In order to have a balance, a successful economy, uh a successful capital market, since one man's debts are another man's assets, you have to keep interest rates not so high that they crush the debtor, right. >> Without having them so low that they are bad for the creditor, >> right. So you see these cycles when we had uh zero interest rates and negative real interest rates.What you saw was massive creation of credit and and money and borrowing and so on. That's what the cycle looks like if you have losses. ...

Whites make up only about 7% of the population of South Africa, but still own 72% of all privately held agricultural land and many of the country's large commercial farms. But according to Wandi Salobo, a leading agricultural economist, the overwhelming number of farmers and those working on farms are black. The white farmers may have a a bigger part of the proportion of income, but the vast majority of people operating the farms in South Africa are black.>> There is crime on farms and there are murders on ...

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Well, welcome inside the vehicle assembly building here at NASA Kennedy Space Center. Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket back in Highway 3. Teams have already brought a lot of the platforms back around the vehicle as they evaluate the helium issue on the ICPS.They'll update some of the batteries and other things that they were going to do out at the pad. And we'll hopefully have a briefing here in the coming days once teams have evaluated the issue and we have a path forward. The next earliest launch at ...

It's 8:59 a. m. , and you're trying to book a reservation at a trendy new restaurant in New York City.Tables go live at 9 a. m. , 28 days in advance.The clock strikes and seats are gone in seconds. This has become the reality of dining in many big cities around the country. For consumers, it's stressful.But for the websites handling your reservation, this is exactly what they're hoping for. The fight for exclusivity. In the last five years, there's been a lot of focus on making sure that we are capturing th ...

The Bible warns that the borrower is a slave to the lender. And in a world of 50-year mortgages and buying burritos with buy now pay later schemes, we've made debt our new religion. Adam O'Brien, CEO of the Bitcoin Well, joins me to explain why millennials are actually highly productive slaves with a better UI and how we traded our sovereignty for a credit score.We dive into the brain rot of outsourcing responsibility and why Bitcoin is the only technology that demands personal agency. Adam breaks down why ...

Before I start this video, you guys can go and follow Whitney down in the description below on X as well as check out all of her other social media accounts as well as, you know, content. She's an incredible journalist. So, if you guys do want to go check her out, it's going to be links down in the description below.And let's jump into the video. So, yeah, with all of that in mind, Whitney Webb is, you know, one individual from around finance, around tech, etc. that I have been listening to over the years. ...

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When we talk about how Apple is pulling away from the rest of the Mag 7 pack or at least decoupling from the Mag 7 pack, do you view this as a successful strategy on Apple's part or a lack of a strategy or or the result of a failed strategy. >> I definitely see this as a coincidence and the results of a failed strategy. uh 6 months ago, a year ago, two years ago, no one at Apple would say we want to fail in AI so we could be different than the companies are fairing in 2026.Uh nobody said we need to run away ...