SoftBank said Monday it will buy back as much as 200 billion yen ($1.87 billion) of its domestic unsecured corporate bonds. The move is part of SoftBank’s effort to reduce its debt, after the Japanese company reported a record annual loss in the last fiscal year ended March. On Monday, SoftBank also said it expects a gain of about 600 billion yen ($5.6 billion) in the current quarter through...
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I first stumbled upon the collective delusion we now refer to as QAnon in November 2017, just a few weeks after it began as a series of conspiratorial posts on one of the internet’s more untamed bulletin boards. In a sprawling discussion thread on 4chan titled “Calm Before the Storm”—a reference to a quote from the prior month by then-President Donald Trump—an...
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