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7 Jan 2025

Bitcoin vs. fiat

Source: ₿itcoinTeddy @Bitcoin_Teddy Disclaimer: These are not investment recommendations. Cryptoasset investments can be complex and high risk.

7 Jan 2025

#leadership

Source: Robertson Hunter Stewart

6 Jan 2025

Happy New Year

Invest in your health. It will buy you more time.

6 Jan 2025

Quote by Sir John Templeton

Source: Brian Feroldi

6 Jan 2025

An incredible coincidence: The Simpsons vs. Trump

In 2000, The Simpsons predicted that Donald Trump would become president of the United States. Although the most famous images come from a 2015 episode, the idea was raised much earlier. Source: Vertigo_Warrior on X

3 Jan 2025

Morgan Stanley is leaving the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, the lender said on Thursday.

👉 Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has become the latest financial giant to abandon the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed coalition aimed at aligning banks’ financing activities with global net-zero emissions targets. The move follows recent exits by Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), and earlier departures by Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), marking a significant retreat from collective climate commitments by some of the world’s largest banks. 👉 These high-profile defections, driven by intensifying political and market pressures, cast doubt on the ability of voluntary financial coalitions to sustain ambitious climate action in a polarized environment. 👉 Launched in 2021, the NZBA aimed to transform the financial sector’s role in combating climate change. As part of the broader Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, it united over 140 banks across 44 countries, with members committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to their financing activities and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. 👉 NZBA members pledged to set interim 2030 emissions targets for high-impact sectors, including energy, transportation, and heavy industry, aligning their portfolios with the 1.5°C warming limit set by the Paris Agreement.. Source: Bloomberg, thedeepdive.ca

2 Jan 2025

A new risk seems to be rising as we start 2025: terrorism on US soil

• NEW ORLEANS TERROR ATTACK: At least 10 people were killed and 35 injured when a driver rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early on Wednesday morning. The FBI is investigating it as an “act of terrorism.” • TESLA CYBERTRUCK EXPLOSION OUTSIDE TRUMP LAS VEGAS HOTEL: Government officials told ABC News that the Tesla Cybertruck explosion on Wednesday outside the Trump Las Vegas hotel in Nevada is being investigated as a "possible act of terror." Source: CNN, ABC, Mario Nawfal on X

1 Jan 2025

In the US, only 31% of adults trust mass media.

Fewer and fewer people are trusting the news media these days. In many countries, X is the #1 news app. There is a reason for that. People want real info on what is happening. The legacy news media has failed in that task. Source: Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav on X

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