Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About #Money Sparked Fears He Would Resign
Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that #ClarenceThomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow #SupremeCourt justices to take speaking fees.
Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money....
Our nearby small market town used to have 3 banks; they're all closed (taking their cash machines with them), and this week one of the two remaining cash machines was removed from the supermarket where it was located.
So, we're down to a single cash machine in an area with a radius (I'm guessing) of around 20 miles.
The cashless society doesn't represent consumer choice, its pace is being forced by financial institutions keen to charge fees on transactions!
👀 :thisisfinefire: "The US has about $2 trillion of physical currency in circulation, half of it held abroad. Total US bank deposits are around $17 trillion. Meanwhile, total wealth in the US is around $149 trillion, more than 63 times the total available cash. The gaps between these numbers are like dark matter in the universe — we don’t have a way to empirically account for it, and yet without it our understanding of the universe, or the economy, would collapse."
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
Postolnikov, the nephew of #AleksandrSmirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir #Putin, has not been charged w/a #crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing #PaxumBank threatened legal action for reporting the contents of leaked docs.
The bot @web3isgreat from @molly0xfff is a great way to keep up with all problems those of us who only use boring, ordinary #money never experience. For example, fraudsters stealing $25 million in "#AI-powered" #crypto in a #ponzi scheme. They spent the money on private jets and rented mansions (the usual stuff), and invented a fictitious "Federal Crypto Reserve" https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ai-powered-crypto-ponzi
I have two guilts that always come up whenever I buy something.
That I am supposed to be saving my money and anytime I spend money on something non-essential, I am wasting it.
Anything I do that is non essential to being alive is unduly impacting the earth.
But still I live my life like most privileged people - only I probably overthink things and probably don’t consume as much as I would have. #consumerism#money#ClimateChange
where we, the public, learn that the pursuit of money is a mind-numbing power that condemns us all to a slow, miserable heatdeath at the hands of a tiny #greedy minority
"Money wasn’t created until around 600 B.C.E. with what many historians consider the first coins: lumps of blended gold and silver stamped with a lion. The idea spread to Greece, where people started exchanging their goods for coins in public spaces called agoras. Money soon created alternatives to traditional labour systems. Now, instead of working on a wealthy landowner’s farm for a year in return for food, lodging and clothes, a person could be paid for short-term #work. This gave people the freedom to leave a bad #job, but also the insecurity of finding #employment when they needed it."
When the UK’s deputy foreign secretary has to admit that around 40% of all money laundered globally likely flows through London & the Crown Dependencies, you can bet that such an estimate will be on the low side.
There are many reasons that the UK's global reputation is increasingly tarnished & the work in financial services to hide & process criminal/illegal funds is contributing to that malaise.
So much for the value of financial services to the UK
"This Court’s love for the money power has been obvious and consistent. Justices with a conscience would recognize that sponging off billionaires renders them disqualified from judging a case involving how much those billionaires will be taxed as billionaires but, who am I kidding, right?"
"Trump is spending a good chunk of his donations on his legal bills. The Times ran an amazing report about this on Wednesday. Of nearly $85 million in donations, almost a third, $27 million, has gone to legal bills. Hey, at least this time around, he’s apparently actually paying them.
Trump will have money. There’s no use pretending he won’t."
"They’re out there too. And they’re starting to see what you and I have so obviously seen for years: a twisted, desperate huckster who’s never cracked a Bible in his life and whose only religion is hustling the suckers who are born every minute."
I only know her through conversation, she never mentioned this gofundme to me, I happened across it through a Twitter link on her profile. It hasn't had any support until today when I shared through lemmy. Thank you all.
“Everything at 100 pesetas”
(Everything at a low price)
A throwback sign on a side street in Petrer, Alicante, Spain.
The peseta was Spain’s monetary unit from 1868 until 2002 when it was replaced by the euro. The original exchange rate was approximately: 166 pesetas = 1 euro.
Why not start the day with a little political economy
For those of you new to the idea that money is primarily the result of private credit creation in the banking sector, here's a nice (concise) summary of the position, linking the history of money, the role of the state & the importance of banks credit creation activity.
The key point, is there is no 'natural' economy, only one made from rule/laws of exchange & state interventions.
Reminder that RedHat makes A LOT of money already. The results of the 2019 fiscal year show that RedHat spends twice as much money on ads and sales people than on developers. (www.businesswire.com)
Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money....
61 Celtic gold coins of the 1st century A.D