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    Last Post by Web Diva
    June 8, 2024

    Pertrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia ends.

    One of the reasons the dollar has been so strong over the past fifty years is because Saudi Arabia signed an agreement, on June 9, 1974, with the United States, agreeing to exchange in dollars.  Hence, the "petrodollar" earned it's name.
    Saudi Arabia has...
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    Last Post by Web Diva
    December 16, 2023

    Twitter

    Have you been paying attention to all of the Twitter drama over the past few months? Musk is going to buy Twitter, then he backs out, then Twitter is sewing Musk, then Musk says he's done....then all of a sudden, poof....Musk buys Twitter.

    There's cer...
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    Last Post by Web Diva
    September 29, 2023

    C40 Cities- Do you know what they are and what it means if you live in one?

    I would rather look through a blurry lens without seeing too much detail sometimes rather than look through a clear lens and have all of the truths and elicit details before me. Quite often, I just want to look away from the news because it's either too ...
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    Last Post by Web Diva
    July 27, 2023

    Traveling to Europe? New Visa requirements for Americans.

    New Visa travel requirements for American's traveling to Europe to begin in...  more
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    Last Post by Web Diva
    November 9, 2022

    To Vote or not to Vote

     
    I was told in my childhood years by my parents, that the act of voting, was a "civil duty" as an American. The first election I got to participate in to vote was the year of 1980, Reagon versus Carter. I stood in line for three hours to vote, pr...