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Tag Archives: banking
LinkSwarm for March 10, 2023
Mutiny! Bank runs! Twitter files! It’s a ginormous LinkSwarm full of interesting (and alarming) links! And I finally get a chance to talk more about the FTX scandal. The Twitter files revelations continue to roll out. And Democrats aren’t happy … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Budget, Crime, Democrats, Economics, Elections, Foreign Policy, Media Watch, Military, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, Texas, video, Waste and Fraud
Tagged abortion, Alex Stamos, Alliance for Securing Democracy, Andreas Paepcke, Ann Ruttle, Aspen Institute, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, bank run, banking, Brandy Zadrozny, California, China, Chris Krebs, cocaine, Cocaine Bear, Crime, cryptocurrency, D. H. Horton, Economics, Environmental Social Governance (ESG), FTX, gay, Glenn Greenwald, Hamilton 68, Hunter Biden, J.K. Rowling, Katie Couric, Kentucky, Larry Kramer, LinkSwarm, Margaret Sullivan, marijuana, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Molly McKew, National Endowment for Democracy, Oklahoma, pedophilia, Politico, Prince Harry, Regulation, Robert Downey Jr., Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Sam Bankman-Fried, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate Bank, Social Justice Warriors, Stanford, Texas, Thomas Rid, transexual, Twitter, Ukraine, Vuhledar, West (Texas)
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LinkSwarm for October 7, 2022
I hope all BattleSwarm readers are safe from the Joe Biden Armageddon thus far. Today’s LinkSwarm features Democrats disdaining the rules followed by the little people, the UN is delusional enough to think they can run the world and defy … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Budget, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Media Watch, Military, Regulation, Texas, Waste and Fraud
Tagged Arizona, banking, basketball, Border Controls, China, Chris Cuomo, Communism, dogs, Economics, Eric Adams, Eugene Yu, Facebook, food, fraud, gay, Illegal Aliens, interest rates, Joe Biden, Konnech, LaToya Cantrell, Lawsuit, LinkSwarm, Matthew Kacsmaryk, Media Watch, Military, natural gas, New Orleans, New York City, Nordstream, NYU, oil industry, OPEC, Paw Patrol, Regulation, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, sanctuary cities, Saudi Arabia, Texas, transexual, True The Vote, Ukraine, UN, Venezuela, Vermont, voting fraud
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Will Dollar-Pound Parity Unleash Weirdness?
A variety of maladies (global inflation, soaring energy costs due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, and post-Brexit trade wrangles, among others) has the English pound approaching parity with the U.S dollar. Can the pound reach parity versus the dollar? It’s now … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Economics, video
Tagged banking, Budget, Economics, hedge funds, inflation, Kwasi Kwarteng, Pound Sterling, UK, video
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LinkSwarm for August 5, 2022
Ron DeSantis drives more enemies before him, the Biden Administration keeps doubling down on tranny madness, Batgirl dies for DC’s sins, and the most “Ewww” inducing headline of the year. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm! Why America can’t build. … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Democrats, Economics, Foreign Policy, Military, Obama Scandals, Regulation, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, unions, Welfare State
Tagged agriculture, Andrew Warren, atrazine, banking, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Blackstone Group, Brett Kavanaugh, California, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Chesa Boudin, Chicago, Chuck Schumer, corn, Crime, Critical Drinker, DC Comics, Democrats, Department of Agriculture, Disney, dogs, Florida, Free Speech, George Soros, Hollywood, James Murphy, jobs, Kherson, Kim Foxx, LinkSwarm, Luke Goodrich, Michael Shapiro, Moms For Liberty, movies, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), PayPal, Regulation, Republicans, Ron DeSantis, Rudy Giuliani, Russo-Ukrainian War, San Francisco, Shaun King, Social Justice Warriors, Supreme Court, Texas, transexual, U.S. Bank, UK, unemployment, Warner Brothers, Xavier Becerra
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Scenes From China’s Slow-Motion Collapse
Remember the bank runs in China story after all those bank accounts in Hunan were frozen? I’ve been looking for signs of wider contagion amidst the Chinese banking sector, and mostly haven’t seen it. But I have seen a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Economics, Foreign Policy, Military, video
Tagged Alibaba, Baidu, bank run, banking, China, Communism, Economics, Evergrande, Ghost Cities, Henan New Wealth Group, Hunan, Lu Yi, Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, Pan Darong, Peter Zeihan, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Stephen S. Roach, tanks, Xi Jinping, Xia Haijun
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Halifax Bank Update: They Made It Worse
Yesterday’s story on Halifax Bank telling customers to leave if they didn’t cotton to pronoun pandering seems to have struck a nerve. So Halifax Bank announced that they were wrong and gave up their push for pronouns. Ha! Just kidding! … Continue reading
Posted in Republicans, unions, video
Tagged banking, Follow-Up, Halifax Bank, Paul Joseph Watson, Social Justice Warriors, transexual, UK, video
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Halifax Bank: “We’re Going To Shove Pronouns Down Your Throat. If You Don’t Like it, Leave.” Customers: “Your Terms Are Acceptable.”
Halifax Bank in the UK decided to do some virtue signaling, unveiling ads celebrating their pronouns. When customers objected, the bank tweeted “If you don’t like it, close your account.” Customers: “Your terms are acceptable.” Halifax’s pronouns badge PR disaster … Continue reading
Banks Runs In China?
Reader Kirk suggested Chinese bank runs might be the next story to cover. I think I covered bank runs at smaller rural Chinese banks in a previous “China is screwed” post. Is a wider run in progress? Maybe. Multiple sources … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Economics, video
Tagged Anhui, bank run, banking, China, Communism, Economics, Henan, Huaihe River Village Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), New Oriental Village Bank, Shangcai Huimin Rural Bank, Shanghai, video, Yixian County Village Bank, Yuzhou Xinminsheng Village Bank, Zhecheng Huanghuai Bank
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Battle For Kiev Begins
I’ve been too busy to post earlier today, and the Texas Primary voting day is TOMORROW, so this may be brief. Yesterday’s post noted: “Russia has failed to encircle and isolate Kyiv with the combination of mechanized and airborne attacks … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Military
Tagged banking, blitzkrieg, Chuck DeVore, dogs, EU, Foreign Policy, logistics, Military, Russo-Ukrainian War, Sergey Shoygu, SWIFT, Switzerland, Tuva, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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Am I Paranoid Enough?
Though quite jaundiced and cynical about the “good intentions” of our national and international elites (political and otherwise), I’ve tried to avoid buying into conspiracy theories about a “great reset” being planned for us by Klaus Schwab of the World … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Foreign Policy, Regulation, Social Justice Warriors
Tagged banking, Canada, Canadian Trucker Protest, Chrystia Freeland, conspiracy theory, Great Reset, James Lindsay, Joe Rogan, Justin Trudeau, Klaus Schwab, Maajid Nawaz, social credit system, Social Justice Warriors, World Economic Forum
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