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40 sats \ 13 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h \ on: Interest Rates by Country in 2025 (Map) econ

Canada, are you really going to be outdone by Fiji?

Fiji is going to become the 11th province and I am going to move there.

You know, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are already part of America. Post statehood, you can freely move to any of those tropical paradises.

72 sats \ 7 replies \ @optimism 4h

Overheard at a conference last month: the real virgin islands aren't part of the US though; the islands that are part of USVI are simply affinity scammers but there's nothing virgin about these (per BVI people)

140 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h

I'd be interested to learn more about that geography lesson. I'm pretty sure they were all part of some group of "Virgin Islands", though, that got divvied up at some point.

Is it because the vast majority of Virgin Islanders live on the American islands?

51 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 4h

USVI was bought from the Danes, whereas BVI was under British control for 400 years or so. They weren't all that divided by the time the US took an interest.

Prior to that, these islands were under alternating Spanish/Dutch/Danish/British claim. But since there were no satellites or underseas cables, the confusion was real. Hah.

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h

That's fun. I can imagine "ownership" might be fairly fluid depending on who had the biggest ships in the area.

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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 9h

There you go with another uncouth remark on @grayruby!!! Doesn't fiji outdo USA in this regard? In fact it does all of the other countries.

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 9h

America isn't trying to have low interest rates.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 9h

That's why Powell is a fool and Trump has been trying to dump him.