Every company in the US is subject to the rules of the Office of The Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). This rules gives the OCC the power to fine banks for doing business with companies presenting "reputational risk" to the bank.
You'll see it online called "Operation Chokepoint" as an Obama scheme. It was actually Bush who introduced the law. The Obama administration started introducing what we would call ESG as the criteria - bullets, gambling etc.
https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/theres-no-downplaying-the-impact-of-operation-choke-point
Trump tried to repeal the law by introducing the "Fair Access to Banking" executive order:
Even before Biden took office, the OCC rolled back their changes
https://occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-occ-2021-14.html
It's the rule which caused NBT Bank or City National Bank of Florida to close Torba's banking for GAB
https://nationalfile.com/revealed-andrew-torba-names-two-banks-who-banned-gab-after-media-smears/
It's not just celebrity right wingers
Barclays drops private prisons as more banks weigh reputational risks
go and get your eyes tested
now you know who they are going to send for your guns
"Service is a route to citizenship. Want to know more?"
We wish it had happened
next: they are making lamps out of us and using masturbation machines to exhaust us to death
That is the total land surface, per person.
Which is very different to "arable land available for cultivation, per person" - which is approx. 1/5 acre
https://www.savills.co.uk/research_articles/229130/274017-0
An acre of arable land is about $10k to buy, if you can find such a small parcel
https://search.savills.com/list/farms/arable-farms-for-sale/uk
Imagine using LinkedIn for news.
Where one wrong comment might cost you your current & next job.
It's challenging enough to keep my fingers firmly away from the comment section on "look at our queers" posts. Leaving geopolitics out is not so hard.
But there are no Bucha victims
Or, the hog cycle.
Price goes up, so production goes up, leading to over supply and price crash, to under supply, to price rises - due to the lag between price change and hog life cycle.
And the UK has less than 1 acre of arable land per person.
We have 1 acre per person. The US has 6.
Supermarkets tell you what they will pay.
Take it or leave it.
The supermarkets themselves operate on about 6% gross margin.
The whole system operates on a knife edge.
Walmart sold Asda, the UK's second largest, because it was too much risk.
Let's see what the Mayor of Bucha has to say about it
“March 31 will go down in the history of our Bucha community as the Day of Liberation. The liberation by our Armed Forces of Ukraine from Russian orcs, from Russian occupiers. So today, I state that this day is joyful. Joyful and this is a great victory in Kyiv region! And we will definitely wait so that there is a great victory all over Ukraine,” Fedoruk said.
I guess no one briefed him they would be finding a massacre after the Ukrainians arrived
yeah, I thought he was a bigger shareholder too. Was surprised to find out the top 5 as of January
the IPO was only 70m shares, so Elon has been buying up from private equity holders.
Personally I suspect he actually bought Morgan Stanley's share because his holding sounds the same as their reported holding in January
Lol, you think I'm a Libertarian?
When the author's name is bigger than the title of the book.
You don't need some crazy American sub-plot. He was installed into power, he already knows how the sausage is made.
Must be a Netflix documentary
you need to make sure you include mineral supplements, including magnesium and calcium.
German for mountain
I love celebrity gossip
OMG who cares
seems today is your first day in "history of economics" class