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Monday, February 7, 2022

Daily Digest 2/7 – What Exactly is The Great Reset; A New Private Currency; Real Life Robot Terror; Dalio Sees Path to Civil War; Israel and Vit. D

Economy

What is The Great Reset
Is the Great Reset a conspiracy theory imagining a vast left-wing plot to establish a totalitarian one-world government? No. Despite the fact that some people may have spun conspiracy theories based on it—with some reason, as we will see—the Great Reset is real.

 

Goldbacks are the new private currency backed by gold
In 2019, Goldback president Jeremy Cordon said he had a dream in which he saw people paying for groceries using golden bills.Cordon had previously worked for years trying to make gold into functional money, but the dream gave him a new idea: What if a bill small enough to buy groceries could include a tiny percentage of gold?

 

Facebook owner Meta loses record $232 billion in market value after ‘saying the quiet part out loud’
Facebook parent warns of pressure from TikTok’s rise, Apple’s privacy changes in “one of the roughest Meta conference calls in years.”

Health

Israel Study Links Vitamin D and Covid Severity
Researchers from Bar Ilan University and the Galilee Medical Center concluded that vitamin D deficiency significantly increases the risk of serious illness or death upon contracting the coronavirus.

 

Resilience

Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio Sees U.S. on Path to Civil War as Political Polarization Rises
Ray Dalio warned Thursday that the U.S. appears to be on a “classic path” toward “some form” of a civil war amid a dangerous combination of large deficits, high taxes, inflation and gaps in wealth and values that lead to political polarization.

 

Americans united in worry over political divisions, but not much else, poll finds
Respondents continued to say the nation has grown less civil since the pandemic began, as they have in polls conducted in August 2020 and January 2021, with 67 percent saying politics have gotten nastier compared with 15 percent who say there’s been an improvement.

 

‘Terminator dog’ robots to be deployed on US border as Black Mirror ‘comes to life’
Twitter users have reacted in terror to Ghost Robotic’s metal dogs that have been deployed on the US border, as they resemble the robot from the ‘Metalhead’ episode of Netflix’s Black Mirror.

 



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