Digital life is cluttered with bogus text messages, spam calls and phishing attempts. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed. By Steven Kurutz April 21, 2024

You open your eyes and grope for your phone. You check your inbox and discover dozens of spam emails that made it past the filter.

Tapping over to Instagram, you find a request for a supposed brand collaboration in your DMs. Your WhatsApp notifications, meanwhile, consist solely of strangers asking you to invest in a cryptocurrency exchange.

Due to circumstances beyond our control we are forced to move the networking Luncheon Alliance for May 1st to Lucky Baldwin's Trappiste Pub.

Lucky Baldwin's is closing the restaurant for our event. 

You will order off the menu. Cost to attend is $10 at the door (cash or credit card). 

YOU MUST RSVP. 

Lucky Baldwin's Trappiste Pub is at 1770 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. There is parking behind the restaurant and on the street. 

We will credit everyone who already paid for May for a future Luncheon Alliance.

From the Financial Times-US to grow at double the rate of G7 peers this year, says IMF. The US is on track to grow at double the rate of any other G7 country this year, according to IMF forecasts, as the strength of the world’s biggest economy rocks global markets.

Fund also upgrades inflation forecasts as strong demand and tight labour market delay possible Fed rate cuts

IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said US rate cuts could be delayed until after November’s presidential election if inflation overshot expectations 

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My name is Azita Milanian, Executive Director and Founder of Children of One Planet.