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"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise." - - Victor Hugo, Ninety-

Walmart cases Walmart, facing criticism, has said it will stop locking up black beauty and hair care products in glass cases as an anti-shoplifting measure (as with razor blades and so on, the items need to be unlocked by a staffer.) Walmart: "We serve millions of customers every day from...

Chinese disinformation Twitter has removed over 170,000 China-linked accounts that have been spreading disinformation about Hong Kong, Taiwan and China's response to the coronavirus outbreak. Security analysts say Beijing's online disinformation tactics are starting to resemble those of Moscow...

Chinese disinformation Twitter has removed over 170,000 China-linked accounts that have been spreading disinformation about Hong Kong, Taiwan and China's response to the coronavirus outbreak. Security analysts say Beijing's online disinformation tactics are starting to resemble those of Moscow...

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“The first wealth is health.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

SEC Charges California Trader Engaged in Manipulative Trading Scheme Involving COVID-19 Claims (HedgeCo.net) (HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a penny stock trader in Santa Cruz, California, with conducting a fraudulent pump-and-dump scheme in the stock of a...

Gibraltar Ranks No3 in the World for Crypto Hedge Fund Managers (Hedge Week) A new report into the global crypto hedge fund landscape from PwC and Elwood Asset Management has shown Gibraltar as the third most popular jurisdiction for crypto hedge fund managers, behind only the US and UK...

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"We're not thinking about raising rates. We're not even thinking about thinking about raising rates:" - Jerome Powell.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/mike-pompeo-rips-hsbc-for-cozying-up-to-china/

5G revenues A new KPMG report predicts beneficial economic effects from the spread of 5G, but not a huge boost to the revenues generated by wireless carriers. The consultants forecast that just 7% of spending from the introduction of 5G would go to connectivity—bad news for carriers that have...

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Kyle Bass Eyes 200-to-1 Leverage for New Bet on Hong Kong Crash (Bloomberg) Kyle Bass is going for broke on a currency trade that has burned bearish speculators for more than three decades. The Dallas-based founder of Hayman Capital Management is starting a new fund that will make all-or-nothing...

https://nypost.com/2020/06/09/ex-green-beret-says-it-wasnt-a-crime-to-help-carlos-ghosn-escape/

https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/racing-prodigy-renee-gracie-now-an-outcast-after-porn-star-reveal/

Hedge Fund Gets a Target to Cover Its Short Position (Bloomberg) A short position covering 17% of a thinly traded company is so big it risks being impossible to close. Other investors will see you coming. Yet hedge fund Asia Research & Capital Management Ltd. is set to cover most of its mammoth...

Facial recognition IBM has taken the drastic step of scrapping its general-purpose facial recognition and analysis software products, in response to police brutality. CEO Arvind Krishna: "IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology...

It's here The U.S. is officially in a recession now, having peaked in February. The longest economic expansion in American history began in June 2009 and lasted 128 months—the previous record, of 120 months, took place between March 1991 and March 2001. The National Bureau of Economic Research...