Seattle Should Be Proud That It Has the Country's Highest Minimum Wage
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As WikiLeaks famously showed, Nicolas Sarkozy’s involvement in the imperial attack on Libya rested on the fear that Muammar Gaddafi, the revolutionary hero of the country, would replace France as French-speaking Africa’s dominant power and replace the CFA franc system with a system based on the gold dinar. This would have not only destroyed most French influence in Africa, but it would also have made the French bourgeoisie suffer a heavy blow
Higher interest rates won't lower inflation.
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
After years of accommodative monetary policy, the spike in inflation caused by the pandemic has continued to persist.