Beating the Matrix w/ Rumble, Elon Buys Twitter, and Kim K. settles w/ SEC on Crypto Scam

US NEWS: US national debt surpasses $31 trillion for the first time ever. Twitter confirms they received Elon Musk's $44 billion offer and intends to close the acquisition deal at $54.20 per share. However according to a Reddit thread, Musk’s recent phone records reportedly reveal that the billionaire had been discussing moving Twitter to the blockchain, eliminating all bots, and charging 0.1 DOGE to tweet or retweet. The plan was later deemed infeasible. Amazon, $AMZN freezes corporate hiring until year's end, NYT reports. New York FED President John Williams says inflation will likely come down to 3% by next year. Yet the United Nations says the FED and other central banks risk pushing the global economy into recession if they keep raising interest rates.

CRYPTO NEWS: Coinbase announces a documentary about its company and #cryptocurrency releasing next Friday on Amazon, iTunes and YouTube. Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that she promoted a cryptocurrency on Instagram without disclosing she’d been paid $250,000 to do so. The SEC said Monday that the reality TV star and entrepreneur has agreed to cooperate with its ongoing investigation. The SEC said Kardashian failed to disclose that she was paid to publish a post on her Instagram account about EMAX tokens, a crypto asset security being offered by EthereumMax.