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December 19, 2023

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BYD DOUBLES FIRST-QUARTER PROFITS

BYD, China’s leading electric vehicle (EV) maker, posted first-quarter profits equivalent to $1.26 billion in this year’s first quarter, compared to $63 million for the same quarter in 2024.

SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE

Last week, Donald Trump raised the prospect that his slate of custom-tailored tariffs on more than 100 countries could be reimposed sooner than the early July deadline he set when he suspended the tariffs a day after announcing them.

WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE, CONSUMERS CUT SPENDING

U.S. consumers are continuing to reduce their spending on non-essential items such as snacks, airline flights, and eating out, The Wall Street Journal reported.

HACKERS’ NEXT TARGET: YOUR DNA

Newly emerging DNA sequencing techniques are creating customized medicines, diagnosing disease risks, and tracking infectious diseases.

U.S. HAS LAUNCHED ABOUT 750 AIRSTRIKES ON YEMEN IN TRUMP’S PUNISHMENT CAMPAIGN

The U.S. military has carried out nearly 750 airstrikes on targets in Yemen since the self-proclaimed “peace” president, Donald Trump, ordered the initial salvo on 15 March, which has been taking a large toll on the civilian population in the war-torn country.

GOOGLE’S AI IS TRANSLATING DOLPHINS’ LANGUAGE

Scientists have long known that dolphins have their own language. However, despite decades of effort, no one has a good understanding of what those clicks, squeaks, and whistles mean.

SPEEDING THE ‘PROGRESS’ OF HUMAN REPLACISM

This isn’t your ancestors’ industrial revolution. The American workforce is at a crossroads, and young Americans stepping into it are facing a gauntlet unlike any previous generations encountered.

TRUMP’S DECISION TO RECOGNIZE CRIMEA AS PART OF RUSSIA TESTS EUROPEAN LEADERS

U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to sweeten a peace deal for Russia to end its war in Ukraine by—among other concessions—agreeing to officially recognize Crimea as part of Russia, which is a particularly tough pill to swallow for European leaders who see it as a capitulation by the administration.

SPOTLIGHT: LUXURY INDUSTRY’S PROSPECTS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE

Just when Donald Trump’s new tariffs are undercutting luxury industry revenues, a weak dollar and record gold prices are making things even worse.

AMERICANS ARE SCALING BACK THEIR STANDARDS FOR RETIREMENT

A year ago, Americans responding to a Northwestern Mutual survey said they needed an average of $1.46 million to retire comfortably.

PRO-ZIONIST CENSORSHIP: TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PUT SCHOOLS UNDER HIS THUMB

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been cracking down on universities across the country that allowed anti-genocide protests last year, signed a new executive order last week to track major foreign donations that get funneled into these schools.

THIS IS FINANCIAL EUGENICS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER

It’s a con job. A show. A game rigged at every level. What’s the Endgame? Collapse the dollar. Digitize the currency. Enforce programmable money with expiry dates, surveillance, and social scoring.

OPENAI SLASHES TIME SPENT CHECKING AI’S SAFETY

OpenAI staffers and independent evaluators recently were given a relatively few days—in some cases less than a week—to assess the newest model’s risks and performance, eight people inside the process recently told the Financial Times.

TESLA SALES SLUMP IN EUROPE

March marked the third consecutive month of falling sales for Tesla in the European Union (EU) even as demand for electric vehicles (EVs) grew across the region.

WORLD WAR III: EUROPE RUSHING TO BUILD MILITARY PRODUCTION CAPABILITIES

Micael Johansson, the president and CEO of Saab AB, the Swedish defense and aerospace company, told reporters last week that it will take more time before Europe hits its full capacity to produce weapons and fully identify and address its vulnerabilities.

DEATH OF JOURNALISM: TOP ‘60 MINUTES’ PRODUCER RESIGNS, ANCHOR EXPLAINS

Bill Owens, the executive producer at CBS’s “60 Minutes” announced his resignation last week after telling staffers in a memo that it has become clear to him that he “would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”

ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW

As the old saying goes, “round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows.” It’s a spinning wheel and President Donald Trump is the spin master.

THIS IS FINANCIAL EUGENICS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER

Carefree, Wealthy, Young Family Sailing On A Beautiful Yacht

THE 19 RICHEST U.S. FAMILIES TOOK IN ANOTHER $1 TRILLION IN 2024

Last year, the 19 richest American families—one one-hundred-thousandth of one percent of the population (0.00001 percent)—enriched themselves by an additional $1 trillion, a sum exceeding the Swiss national GDP, according to an analysis from the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley.

AN AI IMAGINES ‘HUMAN ASPIRATIONS’ IN THE AGE OF AI ASCENDANCE, PART ONE

In this two-part article, we present a recent conversation with xAI’s advanced Grok3 generative AI chatbot, concerning some of the issues in our related reporting from this issue, “SPEEDING THE ‘PROGRESS’ OF HUMAN REPLACISM.”

Five Glasses Filled With Vividly Colored Liquids Of Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, And Orange

RFK JR. AIMS TO REMOVE ARTIFICIAL FOOD DYES IN THE U.S.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, announced last week his plan to phase out food coloring in the U.S. after studies have linked these synthetic dyes to health issues.

A Lone Palestinian Child Stands In Front Of The Rubble Of Homes Destroyed By Israeli Air Strikes

NEARLY 1,000 GAZAN CHILDREN LOST A LIMB DURING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced Saturday that nearly 1,000 children in Gaza have lost at least one limb amid Israel’s genocide that shows no signs of slowing.

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Global Economy

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

When Donald Trump won the race to the White House back in November, there were high expectations that the equity markets would spike, the value of the dollar would rise and it would be high times for the Merger and Acquisition Gang.

SPOTLIGHT: LUXURY INDUSTRY’S PROSPECTS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE

Just when Donald Trump’s new tariffs are undercutting luxury industry revenues, a weak dollar and record gold prices are making things even worse.

SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE

The Israel War

A Map Of The The Red Sea Region With The Bab Al Mandab Strait Pinned With A Red Push Pin

YEMEN DEATH TOLL

The U.S. military killed at least 250 people in over 800 attacks in Yemen since 15 March when Houthi fighters renewed their attacks on Israeli ships in the Red Sea to respond to the ongoing Washington-backed genocide and starvation campaign in Gaza.

Displaced Palestinians Fill Their Containers With Potable Water

GAZA DEATH TOLL

Israel has killed at least 52,243 Gazans and injured 117,639 since October 2023 as it tightens its grip on the enclave.

NEARLY 1,000 GAZAN CHILDREN LOST A LIMB DURING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced Saturday that nearly 1,000 children in Gaza have lost at least one limb amid Israel’s genocide that shows no signs of slowing.

Trends in AI

GOOGLE’S AI IS TRANSLATING DOLPHINS’ LANGUAGE

Scientists have long known that dolphins have their own language. However, despite decades of effort, no one has a good understanding of what those clicks, squeaks, and whistles mean.

TARIFFS WILL BOOST AI’S POWER BILL

Donald Trump has painted himself as a champion of AI, but his tariffs threaten to add even more cost to processing your AI prompts.

Global Economy

The Israel War

Trends in AI

Hi-Tech Science

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