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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

For Hive Power Up Day, I staked 158.413 HIVE.

Baltimore Braces for Economic Hit

This temporary cargo halt could become one of the greatest blows to Baltimore’s maritime prosperity since the city emerged as a commercial gateway with the tobacco trade in the 1600s…
For the United States as a whole, the port closure will have ‘no significant effects’ on economic growth or inflation… But it is a cataclysm for the regional economy and for hopes of adding blue-collar jobs. Some freight and transport executives compared the situation to other epic disasters.

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1774164949096386923

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Moderna reports promising findings for next-generation COVID vaccine

Politics:

https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1773756065794154783

Trump Posts That He Is the ‘Chosen One’ on Easter

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1774518405539778651

In 2018, Republicans accidentally legalized cannabis. Now 22 AGs want them to undo it

Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Specter of Hit Squads

The men who killed Maksim Kuzminov wanted to send a message. This was obvious to investigators in Spain even before they discovered who he was. Not only did the killers shoot him six times in a parking garage in southern Spain, they ran over his body with their car.
They also left an important clue to their identity, according to investigators: shell casings from 9-millimeter Makarov rounds, a standard ammunition of the former Communist bloc.

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1774505606205845996

Rising global threats force ‘epoch-making’ shift in world order

The return of great power competition across the globe is forcing countries to adapt, spurring major changes to alignment and spending from Europe to the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East.
The change is everywhere on the map — but most evident in countries like Sweden and Japan as the nations make dramatic changes to meet rising threats from Russia and China.

https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1774421837931335742

Vouchers are the worst education policy money can buy

China’s Efforts to Influence U.S. Election Raise Alarms

Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking President Biden ahead of the election in November.
The accounts signal a potential tactical shift in how Beijing aims to influence American politics, with more of a willingness to target specific candidates and parties, including Mr. Biden.
In an echo of Russia’s influence campaign before the 2016 election, China appears to be trying to harness partisan divisions to undermine the Biden administration’s policies, despite recent efforts by the two countries to lower the temperature in their relations.

https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1773809374823399494

Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu protests put political divides back on show

https://twitter.com/BillPascrell/status/1774561368382853255

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Against the Wind

Climate science deniers, right-wing think tanks, and fossil fuel shills are plotting to foil the renewable-energy revolution.

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