Amazon reveals a new plan to deliver more packages: Recruit people to run small-scale delivery services

by EquityTom Watch out FedEx, UPS, DHL and the U.S. Postal Service: Amazon is building its own last-mile delivery service. The e-commerce behemoth announced on Thursday its new Delivery Service Partners program — designed to let entrepreneurs run their own local delivery networks of up to 40 vans emblazoned with Prime logos. Each delivery unit will start their day … Read more

Chicago Bar Bans Make America Great Again Hats To Maintain Classy Environment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-hqF8lLXxE Ryan Saavedra for the Daily Wire reports, A Chicago bar notified people who follow them on Facebook over the weekend that they decided to implement a ban on “Make America Great Again” hats in order to maintain a “classy environment.” Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/32315/…

The Asch Experiment: The concept of persons wanting to conform to the majority opinion of the group (even if the opinion is clearly wrong) . This is part of what leads to wrong buying / selling decisions

During the 1950s Solomon Asch conducted and published a series of experiments that demonstrated the degree to which an individual’s own opinions are influenced by those of a majority group. Demonstrating how a “normal” human being can be pressured into unusual behavior by people they deem as authority figures, or by the consensus of opinion … Read more

What is a recession like?

by Zen ‘m 50, so I’ve lived through several. During the recession (s) in the early 1980’s I was a kid, and my father was in the military, so it didn’t affect us much. The peak unemployment rate in the 1981-1982 recession was actually slightly higher in most states than it was in the 2008 … Read more

Panic Is Everywhere!

In all regions of the world, panic selling equities has started. Libor continues to soar as EU & US Banks are now puking! pic.twitter.com/ayzm0Hbtlg — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 27, 2018 https://twitter.com/Bamabroker/status/1011934863086284801 World Trade Volume Starts To Weaken. This Is A Warning! pic.twitter.com/00geh0VFtg — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 27, 2018  

Student Loan Debt is Getting Ugly

via fee.org: n May 31, 2018, the total public debt outstanding of the U.S. government stood at $21.145 trillion dollars. Of that amount, $1.211 trillion was borrowed so that Uncle Sam could be in the business of making student loans. Over $1 trillion of that subtotal was borrowed after President Obama took over the student loan industry on March … Read more