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Crypto Comeback: Chief Economic Adviser Optimistic Over Renewed Risk-On Tone Black Thursday

Crypto Comeback: Chief Economic Adviser Optimistic Over Renewed Risk-On Tone

When the pandemic first struck, crypto investors feverishly began reducing overall risk across their asset portfolio.This sentiment has since changed, and with it the has the tone of a chief economic advisor who previously told investors to “buckle” up, and prepare for the worst. The increase in risk-on interest may…
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May 27, 2020
‘Not Priests, Nor Crosses, Nor Bells.’ The Tragic History of How Pandemics Have Disrupted Mourning Spanish Flu

‘Not Priests, Nor Crosses, Nor Bells.’ The Tragic History of How Pandemics Have Disrupted Mourning

On a recent Monday in a New Jersey cemetery, social worker Jane Blumenstein held a laptop with the screen facing a gravesite. A funeral was being held over Zoom, for a woman who died of COVID-19. It was a brilliantly sunny day, so a funeral worker held an umbrella over…
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May 27, 2020
NewsWatch: Nasdaq and S&P 500 turn negative as stocks lose buoyancy amid U.S.-China spat NASDAQ

NewsWatch: Nasdaq and S&P 500 turn negative as stocks lose buoyancy amid U.S.-China spat

NewsWatch Published: May 27, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE U.S. stocks slipped Wednesday, led by technology stocks, as worries about escalating tensions between the China and the U.S. edged out optimism over businesses reopening as the coronavirus pandemic recedes and economic aid packages by governments. See full…
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May 27, 2020
Must Read: How Raf Simons’s Senior Thesis Ended Up on Grailed, What’s Actually Selling Online Now Twinfluencer

Must Read: How Raf Simons’s Senior Thesis Ended Up on Grailed, What’s Actually Selling Online Now

Photo: Getty ImagesThese are the stories making headlines in fashion on Wednesday.How Raf Simons's senior thesis ended up on GrailedLate last week, a listing on Grailed went viral. The seller had somehow gotten their hands on Raf Simons's senior thesis from his time at the LUCA School of Arts, and…
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May 27, 2020
Mice on Acid WEF

Mice on Acid

In the bowels of an animal research facility at Oxford University, mice are stirring in cages. Half of them have been given an injection of saline solution and behave like the docile house pet of your local fifth-grader. The other half have been given DOI, a drug chemically similar to…
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May 27, 2020
Larry Kramer, ‘The Normal Heart’ Playwright and AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 Stalingrad

Larry Kramer, ‘The Normal Heart’ Playwright and AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival Larry Kramer, a legendary playwright, author, screenwriter and activist in the 1980s who helped shift government policy during the AIDS crisis and also penned the acclaimed play “The Normal Heart,” has died of pneumonia, his husband told The New York Times.…
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May 27, 2020
A ‘capital war’ is accelerating between the US and China, and the coronavirus pandemic is only making it worse, according to one investor Trade War

A ‘capital war’ is accelerating between the US and China, and the coronavirus pandemic is only making it worse, according to one investor

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a capital war between the US and China, Michael Howell, the CEO of CrossBorder Capital, said in a Tuesday interview with CNBC. "The decision to share dollar swap lines with 14 other nations, effectively forming a de facto group of 15 countries, including…
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May 27, 2020
MSNBC Reporter Speechless After He’s Owned for “Mask Shaming” People As Crew Has on No Masks Julian Assange

MSNBC Reporter Speechless After He’s Owned for “Mask Shaming” People As Crew Has on No Masks

By Matt Agorist Lake Geneva, WI — To those who have been paying attention over the last couple of months, the mainstream media’s coverage of the pandemic has been unethical, inconsistent, divisive, and in some instances outright false. The media has gone from telling Americans not to wear masks to…
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May 27, 2020