Productivity vs real earnings in the US — what happened ca 1974?

CategoriesIssue Dec'22, Issue Jan'23, USA Politics_, World Finance News, World Finance News_, World Governance

Somewhat related to the most recent US elections, I’ve been researching the whole “white working class” situation, and one strange anomaly has popped up.

When one looks at a graph of productivity (for the US) vs real wages, there is a marked “disturbance in the force” around 1974.

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US bitcoin miner Core Scientific files for bankruptcy

CategoriesIssue Dec'22, Issue Jan'23, The Crypto Unraveling_, The Crypto Unraveling.

tl;dr:

  • Core Scientific reiterated it could run out of cash before the end of the year as lawsuits are piling up.
  • Core Scientific has been affected by the bankruptcy of lender Celsius’s mining arm, one of its biggest clients.
  • Two other companies sued CORZ in November: Sphere 3D (ANY) and McCarthy Building Companies. A class-action lawsuit was filed in the same month in Texas courts alleging failures to disclose important information to investors.

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