate of more than 90 days reached the highest level in the last decade.
This is the 5th half-year rise, the biggest rise since the 2008 financial crisis.
Even with a drop in interest rates, this is still not enough to alleviate pressure on credit.
Credit crisis coming?
The government's response is usually always the same: 🖨️
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🚨 USA 🇺🇸 /Russia 🇷🇺 /Ukraine 🇺🇦 :
With two months left in his term, the president has authorized for the first time the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia, according to the New York Times.
Detail: Biden made the announcement on Brazilian soil (Brics country)
Biden is in Manaus.
🚨 USA 🇺🇸 / Germany 🇩🇪 :
“The Infernal Duo, the Sinister Plans of Donald Trump and Elon Musk” is the cover of one of the main German magazines, “Der Spiegel”
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U.S. tax regulations: 70,000 pages.
The biggest increases occurred in the 1930s and 1970s, coinciding with the end of the gold standard.
Notice that the more the currency loses value and becomes detached from reality, the higher the taxes and bureaucracy become.
A true theft of the century!
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The strangest thing there, in my opinion, was how he completely gave up privacy after holding onto P2PKH addresses for over 14 years.
And it looks like there are already 9,000 BTC in this pattern.
Very strange.
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Venezuela 🇻🇪 : María Corina Machado called on Europe and Latin America to neutralize the support of Iran, Cuba and Russia for Maduro's dictatorship.
The Venezuelan opposition leader warned that international support for the Chavista regime includes alliances with widely questioned actors, such as the terrorist group Hezbollah.
RKJ opposed the vaccine and advocated for a "strategic reserve" of Bitcoin to replace gold at Fort Knox. Truly a solid stance.
Since the 1990s, American life expectancy has fallen behind that of the average European, and newer generations now face an even worse outlook, with a life expectancy lower than that of their parents. This is due to factors like the opioid epidemic, rising mental health issues, and the systematic contamination of food and water.
It would be great if RKJ could eliminate mandatory fluoride in water, tackle the opioid industry's subsidies, and remove incentives for unhealthy foods, especially those targeting children.
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Yes, but he’ll probably sell when it hits $100k. Crazy, right? The guy held all this time and then sends it to an exchange with KYC (he probably has a lot more BTC).
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