Ilka 🌐Lets see if prices go down now that Felon 47 has signed the peace MOU. Prices sky rocketed due to the idiotic war but history tells us, every reason is good enough to increase prices (poor harvest, resources shortage, weather, politics, taxes, special charges, war, conflict, penalty...) but NEVER go back down again after the reason for the price increase has been eliminated.
Tim MakGood morning to #readers. #Oil #prices are at $79.2 per #barrel (+8.7% compared to pre-war levels).
The U.S. banned #Iran's #team from training on its #soil, so they set up base in #Mexico instead. But for Art, an Iranian-Mexican #superfan it was a dream come true.
https://www.iranwar.news/p/tijuana-embraces-iran-world-cup-team
Alexander J. Stein#Beef generates significant #environment & #health costs for society—negative externalities that are not reflected in retail #prices. In contrast, plant-based #meat provides public benefits, but at private costs, i.e. some public support for #plantbased meat may be justified: doi.org/10.3390/food...
doi.org/10.3390/foods1...
doi.org/10.3390/foods1...
Via BalticaThree parliamentary groups in #Lithuania have signed an agreement on a new coalition #government. Incoming PM Mindaugas Sinkevicius said that his government's key focus would be to tackle rising #prices, inequality, and #poverty.
https://viabaltica.fi/lithuania-new-coalition-agreement-signed/
Tracy Rosenberg"The Post turned its audience’s reading habits into a “pricing profile” in 2024 to offer different #prices to subscribers based on the demographics and their activities, like reading the morning headlines, checking an election update or following a favorite columnist" https://www.courthousenews.com/washington-post-hit-with-class-action-over-surveillance-pricing-scheme/
Oakland Privacy"The Post turned its audience’s reading habits into a “pricing profile” in 2024 to offer different #prices to subscribers based on the demographics and their activities, like reading the morning headlines, checking an election update or following a favorite columnist" https://www.courthousenews.com/washington-post-hit-with-class-action-over-surveillance-pricing-scheme/
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊PC memory costs are also really high. I've been waiting on a good (or at least bearable) price to upgrade one of my kids' laptop memory forever (it is DDR4, though, so that's part of the problem).
omg...
SanDisk's 8 TB SSD for PS5 costs $2,959.99* —
More than three PS5 pro consoles!
* c/o Yahoo Finance (semi-live feed)
RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/116767034385860245
To me, this was the biggest tell of where #Warsh wants the #Fed to go – all mixed up with #business & #finance, which I think could spell disaster.
Not being dramatic, but the Fed's focus will be marred – supporting the financial sector & big business, not simply ensuring price/job stability. It'll have every incentive to make it appear that #inflation & #prices are under control, not truly control them.
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#Warsh repeatedly stated that the #Fed will "deliver" on price stability. He didn't talk much about the job part of the mandate & said:
"I don't believe we have a cruel choice (b/t higher #inflation & #jobs)... What I believe is if we do our job, we can make strong #growth, low #prices, and strong #employment neutrally compatible."
#USA #CentralBank #MonetaryPolicy #finance #economics #USeconomy
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* c/o Yahoo Finance feed of Warsh's press conference (observations from poster) & Bloomberg
