🌞 New Stimulus Checks – March 24 2022

*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00am ET. .

• Markets: Wow look at Cardano bouncing 16% this morning. The crypto market across the board enjoying a green 24 hours. Stocks meanwhile dropped on news that the euro-area economy is reeling from surging inflation and new supply-chain disruptions. 

The Lead: Gas Stimulus Checks

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Congress is trying to figure out a way to help Americans pay skyrocketing gas bills. Yet, Congress is still allowing the federal government to subsidize oil and gas companies. 

According to the International Monetary Fund, oil and gas companies receive $11 million in subsidies every minute. Think about that for a second when you are told that paying higher prices at the pump is your patriotic duty. 

President Biden is in Europe today helping the European Union make a plan to reduce dependency on Russian energy. One proposal includes using American oil instead. So wait? We have enough to sell abroad but not enough to fix price inflation domestically? 

One group of lawmakers proposed an energy rebate of $100 per month while average gas prices exceed $4.00 per gallon. That means a tax rebate. Not money in your pocket. You’d still have to shell it out and wait for the rebate in April, meaning you would be issuing the government a no-interest loan of $100 per month. 

In California, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed sending each car owner $400 to help pay for tax, although there is no guarantee this passes. 

Lawmakers say that taxes on oil companies would help pay for these rebates, which does not make sense when one considers the subsidies mentioned above. It means that the American taxpayer helps the oil and gas companies, and then the oil and gas companies would turn around and pay some of that back to the American taxpayer. It sure does reek of political theater, doesn’t it? 

A Seven Years War

Kids return to school in Yemen as the academic year begins. credit: wsj

Wednesday marked seven years of conflict in Yemen. Conflict is the nice word for it. Genocide is the more accurate word. 

Millions of people have been displaced by unspeakable violence. The United States and other nations have stepped up drone strikes in recent months. While the West says that it does not want to fight Russia in Ukraine, that is in fact happening in Yemen. 

While President Obama was the first to authorize weapons sales to Yemen for this war, President Trump authorized 100 times more weapons sales for the fight and President Biden, who said he would de-escalate in Yemen, is now sending countless weapons to Yemen for free. 

The politics is awful and doesn’t even matter when you consider how it affects civilians. It is heartwarming how the world cares so much about Ukrainian refugees but why do they get to skip the line for refugee status and aid behind millions of people from Yemen, Syria and Ethiopia who were already in line? It’s a gut-wrenching question that is worth asking when you see Twitter handles with the Ukrainian flag. 

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Daylight Saving Has No "S" At The End

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Sorry for that headline before we get into this story… but it had to be done. 

In the United States, lawmakers will vote to end changing clocks in the spring and fall. This is great except sleep experts say that they chose the wrong time to make permanent. 

In fact, daylight saving time is more harmful to human health than the permanent standard time, according to sleep physician Muhammad Adeel Rishi. He says that DST is like “permanent social jet lag” because it takes us off of the natural rhythm of the sun. 

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Our internal circadian clocks are in nearly every cell in our body and influence everything from hormone levels to blood pressure. Disrupting this internal clock by even an hour can throw the balance off” and lead to more car accidents, medical errors, heart attacks, strokes, you name it. 

Sleep experts are hoping that they can testify to Congress before this change is voted on. 

Subliminal Beer Messaging

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Would you let marketers advertise to you in your dreams? One woman claims that Coors paid her $1,000 to advertise to her in her dreams. 

The woman responded to a Craigslist ad for “willing sleepers.” She and her boyfriend were amongst a group of people shown ads for Coors in dreamy locations and told that they could try to doze off while the ads played. Afterward, the participants were asked about their dreams and the woman said she did indeed dream about Coors. Something we can assume most people do not do.

Is this ethical? If she signed up for it, sure. But what about those of us who do not want Coors dreams? Are we concerned that marketers want into our subconscious so badly? I am. I want to communicate with the spirit realm in my dreams, not dream about watery beer. 

News By The Numbers

2024. That is when experts say that Elon Musk will be worth $1 trillion and become the “World’s First Trillionaire.”

7. That is how many people were hospitalized when fentanyl was released through air vents in Ohio last weekend. You know the opioid crisis is bad when it is coming in through HVAC systems! 

$184,615. That is how much one kilogram of a Chinese tea called Niu Lan Keng Rougui costs. You do NOT put milk in it! 

12%. That is how many fewer people are refinancing their homes compared to this time last year due to interest rate hikes. 

$275 million. That is how much MacKenzie Scott is donating to Planned Parenthood, the largest gift ever made to the organization. She is a founding co-owner of Amazon with a net worth of $48.3 billion. 

What's Trending?

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Stephen Wilhite is trending. He is the creator of the GIF. He died of Covid at the age of 74. In honor of Stephen, someone created a GIF in his honor. 👆🏼

#AtheismDay is trending because that was on Wednesday. It is a day to bring awareness to those who are atheists and help them find community. 

Paul Manafort is trending because the aide to former President Trump was removed from a plane to Dubai because his passport was expired. So many questions. 

Cory Booker is trending because he gave Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson a pep talk on Wednesday instead of grilling her and people were moved by it. 

Miley Cyrus is trending because her private jet was struck by lightning on her way to a South American music festival. They made an emergency landing but all on board are safe. 

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