Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Jamie Dimon Bashes Bitcoin Again; ‘A Pet Rock’

The JPMorgan CEO said this will be the last time he airs his opinion on bitcoin.

I’d be willing to bet a thousand Satoshis that he won’t be able to STFU.

China’s Birth Rate Plummets to Record Low

China’s population fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, as a record low birth rate and a wave of Covid-19 deaths when strict lockdowns ended accelerated a downturn that will have profound long-term effects on the economy’s growth potential.

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Chinese Lab Mapped Deadly Coronavirus Two Weeks Before Beijing Told the World

Florida Man:

DeSantis Is In Survival Mode

Ron DeSantis doesn’t have to win next week’s New Hampshire primary. But he needs Nikki Haley to lose.
That’s the view inside the Florida governor’s inner circle on the heels of a distant second-place showing Monday in the Iowa caucuses that nonetheless allowed DeSantis to say he got his ‘ticket punched’ to continue campaigning. His two-point margin over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley was thinner than his advisers had hoped for but far better than the death knell of the third-place finish they had feared.

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1747712488009855156

Politics:

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1747642450678882569

Nikki Haley Cuts Back on New Hampshire Campaign Appearances

As Republicans here seek a standard-bearer, Nikki Haley is making herself scarce, and GOP insiders say that could doom her long-shot bid to beat former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s primary.
Her schedule is light on campaign stops in a state where candidates typically pack their days with events. And, since failing to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War last month, she has stopped taking questions on stage from voters.

Texas Senate passes bill that removes MLK, suffrage and Native American history from required curriculum

https://twitter.com/ZaleskiLuke/status/1747559981602189751

Pakistan condemns deadly Iranian missile strike on its territory

https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1747457452994691449

The ‘Sleeping Giant’ Case that Could Upend Jack Smith’s Prosecution of Trump

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that doesn’t mention the former president, but that could invalidate half of the Jan. 6 charges against him.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1747739718807154884

Medicine for hostages and Palestinians arrives in Gaza under first Israel-Hamas deal since November

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1747821022626394156

Johnson gets squeezed by Biden, Senate GOP on Ukraine, border

Trump Wants House GOP to Tank Immigration Deal

https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1747699988636004765

Blinken grounded in Davos as plane has ‘critical failure’

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1747842581189333084

Serendipity:

Helium is an essential material for research and medical equipment, but it’s nonrenewable and difficult to recycle

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1746714968148296162

’It hasn't delivered’: The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

How Do We Know Climate Change Is Real?

James Patterson completes late author Crichton’s novel

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