Scott Qualls @sequalls

ROBERT KENNEDY JR: “In my generation, 70-year-old men, the rate of autism is one in 10,000. In my kids’ generation, it’s one in every 34.” Kennedy grew up with 11 siblings and 70 cousins; none had a peanut or food allergy. However, five of his seven children have such conditions. “What happened?” he asked. The EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) has identified 1989 as a pivotal year for the rise in autism and other chronic conditions. 1989 was also the year the childhood vaccine schedule exploded. But there are some other exposures at play. Watch and listen to what toxins could be making us sick.

There are inherent tensions between church and state. They can be neither totally separated nor collapsed into one. Calvert and his Catholic allies built wiser than they knew, writes Michael D. Breidenbach on.wsj.com/3QuXF0a

🚨BREAKING🚨 I have just released the full report on politicians trading in 2023. Like every year since 2020, US politicians beat the market. And many in Congress made unusually timed trades resulting in huge gains. Here are the top performers of 2023.

This is completely fake inflation data when they do stuff like this. Does anyone believe that health care costs declined by -34% between Oct 2022 and Oct 2023? Thanks to a new method by the govt Bureau of Labor Statistics ... It's not your premium they measured but health insurer PROFITS, factoring in plan differences. Company profits dip, causing the -34%.

This is your brain on sleep deprivation. Scientists in Canada launched the largest study on how lack of sleep affects the brain. They created games that tested skills like reasoning, language comprehension & decision making. They had one participant repeat these tests in an MRI machine. Here's what they found: On the left is a normal night of sleep. On the right is when it's deprived of 4 hours of sleep. The colored areas are the activity happening in your brain. Notice the lack of activity on the right side. Researchers found there was less activity in the frontal & parietal lobes, which are crucial for decision making, problem solving & mood control. You are simply not at your best when you don't get enough sleep. Another study done at the University of Oslo found that lack of sleep leads to reduced clearance of substances from the brain. These substances are many of the same waste products that are seen to accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Some recent studies suggest that poor sleep contributes to higher levels of beta-amyloid protein in the brain, which lead to the amyloid plaques found in the Alzheimer's brain. If you want a healthy brain avoid long term sleep deprivation. What should you do? • When deprived of sleep avoid making big decisions & pause before reacting to an emotion. • Fix your sleeping habits. If you can't get enough hours, focus on increasing your sleep quality to make up for it. Sleep is the best legal performance enhancing drug on the planet. Make it a priority now so you can protect your brain for later.

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Heads up, fintechs! The @CFPB has released a blog post discussing how it plans to supervise nonbanks. #fintech #regulations consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…

Ready for the Rangers 😤

I'm not sufficiently wired to know if this is true, but if it is, this is one of the best things I've heard. It suggests a complete government failure - top to bottom. Semi-separately, the Chinese govt is far more centralized than the Russian government… thetimes.co.uk/article/russia…

This is either the start of the banks finally getting into the Digital Identity game…or…absolutely nothing pymnts.com/identity/2022/…

@DanielGullotta Need this as an audiobook - with a companion definitions cheat sheet! Amazing so far!

Kicking off the Deep Dive at @MembersDvlCo Owners Meeting MC @DawnSirras @therealfingoal’s @fingoaldavid and Walter Quiroga from CipherText Solution #FintechSuperheros

•85% of business leaders say the most important factor when choosing a bank is whether the FI offers real-time payments capabilities on the RTP® Network. •81% believe RTP would be very/somewhat transformative to their firm’s payments process businesswire.com/news/home/2022…

@Stalingrad_Poor Peace!

@pamisano Age is on your mind - huh birthday boy? Under!

@MetreSteven Problem is: - Demand for US dollars has been declining, while alternatives to US dollars have been increasing.

What cliff? Since absolutely no one is talking about it, the huge unemployment cliff. Eight million lost benefits in 5 weeks. Somehow Q3 was a little soft. Just delta COVID, right? alhambrapartners.com/2021/11/03/the…

The Top 100 U.S. Colleges, Ranked by Tuition 🎓 visualcapitalist.com/the-top-100-u-…

Visa @ RBC Capital Markets Conference: - "a bit over" 1 in 10 face-to-face Visa transactions in the US are now contactless - ~350m Visa-branded contactless cards in US - 268 of top 300 US merchants accepting contactless

24 hours. Take Warning.