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February 21,2022
Inside Facebook’s $10 Billion Breakup With Advertisers - WSJ
Facebook has built its empire on the ability to acquire intimate details about user behavior across the internet
Gross.
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Catholic Husband
February 21,2022Our nature and weakness largely shape the mistakes we make in our spiritual life. Skipping one day of prayer because you overslept or were on vacation may seem like a small matter. But temptation is always like ice. It’s smooth, slippery, and sometimes hard to spot; it wants to guide you quickly and helplessly into sin. We know our weak spots, we know our blind spots, but vigilance is exhausting.
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February 20,2022
U.S. To Invade Canada To Establish A Democracy - The Babylon Bee
“We can’t let this evil, religious zealot Trudeau oppress his people any longer. It’s time to let freedom ring.”
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Reading
February 20,2022
Finished reading: Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis 📚
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February 19,2022
How Government Spending Fuels Inflation - WSJ Opinion
Inflation is where “dreams of costless fiscal expansion, flooding the country with borrowed money to address every perceived problem, hit a hard brick wall of reality.”
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February 19,2022
Fed Officials Lean Against Expectations of Half-Point Increase in March - WSJ
“There’s really no kind of compelling argument that you have to be faster right in the beginning” with rate increases, Mr. Williams told reporters on Friday.
Just the fastest rate in 40 years and the Fed spending the last three quarters making it worse.
Mr. Williams and several of his colleagues in recent days have suggested the Fed could raise rates in more measured, quarter-point increments unless inflation doesn’t diminish later this year as forecasters expect.
So let’s all just wait another 9 months and see what happens!
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Reading
February 18,2022
Finished reading: Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre 📚
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February 18,2022
Some Apple Store Employees in U.S. Reportedly Working to Unionize - MacRumors
A key concern among Apple retail employees looking to unionize is that wages have not kept up with the rate of inflation.
Ever heard of a wage-price spiral? Or quitting or getting a better paying job? You do know that unions charge dues, right?
The report claims that Apple recently gave raises to some of its retail employees, but due to rising inflation, some of the employees said they are effectively making less money than when they were first hired.
Well, that’s what happens when you vote for president based on the candidates’ Twitter history.
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February 18,2022
Frackers Hold Back Production as Oil Nears $100 a Barrel - WSJ
The companies said they collected record amounts of extra cash by hanging on to the money they earn selling oil and natural gas and reinvesting only what they needed to keep output roughly flat. All three said they would continue to limit production growth this year.
I wonder why the leadership in this boom-and-bust industry are sitting on the sidelines during this boom?
Those dynamics have alarmed the White House, which has asked U.S. producers to drill more as it confronts soaring gasoline prices and broad inflation.
See, now I’m just confused. Didn’t the Administration cancel Keystone XL and nominate a Fed Governor who said we should stop providing capital to oil and gas and pass massive new subsidies for green energy and…
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February 18,2022
If your coffee place is called the Bru Bar, and it doesn’t have heavy whipping cream or half and half, you don’t really have a coffee place.
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