welcome back. my headscratcher of the week isn t one story, sincere several that all raised one question in my mind. what is the deal with republicans and nazis? there was congresswoman marjorie taylor greene tweeting this week describing those involved in a proposed door-to-door voluntary vaccination program as medical brown shirts, invoking the military group that aided hitler s rise to power. this was three weeks after she visited a holocaust museum after previous remarks comparing vaccine efforts to nazi efforts, and then she finally learns there s nothing comparable to the holocaust. then them came tomi lawyer ren on thursday saying flight attendants enforcing mask mandates is becoming nazis of the air. then a revelation by wall street journal s michael bender reporting on a 2018 trip to honor those that fought in d-day
something else that s new, this reporting from the wall street journal s michael bender, writing this highly anticipated book coming out soon on donald trump. according to the guardian in the 2018 meeting and actually bender says it was on a visit to europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, former president trump told his then chief of staff john kelly are that hitler did a lot of good things to which john kelly, of course a former retired marine corps general took exception with, and gave this sort of impromptu history lesson to the former president. i should note here bender reports that former president trump denied saying that, and i actually got a statement from a trump spokesperson saying this is totally fake news, likely made up in the words of trump spokesperson liz harrington but a disgruntled former general, denying he ever said this, but it is not the first sort of
Discord remains a independent company as the $10Bn deal from Microsoft falls through
Microsoft fell short in the acquisition of Discord as the company plans to be independent. According to reports, the company turned down the offer after almost finalizing the deal with the Tech giant. Microsoft and other big tech giants like Epic Game Store, Amazon, etc., had been negotiating with the independent company early this year.
Discord drops out the massive $10Bn offer with plans for the independent company going public later on.
Discord has been a spot for teenagers and gamers to hang out while enjoying their game of choice. The communication platform has more than 100 million active users and 6.7 million users on average daily. The application has been a go-to spot for gamers as a medium of communicating while gaming.
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Mar 4, 2021 18:42 GMTFXStreet News
Gold is on the way to test the bull’s commitments at the $1,700 level on Powell.
US yields and dollar get a boost from a lack of guidance on inflation for the bond market.
The price of gold is soaking up the so far benign comments from the Federal Reserve’s chair, Jerome Powell who is being interviewed by the Wall Street Journals chief economic correspondent in a live webinar.
At the time of writing, gold is down on the day by some -0.4% at the time of writing, reading around $1,700.
Markets are looking for guidance from Powell considering the risks associated with helicopter money from the government and the Fed’s lower for longer tactic in seeking to achieve their sustainable 2% inflation target and maximum employment objective.