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🟢 Economic Reform | 4/10 🇨🇺 Economic reforms in Cuba Cuban President Díaz-Canel announced a package of economic reforms to address the crisis, including state enterprise autonomy and investment attraction. #OSINT #NewsGroup #Cuba #Economy #Reform

Oil Below $80, Stock Futures Rise Before Warsh's First Fed Meeting https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/oil-below-80-stock-futures-rise-before-warshs-first-fed-meeting-95970810?mod=rss_markets_main #Markets #Finance #Economy

Big Questions for Warsh as New Era for the Fed Begins https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/business/dealbook/warsh-fed-questions.html #Economy #FederalReserve #InterestRates

Is it a renter's market? It depends on where you live https://www.npr.org/2026/06/16/nx-s1-5847678/rent-apartment-landlord-construction-boom #Housing #Economy #RealEstate

Gas Prices Are Down as Market's Clap and Repeat, 'I Do Believe in the Iran Deal, I Do Believe in the Iran Deal' https://gizmodo.com/gas-prices-are-down-as-markets-clap-and-repeat-i-do-believe-in-the-iran-deal-i-do-believe-in-the-iran-deal-2000772027 #Economy #Energy #Politics

Stijn Bruers’ paper about an optimal animal welfare levy has just been published in the International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics https://www.emerald.com/irere/article-abstract/doi/10.1108/IRERE-06-2025-0001/1380053/Determining-an-optimal-animal-welfare-levy Chicken #meat should cost €8000 per kg. Farmed animal suffering is the largest market failure in our global #economy. #vegan #stijnbruers #emerald #economics #economy #environment #animalrights

We’re being conditioned to surrender to automated authority. It’s time to break the cycle and demand structural accountability. Read my latest on reclaiming human agency: https://open.substack.com/pub/brandonbedard/p/the-desensitization-loop?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7qos2e Images & text assisted by AI. #NUPA #UBI #UHI #policy #technology #politics #economics #economy #government #psychology #finance #fintech #Al #robots #futureofwork #writing #reading #substack #business #physics #science #markets #money #future #Terminator #Netflix #BlackMirror #RoboCop

The world is heading toward the greatest economic crisis of all time. On the one hand, because of Trump’s idiotic war that is blocking the Strait of Hormuz; on the other, because the economy is evaluated solely on the basis of growth. Endless economic growth is the philosophy of a cancer cell. The common good, environmental destruction, and population decline are not factored in at all. This can only lead to a crisis that keeps getting worse. meme #economy #down #downhill #capitalism #war #hormuz #inflation #groth #philosophy #politics #trade #world #worldorder #future #society #trump #finance #poverty #rich #equality #environment #emissions #pollution #earth #civilization #crisis #collapse #apocalypse #doomsday

The US markets: *are massively overinflated and irrational in deciding company value* Economists: wow, there is a big bubble and the stock market is inflated. The US markets: *adds spaceX inflating the bubble even more* This will end poorly #Economy #SpaceX #USpol #Musk

So I was out today in public (ran into an estate sale on the way back from a routine doctor's appt) and fascinating to hear the chatter among the people waiting in line to get in. A bunch of people complaining about healthcare costs, the greed of CEOs... *multiple* people who had to drive their kids to another hospital because our local hospital was taken over by HCA and wouldn't accept them as patients; complaints about how the hospital only cares about profits, and how different it is (with no blame to doctors and nurses, only the company and its executives). It was a lot of people nodding and agreeing, and (as far as I could tell) a very mixed political demographic and socioeconomic factors. Healthcare and hospital system CEOs may be one of the most hated groups of people in the world. #random #healthcare #economy

The #Empire of Caesars and Steel Cages: Donald’s 80th #Birthday and the Quiet Echo of #Rome On Sunday in #Washington, a birthday will be celebrated. #Donald reaches 80. The city does not feel like a quiet #capital. It feels more like an #arena being prepared. Parts of the White House have been rebuilt. Parts have been torn down. Some say one third lies in ruins, another third is turning into something like a modern #stadium. The building of power is treated like a construction site in an old empire. Stone replaced by steel. #Ceremony replaced by #spectacle. It reminds some observers of ancient Rome. Not the Rome of #philosophy or #law. But the Rome of late empire. The Rome of loud #games, public shows, and political #theater. In the Roman #Republic and later Empire, rulers understood a simple rule: people must be fed and entertained. “Bread and games” was not just a phrase. It was a #system. Food kept bodies alive. Spectacle kept attention away from decay. The Roman poet Juvenal described it as panem et circenses. Today, Washington looks different. But the logic feels familiar to some critics. A cage is mentioned. A modern arena. Mixed martial arts fights. No marble floors. No sand from the Colosseum. Instead, metal fences on green grass. The White House lawn becomes a stage. Violence becomes sport. Sport becomes politics. #Politics becomes #entertainment. The Roman comparison is not new. The late empire under Decline of the Western Roman Empire was marked by internal fragmentation, economic pressure, and political #instability. The borders were large. But the system inside became harder to hold together. In the final centuries, emperors relied more on spectacle and loyalty games than on #reform. One emperor often used as a symbol of this shift is #Commodus. He fought in staged #gladiator games. He performed as #Hercules. Ancient historians like Cassius Dio describe this as a sign of imperial decline, though modern historians debate how literal or exaggerated those accounts are. The image is simple. Power turning into performance. In the United States, the comparison is symbolic, not historical. The country remains economically and militarily strong. It is still a global #superpower. But critics sometimes point to rising political polarization, #media spectacle, and the personalization of politics. The modern arena is not the #Colosseum. It is #television, #socialMedia, and live events. Attention is the new currency. The crowd is no longer in stone seats. It is online, scrolling, watching, reacting. In this #story, Donald’s 80th birthday becomes more than a personal event. It becomes a stage. A symbolic moment. A performance of #power inside a republic that still calls itself a #democracy. Some observers describe it in extreme metaphor. They see gladiators where there are athletes. They see emperors where there are presidents. They see decline where others see transformation. History, however, is rarely so clean. The Roman Empire did not fall in a single moment. It changed slowly. Institutions weakened in some places and adapted in others. The “fall” was a long transition, not a sudden #collapse. The United States today shows no equivalent structural collapse. Its institutions, #economy, and global alliances remain strong. But like Rome in its later centuries, it faces internal tensions. Wealth concentration. Political division. Cultural fragmentation. Empires do not always fall like buildings. Sometimes they drift like ships. They keep moving, even when the course becomes unclear. The metaphor of Rome is powerful because it is simple. A great rise. A slow tension. A dramatic imagination of decline. But #history is less like a straight line and more like a spiral. Still, on this Sunday in Washington, the #symbolism writes itself. A leader turns 80. The capital feels like a stage. The crowd expects a show. And somewhere in the background, the old Roman warning echoes again: when politics becomes performance, the audience may forget who is acting—and who is ruling. #usa #news #civilization #future #fail #ethics #problem #humanity #crisis #war #terror #justice #crime #whitehouse #government #game

Why the EU economy should embrace digital currencies to become less dependent on the US #EU #Europe #DigitalEuro #StableCoins #Cryptocurrency #DigitalCurrency #Economy #Finance #Banking #ECB #Euro #USDollar #Geopolitics #EconomicSovereignty #Trade #USA https://the-14.com/why-the-eu-economy-should-embrace-digital-currencies-to-become-less-dependent-on-the-us/

🟢 Diplomatic | 5/10 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 IMF: Russia has lost international standing despite high oil prices IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva stated that Russia has lost international standing despite benefiting from higher oil prices. She argued that the recent energy windfall is insufficient to offset the long-term effects of sanctions, isolation, and structural economic weaknesses. #OSINT #NewsGroup #Russia #Sanctions #Economy #IMF

America will be Trump’s biggest bankruptcy ever! #trump #MAGA #trade #economy #republicans #iran #middleeast #war #news #worldnews

Consumer Price Index CPI is now at a 3 year high; prices have risen 4.2% since May 2025. The index for energy rose 3.9% in May, after rising 3.8% in April and 10.9% in March. The energy index accounted for over 60% of the monthly all items increase. Now let's watch the regime spin this as a wonderful thing. Or blame it on Biden. https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/article/annual-cpi-inflation-surges-to-the-highest-level-since-2023-as-energy-prices-rise-182143245.html https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf #Economy #UsPol 1/n

"They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you" #politics #economy #news

Could the Next Great Space Stock Come From Japan? In just a few weeks, the SpaceX IPO will arrive. Space investors are excited, with shares of popular names such as AST SpaceMobile and Rocket Lab up 43% and 6… #Japan #JP #JapanNews #business #BusinessNews #economy #finance #FinancialInformation #investing #investor #MarketNews #MotleyFool #news #pressreleases #Sedar #StockResearch #StockValuation #TheGlobeandMail https://www.alojapan.com/1492515/could-the-next-great-space-stock-come-from-japan/

Backside of the world economy. Cartoon published today in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: https://www.demorgen.be/puzzels-cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~b6a46595/ #environment #nature #economy #pollution

Europe is breaking free of the US credit card system. https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-basculent-vers-un-paiement-100-souverain-des-2026-n250918.html #news #economy

Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera | South Korea’s stock market soars as Samsung union calls off planned strike AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. South Korea’s stock market surged more than 8 percent after Samsung Electronics and its union reached a tentative pay agreement that averts an 18‑day strike by roughly 48,000 workers, granting them 10.5 percent of the company’s operating profits; the deal eased fears of a disruption to the global memory‑chip supply, bolstering an AI‑driven rally already heightened by Nvidia’s record $58.3 billion profit, and helped lift the KOSPI more than 80 percent so far this year, with Samsung shares up over 7.5 percent, rival SK Hynix up more than 11 percent, and car makers Hyundai and Kia each gaining about 13 percent. Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/5/21/south-koreas-stock-market-soars-as-samsung-union-calls-off-planned-strike?traffic_source=rss #SamsungElectronics #SamsungUnion #SKHynix #Nvidia #economy