‘It’s deeply wrong. We don’t want to make our money selling things that are bad for people’

Benzinga Unidex Offers a New, Unique Way to Trade DeFi Tokens The DeFi ecosystem is growing again, with its total value locked (TVL) just reaching a new all-time high at $51.78 billion yesterday, April 7th. The DeFi sector is larger than ever, with nearly a year-long steady growth. New projects are emerging all the time, and DeFi participants are in need of a top-quality, reliable place to exchange DeFi tokens. Naturally, with the whole point of DeFi being decentralized, the only exchanges… Source link

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We are seeing substantial inflation and are raising prices

Bloomberg There’s Plenty Worrying Investors as Europe’s Stocks Hit Records (Bloomberg) — European equities are at records, vaccination rates are picking up and central banks are funneling trillions of dollars into the economy. But there is still plenty that could go wrong, with a resurgent coronavirus outbreak, another missed summer holiday season and elections keeping investors up at night.While the pandemic turned 2020 into a stock market roller-coaster, 2021 has begun on a more… Source link

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‘Bernie Sanders has basically won’ on income inequality

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) Vice Chairman Charlie Munger on Saturday declared progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the victor in the nation’s political fight over income inequality. The hot economy and loose monetary policy will end up narrowing the nation’s wealth gap, Munger predicted. “With everything boomed up so high and interest rates so low, what’s going to happen is the millennial generation is going to have a hell of a time getting rich compared to our generation,”… Source link

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This new Roku-Google fight has big divorced parent energy

Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Across many years of covering our increasingly fractured media landscape, there’s really just one thing that’s given us some true hope for the triumph of the human spirit over the rampant rise of cold corporate logic: The continued existence of the petty-ass “Just LOOK what your father is making me do!” energy that pervades any big conflict between content studios and the service providers who carry their work to the masses. Once upon a time, you… Source link

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Chiefs pay tribute to Yahoo Sports NFL writer Terez Paylor

The Kansas City Chiefs are honoring the memory of Yahoo Sports NFL writer Terez Paylor on Day 3 of the 2021 NFL draft.  Chiefs PR tweeted out a picture of the team’s coaching staff wearing All-Juice Team shirts as a tribute to Paylor. Head coach Andy Reid is among the many Chiefs staff members who appear in the picture. All proceeds from the All-Juice Team shirts will support the Terez A. Paylor scholarship at Howard University. Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt opened up his Zoom call with the media by… Source link

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Google will freeze auto-renewing Play Store subscriptions in India

Reuters Videos ‘Nobody is helping’: India’s hospitals in COVID crisis Just hours ago, Manika Goel’s mother died of COVID-19. Now, she is sat by her husband’s side in a New Delhi hospital – where he is in a critical condition with the virus.39-year-old Amit is wedged between three other patients in a hospital casualty ward.One of many in India, the world’s second most populous nation, that is totally overwhelmed with patients.Goel, a software engineer, says she managed to find an oxygen… Source link

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Buffett’s Berkshire Gets More Cautious on Stocks and Buybacks

(Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s capital-deployment machine pulled back on several fronts at the start of the year as the billionaire took a more cautious stance on stocks. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s net stock sales in the first quarter were the second-highest in almost five years and the conglomerate, where the billionaire is chief executive officer, slowed its buyback pace, according to a regulatory filing Saturday. That helped push Berkshire’s cash pile up 5.2% from three months… Source link

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Spencer Brown celebrates being drafted by diving through table

Something tells us Buffalo Bills fans are really going to enjoy third-round pick Spencer Brown. After all, we don’t know many rookies who would pay homage to their new team’s fanbase by diving through a table.  That’s exactly what Brown did after the Bills drafted him Friday. Brown climbed up on a chair to get some height, double-tapped his elbow and dove right through the table, splitting it in half. Brown’s form was great, and his dive was well-executed. As far as Bills’ table-diving stunts… Source link

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The U.S. is about to run out of adults who are eager to get vaccinated

The New York Times Faith, Freedom, Fear: Rural America’s COVID Vaccine Skeptics GREENEVILLE, Tenn.— “So, have you gotten the vaccine yet?” The question, a friendly greeting to Betty Smith, the pastor’s wife, lingered in the air as the four church women sat down for their regular Tuesday coffee and conversation at Ingles Market. Smith hesitated, sensing a chilly blast of judgment from a never-mask, never-vax companion. She fumbled through a nonreply. Sign up for The Morning newsletter… Source link

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Verizon is considering selling the remnants of AOL and Yahoo — here are the most valuable pieces – CNBC

Karen Bleier | AFP | Getty Images Verizon‘s $9 billion bet on AOL and Verizon hasn’t led to riches for shareholders of the largest U.S. wireless company. But other buyers may still find value in some of the assets. Verizon is weighing a sale of Verizon Media Group — previously called Oath, and before that, simply the merged AOL-Yahoo internet group — according to a person familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the potential sale, which the newspaper said could… Source link

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