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FDIC sees merits of increasing backstop for business accounts(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by VagueMag 3y ago|0 comments
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Environmentalists sue FAA over SpaceX Starship launch license for Texas(news.yahoo.com)
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Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
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by VagueMag 3y ago
The crooked, drug-running cop who was Epstein's cellmate (and charged with murdering four people in a drug conspiracy) was quietly spared the death penalty in December last year, with no reason given: https://www.lohud.com&#
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by VagueMag 3y ago
This is a good thing to point out. I imagine there are some new names in here, but the Noam Chomsky connections at least were surfaced by left-leaning parapolitical Twitter accounts early last year. IIRC Chomsky even confirmed it via email.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
The "well-connected financier" storyline generally falls apart on closer inspection. Of what is actually known and documented about how Epstein obtained his money, it was mostly through stock and real estate gifted to him by Les W
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Thank you. There is such an overwhelming number of these details it becomes very difficult to remember all of them.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
To put a little meat on the bone here in terms of what you're asking, this is the same prison that held El Chapo through his trial. If it was a sloppily run facility it seems unlikely it would have been chosen for that purpose. I don&#
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> Lamentable - the careers of the officers involved will be stained. You would think so, but: https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-prisons-new-jerse...
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> .. Why hasn't someone been arrested yet?? There's the mundane answer: Because the wealthy and powerful are above the law and exempt from the normal mechanisms of accountability. And the more introspective, deeper one: Becau
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by VagueMag 3y ago
I don't respect Chomsky and think he has built a career out of building a "compatible left" which completely fails to meaningfully oppose and often even carries water for corporate and institutional power, of which their wide
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by VagueMag 3y ago
It's completely silly to use "how was a typical prisoner handled" as the baseline for what should have been expected with Jeffrey Epstein. There was extremely intense news interest, mainstream outlets were speculating that hi
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by VagueMag 3y ago
There's something satisfying about seeing Chomsky on this list after he spent 2021 saying that people who didn't take the COVID shots should be removed from society and left to fend for themselves in obtaining food.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Alex Jones really just sells a whole lot of brain pills! Whether Icke or Jones are real examples of the phenomenon, I believe it has actually been documented e.g. with the "Mirage Men" revelations that this "flooding the zone
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Epstein's Private Calendar Reveals Prominent Names, Including CIA Chief(wsj.com)
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Coronation: Public invited to swear allegiance to King Charles(bbc.com)
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by VagueMag 3y ago
I was hospitalized for two severe manic episodes in my late teens and was told I would have to take lithium for the rest of my life or I would inevitably end up back in the hospital. I did take it (and Zyprexa) for about nine months during
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Will this also prohibit the installation of propane or other one-off gas cooking options at summer homes in the Hamptons? Are all those personal chefs going to have to make do with induction ranges?
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> We raise interest rates in an inflationary environment because we want people to accumulate wealth in the form of financial assets instead of spending on real things. Yes and no. The Fed has a not-so-subtle goal of taming inflation i
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Used to bank with First Republic when I lived in CA and always had very good experiences. Unfortunately, in banking, a high degree of customer satisfaction can be a side effect of practices which ultimately land the bank in trouble.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
The biggest problematic asset on their books is actually the interest-only mortgages, which were only extended to fairly high-income borrowers.
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JP Morgan, PNC Bidding for First Republic as Part of FDIC Takeover(wsj.com)
8 points by VagueMag 3y ago|1 comments
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by VagueMag 3y ago
Yes, it's still a very unlikely scenario but the TGA running low and debt ceiling brinkmanship at the same time banks are going under does make me think there's some nonzero chance of some insured depositors in some banks having t
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by VagueMag 3y ago
The FDIC generally likes to do this on Fridays so they can reopen the bridge bank and everyone can access their funds on Monday. If you're under the insurance limit you're almost certainly fine.
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by VagueMag 3y ago
4 days is a long time in bank deposit land now!
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by VagueMag 3y ago
It's an interesting question in this case because last month a consortium of banks made a big show of depositing $30B " uninsured " as a show of confidence, and it's not clear whether it's still there.
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U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic(reuters.com)
270 points by VagueMag 3y ago|462 comments
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First Republic hits record low as report says FDIC receivership likely(reuters.com)
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FBI Searches Home of Top FTX Executive(nytimes.com)
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by VagueMag 3y ago
> There are virtually no new applications enabled IMO with 5G speeds vs LTE speeds/latency, assuming they are both not congested. 5G will enable the sorts of edge computing needed for stuff like facial recognition. It's funda

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