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  1. South Korea’s indebted households squeezed as war lifts mortgage costs

    Iran war Variable-rate exposure leaves borrowers vulnerable as volatility hits credit markets A large apartment complex is seen…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Economy #Business #costs #households #indebted #Korea's #lifts #mortgage #south #squeezed #war
    newsbeep.com/us/562148/

  2. South Korea’s indebted households squeezed as war lifts mortgage costs

    Iran war Variable-rate exposure leaves borrowers vulnerable as volatility hits credit markets A large apartment complex is seen…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Economy #Business #costs #households #indebted #Korea's #lifts #mortgage #south #squeezed #war
    newsbeep.com/us/562148/

  3. While #Congress & the presidency have been working hard to raise the #ExecutiveBranch above the #law, #SCOTUS has done its part to ensure that laws against #bribery & #corruption are near-unenforceable. With a series of rulings on #CampaignFinance, the #JohnRoberts Court has ensured that the #rich can try to buy #elections without formally breaking the law. As a result, #politicians are #indebted to a few hundred #billionaires who drop unholy amounts of cash every #election cycle.

    #US #power

  4. #Intelligence agencies eye brief for #Trump, amid fears he could spill [sell] secrets

    “I’d be afraid about giving him stuff,” the fmr ofcl said. “I mean, who knows what kind of riff he would do.”

    Shortly after #POTUS #Biden took office, he barred Trump from receiving intelligence briefings historically volunteered to fmr US presidents, citing Trump’s erratic #behavior.

    #NationalSecurity #Compromised #Kompromat #Indebted #SelfInterest #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
    politico.com/news/2024/03/07/b

  5. Why northern #Europe is so #indebted - #TheLoop

    "If we consider #ConsumerCredit, the #welfare-#debt theory makes sense again. While consumer credit is more the exception than the norm in Europe, and almost absent in the #NordicCountries, it is common in #Anglo-liberal countries (#UK, #US and #Canada) where it is used by families as a substitute for poor #welfare provision."

    theloop.ecpr.eu/why-northern-e

  6. Why northern #Europe is so #indebted - #TheLoop

    "If we consider #ConsumerCredit, the #welfare-#debt theory makes sense again. While consumer credit is more the exception than the norm in Europe, and almost absent in the #NordicCountries, it is common in #Anglo-liberal countries (#UK, #US and #Canada) where it is used by families as a substitute for poor #welfare provision."

    theloop.ecpr.eu/why-northern-e

  7. (2/5)

    Despite how #talkingHeads in our media like to #virtueSignal by showing support for open-borders, it's not a great thing for the vast majority. Currently the west has a type of "open borders".

    Its if-you-are-a-perfect-subservient-worker type of open-border, despite what some will have you believe.

    The fact remains that rapid #populationGrowth favours the #extremelyWealthy, who benefit by having more #consumers, and a more #indebted and #desperate pool of workers to choose from. N..(2/5)