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US: The pace of hiring just fell to the lowest since 2011, outside of the pandemic
US businesses are adding workers at the weakest pace in 15 years, excluding the onset of the pandemic, new data showed Tuesday, a sign that there was an even deeper chill cutting through the labor market before the Middle East conflict threatened to shake the US economy. Hires as percentage of total employment dropped to 3.1% at the end of February, the lowest rate since April 2020 and, before that, 2011, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The hires rate dropped off from 3.4% in January, marking the steepest one-month decline outside of the pandemic ... (full story)
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From coinmetrics.substack.com|Mar 31, 2026With the first quarter of 2026 coming to a close, it’s a good moment to take stock of the developments and themes that shaped crypto markets. Q1 2026 was driven by a combination ...
From @zerohedge|Mar 31, 2026|44 comments*TRUMP SAYS US DOESN'T HAVE TO BE IN IRAN MUCH LONGER: NYP *TRUMP SAYS US HAS MORE WORK TO DO IN IRAN WAR: NYP *TRUMP SAYS HORMUZ STRAIT WILL 'AUTOMATICALLY OPEN': NY POST *TRUMP SAYS OTHER NATIONS CAN REOPEN HORMUZ STRAIT: NYP
Trump tells The Post the war against Iran won’t last ‘much longer’ —Strait of Hormuz will reopen ‘automatically’ after US exit President Trump told The Post on Tuesday that he believes the Iran war is likely to end soon and that other nations can reopen the Strait of Hormuz themselves — after he posted to social media a video of huge explosions near Isfahan that he said hit “a lot of stuff.” “We’re not going to be there too much longer. We’re obliterating the s–t out of them right now, it’s a total obliteration,” the president said in a phone interview. “But we won’t have to be there much longer — but we have more work to do in terms of killing their offensive, whatever offensive capability they have left.” Trump said that other countries can sort out the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has closed for 31 days, causing global energy prices to soar.
From research.google|Mar 31, 2026Google has led the responsible transition to post-quantum cryptography since 2016. In a new whitepaper, we show that future quantum computers may break the elliptic curve ...
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From @zerohedge|Mar 31, 2026|188 commentsIRAN'S PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN STATES THEY ARE PREPARED TO END THE WAR IF THEY RECEIVE GUARANTEES.
From zerohedge.com|Mar 31, 2026|12 commentsA big developing headline has sent oil plunging... Iranian President Pezeshkian says Iran seeks no war but is prepared to end it with guarantees against further attacks, per state ...
From @financialjuice|Mar 31, 2026|30 commentsIran's Foreign Minister: What is happening now is not negotiations but an exchange of messages directly or through our friends in the region. - Al Jazeera Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi: We will not accept a ceasefire but rather seek a complete end to the war, not in Iran alone but in the entire region - Al Jazeera.
