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Can US tourists save Greece, Spain, Italy

It’s the American Dream for Europe’s troubled tourism sector. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told the New York Times that fully vaccinated American tourists could visit the bloc this summer. But the US accounts for a tiny proportion of travelers to tourist-dependent countries such as Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. To prevent another lost holiday season for these ...

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Selling Bitcoin for a profit isn’t a bad thing

Heh. Come on. Really? Year over year, positive impacts from volume growth, regulatory credit revenue growth, gross margin improvement driven by further product cost reductions and sale of Bitcoin ($101M positive impact, net of related impairments, in “Restructuring & Other” line) … [Emphasis mine.] You might be surprised to learn that’s a snippet from the earnings report of a car ...

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President Biden is right to aim high on climate

Even if President Joe Biden had no ground to make up — if his predecessor hadn’t pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement and done his best to stop all progress toward climate protection — he still would have needed an aggressive new target for lowering emissions. The country’s previous Paris commitment was too modest for the US ...

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