The Amazon Era: No Profits, No Problem There is a new calculus in corporate boardrooms. Profits are so yesterday. Now it’s all about vision and great storytelling. Blame Amazon.com. The online behemoth cracked the code. Despite posting just a handful of profitable quarters in its two-decade history, it’s the fourth-largest public company at almost $470 billion … Read more
Looks like another person coming forward sharing this can’t be what we are being told. This one will be someone people pay a bit of attention to given his clout. “Not until we have done all the research necessary…” This is the reality of our current time, and the reason why so many in our world … Read more
Update with @OPCW confirmation that the UNDSS reconnaissance team “came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated.” Update with @OPCW confirmation that the UNDSS reconnaissance team "came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated." https://t.co/YHHK3Cctwp — Steve Herman (@W7VOA) April 18, 2018 BREAKING: OPCW head says @UN security team shot at … Read more
by stockboardasset Last week, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) assembled all of its most advanced warships, aircraft, and nuclear submarines for a massive show of force in the South China Sea. We explained, how the 3-day war drill from April 10 through 13 would be held in the waters south of China’s Hainan Island. Asia Times estimates some … Read more
by InTheEndThereWasPie I love the car buying process. It’s fun, I take my time, test drive cars, find what I like and try to find a good deal on a 2-4 year old car. Car salesmen are not the ones you need to fear. Many of them are great, and work long hard honest hours … Read more
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https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/986585336812843008 The Treasury market continues to ignore the rising federal deficit. https://t.co/v7hFdTrxuh via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/MiHextxHdN — Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) April 13, 2018 World Debt Hits Record $164 Trillion Bloomberg–16 minutes ago High levels of sovereign debt could make it difficult for governments to refinance when their debt reaches maturity, especially if financing conditions tighten, the IMF said. Large debts … Read more
by Fine_Bovine I’ve been in spiraling debt for the last three years. I moved to a new city where the cost of living was much higher than I’d ever experienced. I worked less after this initial move, draining my savings and maxing out credit cards. When I took a full-time job, the pay was … Read more
Why is ATL Fed GDPNow 1Q18 est. Crashing? pic.twitter.com/bFVNyUeCZe — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 18, 2018 “The last thing I want to see is growth in credit card, student and auto lending at too rapid a rate if we are heading towards the end of the [economic] cycle” https://t.co/2s55ly9Ew6 pic.twitter.com/Dm3P0LJPKR — Trevor Noren (@trevornoren) April 18, … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Boston University’s Professor Laurence Kotlikoff returns… There’s a retirement crisis that’s about to hit the country. Whether you’re a retired/retiring government worker, a social security recipient or perhaps a millennial who’s expected to pay for it all, it cannot be escaped. Right now, we’re content to kick the can down the road, but the … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Daniel Greenfield returns… In the middle of March, The Guardian, a British lefty tabloid, rolled out a fake scandal that has dominated the media. Its original article claimed that Christopher Wylie, a “whistleblower”, had revealed how Cambridge Analytica, the company he had worked for, had helped Trump win by illegitimately harvesting large amounts … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6LlLOMYGA Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, Earlier, Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) announced he would be leading a Special Order on the House Floor Monday night detailing a case for a second Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate Obama’s FISA abuse. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/w… Feds: Comey & Lynch Colluded with Clinton Campaign to … Read more
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by howmuch The U.S. is home to more billionaires than any other country in the world, but you might be surprised to learn that there are 7 states that haven’t produced a single billionaire. In fact, ranking the richest people of all time from every state reveals extremely wide differences in wealth. How do you figure out … Read more
by John Rubino Silver’s popping today. Which is what people following the futures market action have been expecting for several months now. Speculators – usually wrong at big turning points and almost always at least slightly net long silver – have suddenly gone net short. This is almost unprecedented, and implies that a short squeeze … Read more
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They’re the Californians who will lose a collective $12 billion because the new law caps a deduction they have been able to take for paying their state and local taxes, according to a new analysis by the Franchise Tax Board. Very wealthy Californians earning more than $1 million a year will pay the lion’s share … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Self-destruction isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of our socio-economic system. The gravitational pull of self-destructive behaviors, choices and incentives is scale-invariant, meaning that we can discern the strange attraction to self-destruction in the entire scale of human experience, from individuals to families to groups to entire societies. The proliferation of self-destructive … Read more
Again the only one in the MM asking the right questions like what’s the real interest with Syria, and why are so many in congress pushing for a war with Russia. https://youtu.be/tD7gtw-VQEM A few things people on both sides of this argument need to understand- Russia and China are the last two world power that … Read more
The pharmaceutical companies have bribed so many doctors, so many journal editors, that medical articles can no longer be trusted. American medicine has become completely corrupted. The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so much. Human perception is often flawed, so the premise of EBM is to formally study … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “I wish I’d torn that ticket up.” Wolf here: The other day, I wrote about the $73 billion in Voluntary Taxes that Consumers Pay Eagerly and with Great Excitement. That $73 billion were the lottery revenues in 2016, according to the Census Bureau, up 9% from a year earlier. States, which run … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The Fed’s efforts to raise interest rates across the spectrum have borne fruit only in limited fashion. In the Treasury market, yields of longer-dated securities have not risen as sharply (prices fall when yields rise) as they have with Treasuries of shorter maturities. The two-year yield has surged to 2.41% on … Read more
This interview from 5 years ago is repeating everything going on now almost to a T. “Why doesn’t the US wait for the chemical inspection teams before going in?” This is amazing. Then Ken O’Keefe explains why. h/t Digglord
by FS According to the Game Plan for Late-Cycle Investing, as the economy moves towards its latter stages, commodities tend to outperform equities and other asset classes. Frank Barbera—market technician, portfolio manager, and editor of the Gold Stock Technician newsletter—believes we’re likely in that process right now and recently discussed his outlook on the stock market, … Read more
