DW: "Germany's Porsche pauses shift to EVs as profits tank "
The Autopian: "Porsche’s Operating Profit Drops 99% As Company Pays For Overinvesting In Electric Cars"
Financial Trader Customers on Margin Loans (Total Leverage)
According to data, leverage deployed at this point is around half a trillion dollars, a sky-high amount and climbing.
#SystemUpdate #TPUSA
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Meanwhile, the old Irish duopoly also stumbles, with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael polling at 17% and 18% respectively, and the broad-left supported presidential candidate, Catherine Connolly, likely to win big today."
FCW: "EU Parliament Clears Path for Low-Carbon Hydrogen Rules, Grandfathering Existing Projects"
Xi's "princeling status" is lower than some of the other princelings? I don't think so. Let's think CCP history, after the "Long March" Mao went to Yan'an, the Red Army was in a bad shape, who gave them refuge? Xi Jinping's father. That is some legendary stuff right there.
The CCP party conf is over, the result seems to be Xi lives to fight another day, but, according to the infighting scenario, power is still divided.
The Epoch Times: "Gen. Zhang Shengmin, a veteran political commissar, was officially promoted on Oct. 23 to the post of second-ranked vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agency that controls the armed forces.. The newly appointed vice chair of the CMC appears not to belong to a political faction loyal to Xi.. This contrasts with his direct predecessor, He, who was described by some China observers as Xi’s No. 1 confidant in the military."
The Epoch Times: "Xi’s Power Tested as 7 Officials Snubbed in CCP Leadership Shuffle.. One of the most striking signs was the quiet sidelining of seven alternate Central Committee members who were passed over for promotion—a rare move in party protocol that may signal their political downfall. The omissions, which include some of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s longtime allies from the military and his home province of Shaanxi, point to intensifying internal conflict"
The Lever: "Amid The Shutdown, Flood Insurance Profiteers Are Riding The Wave.. Private insurers like Neptune Insurance Holdings are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program, despite risks to homeowners."
TAC: "As Israeli Settlers Attack Americans, When Will We Say ‘Enough’? Over the weekend, a group of armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank staged an attack on American journalist and Drop Site News contributor Jasper Nathaniel.. When Nathaniel contacted the U.S. Embassy to report the attack, he was told that his own government could not protect him."
If Ukraine falls Poland can take its Western section that are "historically Polish", and Hungary can probably take Transcarpathia - there is a Hungarian speaking minority there, and it is right across the border, right? It can happen... RU beats Ukraine, turning it into a rump state, its neighbors dismember it.
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