Economy
The Market Is Too Serene About Inflation
The interest rate on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note hovers around 1.75% while the annual rate of inflation nears 7%, suggesting that investors believe high inflation is temporary.
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«Die Medien lieben Geschichten über Rassismus, weil sie Klicks bringen und Ideologien bestätigen. Ob die Storys wahr sind, ist unwichtig»
Solche Falschmeldungen über Hassverbrechen sind auch in Europa ein zunehmend verbreitetes Phänomen. In der Schweiz sorgte 2006 eine Brasilianerin für einen internationalen Skandal, indem sie behauptete, jemand habe ihr die Buchstaben «SVP» ins Bein geritzt.
Politics
Putin's propaganda coup
Indeed, the most consequential conduit for Vladimir Putin’s objectives were those public men and women in the media and government who supercharged and disseminated the most extreme conspiracy theories that Trump was a literal Manchurian candidate controlled by a hostile foreign power.
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Eine Ausstellung in der Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin verharmlost kommunistische Gewaltherrschaft und die Sowjetunion
«Sehen Sie die sommerlichen Blau- und Grüntöne? Und die strahlende Sonne im Zentrum?», fragt der Audioguide in der Neuen Nationalgalerie in Berlin vor Heinrich Vogelers Ölbild «Kulturarbeit der Studenten im Sommer». Der Ton ist heiter, die Farben sind froh, die Szenen hoffnungsfreudig.
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Left-Leaning Media Seek a Misinformation Monopoly
Kyle Rittenhouse is a domestic terrorist. Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist. Donald Trump won in 2016 only because he colluded with the Kremlin.
Politics
Durham Sails Into Deep Waters
_Former FBI director James Comey is sworn in during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2017.
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Durham and the Clinton Dossier
The nation argued for five years over the infamous “Steele dossier,” the document on which the Federal Bureau of Investigation relied to investigate )’s 2016 campaign. It should have been called the Clinton dossier.
Politics
Biden and Nothingness - WSJ
Another of the world’s famous existentialist philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre, wrote a book called “Being and Nothingness.” Extending Sartre’s ideas on nothingness, Mr.
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Zeitgeist in Deutschland: Wo bleibt das Bürgertum?
_Als Angela Merkel Kanzlerin wurde, dachte man, gesellschaftspolitisch sei das Ende der Geschichte erreicht.
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Durham Delivers on Russiagate - WSJ
U.S. Attorney John Durham speaks to reporters on the steps of U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., April 25, 2006.
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Durham Cracks the Russia Case - WSJ
John Durham on Thursday indicted a Clinton campaign lawyer from 2016 for lying to the FBI, but this is no ho-hum case of deception.
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Mike Pence: Biden Broke Our Deal With the Taliban - WSJ
‘The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country [of Afghanistan] is highly unlikely,” President Biden confidently proclaimed in July. “There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy.