Masthash

#market

33 arrested as #global #money #laundering #service is shut down | Europol

In order to launder drug profits generated in Europe, the arrested criminals offered a service of trade-based money laundering known as the “#Black #Market #Pesos #Exchange”. 🤣

This process reduces the risk of losing money through seizures and allows for faster access to the funds.

The drug producers would provide drugs to the Italian buyers as a form of credit.

The profits generated from the sale of the drugs in Europe were then picked up by brokers, introduced into companies, and used for ordering goods such as mobile phones from China, to state just one example.

These goods were then shipped to the United States and further transported to Colombia, where they were offered on the market.

Upon being sold, the cartels such as the Grupo Armado Organizado received the cash and thus their veiled payment for the drugs provided to European sellers.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/33-arrested-global-money-laundering-service-shut-down

getmisch
1 day ago

Second half #today!
They're so big - Amy's Bread had the pistachio croissant twists in stock!
#portion #control is #key #when #eating #pastry #LOL #NYC #Amy's #Bread #midtown #also #Chelsea #Market #yum

Annales HSS
2 days ago

CRÉDIT ET JUSTICE:

Comment comprendre le rôle de l'Église dans la régulation du #crédit? À partir des procès en usure à Pistoia, Arnaud Fossier revient sur la régulation du #commerce prémoderne, et l'institution d'un marché dans la concurrence entre communes et #Église.

« Hommes de mauvaise réputation. Usuriers, débiteurs et créanciers en procès (Pistoia, 1287-1301) »

👉 https://www.cairn.info/revue-annales-2022-4-page-741.htm
👉 [@cambridgecore link provided when repaired]

#Annales #histodons #medieval #market @histodons

David August
2 days ago

If enough #writers, #directors, #actors and #crew learn how to #fundraise, #market and #distribute #movies and #TV themselves, the companies now facing a strike and refusing to talk become irrelevant. Thank you @EntPartners.

#WGAStrong #DGAStrong #SAGAFTRAstrong

https://deadline.com/2023/06/entertainment-partners-free-accounting-payroll-courses-wga-strike-1235399437/

Marc Hurwitz
3 days ago
damian entwistle
4 days ago

Today's photo: Aksu market, Antalya, Turkey

#aksu #market #turkiye

A street market with stalls selling fresh produce. A canopied stall set up on simple trestles sells home-packaged nuts and dried goods. a woman in traditional Turkish dress saunters by.
CelloMom On Cars
5 days ago

Reviews three books, including a book by Simon Sharpe, a former British servant who managed to get some real #climate action by looking outside the box. Makes you think differently about #international climate #collaboration, a #CarbonPrice, and The #Market vs government #policies and #regulation.

https://www.ft.com/content/eef80bc1-c09f-437f-84c7-6feb7a631ba9

yaracroft
5 days ago

🇹🇼 RA Group a diffusé 500GB de données relatives aux activités de Eastern Media International Corporation (emic.com.tw) sur la plateforme française de partage de fichiers Gofile (gofile.io) #taiwan #ragroup #investors #threats #stakeholders #databreach #affiliates #industrials #conglomerates #trading #ransomware #commercial #stocks #market #supply #partnership #services #business #informatique

That's not something you see every day.

Wordless Wednesday. The day to allow your photos to tell the story.

No words, just pictures.

https://hughsviewsandnews.com/2023/05/31/thats-not-something-you-see-every-day-wordlesswednesday-photography/

#WordlessWednesday #photo #photography #Abergavenny #market #Wales #Cymru #animals #farmers

Photo of farmyard animal cutouts hanging from the ceiling in Abergavenny indoor market.
Gene Boggs
5 days ago

Considering building yet another ringtone #app. Therefore some #market research is in order!

Do you use custom ringtones on your phone?

C.
6 days ago

@NotMyBub

I'll say it again.

There are no un-fillable vacant positions. There are only positions for which you have not offered a market-clearing wage.

Businesses claiming they "can't fill" positions are failing Capitalism 101.

#vacant #position #wage #market #Capitalism101 #capitalism #business

C.
1 week ago

What should naturally happen is that when a high-risk area is flooded, insurance companies pay out losses for the insured, and recalculate their rates for that area. Rates are normally set such that the average cost of a catastrophic event, multiplied by how frequently that catastrophe is expected to occur, is covered by the insurance premiums collected from insured in the area over that span of time, plus a margin for safety and profit.

This is the #market in action.

[...]

Snowifer
1 week ago

Had a lot of fun at Hawaiian May Day! Was pretty nervous since it was my first market selling prints. I also got a beautiful print from Kim Sandara and tasty cookies from Forloveandlemoncookies

#market #booth #prints

A table with prints and stickers arranged on a wall. The table has a dark blue tablecloth and a table runner with a mola on it.
An art print with ink lines and blue reminiscent of water
A pink box of flower shaped cookies
Jo's Adventures
1 week ago

Brazil 2023. Market, Rio de Janeiro. 5/16. #market #brazil #2023 #travel #vacation #riodejaneiro #photography

Stack of lemons
Arrangement of spices and bottles of spices
Bananas
Various fruit
話題の言葉
1 week ago

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Wisdom in Space
1 week ago

The recipe for perpetual ignorance: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Quotes #ElbertHubbard #Ignorance

#Photography #Panorama #Vegetables #Market

photo by richard rathe
CryptoNewsBot
1 week ago

Multichain Daily Bridging Volume Sees 5x Increase After Alleged Team Arrest, Barely Any Panic for Fantom - Rumors have been spreading throughout the cryptoverse that the major blockchain bridge Mu... - https://cryptonews.com/news/multichain-daily-bridging-volume-sees-5x-increase-after-alleged-team-arrest-barely-any-panic-for-fantom.htm #altcoinnews #blockchain #avalanche #bnbchain #ethereum #binance #polygon #police #fantom #market #legal #china

Snowifer
1 week ago

I'll be at Hawaiian May Day hosted by QPAC this Saturday! Super excited for this event!

#popup #market

Two blue frames with one containing pricing for prints and the other qr codes to social media.
A poster for Hawaiian May Day taking place at 31th Ave and 34th St in Queens on May 27
Various stacks of fish stickers bundled together with rubber bands and piled on each other
Ne10
2 weeks ago

@netreisetagebuch

And opposite of the church you can visit the former #slave #market.

#lagos #algarve #portugal #reiseblog #städtereisen

Wisdom in Space
2 weeks ago

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Quotes #ArthurCClarke #Intelligence

#Photography #Panorama #Vegetables #Market

photo by richard rathe

Weiter geht‘s mit Bildern aus #Riga. Wundervolle Farben auf dem Zentralmarkt. 

#photography #street #streetportrait #baltic #riga #StreetPhotography #leica #speedpanchro #flowers #market #blumen #fotomontag

yaracroft
2 weeks ago

BlackCat revendique des attaques informatiques à l'encontre de:

🇺🇸 Tasly Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (taslyus.com)
🇰🇷 E4NET (e4net.net)
🇺🇸 It Works Global (itworks.com)
🇺🇸 Reach Cooling Group (reachcooling.com)
🇮🇩 FajarPaper PT Fajar Surya Wisesa Tbk (fajarpaper.com)
🇫🇷 Mazars Group (mazars.com)
🇬🇧 Wenn Townsend (wenntownsend.co.uk)

#usa #france #uk #korea #indonesia #blackcat #ransomware #innovative #pharma #technologies #medicine #clients #health #audits #market #packaging #products #employees #corporate #databreach #consulting #offices #software #partnerships #development #customers #services #industries #insights #threats #financial #compliant #accounting #payments #management #corporation #brands #solution #machines #edge #commercial #patents #business #informatique

yaracroft
2 weeks ago

Snatch revendique des attaques informatiques à l'encontre de:

🇮🇹 Comoli, Ferrari & C. spa (comoliferrari.it)
🇨🇦 Canadian Nurses Association (cna-aiic.ca)
🇺🇸 Fresca (fresca.com)
🇺🇸 Medical Society of the State of New York (mssny.org)
🇺🇸 LiveAction (liveaction.com)
🇹🇼 Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd (avc.co)

#usa #canada #taiwan #italy #snatch #ransomware #automotive #products #medicine #customers #corporate #insights #threats #services #health #online #live #nurses #market #industrial #innovative #employees #software #technologies #careers #databreach #manufacturers #commercial #italie #informatique

CryptoNewsBot
2 weeks ago
Marc Hurwitz
2 weeks ago

Reopening alert -- The Modern Butcher is open in its new home in Danvers. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-modern-butcher-is-moving-from.html

#market #northshore #danvers

2 weeks ago

You dam inefficient peasants!

When paying people (labour) costs money, but fossil fuels are cheaper, efficiency is generally about getting more human for your buck.

Crazy Town: Lord of the Swans: The Tragedy of the Enclosure of the Commons

Episode webpage: https://www.postcarbon.org/crazytown/episode-52/

Media file: https://chtbl.com/track/4CG16G/www.buzzsprout.com/244372/10441940-lord-of-the-swans-the-tragedy-of-the-enclosure-of-the-commons.mp3

#politics #capitalism #economy #wage #slave free #market #economics

#SystemsThinking #ecology #climate

yaracroft
3 weeks ago
Scott 🐂
3 weeks ago

"This is a #market where you have to be very selective, very patient, very defensive," says Rockefeller's Cheryl Young. "I think there's still pain potentially ahead." https://twitter.com/CNBCClosingBell/status/1658915210114080997?s=20

CryptoNewsBot
3 weeks ago

Bitcoin’s Ordinal Inscriptions Surpass 7 Million Mark, Fueling the Trend’s Unstoppable Momentum - On May 15, 2023, the number of Ordinal inscriptions surpassed the 7 million mark a... - https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoins-ordinal-inscriptions-surpass-7-million-mark-fueling-the-trends-unstoppable-momentum/ #ordinalinscriptions #bitcoinordinals #cryptocurrency #bitcoinnfts #blockchain #nftsales #bitcoin #btcnfts #onchain #demand #market #miners #surge #news #fees

yaracroft
3 weeks ago

🇺🇸 An investigation by the Office of the Attorney General found that the fake comments used the identities of millions of consumers , without their knowledge or consent. LCX & Lead ID were responsible for many of these fake comments, fake digital signatures for letters, & petition signatures. A third company, Ifficient, acted as an intermediary, engaging other lead generators to enroll consumers in the campaign. #usa #justice #fake #frauds #consumers #business #fraudulent #identity #market #online #influence #informatique

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/settlements-agreements/LCX,%20Lead%20ID,%20and%20Ifficient%20AODs.pdf

timothy
3 weeks ago

Fresh market in Uthumphon Phisai, Sisaket Province, Northeastern Thailand, 7:30 AM.

Busker dressed in some sort of traditional garb pushing a cart with a speaker and battery, singing and dancing.

Three minute video of the market scene: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZP8X2tAzBYzmDbME8

- #Isaan #อีสาน
- #market #ตลาด
- #Sisaket #ศรีสะเกษ
- #Thailand #ประเทศไทย or #เมืองไทย
- push cart, cart with wheels รถเข็น
- busker, minstrel, traveling musician วณิพก or วนิพก

Man wearing green cap with white feather, earrings, large drawn eyebrows. Wearing red outfit from neck to knee, blue leggings and black shiny boots. He stands in front of a parked motorbike holding a microphone up to his mouth. Next to him is a cart with a large speaker. On the right side of the picture are women behind tables of vegetables for sale in the market.
OsoPorto
3 weeks ago

Tomorrow! Come spend Saturday at the Sun & Sea Collective Popup Market at The Point in El Segundo tomorrow from 10a-3p! Makers, music, food, fun and sun! #elsegundo #manhattanbeach #losangeles #california #artists #makers #market #popup https://osopor.to/popups

OsoPorto
3 weeks ago

Springtime sun is finally here. Come spend Saturday at the Sun & Sea Collective Popup Market at The Point in El Segundo tomorrow from 10a-3p! Makers, music, food, fun and sun! #elsegundo #manhattanbeach #losangeles #california #artists #makers #market #popup https://osopor.to/popups

Jasper
4 weeks ago

@rikefranke I can't read the article, however the quote "technology, driven by the commercial market, is taking over" made me think.
The war shows advantages and limits of free #market #defense industry. A multitude of tech startups delivering creative solutions with impact on the battlefield (drones, targeting apps), while on the other hand industry can't keep up with the sudden increase in shell consumption as their production lines are not set up for (large scale) war.
The latter is very similar to problems we have in civilian #crisis management. "Just in time delivery" means no stocks, and no investment in emergency reserves or idle production lines as the return of investment is not guaranteed. The consequences we saw in the last years. Here it seems government run emergency reserves or legislative mandates are necessary.
So my question is: Where in defense production should the free market reign and where the government step in? Maybe a topic for @Sicherheitspod ?

Christian Alvarez
1 month ago

Murray Hill Market. Idk what it is about these small markets, but they have a specific coziness that draws me to them. #Market #shops #grocery #travels #LittleItaly #buildings #StreetPhotography

WordofTheHour
1 month ago

#market : demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable

- French: marché

- German: der Markt

- Italian: mercato

- Portuguese: mercado

- Spanish: mercado

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

CryptoNewsBot
1 month ago

NFT Sales See Modest Increase of 1.46% to Reach $149M in Past Week - In the past week, sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have increased by 1.46%, rak... - https://news.bitcoin.com/nft-sales-see-modest-increase-of-1-46-to-reach-149m-in-past-week/ #digitalcollectibles #marketsandprices #cryptocurrency #weeklynftsales #blockchain #creativity #innovation #investment #technology #ethereum #nftsales #market #trends #sales #nfts

Amadeus Paulussen
1 month ago

Amazing website with a #market #overview on available #cargobike options. https://cargobikedb.com #bicycle 😇️

CryptoNewsBot
1 month ago

VC Darling Crypto Sui Makes Waves With Market Debut, Price Sinks 37% From All-Time High - A buzz has been generated around a new layer one (L1) proof-of-stake blockchain in... - https://news.bitcoin.com/vc-darling-crypto-sui-makes-waves-with-market-debut-price-sinks-37-from-all-time-high/ #byzantineconsistentbroadcast #70thlargestmarketcap #facebookcrypto #proof-of-stake #alltimehigh #cryptoasset #marketdebut #mystenlabs #suinetwork #marketcap #altcoins #arthur0x #suiprice #market #dpos

Boiling Steam
1 month ago
Linux ☑️
1 month ago

Linux gaming up +0.48% to 1.32% in April -23 Steam Hardware Survey :linux:

Linux users BTW, as a whole, are very likely under counted in these Steam surveys (due to aversion of sending metrics, many state).

What do YOU think is the closer to the truth share for Linux now? 2%..? 4% even?

What else can be observed? A fine drop for Windows 10.

Steam Deck - the Linux gaming marvel handheld keeps on trucking (now available in retail stores in Japan, too!).

=> https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

#Steam #Linux #survey #share #installations #market #gaming #SteamDeck #Japan #hardware

Laimis
1 month ago

The weekend #market prep is almost complete and the same theme that's going on for several months continues: a stuck battle between bulls and bears. Neither side has an upper hand, maybe bulls with a slight advantage.

I have three positions that I would love to close but can't as the market keeps on dragging them higher.

If there is one thing I learned is to never take action anticipating a direction. Instead, be prepared to take action for the direction you are anticipating.

JohnHughes
1 month ago

An original display used to welcome people to a Farmers Market in Prague in the Czech Republic.
https://pixels.com/featured/farmers-produce-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Prague #market #fruit #vegetables #farmer #CzechRepublic

An original display used to welcome people to a Farmers Market in Prague in the Czech Republic.
Raccoon :verified:
2 months ago

I'm seeing a lot of talk about #Twitter and #Meta as if they are at all indicative of the rest of the industry...

They are not not. Companies managed by incompetent people are having problems due to mismanagement. The rest of the industry, where people have been making responsible decisions and not torching assets on unrelated scams and the egos of CEOs, is doing fine. That's just natural capitalism.

Remember that #Zuckerburg and #ElonMusk are idiots who we've been repeatedly lied to about being smart, and it puts everything in perspective.

However, if we are concerned that this problem is more systemic, remember that this us just #Market #Capitalism in action, and there are plenty of proposals on the table which have been proven to mitigate its natural tendency to just go crazy.

Boiling Steam
2 months ago
Daniel AJ Sokolov
2 months ago

Going through some #telecommunications #regulation documents from the #Canadian #CRTC, I just noticed that the CRTC confuses #market capitalisation of a company with its #valuation in a single #funding round.

"#Starlink’s parent company, #SpaceX, is a well-financed global competitor. In May 2022, its market capitalization was estimated to be USD 127 billion. This is significantly larger than (#Bell Canada)..."

Not so. 1/2

#AfricanArt #paintingoftheday #africanwomen #African #marketplace #market #painting #oilpainting #artistonmastodon
Painting of the Day. Fruit Sellers
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/fruit-sellers-1/
*This small original painting is a beautiful depiction of the vibrant and bustling markets of #Cameroon #Africa

This small original painting is a beautiful depiction of the vibrant and bustling markets of Cameroon.
Martin Owens
2 months ago

Dear #economics internet,

I'm trying to find the words to describe "prices of sibling products at the same vendor all trending towards the same price and it's relationship to the theoretical maximum price that the #market will bear"

For example restaurant prices that all seem to be $20 regardless of ingredient or prep cost. Or pharmacy medicines which always seem to be the same price regardless of what they treat.

Thoughts? Papers?

#econ #research #prices

🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll
2 months ago

I saw treyf restaurants, Christian shuls, #Christaica shops, and even a special #Christian #market where they buy their special #treyf #food. I asked if we can go into the market and my dad said yes.

The Christian market had many interesting and #exotic #foods for Christian people to eat. The Christian market had foods imported all the way from Vatican! I saw packages that had meat and cheese in the same package and my dad said that it is real meat and not vegetarian!

2/9

A plastic package of 'Antipasto Vaticano' filled with thin slices of provolone cheese and salami. The caption says "Special Christian food imported from Vatican"
Alice Stollmeyer
2 months ago

Irresponsible launch of #AI #chatbots by #BigTech:

Chatbots are already citing one another in a #misinformation shitshow.

This threatens to unleash a wave of misinformation & mistrust across the web.

"#Microsoft, #Google and #OpenAI have decided that #market share is more important than #safety."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

Tim Richards
2 months ago

New at my Patreon... In Cairo we often visited the Khan el-Khalili, a sprawling bazaar district within a medieval royal palace. Contrasts of old and new abounded within its busy alleys:

Image of the Week: Mosque & market https://www.patreon.com/posts/image-of-week-80461341

#Cairo #Egypt #Mosque #Market #Bazaar #Souq

Babs E. Blue
2 months ago

"I can buy myself flowers.....
Write my name in the sand...."
-Miley Cyrus

Babs E Photography
Aix-En-Provence, France

#photography #travel #travelphotography #flowers #flowerFriday #Friday
#pink #market #markettown #France #spring

Dezene Huber 🌻
3 months ago

New (as yet unpublished) potential evidence that #SARS-#CoV-2 was found in #raccoon #dogs (canids) in the #Huanan #Market in late-2019. Specifically, viral and raccoon dog #DNA in #swabs presumably taken at the time from a stall known to house those animals.

Caveats:

-not yet #peer #reviewed.

-lots of DNA mixing together in a market.

-can the #provenance of the data be #verified?

- #zoonotic/#lab/market #origin are not #mutually #exclusive.

#COVID 🦠 🧬

🔗 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/

Jacob Olie
3 months ago

Today's photo: Nieuwmarkt (1893).

[EN] Market around the Waag, with the towers of the Oude Kerk in the background on the left.

[NL] Markt rond de Waag, met links op de achtergrond de toren van de Oude Kerk.

Via https://020apps.nl/olie/random/ #Amsterdam #JacobOlie #Nieuwmarkt #OudeKerk #Waag #market #handcart

n8chz ⒶⒺ
3 months ago

@RL_Dane @cobra @alcinnz @dheadshot tbh the necessity of self-marketing is what turned me against not only #capitalism, but #market economics in general.

https://astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2012/03/31/the-tyranny-of-the-necessity-of-selling/

#anagorism

We Want EVERYTHING! 🌹
3 months ago

@shantini
I'm mad that the "#market" gets to decide the fate of humanity

Charlevoix
3 months ago

@bdimcheff I'll bet if you added a #hashtag to your toot you could find some interesting stuff... "#Market report: got some #Paczki from the #polish place, along with #kielbasa, #golabki, and #pierogi. Also #greens from #Goetz"... Just a thought ✌️

More than 86 per cent of #London's #apartment #condos are owned by #investors: #StatsCan | #CBCNews

"New data from #Statistics #Canada suggests more than 86 per cent of all apartment condominiums in the City of London were owned by investors in 2020 — a sign first-time buyers are being squeezed out of the #market by investors, who are cashing in on the city's severe undersupply of purpose-built #RentalApartments."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-investment-property-1.6739784

JohnHughes
5 months ago
Victoria Janssen
5 months ago

The #SFWA blog is a paying #market seeking "Romancing SFF" posts - yes, #paranormalromance counts! You do not have to be a SFWA member. #romance #romanticsff #sfr

Guidelines here, 10 cents/word for 800-1000 words: https://www.sfwa.org/sfwa-publications/sfwa-blog-guidelines/

Here's the post I did back in September: https://www.sfwa.org/2022/09/15/romancing-the-beast-embracing-monstrousness-in-romantic-sff/

Andy Scollick
5 months ago

"The oil market that emerges is unlikely to look anything like the market at the start of 2022." #oil #market #analysis #energy #EnergySecurity https://www.barrons.com/articles/semiconductors-geopolitics-taiwan-tsmc-globalization-51671746993

Crypto Whale
5 months ago

#Chainlink has been quietly building during this bear #market.
💥As evidenced by the increasing number of active #developers working on the #LINK #project seen in the #illustration.
💥Despite market uncertainty, the #developer #activity on LINK remains strong
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#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #btc #digital #news #ethereum #eth #tech #technology #ltc

Fen C
5 months ago

Regulation is critically important [Disclosure: appropriate regulation is part of my job.]

Without good regulation charlatans, liars & grifters reign supreme.

"No regulation" is the free-market libertarian right's dream (a.k.a. the #Thunderdome) 👇

https://russjackson.medium.com/what-forty-years-of-deregulated-free-market-capitalism-has-done-to-britain-c584508e7085

#UK #Politics #Regulation #Free #Market #Libertarian #Culture #War

The culture war exists to protect the elite by distracting us from what they've done to our country.

Tesla is making a play at being the worst performing stock in the S&P 500 of 2022.

Keep an eye on https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/performance. Right now, it's reflecting Friday 12/23's close, but TSLA is getting hammered today.

#tesla #tsla #stocks #market

The best things you can do for an #independent #author:

1 - Buy and read their #book.
2 - Review it! This is a huge help in beating the #algorithms and getting seen. At least give it a star #review.
3 - Buy more copies of their book for #gifts at #birthdays and #holidays.
4 - Tell people about it when you are discussing #reading. Mass #market #books get plenty of #publicity. #Indie #writers depend largely on #self-promotion (which many of us cringe at) and word of mouth.