Translation: "We know CBDC is going to disrupt stuff, so we're not going to be the scapegoat on this one -- find someone else for the unavoidable political flogging in the next election cycle."

To be fair I was intrigued by the line "anti-paparazzi lasers" and went searching for that instead. And apparently "...researchers at Georgia Tech university in the USA who developed a very similar system in 2006 warned that it would be unable to ...

Bide or Trump. printing money would have been the solution anyway. Money is the lifeblood of the economy. Pumpin' more blood into a healthy patient obviously doesn't lead to anything good, but when someone lost lots of blood and is set to lose more ...

You know, you can say you're saving me money all you like but in the end you're just going to take it to misspend elsewhere, aren't you?

From Reuters article on the same thing Biden did the Big Showy Thing for the base and Trudeau can now argue Biden owes him some extra sweets. Kenny's not getting any.

Alright, Christmas Brexit Miracle it is

A "Christmas Miracle"?! We're not children, you know...

From reading this and related articles PH is a victim of its own laziness, shoddy business practices and impotent content filtering. I guess one can't expect even a professional pornographer to be anything but sloppy. Fans of the site should not ...

In trade negotiations, much like in war it's your duty to convince the electorate you fought really. really hard. Ideally You, your electorate and the opposition should be completely exhausted by the whole process by the end of it.

Everyone excited for Trump's Big Covid Adventure should relax -- he has the best care available to anyone in the world plus the experimental drugs that nobody can deny him if he needed 'em. And the earlier you hit Cov the better you'll fare. Despite ...

"The infringement procedure is a common tool used by the commission against member states. Last year there were 800 open cases. Germany had 47 pending cases and France 34. Each procedure takes an average of 35 months to complete." Just some context ...

It's owned by the Alibaba group and operates from HK, so while not exactly a state mouthpiece it's definitely under the thumb. Edit: You can read about SCMP transparency, censorship and propaganda controversies on its wiki page: url Are you asking ...

Like I keep saying: 1) gather everyone who needs to get out of lockdown stat 2) make them sign a waiver on medical assistance 3) infect them with a small dose in a controlled environment -- the less contact you have with the virus the easier the ...

Well it seems a lot of retail traders are short on the Euro, thus no complaints to anyone talking it further down.

Was this bit the reason for the rapid GBP jump on the min chart? Thank goodness for Limit orders

Why does this link to the express page? Why not link to the mentioned tweets themselves: url

Looking at volumes, retail traders have still not given up on the dollar. So dollar negative for now, indeed.

A "state-only" Economy? I don't quite understand what that means, could you clarify please?

It's rather simple: Retail traders, folks like you, me and most people here are accumulating Dollar shorts. And that's an excellent opportunity for Market Makers to take the opposite trade. Also worth noting that every human being in existence ...

The text of the speech boils down to "Suck it, nerds!"