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Trump is pushing the Fed to make money cheaper. But clams may make life more expensive for Americans
Donald Trump's trade policies, especially the imposition of tariffs, will weigh on US consumers in the long run, according to most members of the US Federal Reserve (Fed). These developments may affect the Fed's stance on interest rate changes. Their decisions will also affect foreign investors, including Czech ones, who have money in the US mar...
Artificial intelligence needs huge amounts of data to function. To collect this data, AI bots, or crawlers, are programs that automatically crawl web pages and save text, images or other content from them. It is these bots that Cloudflare is now taking a strong stand against, protecting more than 16% of global internet traffic. Since July, ev...
On the National Mall in Washington D.C., where just last week a controversial statue titled ‘Approved by Dictators’ criticizing President Donald Trump stood, there is now a new installation - a large gold-plated screen. It plays video footage of Trump dancing alongside, among others, the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
Smoke from the massive wildfires currently plaguing Canada has moved over the European continent over the past week and could affect the appearance of the morning and evening skies over the Czech Republic on Monday. The sun at sunrise and sunset may have an unusually tinted hue due to the presence of fine dust in the upper atmosphere. However, t...
The Spanish Ministry of Consumer Protection has ordered Airbnb to remove more than 65,000 short-term accommodation offers that do not meet legal requirements. The information was reported by Reuters. The move is part of a wider government effort, in which regional and municipal authorities have also joined, to curb unregulated tourist accommodat...
According to Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, tech giant Apple violated a 2021 court order that required it to allow app developers to offer users payment options outside of its own App Store system. The judge has now referred the case to state prosecutors for possible criminal proceedings for disobeying the court. The impetus for reopening the ...
Sonia Curry entered a prestigious Ferrari dealership to buy a Ferrari Roma for her son, NBA star Stephen Curry. Despite her grace, class, and intent to pay immediately, she faced subtle dismissal, open skepticism, and ultimately humiliation. Salespeople steered her toward used cars and accused her of fabricating celebrity connections. Sonia lef...
After years of criticism for charging fees unknown in Western countries — and after a decade of scaling them back — Czech banks are now quietly reintroducing or increasing service fees. "Following years of reducing or canceling fees, banks are discreetly bringing some back. Even if many fees are small, clients increasingly notice new charges on...
The case surrounding the sudden death of Tomáš Smetka, a Czech developer and cryptocurrency expert who tragically died in December 2023 after falling from a balcony in Prague’s Karlín district, has been officially closed. The prosecutor’s office dismissed an appeal against the police decision to drop the investigation, making the case resolution...
