Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance If you stop watching each individual headline, diverge your eyes and step back like you’re looking at one of the classic Magic Eye 2D patterns, you just might start to see the 3D mainstream Covid narrative pivot right before your eyes. Photo: Mallrats For at least a year now, in print and on… Continue reading “Mass Vaccination Should End” – Former UK Task-Force Chair Says We Should “Treat COVID Like The Flu”
Americans Are Being Sold Out by Government Insiders
The Washington D.C. wheeler-dealers are making patsies out of the rest of us. Members of Congress get million-dollar-plus expense accounts, lifetime pensions and lavish perks, but for the greedy, that’s not enough. They’re also racking up big bucks trading stocks in the very same companies Congress regulates. Stock picking by members of Congress should be… Continue reading Americans Are Being Sold Out by Government Insiders
Microsoft’s Big Bet on Activision Blizzard
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced on Tuesday morning that it’s buying Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) for $68.7 billion, the tech giant’s largest acquisition ever. The deal further extends Microsoft’s position in the gaming industry and also gives the company a huge boost as it seeks a piece of the so-called metaverse, a virtual world where… Continue reading Microsoft’s Big Bet on Activision Blizzard
What’s Holding Up New Omicron Vaccines?
All the vaccines we use to ward off SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, share one crucial feature: they were designed to protect against its ancestral form, which surfaced in Wuhan, China, more than two years ago. Today’s virus, however, is not the same as it once was. SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving, with successive variants… Continue reading What’s Holding Up New Omicron Vaccines?
Djokovic Training Hard In Melbourne As Possibility Of Deportation Looms
With the possibility of a deportation order still hanging over his head, Novak Djokovic suited up Tuesday for a day of practice at Melbourne Park – with only members of his core team allowed in the facility – as the Serbian government held talks with the Australian government about the situation at hand. According to… Continue reading Djokovic Training Hard In Melbourne As Possibility Of Deportation Looms
Live Today Well with Saint Francis de Sales
Taking a mental glance at the day’s calendar, we preview what awaits us in terms of places to go and things to do and people to see. Here we activate the insightfulness of Salesian spirituality — namely, that the responsibilities of our personal vocation constitute the real place where we act out the devout life. But this conjecture… Continue reading Live Today Well with Saint Francis de Sales
Biden’s ‘Blue-Collar’ War on Monopolies
President Biden believes he’s waging an economic war against big business, though that may surprise the general public, which has a long list of other distractions in these fraught times. Biden’s stated struggle is with monopolization — the unfair concentration of power in business, which, the White House now argues, has driven consumer prices ever… Continue reading Biden’s ‘Blue-Collar’ War on Monopolies
Weekly Market Overview for January 17, 2022
The S&P 500 is still whipsawing within the range between 4300 and 4800, making any near-term action within this range suspect until one of these levels is cleared with considerable momentum. SPY closed out 2022’s second trading week down 0.3%. US trading is closed on Monday, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. day. … Continue reading Weekly Market Overview for January 17, 2022
We Are Beast Machines – Issue 111: Spotlight
I have a childhood memory of looking in the bathroom mirror, and for the first time realizing that my experience at that precise moment—the experience of being me—would at some point come to an end, and that “I” would die. I must have been about 8 or 9 years old, and like all early memories… Continue reading We Are Beast Machines – Issue 111: Spotlight
Goldman Slashes China GDP Forecast As CCP Locks Down 20 Million To Fight Omicron Wave
China’s “Zero COVID” strategy is starting to have serious repercussions for economic growth. After sealing off Tianjin from travel, a city that’s roughly 30 minutes from the Chinese capital of Beijing, earlier this week, the CCP is imposing still more lockdowns as it tries to stamp out the latest COVID outbreak that’s vexing China’s leadership… Continue reading Goldman Slashes China GDP Forecast As CCP Locks Down 20 Million To Fight Omicron Wave