Real inflation:
Countries rank by highest increase in house pricing, 2010-2022:
1. Iceland 🇮🇸: 103% price growth
2. Estonia 🇪🇪: 97%
3. New Zealand 🇳🇿: 97%
4. Chile 🇨🇱: 95%
5. Turkey 🇹🇷: 91%
6. Canada 🇨🇦: 90%
7. Luxembourg 🇱🇺: 85%
8. Hungary 🇭🇺: 84%
9. Hong Kong 🇭🇰: 83%
10. Israel 🇮🇱: 80%
11. Latvia 🇱🇻: 66%
12. Austria 🇦🇹: 65%
13. USA 🇺🇲: 63%
14. Czech 🇨🇿: 61%
15. Sweden 🇸🇪: 60%
16. India 🇮🇳: 59%
17. Malaysia 🇲🇾: 59%
18. Lithuania 🇱🇹: 57%
19. Germany 🇩🇪: 56%
20. Switzerland 🇨🇭: 54%
NEW: 🇮🇩 First community federation started in Bali, Indonesia 👀
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NEW: 🇬🇧Paying for a beer over the Lightning Network at the London #bitcoin meetup
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🚨USA 🇺🇸: Hunter Biden arrived in court in Delaware, where he must plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges on Wednesday morning (26)
He agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income taxes.
Hunter Biden will also enter into a pretrial diversion agreement with respect to a separate criminal charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is an illegal user or addict of a controlled substance.
Agreements with American justice should prevent Hunter from being arrested on these charges.
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Israel 🇮🇱: The Brother of Benjamin Netanyahu (PM of Israel) suggested that Joe Biden is senile, after the White House criticized the judicial reforms underway in the country.
Iddo Netanyahu, hinted that Biden was misinformed about the specific details of the reform
In an interview with Kann, an Israeli broadcaster, he said of Biden, "I don't know what his mental situation is."
Less than an hour later, however, Iddo Netanyahu claimed that he expressed himself badly in the interview.
🚨United Kingdom 🇬🇧: The chief executive of NatWest, (responsible for the bank that closed Nigel Farage's account due to his friendships and ideological positions) Dame Alison Rose, resigned, after admitting that she leaked private bank information about Nigel Farage to the BBC.
USA 🇺🇸: Hillary Clinton criticized the ′′ MAGA republicans ′′ for the recent summer heat wave that hit the country.
Clinton's Twitter post came in response to a tweet by the left-wing think tank "Center for American Progress" which claimed "MAGA Republicans are adding fuel to the climate crisis fire"
Afghanistan 🇦🇫: The Taliban ordered the closure of all beauty salons in Afghanistan.
Sadiq Akif Mahjer, spokesman for the Ministry of Virtue and the Taliban Deputy Minister, did not say whether he would use force against halls that did not comply.
🚨 USA 🇺🇸: Bronny James, son of basketball player LeBron James, suffered a cardiac arrest while training this Monday (25) said a family spokesperson in a statement.
"Yesterday, while practicing, Bronny James suffered cardiac arrest. The medical team managed to treat Bronny and get him to the hospital. He is now stable and is no longer in the ICU." says a press release published this Tuesday (26)
🚨USA 🇺🇸: US presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was involved in a car accident this Tuesday morning (25)
"This morning the Governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he and his staff are unharmed." said spokesman Bryan Griffin.
Nicaragua 🇳🇮🤝🇰🇵 North Korea:
Nicaragua's Ortega regime has announced that it will open an embassy in North Korea which in turn will open one in Nicaragua.
“We are going to work together so that these political, social, cultural and diplomatic representations strengthen our decades-long relations” announced spokesperson Rosario Murillo.
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: BBC broadcaster apologized after a reporter asked a Moroccan women's national team player a question about homosexuality.
“We know that gay marriage is illegal (in Morocco) Are there gay players in the team? And how is it for them?” asked the journalist who was interrupted by a FIFA representative.
“Sorry, this is a very political issue, so let's stick to football-related issues only,” said the FIFA representative.
A BBC spokesperson stated: “We recognize that the question was inappropriate. We did not intend to cause any harm or suffering.”
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: The BBC broadcaster and one of its journalists, Simon Jack, apologized to Nigel Farage for suggesting that he did not have the necessary funds to maintain an account at the bank “Coutts” when in reality, the bank closed Farage’s account for his friendship with Trump, Djokovic and some of his ideological positions.
Germany, are you alright?
The PMI is an index of economic activity. 50 means stable. Above means it is growing, below it is falling.
Germany's manufacturing PMI falling to levels only seen in lockdown.
United Kingdom 🇬🇧: The BBC broadcaster and one of its journalists, Simon Jack, apologized to Nigel Farage for suggesting that he did not have the necessary funds to maintain an account at the bank “Coutts” when in reality, the bank closed Farage’s account for his friendship with Trump, Djokovic and some of his ideological positions.
“I have only 600 #bitcoin
I missed the bus.”
- Ichi, 2010
🇬🇧 UK bank customer had his accounts frozen while traveling abroad for completing a P2P exchange on Binance 👀
