🇮🇱 Israel’s Central Bank to Roll Out Sandbox for #CBDC Experiments.

The Bank of Israel is launching a sandbox environment for testing CBDC said in a statement use cases, in an effort to refine the design of the digital shekel and ensure its capacity to facilitate advanced applications.

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📊 GDP growth forecast for 2024.

🇮🇳 India: 6.8%
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 6.2%
🇰🇪 Kenya: 5.5%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 5%
🇨🇳 China: 4.6%
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 3.3%
🇷🇺 Russia: 3.2%
🇹🇷 Turkey: 3.1%
🇪🇬 Egypt: 3%
🇺🇸 US: 2.7%
🇸🇦 Saudi: 2.6%
🇲🇽 Mexico: 2.4%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 2.2%
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 2%
🇪🇸 Spain: 1.9%
🇮🇱 Israel: 1.6%
🇨🇦 Canada: 1.2%
🇯🇵 Japan: 0.9%
🇿🇦 South Africa: 0.9%
🇫🇷 France: 0.7%
🇮🇹 Italy: 0.7%
🇬🇧 UK: 0.5%
🇩🇪 Germany: 0.2%
🇦🇷 Argentina: -2.8%

(IMF)

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🇹🇷 Turkey's Central Bank posted an astonishing $25 billion loss last year

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🇰🇷 South Korea Central Bank Accelerates Plans for #CBDC Rollout.

As reported by Newsway, the bank aims to conduct a pilot program involving 100,000 participants by the end of 2024. This program will assess the functionality of the digital Korean Won in terms of usability and deposit capabilities.

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🇮🇳 Tesla $TSLA CEO Elon Musk is set to announce an investment in India of $2-$3 Billion, mainly for building a new factory, when he visits New Delhi next week to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi - Reuters

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🚨🚨🚨 Latest List of Layoffs Over Last 4 Months:

1. Twitch: 35% of workforce
2. Hasbro: 20% of workforce
3. Spotify: 17% of workforce
4. Levi's: 15% of workforce
5. Zerox: 15% of workforce
6. Qualtrics: 14% of workforce
7. Wayfair: 13% of workforce
8. Tesla: 10% of workforce
9. Duolingo: 10% of workforce
10. Washington Post: 10% of workforce
11. Snapchat: 10% of workforce
12. eBay: 9% of workforce
13. PayPal: 9% of workforce
14. Business Insider: 8% of workforce
15. Charles Schwab: 6% of workforce
16. Macy's: 4% of workforce
17. Blackrock: 3% of workforce
18. Citigroup: 20,000 employees
19. UPS: 12,000 employees
20. Cisco: "Thousands" of employees

In 2024, we have already seen 74,000 tech layoffs alone with well over 200,000 across all industries.

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🇺🇸 Wall Street pushes out rate-cut expectations, sees risk they don’t start until March 2025 (CNBC)

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🚨🚨🚨 JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US warned by IMF that its massive fiscal deficits are fuelling inflation and pose 'significant risks' for the global economy - Financial Times

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🚨🚨🚨28 employees entered #Google CEO’s office and threatened to stay there until Google canceled its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli 🇮🇱government.

Google has FIRED all of them from job.

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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: SEC chariman Gary Gensler reportedly going to resign.

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BREAKING:🚨 Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, a senior US official tells ABC News.

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