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Opposed to Cultural Imperialism

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@EverythingCar_X German Engineering

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Having a nightmare with virgin Mobile Plus. Rcvd a Damaged phone. Promised new phone. Didn't get. Called back. Told me to go to the kiosk to exchange it
Kiosk told me no can do. So far I have spent 10 hours totally with them in over 10 days.
#CustomerComplaint

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@jmclennan8 Appreciate if you could allow me to speak

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@KEriksenV2 I wish she was the prime minister. Can you imagine the boom in the comedy industry. Canada would be so famous

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Hilarious 😂

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@wogpound Host:
Kindly consider my request to speak.
Thaanks

[Bank of Canada @bankofcanada]

The summary of deliberations for our March 12 interest rate decision is now available.

👉 Read how the decision was made: https://t.co/Y7LbQfKwAl

#transparency #cdnecon #economy

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Can the US and Canada have a "Benelux" similar union?

https://t.co/O9czxRKQs5

[Jasem Aljuraid | جاسم الجريّد @JJJuraid]

ISIS × Brotherhood × AlQaeda went full force to dehumanize, detain and kill the LGBTQ community in Syria.

Welcome to Shari'a Law.

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@Christy4Change @govt_corrupt Freedom

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Do not trade next week's meal plan for tonight's Do not trade next week's meal plan for tonight's steak supper.

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Everybody has their own Camino.

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Knowledge is power.
Ignorance is bliss.

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This is the classic systematic racism that the media speaks about. Be wary of people of "good" intention.

https://t.co/AB35kNrWvx

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Oil is polluting our cities. Smog from exhaust is causing cancer. Our health system can not afford their medical bills. The movement to the electric car will benefit our cities. Oh, yeah, Africans dying? Well companies are working for an (more expensive ) alternative. blah, blah

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@simonateba Honestly, I blame all of the above, then you for distributing it and myself for watching it.

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They were drinking and having orgies when Rome was burning.

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@elonmusk That's 80%

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This song is the canary in the mine for the undercurrent that will erupt with huge consequences.
https://t.co/2jKQh80a7U

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I believe that long-term rates, e.g, 30-year rates, will rise further from here. As such, we remain short bonds through the ownership of swaptions.

The world is a structurally different place than it was. The peace dividend is no more. The long-term deflationary effects of outsourcing production to China are no more. Workers and unions’ bargaining power continues to rise. Strikes abound, with more likely to come as successful walkouts achieve substantial wage gains.

Energy prices are rising rapidly. Not refilling the SPR was a misguided and dangerous mistake. Our strategic assets should never be used to achieve short-term political objectives. Now we must refill the SPR while OPEC and Russia cut production.

The green energy transition is and will remain incalculably expensive. And higher gas prices will raise inflationary expectations. Just ask your average American. They see the prices at the pump and in the grocery store and don’t believe inflation is moderating.

Our national debt is $33 trillion and rising rapidly. There is no sign of fiscal discipline by either party or by the presumptive presidential nominees. And each debt ceiling is an opportunity for our divided government and its most extreme actors to get media attention, and for our nation to threaten default. This is not a good way to recruit the many new buyers we need for our bonds.

The government is selling hundreds of billions of bills, notes and bonds weekly. China and other foreign nations, historically major buyers of our debt, are now selling. And the QT unwind experiment has barely begun. Imagine trying to do a massive IPO where the underwriter, insiders and short sellers are all selling at once, competing to hit every bid on the way down while the analysts downgrade their ratings to ‘Sell.’

Our economy is outperforming expectations. Major infrastructure spending is beginning to contribute to economic growth and the supply of additional debt. Recession predictions have been pushed out beyond 2024.

The long-term inflation rate is not going back to 2% no matter how many times Chairman Powell reiterates it as his target. It was arbitrarily set at 2% after the financial crisis in a world very different from the one we live in now.

I bumped into the CIO of one of the world’s largest fixed income asset managers the other night and asked him how it was going. He looked like he had had a tough day. He greeted me by saying: ‘There are just too many bonds’ — a veritable tsunami of new issuance each week. I asked him what he was going to do about it. He said: ‘The only thing you can do is step away.’

I have been surprised at how low long-term rates are. I think the best explanation is that bond investors thought of 4% as a high rate of interest because rates hadn’t breached 4% for nearly 15 years. When investors saw the ‘opportunity’ to lock in 4% for 30 years, they grabbed it as a ‘once-in-their-career opportunity,’ but today’s world is very different from the one they have experienced up until now.

The long-term inflation rate plus the real rate of interest plus term premium suggests that 5.5% is an appropriate yield for 30-year Treasurys. And query whether 0.5% is a sufficient real long term rate in an increasingly risky world.

And the technicals could cause yields to go even higher, particularly in the short term. We saw the beginnings of that today.

It wasn’t that long ago that a previous generation thought five percent was a low rate of interest for a long-term, fixed-rate obligation.

But I could be wrong. AI might save us.