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Gold rises $2,500 for first time on outlook for lower rates

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Spot bullion climbed as much as 2.2% Friday, exceeding the previous record set last month, as a disappointing reading on the US housing market reinforced expectations of fast and deeper cuts by the Fed. Lower rates generally are positive for gold as it pays no interest.

Ride and Drive Morgan Geldings - New

Dragon Driving 

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Due to change in circumstances I am retiring from carriage driving. Sad sale of my horses and equipment. 2 regd ride and drive Morgan geldings. 12 year old chocolate palomino, successfully competed in 2 & 3 day carriage driving events. Has been driven single, pair and tandem. Goes nicely under saddle, snaffle mouth, keen jump too. Most suited to experienced driving/rider home as forward and sensitive to aids. Asking £6,500
Location: Aberdeenshire

Congo's crisis fuels global mpox health emergency

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

This year's alarming rise in cases, including a new form of the virus identified by scientists in eastern Congo, led the World Health Organization to declare it a global health emergency on Wednesday. It said the new variant could spread beyond the five African countries where it had already been detected - a timely warning that came a day before Sweden reported its first case of the new strain.

Ohio State team captains include Pickerington North graduate Jack Sawyer

NBC4i.com 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Fall camp has wrapped up for the Buckeyes and so have some odds and ends, like naming the team captains. For 2024, the Ohio State team captains are Emeka Egbuka, TreVeyon Henderson, Cody Simon and former Pickerington North stand-out Jack Sawyer. Simon is also this season’s "Block O" recipient. Sawyer extends [...]

Competition Works, Even in Health Care

Library of Economics and Liberty 

Capitalism is the best. It’s free enterprise. Barter. Gimbels, if I get really rank with the clerk, ‘Well I don’t like this’, how I can resolve it? If it really gets ridiculous, I go, ‘Frig it, man, I walk.’ What can this guy do at Gimbels, even if he was the president of Gimbels? He can always reject me from that store, but I can always go to Macy’s. He can’t really hurt me. Communism is like one big phone company. Government control, man. And if I get too rank with that phone company, where can I go? Читать дальше...

This champion has parked his ego for the Hawks

Sydney Morning Herald 

A typical Luke Breust game in 2024 is a good time but not a long time, which is wildly atypical across a 546-goal, triple-premiership-winning career that should have him in Australian Football Hall of Fame contention.

This Week In Techdirt History: August 11th – 17th

Techdirt 

Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we looked at the loss of Aereo and its impact on policy, and also dedicated the first of two episodes of our podcast to dissecting the FTC’s Facebook settlement. The Wall Street Journal had Dennis Prager peddling complete nonsense about “Google censorship”, a Fox News commenter was calling […]