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Between inflation, war, gas and Covid — and the specter of more problems on the horizon — it’s hard to be optimistic for the rest of 2022

The streaming wars took a savage turn this past week. Netflix’s earnings report disappointed investors. CNN+ dropped out of the game entirely, just a month after launching. The result has been a wave of brutal sell-offs, making Netflix the worst-performing member of the S&P 500 this year to date. Here is the data point that likely wiped out billions of dollars of value: A decade of seemingly perpetual growth came to a halt with the loss of about 200,000 subscribers. You might need to grab a magnifying glass to see them, because ultimately that is just a 0.09 percent decline. Had it

Our popular daily links, including James Webb telescope, US and EU economies shrink, ocean mass extinction, zoonotic transmission, BA.4 and BA.5, nasal sprays, life expectancy, political stakes in China, Myanmar: NUG survives, Starmer, Ukraine polls badly, Zelensky, Musk and Twitter

The bond-market sell-off isn’t done by along chalk – rising interest-rates could yet push yields higher.

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