This is a result of credit fueled big ticket purchases of which buying a home is a big component. No amount of saving will cover the housing EMIs payable over one year. To this, add EMIs of 1 or 2 cars, and you've monthly EMIs running into 1 Lakh+. Now, add monthly house-hold +

The Olympic Games are controversial.

They're amazing for unity & entertainment.

But they're a horrible business.

THREAD: A story of billions in costs, misaligned incentives & crippling debt. 🧵

172%.

Any guesses what that represents?

That number is % over budget.

Since 1960, the Olympics have run over-budget by 172%.

And no Olympics have ever run under-budget.

The Olympics have the highest cost overrun of any mega project in the world.

Olympics: 172%
Mega dams: 90%
Trains: 45%
Bridge & tunnels: 34%
Roads: 20%

The 2021 Tokyo Games is no exception.

2013: bid projected $7.4 billion of costs

2019: official budget of $14.6 billion

2020: budget revised to $15.4 billion

2021: government auditors project total spending will be $28 billion.

Tokyo is the 2nd most expensive Olympics ever.

At $28 billion, it's more than the GDP of:

- Uganda
- El Salvador
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Madagascar
- Fiji

PFIZERLEAK: EXPOSING THE PFIZER MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY AGREEMENT.

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Background:
Pfizer has been extremely aggressive in trying to protect the details of their international COVID19 vaccine agreements.

Luckily, I've managed to get one.

#PfizerLeak
#Pfizer

Because the cost of developing contracts is very high and time consuming (legal review cycles), Pfizer, like all corporations, develop a standardized agreement template and use these agreements with relatively minor adjustments in different countries.

#PfizerLeak
#Pfizer

These agreements are confidential, but luckily one country did not protect the contract document well enough, so I managed to get a hold of a copy.

As you are about to see, there is a good reason why Pfizer was fighting to hide the details of these contracts.
#PfizerLeak
#Pfizer

First, let's talk about the product:
The agreement not only covers manufacturing of vaccines for COVID19 and its mutations, but also for "any device, technology, or product used in the administration of or to enhance the use or effect of, such vaccine".

#PfizerLeak
#Pfize

If you were wondering why #Ivermectin was suppressed, well, it is because the agreement that countries had with Pfizer does not allow them to escape their contract, which states that even if a drug will be found to treat COVID19 the contract cannot be voided.

#PfizerLeak
#Pfizer

@nramind The @the_hindu has reputation? No. That's not true. Oh Wait I am not saying this, Denmark ambassador to india says this.

@the_hindu The reputation of The Hindu is good that they printed a MEME against UP CM Yogi Adityanath as a poster of BJP TamilNadu welcoming him.

@the_hindu The Hindu appointed Nita Ambani as a professor of BHU but sadly Nita Ambani was not like Nidhi to fall for it.
Reputation? 😂😂

@the_hindu Congratulations on getting Certified as Fake News spreader. That's some legacy 😂

@the_hindu @the_hindu turned a clash between BJP and RLD supporters to between BJP supporters and Farmer just to prove that BJP is against farmer.
Reputation? 🤔