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☆ New cars are crazy expensive but, if you’re careful, they don’t have to be
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Yet the average sticker for base models, adjusted for inflation, has actually gone down a little — even as consumers have shifted from sedans to more expensive SUVs. That’s good news for drivers willing to go no-frills: If you don’t want to pay lots of a new car, you don’t have to. It has a base price of $15,730. These base price models may not make much money, if any, for automakers. The average price of a GMC Sierra 2500 HD, as sold, is now double the base price.

☆ My 7-month-old baby has had COVID, flu, and RSV. I'm angry, but I also know I did my best.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Samantha Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I'm a mom of four kids.The youngest is 7 months oldHe spent his early weeks behind two baby gates, away from his siblings. RSV at 3 months, flu at 5 months, and COVID at 6 months. Our son, Fox, was exposed to COVID the day he was born. Fox spent a lot of time safely stowed in the bassinet behind two baby gates — a place where both he and the dog felt protected. I know I did my best to keep him healthyFox spiked his first fever with the flu.

☆ Crypto hedge funds ended 2022 down almost 50% - BarclayHedge data
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Nell Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Hedge funds trading crypto currencies tracked by index provider BarclayHedge ended 2022 down almost 50%, the research firm said on Tuesday, a sign that the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX continues to ripple through the industry. "The more skeptical voices have turned to openly wondering if the 'Crypto Winter' isn’t a season at all, but a state more akin to a nuclear winter," said Crawford. An index of 47 hedge funds, the names of which BarclayHedge keeps anonymous, posted a loss of over 47% for the year, the data said. But the 2022 result was not the worst performance the index has seen in the last five years. The Cryptocurrency Traders Index ended 2018 down over 60%, said BarclayHedge, which is part of the company Backstop Solutions.

☆ What Marketers Need to Know About the FTC’s Updated Guidelines on Health Claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Megan Graham | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

Federal Trade Commission guidelines for advertising health-related products just got a big refresh—and they could be a rude awakening for marketers making overzealous claims about products such as supplements or health apps. Here is what marketers should know about the new guidelines and what they will mean for the industry. “They consider anything that has some claimed benefit for human health to be a health product,” he said. And I think this just sort of formalizes the fact that it’s going to do that.”What kind of substantiation is needed to make health claims? Yadim Medore, founder and CEO of dietary supplement-focused consulting firm Pure Branding Inc., said the new guidelines will raise the bar for the kind of research needed for companies to make health claims.

☆ Silicon Valley's job cuts are everybody else's gain as tech workers find exciting new opportunities outside Big Tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Recruiters and other experts tell Insider that tech workers are in especially high demand in sectors including insurance, healthcare, retail, government, and banking. As you may expect, the traditional tech industry remains the largest employer of tech workers, the experts say. ZipRecruiter's Pollak said the turmoil in Big Tech was pushing "some tech workers to explore opportunities outside" the usual suspects for the first time. Tech job creation and hiring numbers remain strong, but layoffs keep coming, underscoring a tech labor market in flux. As for how laid-off tech workers ought to position themselves for these jobs, the Hired Guns recruiter Hemming has some advice.

☆ FTX spent $300mln on Bahamas real estate, 'substantial' assets missing, lawyers say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Crypto exchange FTX was run as a “personal fiefdom” of Sam Bankman-Fried, attorneys for the firm said on Tuesday, describing that one of the company’s units spent $300 million on Bahamas real estate. An attorney said the $300 million spent on real estate was largely homes and vacation properties for senior staff. At the hearing, an attorney for FTX also said that the company continues to suffer cyberattacks as bankruptcy begins, and that “substantial” assets are missing. Bankman-Fried, FTX and the Bahamas liquidators did not immediately respond to requests for comment. FTX said that it was communicating with U.S. regulators and bankruptcy court officials, but did not mention Bahamas regulators.

NEW YORK/LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - FTX has a total cash balance of $1.24 billion, a court filing by advisers on the stricken crypto exchange's restructuring showed ahead of U.S. bankruptcy hearings set for later on Tuesday. Its cash balance as of Sunday was "substantially higher" than previously thought, Monday's filing by Edgar Mosley of Alvarez & Marshal, a consultancy firm advising FTX, said. The details of FTX's cash balances came ahead of a hearing in Delaware on FTX's so-called first-day motions. FTX, led since the bankruptcy filing by new CEO John Ray, has accused Bankman-Fried of working with Bahamian regulators to "undermine" the U.S. bankruptcy case and shift assets overseas. Since the implosion of FTX, some crypto players are taking to decentralized exchanges known as "DEXs" where investors trade peer-to-peer on the blockchain.

☆ 'Dr Doom' economist Nouriel Roubini suggests FTX's rescue deal shows how crypto is a Ponzi scheme: 'Who will bail out Binance?'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Zahra Tayeb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Nouriel Roubini flagged FTX's rescue deal for Binance as a sign crypto investing is a Ponzi scheme. The crypto critic wondered who will bail out Binance when that "house of cards collapses". Crypto exchange Binance stepped in Tuesday with a potential takeover deal to rescue its rival FTX, which it said is facing a liquidity crunch. "First FTX bails out collapsing crypto Ponzi scams. Now FTX is collapsing & being bailed out by Binance," Roubini said in a Tuesday tweet.

☆ Uganda applies well-honed lessons to new Ebola outbreak
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Mithil Aggarwal | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Now, the East African country — lauded for its coronavirus response, which was built around engaging the community and training health officials — is drawing lessons from the first Ebola outbreak in 2004. “They alerted the WHO early and put in the basic pillars of a response early,” Dr. Benjamin Black, an obstetrician, said recalling the West African Ebola response from 2014 to 2016. But Ghebreyesus said Wednesday a clinical trial of vaccines to combat the Sudan species of the Ebola virus could start within weeks. “There’s burnout amongst health workers, health officials and the public across the board in Uganda,” Agoada said. The threadlike Ebola virus spreads when it comes in contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids.

☆ Dezvăluiri din ancheta grupărilor criminale care au căzut în plasa oamenilor legii: FBI a interceptat 27 de milioane de mesaje în 45 de limbi
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-08 | by ( Https | Www.Facebook.Com Unimedia.Info | Ion Ceban | ) unimedia.info time to read: +2 min

Țările implicate în anchetă au fost Australia, Austria, Suedia, Danemarca, Estonia, Lituania, Norvegia, Noua Zeelandă, Scoția, Marea Britanie, Germania și SUA, a spus Lecouffe. Platforma a permis poliției să acceseze aproape în timp real mesajele trimise între rețelele criminale, pe o platformă despre care infractorii credeau că este complet securizată. Un oficial suedez a spus însă că 70 dintre ele au avut loc în Suedia. Șeful Poliției suedeze a spus că operațiunea a prevenit săvârșirea a zece crime. În aceeaşi conferinţă de presă, Calvin Shivers, director adjunct al Biroului Federal de Investigaţii american (FBI), a indicat că operaţiunea de amploare a poliţiei internaţionale a permis salvarea a cel puţin 100 de vieţi.

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