#i want boeing to wreak havoc

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Only Friends Episode 11 Preview

#only friends #only friends the series #ofts #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #mond tanutchai #sandboeing #ofts spoilers #i will riot if we don't get any sandboeing flashbacks #also i’m highkey excited for this #i want boeing to wreak havoc #my edits #onlyfriendsedit

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Hey Archer.

In P’Jojo we trust. But if you were able to have 5 things happen in the OFTS finale, what 5 things would you have on your list? High on my list is someone doing a Bohemian Rhapsody karaoke performance. I’ll take anyone actually. I just want to scream my lungs out to that song come Saturday 🤷🏾‍♀️

hello, anon!! that is a very interesting question, thanks for asking <3 idk if bohemian rhapsody karaoke is strictly possible due to how much it would probably cost for the production, but sand in particular would definitely have a good time and a ball, if he got to sing some queen!

as for me, ofts is kind of unique in a sense that i genuinely can't imagine anything that might happen upsetting me. i am fully open to any endings that we might get. however, if i had to pick:

ray and boston friends again! as someone who both does not believe in ray and mew being actual genuine friends at all and who has felt like ray joining chueam and mew in dogpiling on boston was really not that important to him anymore, i personally think the ideal outcome is for ray and boston to just reconcile and become besties.

the initial friend group disassembling! i've talked about this before - i think it makes the most sense for boston, nick, sand, and ray to be one friend group, and top, mew, chueam, and april to be another. i think they'd all be happier this way.

i think i'd probably like a little flashforward or something like that? i know they aren't people's favourite thing, but i do think that the question of whether any of the relationships that formed would stand the simple test of time is a pretty significant one for this cast. they keep tripping over issues and will continue doing so throughout pretty much the whole finale so finding out whether that ever stops would be interesting. i also think it would be cute to see the friendships survive, maybe even sandray & nick visiting boston in new york (which i now realise sounds funny, considering boston's nickname).

a final follow-up on boston! unlike seemingly the rest of the fandom, i have not confidently landed on what exactly boston wants and likes at all. yes, we have seen him enjoy a lot of sex, but he has also not really been with anyone while nick and he were hanging out (outside of his very special psychosexual issues about top), so many interpretations are probable. on the one hand, i think it's possible monogamous relationships are not for him at all and he simply wants a close platonic bond with someone, while not getting particularly attached to them alone in other ways. on the other hand, i think it is equally possible that the combination of his upbringing and his general socialisation as a guy lead to him being emotionally closed-off in a deeply unhealthy way and he does actually want a romantic relationship - maybe open, maybe not. i would love to know what we land on concretely.

boeing take-down! as fun as it has been to watch him wreak havoc on pretty much everyone - he is, at the end of the day - a slimey, obnoxiously confident little weasel, and it would be enjoyable to see someone put him in his place. mew already did some of that, but i want someone to finish him off. don't care who. just anyone.

as i said, nothing actually depends on these happening or not. i'm highly unlikely to be disappointed with the finale. but if i had to choose, these five would be fun!

#i hope you get to scream bohemian rhapsody in some capacity on saturday #even if you will have to just look up the song on the music app of your choice yourself #archer responds #anon

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LET'S WATCH ONLY FRIENDS EPISODE 11

1/4

Mew, what's on your mind? I understand that Top has wronged you but I would say that he has redeemed himself by now, don't you think?

When I said I wanted Boeing to wreak havoc among them all, I didn't mean all that. VERY GOOD MEW, send him home.

The scene between Ray and Sand's mother was very sweet, I'm happy they talked to each other.

And I'm even happier and more touched watching Sand and Ray reunite. They love each other, they can't do without each other, it's wonderful to see them together, finally on the same page. For how long though?

Here, in fact, comes Boeing to annoy them. I knew it.

Daddy Dan you haven't shown any red flags yet and I'm sorry for you but Nick and Boston love each other, there's no hope for you. I hope you won't be an asshole. But in this drama, hoping for something like that is foolish, right?

This is all going too well, where is the curse of episode 11? They'll make us pay for it all in the 12th, I know it.

#only friends #only friends the series #bl drama #sandray #bostonnick #topmew

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This was supposed to be a response on a post I saw yesterday but for the life of me I could not find the post again. This has been stuck in the back of my head for a while and that post triggered it again. I haven’t been able to organize it correctly to post it before nor have I had the time but anyways when sjm says ACOFAS was planted with seeds I dont doubt her.  Rhys’ chapter w/cassian as well as cassians pov chapters predicted nearly everything that happens in acosf. Rhys even tells cassian that Az needs help and cassian will have to do more. 

Which he does when cass start to play courtier.

Then we have Az who struggles with his multiple jobs as a spymaster. Rhys notes the rage that’s in him. How his past consumes him. I assume that will be addressed in his book with elain. Elain is mentioned to still not want lucien to not want to choose him, to want free will. I mean rhys assuming azriel is following lucien bc he’s wants to know about what happens between elain and lucien is a big indicator that rhys knows what’s up with elriel.* Side note: that bonus scene read more to me as panicked rhys trying to avoid another issue or possible fight with the AC bc honestly there’s no way rhys didn’t know about them or else what was up with mentioning Lucien and elain & noting Az’s behavior on that topic in acofas. Rhys was dealing in a high stress mode with the whole Feyre’s birth situation ( Cass even notes his behavior after nesta has that crazy cauldron nightmare). * Then we have the whole bryaxis thing and even rose hall mention. We might even get a final confrontation on the whole Beron issue maybe even something with eris. Maybe a whole confrontation on the whole lady autumn, helion and Beron situation. Also finding the 4th death trove is definitely up their ally. I believe their book is next as the 5th book.

Then we have the tamlin and mor, who are experiencing separate “issues” in acofas, these are who I believe will get the novella(s). This is a great Segway and pause to start to tie all the players together especially as mor has direct links to the court of nightmares who need to play along for this new battle against koschei, and with Valhalla /the other continent. In acofas & acosf it’s mentioned she not only wants to travel & leave the NC but she’s now dealing in swaying the fae of the other continent. As for tamlin, he and the Spring court are in shambles. The SC is important ally to have to find and maintain peace, Rhys goes as far as to state that during his visit to the SC. Tamlin’s court happens to be the one to share the wall with the human lands, meaning BoE (particularly vassa and jurian) and I assume Grayson/the rest need a peaceful understanding that creatures of the fae lands cannot keep crossing over wreaking havoc. Lucien will be caught in the middle of this to deal with it as he has direct link to him.

And finally once all players are dealt with, the last book would be luciens which makes the most sense. I have an itch that the reason everything went down early prythian was due to both autumn and day being involved, that whole scene with the mask and helion, and the power of light they carry as well as those in CC is interesting. Then the fact that the only fae I remember atleast meeting in CC were the avallen fae (dusk court) and the autumn fae which I’m pretty sure came from AC prythian so they must be long lost relatives of Beron and Co. it would be fitting to have lucien as both autumn and day court fae “finish” it. Vassa should definitely not only be part of delivering the final blow to Koschei bc of obvious reason (Bonus points if shes a descendant of the female warrior who imprisoned him to the lake in the first place) but also to the queens as well, for they’re the reason she was enslaved by koschei (Rhys and az even touch on this in acofas  basically saying they cannot &should not interfere, the humans should deal with their own or the fae risk war & being seen as conquerors). 

I mean when you really look at it, feyre is directly linked to the three. She goes so far as to worry about them the most especially in acofas. She worries about Nesta-her grief, lack of self care& integration, her rage and mental health, their sister bond, about Elain-how well she is actually assimilating to everything, her seer abilities, her bond with lucien, about lucien- where her relationship stands with lucien, his bond with elain, his loyalty to the BoE, his relationship w/tamlin and even his position in the NC. 

Chaol got a book bc technically he was the only one that couldn’t get over everything that happened with aelin (the main character), aelin who he had an original direct link from book one, and aelin who he had a broken relationship with due to many issues he now had with her. In his book who do we get while he figures it out in his trip, Irene a full game changer for the final war (as well as neseryn and satrap of course). Sound familiar ? Lucien and vassa ? 

The three (elain, nesta and lucien) are the only ones left that matter to feyre who also happen to be sort of lost and have unfinished business that needs to be addressed and worked through before a reconciliation with feyre the main character. They also happens be original characters from book one who owe it to feyre and themselves to get it together. 

Nesta books was about her journey but the last obstacle she had to tackle was her relationship with feyre. That’s how her book ended it wasn’t before the brailynn it was after. Nesta has a personal journey she had to heal foremost before her journey with feyre. Feyre is still the main character and is the common factor among all three. All three are important to her and have failed her and again themselves. 

In CC2 it was still about feyre and rhys the rulers among that group, the main focus, for Bryce. Also everything points to Elains book being next but the fact that not only did we get reminders that az was strugglingas well as an increase of his presence in acosf, and a whole bonus chapter about him but even in CC2, it was Az who made first contact with Bryce. It definitely could of been anyone else literally any one else who might be far more I guess easy going like Cass or maybe Lucien but it wasn't. Idk I just noted how odd that was.

Funnily enough the new book covers for acotar supports this. Though I think i heard someone said once that SJM came out and said the book covers are just simply that and not an indication of anything, it is still weird how each one corresponds to each character and is happening in order so far. We have Acotar- the beast and arrow (Feyre), Acomaf- a hawk and ring (nesta, who is often described as bird/hawk like), acowar-roses,shadow and tt/dagger (elain), and then acofas-autumn like flower petals and leaves with a sunburst in the middle (lucien).

I absolutely could be wrong, I probably am but when you see it all together including the way acosf turned out, the way the bonus povs pointed to elain, the negative vibe when it came to elucien as in no progress or even angst, the subtle progress/buildup, angst and mystery in terms of Elriel, I mean it kind of seems possible.

#acotar #acotar 5 #vassien #elriel #elain x azriel #elain archeron

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Zero income, ruin in a month | Economy

A minuscule virus has unleashed a tsunami that wipes out social life as we knew it and, after health, the most devastating impact is on how people make a living. It has struck in all layers of the economy, from large factories to the autonomous plumber, but it is there, in the small realities, where it is wreaking havoc. Millions of stories where it is discovered how far the paralysis of money has gone, which no longer circulates, does not reach homes. There are 3.2 million freelancers in Spain, smaller entrepreneurs, shops, family businesses. This is a mosaic of desperate voices. The tragedy is a phrase, repeated by everyone: “Since Monday I have zero income, zero.” And the next one: “I can last 15 days, a month, but then I don't know what I'm going to do. Is the end”.

Marta Martín, 39, has an aesthetic center in Santander: “I have two employees, two mortgages. Fixed expenses, 3,000 euros. I just bought a machine for body treatments, 15,000 euros, and I have not paid the first letter. Although they defer taxes, they will join me with the others. With my quote, a benefit stays me in nothing. And I live for rent. My two children, my life. And eat”.

In telephone conversations, all the people consulted had just talked to their adviser, to explain the government's measures, but there is incredible confusion. Everyone tries to decipher the BOE on Tuesday, the Royal Decree with the first initiatives.

Ramón García, 46 years old, CTR mechanical workshop, La Orotava, Tenerife: “I don't know if I can enter an ERTE. The Government says yes, but the BOE is not clear. The workshops do not force us to close and I do not know if we enter into this assumption. My advisor says I have little chance, but I'm going to try. I have 18,000 euros of fixed monthly expenses and fa

zero time; you will tell me. This morning a doctor called me to fix her car and gave me a rush. ” Just a few months ago, she expanded to two workshops, with a loan. And I already had another one. Eight employees. He would be saved, for example, by a rental aid.

The associations of the sector themselves contradict each other. Eduardo Abad, from UPTA, calls for responsibility and believes that the Government has acted well, although more will have to be done: “All the self-employed, be they a company or a natural person, have the right to benefit from a cessation of activity and aid, what would be unemployment, 70% of its contribution base. And also those who continue their activity, if they show that their turnover has decreased by 70%. None has to unsubscribe from Social Security and the Treasury, and will not pay a fee. People are being confused and misinformed. ” The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, José Luis Escrivá, has intervened this week to go out to the

passage of some affirmations on the part of the sector. Representatives of associations admit that “whoever says more stupid is on TV.” María José Landaburu, UATAE general secretary, believes that the Executive's decisions are a good step, there are even some that they had not asked for, but others must follow: “Now the following is to cover the expenses related to each activity, rents, light…”

Other organizations are more critical and disagree. “Many will be able to access the new benefit, but many others will be left out. We ask that the freelance quota be suspended. Without income there can be no quota ”, summarizes Lorenzo Amor, president of ATA. Javier Muñoz, from AUPA, assures that “the exoneration of quotas only helps legal natural persons, not physical ones”. Although the payment of taxes is deferred, they ask that it be without interest and that it be divided the rest of the year. And electricity or phone bills.

Pablo, audiovisual producer Mad Media, Madrid, confirms: “I am a company owner. For me there is no measure, nothing. I could only do an ERTE and it doesn't compensate me. The Government seems to be only interested in layoffs. My advisor has said to wait a week, to see if it clears up. ” In his case, not being able to leave is the end: he makes videos and documentaries, and all the filming has been canceled.

The truth is that many freelancers choose to pay the minimum contribution, 283 euros, and consequently the help they will have will be scarce. Many already lived daily, without a saving mattress. Iban Sánchez, 35 years old, has a cafeteria in Salamanca: “I opened a year ago, it was difficult for me to get it up and I owe self-employed fees. I wanted to do a debt deferral but if it did not exceed 1,800 euros it was not possible. Now I have the premises closed and I cannot qualify for aid for having debts with Social Security. They left me lying with four children. ” Rafael Begara, barber, La Garriga, Barcelona: “I pay a mortgage. Self-employed. Credits. My wife is also on the street now. And the support of my ex-wife. By pulling four pockets, I can last 15 days, no more. ”

The situation is even more serious in even more unprotected sectors, such as that of domestic workers, more than 600,000 people, according to the organization Sedoac. In many cases in an irregular situation, with hardly any rights, outside the general regime that benefits from aid and that now depends only on the good will of the families that have hired them.

This crisis is causing the endemic anger of the self-employed to emerge. His life, full of paperwork and a calendar dotted with pay dates, is already a race of insurmountable obstacles. The anguish of depending on your own strength and your ingenuity is described by Cristina Gancedo, from the E-Fun English Academy in Madrid, three payrolls: “I left on Monday at ten at night and closed a door through which money flows, your life. Before, I was afraid: when there was a loss, it would be fatal. And on Monday I left with 105, I returned to my house blindly, I did not know who was going to get on the train to do Skype lessons. I don't see light because I don't see that they can help us. Only if you justify losses of 75%, but what if I lost 60%? Should we be under a bridge? With a daughter? Those with a payroll make me envious. ” He asks that the mortgage, the quota and the social security be taken away from him.

Many have been caught at the worst time. Like Pepe Peña, from a textile factory for vehicles in Burgos. Six employees. “We came from the footwear sector, but China shook us a lot and a year or so ago we switched to the automotive industry. We were in full process. We were just going to expand, with another shift, a new line, a credit. But the parent companies have closed. We will ask for an ERTE, but let's see, because everyone will be asking for it ”.

Fernando de Toro, ClimaArte, gas, heating and air conditioning installation in Fuenlabrada, Madrid. Two employees, and two freelancers. And a baby. “Nothing they have decided helps me. I have a rental for a house, premises, warehouse… The minister [Nadia] Calviño says that those who rent are people, right, but they want to get paid. We have the feeling that the greatest effort of many is going to be scratching their noses at home, while others beat the copper and others will pay the duck. They must provide ERTE to everyone, not just the one you force to close. Measures not to pay rent, defer insurance. How am I going to pay for something that has not been generated? I do not want aid, I want not to pay for what I do not work. It seems that everything is made for administration, employees, and the rest, forgotten. And we are three million, normal people, the neighbors of the people ”.

The restlessness and fear that has invaded the self-employed this week is seen in the success of a Facebook group, Todos Somos Uno Ayuda Autónomos Ya, created by Alejandro Martín, 37, a consultant for SMEs and self-employed in Salamanca. “Talking to partners and clients I saw such a sense of concern that I opened the group on Sunday morning. In the afternoon there were a thousand people. On Friday, more than 60,000 ”. The aim is for self-employed workers from all over Spain to vent, inform themselves, and listen. “What I detect above all is disinformation, what is going to happen to everyone in their sector. They are lost because they do not know how the measures affect their particular situation. How does it apply to me? Stop or not stop? Do I unsubscribe or continue? ERTE yes, ERTE no? Each case is unique and each sector is different. And each advisor tells them one thing. At the moment of truth there is absolute chaos ”. Martín believes that the reality is that there will be at least two months without income. “You have to understand this, and the critical cases, and monetary aid of some kind. There is a total sense of helplessness, need to be heard. Many people with a lot of anxiety. The risk is that too many people will be left behind, that it will be too hard a hit. ” He has opened an email to try to help the most desperate cases.

The blow reaches every angle of everyday life. For example, a ham cutter. “We have seven employees. We cannot go to factories to cut surpluses. We have canceled fairs, events, trips to China, Germany … “, explains a businessman from Salamanca, 40 years old. “As in 2008, he who has done his homework will endure. People to survive stop paying and that's a chain. “

Or for example, Cristina Pop, from Saigu Cosmetics, 34 years old, Valencia, asks: “Who is putting on makeup now, if no one leaves the house?” He works in a start-up of natural makeup for sale online. They have been a year. “We had managed to overcome that barrier, we had killed ourselves in building a community of clients and now, free fall.” They are six, all autonomous.

This firm took off thanks to Lanzadera, the business accelerator created by Juan Roig, owner of Mercadona, to finance new projects. People wanting to start, 400 companies in seven years, now slowed down. “It can disappear in a few months. Something that is being born is cut from the roots, “laments Cristina. In Marina de Empresas, the complex that hosts Lanzadera, they say that some are reinventing themselves. Sepiia, shirts that do not stain and do not wrinkle, have started to make masks. Another industrial label, Label Yourself, now makes protection screens for pharmacies.

There are other jobs where it is impossible to reinvent yourself or telework because they live on physical contact. David Mascató, physiotherapy center in O Grove, Pontevedra: “We are two physios, plus three contracted, but we closed for security. It had to be prohibited for us to open, but since we are health centers we are in limbo. Do we have to keep paying taxes? ” In Spain there are around 51,000 registered physical therapists.

Or Elisa Antolín, 48 years old, therapist in Santander from Yamuna Body Rolling, a massage technique with balls and balls: “I have people that I must attend to, who live in pain. More than ever they need to relax, but we can't see or touch each other. ” Now all the works reveal their importance, they respond to a need. “It is okay to take away our quota, which is so unfair, to pay for our right to work. It is abusive, the highest in the entire EU ”.

There are other sectors that we think are working, but neither. Food moves in large distribution, but small producers are also crushed. “It is more important than ever to remember local production, which does not reach large stores. We must help them not to close, ”explains José Manuel Jurado, 61, director of Madrid Alfa Market, which organizes the Matadero street market, with 90 producers, the largest in the region. Small companies of meat, fruits, vegetables, wines, sweets, bread, honey. It has closed its small circuit of bars and restaurants, small food stores. And there are no street markets.

Some people do work, but irregularly and with difficulties. Like truckers, but only some, in food and other products. Jorge Serrano, 48 years old, transporter from Zaragoza: “We have not stopped, but there are many problems, with the service areas closed, without cleaning, without eating hot, closed workshops”. There are more than 400,000 drivers in Spain, the vast majority self-employed or in small companies, 90% have fewer than five trucks. “In Europe there are strong companies with thousands of vehicles. Not here, especially since the 2008 crisis, and people are more unprotected. ” For many carriers, stopping means not being able to pay the letter of the truck, which costs, at least, 100,000 euros.

Juan Manuel Martín, 42, is also working. He has a computer company and “is shot.” “Everyone is teleworking, we have 30% more clients, we advise companies that did not even know how to do it. But let's go daily. We have been survivors for years. “

The future, even surviving, worries a lot. Ernesto Lentini, from the restaurant La Mar de Cádiz, in Zaragoza, with ten workers, asks himself: “When this happens, how will people be when it comes to spending? Maybe it will skyrocket the first few days, but they will all be short of liquidity. If the State does not continue helping then it will be difficult. ”

At the Méndez bookstore, opened since 1973, in the center of Madrid, Antonio and Inma are convinced that customers will return. What they don't know is how many bookstores will stay along the way. “If this lasts two or three months, many may fall, we were already on the tightrope. Neighborhood, peripheral bookstores. Public libraries could stock up on bookstores. Publishing groups could defer payments.” The hope is in messages like the A client sent them on Thursday: “She sent us 100 euros to reserve books for when we open.” She is waiting for you.

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Dow futures slipped back into the red on Tuesday as the US stock market grapples with the fallout of the UK’s impending Brexit vote, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s revelation that she does not support plans to impeach President Donald Trump.

Dow Futures Slip after Massive Monday Recovery

On Monday, the Dow recovered from an opening-bell bloodbath to mount a 442.88 point recovery and close more than 200 points higher, notching its first session gain since March 1. The S&P 500 rose 40.23 points or 1.47 percent to close at 2,783.30, crossing the crucial 2,750 threshold but failing to break through resistance at 2,800. The Nasdaq, meanwhile surged by 149.92 points to record a mammoth 2.02 percent increase.

The Dow and its peers don’t look poised to extend Monday’s recovery, however.

Dow futures traded down on Tuesday. | Source: Yahoo Finance

As of 8:28 am ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures had lost 73 points or 0.28 percent, implying a loss of 56.88 points at the open. S&P 500 futures were unchanged, while Nasdaq futures crept to a 0.11 percent advance.

Brexit, Boeing Weigh on Dow Jones

US stock futures had traded higher earlier in the session but slipped after UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox failed to give Prime Minister Theresa May the all-clear on her amended Brexit deal, even after she secured legally-binding assurances regarding the “Irish backstop” from the EU late Monday night. May’s Brexit deal faces a parliamentary vote on Tuesday evening, and its success is uncertain now that Cox has said that “legal risk remains.”

The Dow also faces ongoing downward pressure from Boeing, which continues to reel from the tragic crash of Ethiopian Airways Flight ET302.

Boeing stock endured further declines as more countries grounded all 737 MAX 8 flights. | Source: Yahoo Finance

Australia has joined a growing number of countries in grounding all flights of 737 MAX 8 aircraft, and Boeing stock is down 2.38 percent in pre-market trading after dropping by 5.33 percent on Monday.

Pelosi Says ‘No’ on Trump Impeachment, Saving Dow from 5,000 Point Plunge

Though not visible in today’s pre-market session, the Dow and its peers could benefit from the long-term tailwinds of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stating unequivocally that she opposes impeaching President Donald Trump, even though that is something that the Democratic base desperately wants.

Claiming that Trump was “just not worth it,” she diverged from many in her party by stating that just because Trump is not “fit to be president of the United States,” it doesn’t mean the Democrats should wage a politically-risking impeachment fight:

“Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.”

Writing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Velocity Capital founder Andy Kessler argued that drawn-out impeachment proceedings would wreak havoc on the stock market as fund managers scrambled to position their capital to ride out an uncertain future.

He said:

“A drawn-out impeachment process could cut as much as 5,000 points off the Dow, roughly half of the Trump bump.”

According to Kessler’s thesis, taking impeachment off the table should rescue the stock market from a major bout of volatility. However, the market’s future is anything but stable as the US careens toward the 2020 election season.

Crypto Market Adds $800 Million But Bitcoin Remains Stuck Below $4,000

The bitcoin price continues to fail to break through resistance in the $4,000 region. | Source: Yahoo Finance

Outside of Wall Street, the cryptocurrency market also traded sideways, with the bitcoin price rising 0.48 percent to $3,893 over the previous 24 hours, according to Yahoo/CryptoCompare. Litecoin and EOS each added two percent, while binance coin and cardano outperformed with gains in excess of 5 percent. The only top-10 cryptocurrency to post significant declines was stellar, which fell 3.17 percent after surging more than 20 percent over the past week. The overall crypto market cap added about $800 million for the day, settling at a present value of $134 billion.

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One of Airbus's best customers in the U.S. is having second thoughts

Hawaiian Airlines wants to connect its Pacific island home to the other side of the world and begin 13-hour flights. But it’s not sure what airplane it wants to use.

The airline is rethinking its multibillion-dollar plan to buy Airbus A330neo jets, according to chief executive Mark Dunkerley.

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For Hawaiian Airlines (HA), it would be the second time it changed what long-range aircraft it wants to buy. Airbus in 2014 nixed plans for a smaller version of the comapny’s new long-range A350 XWB that the airline had ordered.

Because of that, three years ago, the airline ordered six A330-800neo airliners from Europe’s Airbus (EADSF) for use in 2019. It has since been the only carrier to buy the smaller of two models of the A330neo. Neo stands for new engine option.

Dunkerley told CNNMoney this week the tepid sales have Hawaiian weighing whether the A330neo is “the right airplane for us,” or whether it will turn instead to Boeing, the planemaker’s U.S. rival.

“We’re still a big believer in the [Airbus] program, but we also know that Boeing has some terrific alternatives which we’re also interested in looking at,” Dunkerley said.

The A330-800 touts a 7,500 nautical mile range, meaning Hawaiian could connect Honolulu to points as far as India, western Australia, London or even Moscow. The airline wants to court leisure travelers from the other side of the world to Hawaii.

Related: The world’s new planes in 2017

Dunkerley said the airline is talking to Airbus about its options, but is also looking closely at a possible purchase of 787 Dreamliners from Boeing (BA).

“The best way of figuring out if this is the right aircraft for us or the Airbus alternative is to be talking to both of them,” said Dunkerley.

Should Hawaiian Airlines opt for a different plane, that could spell the end of Airbus’ roughly 260-seat jet.

Airbus said it is still moving forward with development.

“Production of the A330-800 is well underway with first parts coming together at various Airbus sites throughout Europe,” said an Airbus spokesman.

Airbus is on the verge of flying the A330neo for the first time, kicking off a year-long test as early as the second half of October, according to two people familiar with the company’s planning.

Hawaiian is in the middle of a major replacement of its fleet. Starting this month, it’ll take delivery of its first A321neo aircraft from Airbus. The 189-seat single-aisle airliner has enough range to fly from Hawaii’s smaller airports to smaller cities in the United States that may not have the demand to fill its bigger twin-aisle jets.

Hawaiian’s first A321neo arrives in October.

With no bridges or tunnels between the Hawaiian islands, Hawaiian and other carriers rely on air service to quickly shuttle passengers across the archipelago.

But the quick turnarounds, repeated landings, short durations between takeoffs when the engines are at full power, and the punishing salty sea air can wreak havoc on an aluminum airliner.

Since 2001, Hawaiian has operated a fleet of small single-aisle 717s from Boeing. Its 20 jets fly 25-to-35-minute hops around the islands roughly 10 times a day, every day of the year.

While Hawaiian is overhauling its fleet, those workhorse 717s aren’t going anywhere. In fact, they could make it well into the 2030s.

“For what we do, there’s no finer aircraft in production or even on the drawing board,” said Dunkerley.

Related: Last days of the DC-9: The jet that connected America

The 717 has been out of production for more than a decade. But the jet has found a following with carriers like Hawaiian and Delta Air Lines, which has 91 of the 155 that Boeing built.

Designed for short flights, the 717 had to remove seats from the cabin in favor of custom fuel tanks to make the crossing between California and Honolulu.

Airplanes can fly for as long as they’re properly serviced, but at some point it become too expensive to fly the gas guzzlers. When Delta finally sent its last 1960s-era DC-9 (on which the 717 is based) to the boneyard in 2014, its last commercial service came after 36 years of passenger flights.

“The DC-9 went on for 40 years,” said Dunkerley. “Against that index mark, we’re now 15, 16, 17 years into the age of the fleet, so we’ve got plenty of runway ahead and at this stage we’re not even contemplating” retirement.

CNNMoney (Seattle) First published October 6, 2017: 1:29 PM ET

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Sidestepping the Military Leviathan: Make Money, Not War

By Fred Reed, Fred on Everything, January 23, 2017

Is Washington really going to start a trade war with China, or is it just huffing and puffing for the position? I don’t know. Mr. Trump has inexplicably failed to brief me. A point worth bearing in mind:

The United States cannot compete commercially with a developed Asia, or China.

America has nowhere to go. It is a fully developed economy that cannot grow rapidly if it grows at all. America is also a country of only medium size with a population of a bit more than two hundred million who do all the brain work. It has a decaying system of education, declining living standards, and an economy crippled by huge military expenditures.

By contrast, China has a billion Han Chinese, intelligent government, a great deal of room to grow and high rates of doing so. The combined land mass, population, and economic potential of Asia are staggering. In differing degrees, Asian nations are growing.

Further, Eurasia is one continent, and China has land connections to all of it–”interior lines of communication,” as soldiers say. America does not. Beijing’s stated intention is to use this to unite Eurasia into one enormous commercial unit--which will not include guess who. Beijing can do this. It has the cash. China is the world’s leader in high-speed rail. As a competent dictatorship, it can decide to do things and then do them, while America often seems unable to do either.

Some time has passed since Beijing made its first rail shipment from Wuli on the Pacific coast through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, to Germany and then left to Madrid. It was clunky and a bit of a stunt. Now there are scheduled trains connecting many Chinese cities to the rest of Asia, including Europe. This will not rival sea transport in volume but will give a lot of places in Asia access to each other. Influence will follow. Watch.

This is bad news for Washington. Greater trade between Europe and the eastern part of the continent means less influence for Washington. It means potentially very much less influence. European nations have much to gain by trading with the incomprehensibly large markets, current and arriving, between Poland the Pacific. They have nothing to gain by remaining as sepoy states under American control. Their businessmen know it.

China, already the world leader in supercomputers both in number and performance, hopes to have an exascale machine by 2018, way ahead of the US. These are not people to underestimate.

This dismal reality looks to be behind the orchestrated billingsgate against Russia, the war drums being pounded about the South China Sea, and the obvious desire for war with Iran. These three counties are key to an economic union that, if not stopped, will dwarf the United States. While some hope that China will collapse because of internal problems, this is a thin reed upon which to bet the Empire. Washington knows it.

The Empire cannot afford to lose control of Europe’s governments, which will happen if heavy trade is allowed to develop with the Three Bugbears. Thus Washington’s hostility to all three--a hostility whose chief effect, note, has been to drive them together against America. Not good. The first rule of empires is Don’t let your enemies unite.

Here we come to a crucial difference between American and Chinese foreign policy. Washington’s approach to maintaining the Empire has consisted of military attack, threats of military attack, military occupation, and the imposition of sanctions. These are visibly declining in effectiveness. The US currently has sanctions against North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and Russia--none of which has produced the desired capitulation. Unless Washington comes up with something quick, presumably a shooting war or a trade war, its aircraft carriers will steam in circles, slowly rusting, while Asia grows.

Glimmerings of rebellion appear in many places. In the Philippines, Duterte is snuggling up to China. While Washington may kill him or twist his arm, twenty years ago this would not have been necessary. Malaysia recently bought Chinese naval vessels. Thailand has begun buying Chinese arms. Countries are slowly abandoning the dollar. German businessmen want to trade with Russia.

Trump now proposes sanctions on China, having said he would impose a tariff of forty-five percent on goods from there. Perhaps he was lying, bluffing, or posing in the standard manner of politicians. Maybe he wasn’t. I am not so foolish as to think I can predict the course of a trade war, but neither am I so foolish as to believe that Trump can.

He seems to have the instincts of a bully, which works or may work, with weak states like Mexico. China isn’t one. He has said that China needs the US more than the US needs China, and so China will surrender. This was also said of Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Russia. The US remains superior to China in all sorts of things, but a lot fewer than before. A trade war won might prove less desirable than a trade war not started. We remember Pyrrhus for a reason.

If only for reasons of vanity, Trump couldn’t let China get away with calling his bluff. Millions have died over wounded vanity. What could he do? Go to an all-out trade war? Again, risky. Proud countries dig their heels in. China is not without options. By simply turning to Airbus as exclusive provider to its large and growing market, it would wreak havoc on Boeing and its work force and perhaps marginalize the company. Add that Israel may not allow Boeing to sell to Iran, which would be a further blow.

It is interesting to consider recent PISA scores, which measure the academic performance of school kids. Math scores in order by country: Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, China. The US was well below average for the countries tested, though its scores are lowered by minorities. Headline: “NY Professor Says Algebra Is Too Hard, Schools Should Drop It.” On fairness, America leads in safe spaces, trigger warnings, puzzled diversity, and whimpering Snowflakes. Watch out, Beijing.

A trade war might come down to whose population can better tolerate want. The deplorables who shop at Walmart are already stretched pretty tight and would not react well to being further impoverished for what they would see as profits for the Establishment.

If I may briefly reveal my commie tendencies, maybe America ought to worry about its universities, roads, laboratories, and medical care instead of wasting its money on corruption, bombers, lunges for empire and dreams that 1955 is just around the corner.

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The U.S. has a staggering pilot shortage

Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every day in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air.

That’s one every 15 minutes.

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Passenger and cargo airlines around the world are expected to buy 41,000 new airliners between 2017 and 2036. And they will need 637,000 new pilots to fly them, according to a forecast from Boeing released this week. That staggering figure is matched only by how many will leave the profession in the next decade — particularly in the U.S.

Retirements at U.S. airlines will start to rise precipitously starting in 2021 as the current crop of pilots turns 65, the mandated age of retirement. More than 42% of active U.S. airline pilots at the biggest carriers will retire over the next 10 years, about 22,000, according to a recent report by Cowen & Company.

Related: Pilot shortage sends airline into bankruptcy

In the next 20 years, airlines in North America are going to need 117,000 new pilots, Boeing estimates. And the farm team for training and recruitment in the U.S. — the military and regional carriers — are already struggling to find and keep aviators.

The coming retirements exceed the active U.S. regional airline pilots corps, which stands around 19,000.

Without enough pilots, the amount airlines can fly will be capped. And an acute shortage may wreak havoc on air travel, grounding planes and reducing air service to some cities if routes are cut or curtailed.

It’s already happening.

Last month, Horizon Air, the regional arm of Alaska Airlines, said it was canceling 6% of it schedule — more than 300 flights — from August to September because it doesn’t have the pilots. And Republic Airways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2016 in part because it was “grounding aircraft due to a lack of pilot resources.

Pilots and their unions contend that there is no shortage, only a perceived one, and a dearth of good-paying flying jobs that would attract new candidates. Rather than change any standards to bolster recruitment, pilots unions have pushed for higher wages for existing pilots to increase the economic attractiveness of the profession.

And American Airlines (AAL), Delta Air Lines (DAL) and United Airlines (UAL) have all signed new contracts with their pilots to raise their hourly wages.

Horizon, too, says its aggressively recruiting, offering a $20,000 bonus and upped starting pay from $30 to $40 per hour. That compares to a $22 per hour wage for a first officer at regional Mesa Air Group, the lowest in the U.S., according to Cowen.

Related: Want to earn $300,000 tax free? Try flying a plane in China

The U.S. military, too, is trying to hold on to its own highly trained pilots in uniform. The Air Force is willing to pony up to $455,000 to keep its pilots. The Department of Defense said the Air Force was short 1,555 pilots.

The regional carriers are not only fighting with other U.S. airlines to hold on to their pilots. Rapidly-expanding Middle Eastern and Asian carriers are offering huge premiums to lure well-trained aviators. Chinese airlines are offering salaries topping $300,000 for skilled aviators.

But it’s not only a question of pay, say industry experts.

After the 2009 Colgan Air crash that killed 50 outside of Buffalo, new rules on pilot training were put in place. New pilots are required to have 1,500 hours of flight time before they can earn their air transport pilots license.

That’s another 1,250 hours pilots must accumulate after getting their commercial certification.

Supporters of the rule say it has been a success and there hasn’t been a U.S. commercial airline fatality since the Colgan crash.

Related: Sharp-nosed Japanese jetliner could be game-changer for U.S. fliers

However, critics contend the rule is a huge barrier to new pilots who would seek to start at regional airlines and also point out that both pilots on the Colgan flight had more than 1,500 hours of flight time.

“A diminishing number [of pilots] have been willing to commit the time and money to their education and training when the return on investment is somewhere between unpredictable and financially ruinous,” writes airline pilot and travel blogger Patrick Smith.Pilots-in-training can take loans, regularly more than $100,000, to finance training and flight time or work as low-wage flight instructor that doesn’t necessarily mirror airline operations.

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And every year that goes by without joining airline ranks means one less year of seniority in an industry that won’t allow working past the age of 65. That could mean forgoing up to $500,000 in earning potential, according to an industry estimate.

Republican Senator John Thune recently submitted an amendment to the 1,500 hour rule. Pilots now only need 750 hours if they trained in the military, 1,000 if from a four year school and 1,250 from a two-year college, but the amendment would give give the FAA more flexibility to award training credit to pilots — but the move faces an uphill political battle.

CNNMoney (Seattle) First published July 27, 2017: 2:06 PM ET