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The Great Retreat: Beijing's Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering
The Great Retreat: Beijing's Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering
Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has positioned the digital yuan (e-CNY) as the ultimate weapon of financial totalitarianism. It was intended to be the crowning achievement of the surveillance state. With a programmable, traceable digital currency, Beijing thought it would finally break the back of private payment giants like Alipay and WeChat Pay.
Signage of the Chinese digital currency is seen near a coffee store in the New Actuation Fintech Center...
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With oil flows passing through the Straits of Hormuz blocked indefinitely, markets were paying especially close attention to today's weekly DOE report on oil stocks, to see how much capacity the US has in case of a prolonged lockout. The result was satisfactory.
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Dems' Ballroom Hate Is the Saddest Proof Yet of Their State of TDS Mental Unwellness
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Authored by Stephen Kruiser via PJMedia.com,
There was a time not so long ago when the Democrats were formidable and — I'm not kidding here — occasionally enjoyable political foes. During the Tea Party years, we would often encounter Dem activists and hang out with them for a while. Sometimes we would even socialize. The Democrats of recent yesteryear bore no resemblance to the feral, frothing rage mob that the No Kings/Resist Dems are today.
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