2023-06-26

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JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in record retention screwup
Silicon Valley braces for the worst as funding dries up
Vietnam’s tech manufacturing boom goes bust
The Harried Leisure Class

Real GDP per capita has doubled since the early 1980s but there are still only 24 hours in a day. How do consumers respond to all that increased wealth and no additional time? By focusing consumption on goods that are cheap to consume in time. We consume “fast food,” we choose to watch television or movies “on demand,” rather than read books or go to plays or live music performances. We consume multiple goods at the same time as when we eat and watch, talk and drive, and exercise and listen.
The World’s Empty Office Buildings Have Become a Debt Time Bomb
Amazon will now pay your coffee shop to deliver packages
The Reasons More People Are Working in Their 80s

What will Putin do next? And other key questions
US Intelligence Knew Of Wagner Plot Days In Advance, Briefed Congress
UK ‘must prepare for sudden collapse of Russia’
What the Hell Just Happened in Russia? – PJ Media

Is a former Kremlin caterer named Yevgeny Prigozhin, who somehow ended up owning his own private army, now a nuclear power? It’s such a wild notion that I hesitate even to entertain it, and yet here we are.
- would explain Belarus gov't saying "Nukes are still controlled by Russia"
Prigozhin Remains Defiant In First Audio Message Explaining Mutiny