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[–] asdfbla@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 days ago

I live in Germany and wanted to buy a new car 2 years ago. I live in the city in a rented apartment. I can't charge at Work, and neither at home. So I would have to use only public charging stations , the nearest is almost 2km away. Plus, public charging stations are so expensive that you pay more per km than gas for a ICE car (excluding maintenance costs obviously)

I actually wanted to buy an EV, but since I can't charge it, even though I live in a city, I couldn't

[–] asdfbla@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Tell that to my employer

[–] asdfbla@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 week ago

My knowledge is very superficial, but usually government bonds are a very safe investment. It's basically how countries can even go into debt. In times of market uncertainty, you would expect that investors who sell off stocks put their money into bonds. However, investors are also selling US bonds, which means confidence in the US is waining. The US dollar is on track to losing it's place as the world's reserve currency.

This is all very bad for the US, since it also means they have to increase interests in bonds so people keep buying, which leads to more taxes since the interests on the bonds is the interest the US has to pay on their debt.

Please correct me if I am wrong