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December 19, 2023

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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS LED TO JUMP IN FARMERS’ DEPENDENCE ON PESTICIDES, STUDY SAYS

The increase in genetically modified crops has led to a jump in the use of pesticides, according to a study published in April.

AI TAKES JOBS FROM THE PEOPLE WHO MADE AI POSSIBLE

Not every business has figured out how to make a profitable return on its AI investment, but some of those......

AS FORECAST, PRES. TRUMP DEMANDS FED LOWER INTEREST RATES

As we had long forecast, President Trump will keep pushing the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. After the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the U.S. economy added 139,000 jobs in May—more than expected—Donald Trump took to social media to demand that the U.S. Federal Reserve and its Chairman Jerome Powell lower the central bank’s interest rate.

IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER CALLS ON ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO DEFEND PALESTINIANS FROM ISRAEL’S ‘SAVAGERY’

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, called on Islamic countries in the Middle East to come together to defend the Palestinians in Gaza and restrain Israel’s Zionist regime from continuing “these barbaric actions” inside the enclave.

AI SAVED TYPICAL U.K. GOVERNMENT WORKER TWO WEEKS A YEAR, STUDY SAYS

Government workers who use AI for routine administrative tasks boosted their productivity enough to gain more than two weeks’ worth of time in the course of a year, according to a government test designed to see if AI could boost productivity.

PRIVATE CREDIT COULD BE “LOCUS OF CONTAGION” IN A FINANCIAL CRISIS

Lending by private equity firms and other nonbank financial businesses has become so widespread that it could become a “locus of contagion” in any new financial crisis, a research group that includes researchers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Moody’s Analytics said last week.

LAYOFFS UP 47 PERCENT IN MAY FROM A YEAR EARLIER

In May, U.S. businesses announced they plan to drop about 100,000 workers from their payrolls, 47 percent more than were announced in May 2024, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported in new data.

TRUMP CHANGE: INAUGURAL DONORS BEGIN TO RECEIVE DIVIDENDS FROM INVESTMENT

Money talks, bullshit walks.

TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: OFFICE REAL ESTATE MARKET REACHES TIPPING POINT

This year, the square footage of U.S. office building demolitions and conversions to other uses will exceed that of new office construction for the first time this century and probably longer, data service CBRE reported.

PRO-GENOCIDE TRUMP SANCTIONS ICC JUDGES OVER ARREST WARRANT FOR NETANYAHU

The Trump administration last week imposed sanctions on four judges from the International Criminal Court over their decision to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his previous defense minister, Yoav Gallant, based on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

SPOTLIGHT: U.S. ECONOMIC BRIEFS

As expected, U.S. factories received fewer new orders in April after customers surged their inventories in March to beat Donald Trump’s 2 April “Liberation Day” tariff announcement.

CONGRESSMAN WANTS ‘FREE PALESTINE’ SLOGAN TO BE LABELED AS ANTISEMITIC

Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., in response to the recent attack in Boulder that left 15 injured, introduced a resolution last week that labels the slogan “Free Palestine” as antisemitic stating it calls for the “destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people.”

BITCOIN GOES FULL MAGA, AND SOME ADVOCATES AREN’T THRILLED

U.S. President Donald Trump’s rise as a major bitcoin and crypto enthusiast has been widely celebrated by the industry since the world’s most powerful person is in its corner, but there are some crypto enthusiasts worried that Trump’s vocal embrace will end up hurting crypto.

IS OFFICIAL U.S. INFLATION DATA STILL ACCURATE?

Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) told a group of economists that a federal hiring freeze had left it unable to contact the usual number of businesses it uses to monitor price changes.

FED’S BEIGE BOOK TAKES ON A DARKER SHADE

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book, a collection of anecdotes and snapshots of business conditions around the country, shows......

GOING OUT OF BUSINESS TRENDS

The economic landscape has presented an array of challenges that will profoundly affect the business community this year.

ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW

So here is the economic deal. The world equity markets are basically on hold. Why? Because The Street is waiting to know the details of the trade deal now being negotiated in London between the United States and China.

THE FINAL 7 STAGES… AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME.

Let’s start with this… The Systemic ROT is Worsening. OCEANS of easy money, QE, ZIRP, NIRP, vast credit/debt expansion has already poisoned the global economy for years. This is not an opinion, it’s a fact.

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FED’S BEIGE BOOK TAKES ON A DARKER SHADE

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book, a collection of anecdotes and snapshots of business conditions around the country, shows......

NOTHING YOU SAY TO AI IS PRIVATE

Assume that generative and agentic AI, whether standalone platforms, or integrated into productivity apps and web searches, provide zero privacy......

Aerial View Of The Aftermath And Destruction Of IDF Airstrikes On The Rimal Neighborhood In Gaza

TRUMP’S GENOCIDE: U.S. VETOES UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION DEMANDING GAZA CEASEFIRE

The U.S. vetoed a draft resolution in the UN Security Council last week that demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that called the conditions inside the enclave “catastrophic,” requiring all humanitarian restrictions to be lifted.

Germany's New Conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz In Kiel, Germany

HEIL MERZ: GERMANY WILL KEEP PUMPING ISRAEL WITH WEAPONS

Germany announced last week that it will continue to provide Israel with weapons, despite earlier criticism from its new conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said last month that Tel Aviv’s actions in Gaza “can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism.”

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Global Economy

SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER

Plans for several new mergers and acquisitions have been paused since Donald Trump’s 2 April “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, the Financial Times reported.

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

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has cut its forecast for U.S. economic growth by 25 percent this year, dropping it from 2.2 percent to 1.6 percent, warning that the biggest loser in Donald Trump’s trade war will be the U.S. itself.

TOP TREND 2023, OFFICE BUILDING BUST: OFFICE REAL ESTATE MARKET REACHES TIPPING POINT

The Israel War

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BIDEN PIER 2.0: MILITARIZED HUMANITARIAN AID DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN GAZA BECOME MURDER MILLS

Over 100 Palestinians have been killed at Israeli- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites in southern Gaza since 27 May, and hundreds have been injured, after warnings from the UN and NGOs that the project was doomed to fail from the start.

GAZA DEATH TOLL

The death toll in Gaza reached 54,927 on Tuesday and 126,615 have been wounded. There are another 11,000 missing.

Concept Collage Of Iran vs Israel With Flags, Fighter Jets, And Explosions

IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER CALLS ON ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO DEFEND PALESTINIANS FROM ISRAEL’S ‘SAVAGERY’

Trends in AI

CHINA PLANS NETWORK OF AI SUPERCOMPUTERS IN SPACE

Last month, China launched the first 12 satellites into Earth orbit that will become part of a cluster of 2,800, ultimately forming something called the Three-Body Computing Constellation.