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Regarding the 9% unemployment, do people look for jobs in other parts of the EU? Or is that an option that's there "in theory", but in practice, language barriers etc make it too difficult?

Regarding altcoins - the big difference between 2021 and 2025, is that in 2021 there were about 270,000 different altcoins. Now there are over 3 million types of alts, many with inflationary supply. That

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Yes - we shall find out the extent of that in the summer.

China has retaliated with tariffs on the US, so the deficit will widen.

Regarding gold - it's international investors moving out of US assets because they're spooked by tariffs and wild talk of annexing Canada. They're not outright selling Treasuries, because that would roil

One way to tell if all this effort is working, is if the US govt borrowing requirement starts going down. The borrowing requirement = amount spent less the amount of taxes raised. You can shrink it by

I think the whole alt market tanked when Trump released his $TRUMP and $MELANIA coins - people are nursing total losses of $10 billion. When retail investors get burnt like that, they are not inclined

I think it's like a frog being boiled in water - to Argentinians, high interest rates are "normal".

It's the motion of the car! Maybe also the sound of the engine. Babies love going for a drive, and they like white noise too. They're lovely at that age, arn't they?

On hive-engine, I sell Hive for Litecoin. Litecoin is fairly static at around $110, so it functions like a stablecoin.

The trigger for the big rise in price and increased volume was Hive getting a listing on BitPanda (euro exchange). Previous moves for Hive were dictated by Korean speculators. This move has been triggered

I sold all my liquid level 2 coins for Hive, and then used the Hive to buy Litecoin, to lock in the price. I think lots of people are doing this because most of the level 2 coins are down.

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Congratulations to your brother and his new wife! Weddings are great, arn't they? If they'didn't exist, we'd have to invent them as a way to bring joy into the world.

The huge volume is because Hive got listed on BitPanda for the first time. BitPanda is a huge European exchange. Lots of Europeans arn't allowed to use Binance because their govts consider it shady. So

Futures contracts launched for bitcoin in October 2017 - and the short-sellers finished that cycle off (peak was Dec 2017, and a two-year bear market started). It only recovered when covid money was mailed

Years ago I was sent on a management course that taught us that all tasks could be divided into four: easy-but-non-urgent, easy-and-urgent, difficult-but-non-urgent and difficult-and-urgent. Most people