Amazing Pro-Life Speech by Jonathan Roumie, the actor who portrays Jesus in the Chosen.

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Investors are believing the Fed is telling the truth when it says it is going to calm down on the interest rate hikes. This has led to investors getting back into Big Tech which has boosted the market overall.

Big Tech stocks might be improving but the workforce is dwindling. The latest in the Big Tech layoff craze is Spotify. The podcasting giant is set to layoff about 600 workers which amounts to 6% of its workforce. All that Pandemic hiring is coming back to haunt everyone except Apple, which was nt=ot as egregious as other tech giants in the hiring process.

The FDA is making a proposal to make Covid vaccines just like the Flu vaccine where you get it once a year. This is coming down the pipe because the FDA realizes that only 15% of eligible americans have gotten the latest Covid booster. The thought is mainstreaming it like the Flu vaccine will encourage more to get the jab. Checking out the latest stats on Covid compared to months past may indicate why people are not concerned (WorldOMeter).

ChatGPT the OpenAI product that is helping kids across the country cheat on their homework just earned a B on a Wharton Business School  research paper. This is one of the factors that has promted Microsoft to invest over $10 billion in the AI product. Microsoft hopes that ChatGPT can make Bing a real rival to Google.

in 2018 Elon Musk tweeted that he would take Tesla private at $420/share. This of course never happened and now Mr. Musk is in court because some people lost money over the tweet. Elon is one of those people that has the power and influence to sway prices with just his words and this of course has people angry. however, this is exactly how the market works. Big players (People or institutions) manipulating public thought into buying or selling abstractions for illicit financial gain. What people are really mad at is that Elon Musk is just better than them at manipulating the market because once upon a time he actually did create something people wanted that was not an abstraction.

Avatar 2 is the one of only 6 movies to gross more than $2 billion at the box office. The other 5 are Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avatar 1, Titanic, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

2022 was the most successful year for a single hedge fund ever. Ken Griffin's Citadel made $16 billion for its clients which beats out the former top spot holder, John Paulson in 2007 who bet against subprime mortgages. The Citadel also charged $12 billion in fees and expenses. More money is what everyone wants but it is certainly not what we need as inflation is still a major problem. What we need is to get away from an economy that is hyper focused on obtaining riches without doing labor.

An Indiana Mcdonalds accidentally gave a customer a bag filled with $5k instead of his breakfast. The man returned the money ad got a month worth of free breakfast. People do have their good moments!

Walmart is raising its minimum wage to $14/hr.

3M is laying off over 2,000 employees as the demand for face masks continue to drop and the labor market cools.

Half of all Americans are on at least two different medications mostly revolving around high blood pressure and anxiety. This makes the prescription pill business worth well over half a billion. Now everyone is rushing to get in on the action including Amazon. The shipping giant is now offering a cheap alternative to most prescription drug plans. And the rich get richer! Amazon RX Pass.

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