Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Bitcoin Company Synonym Launches Architecture For A Self-Sovereign Economy

Is US politics divisive enough to make crypto a partisan issue?

At 1.9%, Nebraska Now Has the Lowest Unemployment Rate of Any State, Ever

Nebraska logged the lowest unemployment rate of any state on record in October, reflecting the acute labor shortages that have quickly swept across the nation amid an economic recovery that is without parallel.
Nebraska’s unemployment rate ticked down to 1.9% last month, well below the national jobless rate of 4.6% and the lowest for state records tracing back to 1976.

How Companies Quietly Raise Prices

When a company raises prices directly, some vigilant customer is bound to notice and complain on social media, no matter how small the increase or valid the reason. A few complaints could then spiral into a firestorm of outrage, upturning even the most carefully orchestrated price increase.
The solution for many companies is to raise prices, but covertly. Companies hope that by making price increases hard to evaluate, they can then escape notice and avoid a customer backlash.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Rotterdam police clash with rioters as Covid protest turns violent

Protests erupt over virus rules in Austria, Italy, Croatia

Politics:

GOP Opposition to Vaccine Mandates Grows Beyond Covid

In Idaho, a lawmaker introduced a bill that would define vaccine mandates — of any kind — as a form of assault. In Florida, a prominent state senator has called for a review of all vaccine requirements, including those for immunizations that have enjoyed wide public acceptance for decades, like polio and the measles, mumps, and rubella shot. And in Montana, the Republican governor recently signed into law a new bill that forbids businesses, including hospitals, from enforcing any vaccination requirements as a condition of employment.

The Bad Guys are Winning

If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.

Trump Orders Navarro to Defy House Covid Probe

More Americans Not Planning to Have Children

More U.S. adults who do not already have children are saying they are unlikely to ever have them, a new Pew Research Center survey finds — findings that could draw renewed attention to the risks of declining birthrates for industrialized nations.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Says Straight Couples ‘Superior’

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson again made disparaging remarks about LGBTQ+ people, this time at a Winston-Salem church, according to a video of the sermon made on Sunday.
Robinson, a Republican who is expected to run for governor in 2024, questioned the ‘purpose’ of being gay; said heterosexual couples are ‘superior’ to gay couples; and that he didn’t want to explain to his grandchildren why two men are kissing if they see that on television.

”Globalist” is an epithet now — yet some of history’s greatest thinkers supported world government

Serendipity:

Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage

Whose job is it to prevent Armageddon?

NASA is preparing to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid at 16,000 miles per hour, in a pioneering attempt to nudge it off course.
But the yearlong mission scheduled to begin on Nov. 24 is raising an existential question for scientists and security experts: whose job is it to defend the planet against a possibly life-ending space rock if one was headed our way?
The answer right now is no one.

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