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fenekon LinkedIn ran social experiments on 20M users over 5 years

Did you read the article? It's right in the article:

> The New York Times uses such tests to assess the wording of headlines and to make decisions about the products and features the company releases.

fenekon Poland plans to seek $1.3T in reparations from Germany for WWII

They didn't come up with this now. The report has been in the works for years.

fenekon What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?

Very often advertising is the fist thing companies cut when they run into problems. Google and Facebook are both advertising companies and they control very large section of that market. It's possible the data they are seeing is showing them problems ahead for the whole economy.

fenekon Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points

I don't get it. The price of gas I'm paying in the US, has dropped by 20% in the last month or so. That seems to indicate that prices are going back to normal. What prices is fed concerned about?