Notes today

•  Silver is limit up in China .. and $1.2 in US

• Russian court seizes millions of euros worth of German bank assets . 

• As the insects they eat vanish, the UK populations of birds like swallows + swifts have crashed by 40% or more in just a decade. 

• Bloomberg reports that 42% of those with household income of over $100,000 report being 'behind or delinquent' on 'Buy Now, Pay Later' payments 

• The 112°F heat index at 3pm in #Miami breaks the previous daily record by 11°F and the monthly record by 6°F.  It's tied for the 3rd-highest heat index ever recorded in Miami:

114° - Aug 9, 2023

113° - Aug 8, 2023

112° - Jul 3, 2021

112° - May 18, 2024

111° - Jul 22, 2023 

• Did you hear the one about how Ron DeSantis solved climate change in Florida? | Opinion
• Read more.Read more.

• China's selling of US paper. Wonder why? 
• Three guesses. 

 

 

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.

Btw, humans can only think about 4 things at once – according to the research team led by University of Oregon psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel. So, to help, we limit notes. 😉

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