via @gwestr: Today over 1 million shares of $ZOOM, an OTC BB stock, traded up 10% because Robinhood users thought it was the $16B IPO for $ZM. Don’t worry robbin’ hood will give you your money back if you file a support ticket. @RampCapitalLLC @AdamSinger
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Greece’s parliament on Wednesday began debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations. The issue has long been disputed by Berlin. ‘These demands are always active. They were never set aside by Greece,’ parliament chairman Nikos Voutsis said earlier this week. The chamber is expected to approve a resolution calling … Read more
by purple99x Nasdaq is an actual marketplace/exchange. It is like the New York Stock Exchange. S&P500 is a group of 500 mostly large company stocks from the NYSE and Nasdaq. It just tracks price changes for that basket of stocks. Dow Jones is a group of 30 mostly large company stocks from the NYSE and … Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/sears-sues-eddie-lampert-steven-mnuchin-others-for-alleged-thefts.html Sears accuses its former CEO Eddie Lampert of stealing billions of dollars from the once-storied retailer. Sears Holdings filed for bankruptcy in October, after years of losses under Lampert, who was then its chairman, CEO and largest shareholder. “Altogether, Lampert caused more than $2 billion of assets to be transferred to himself and Sears’ … Read more
via @OccupyWisdom : 1/ Post 2008 risk for all monetary minded people A) we are in a 10-yr depression, although it’s been called an expansion After the recession technically ended in summer 2009, we’ve averaged 2% “growth” for 10 years. This is 1% below trend growth of 3%. Long term below trend 2/ growth is the definition … Read more
$SKEW vs $VIX – anyone remember sept? pic.twitter.com/gAlq9P87m7 — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 18, 2019 $NASI is rolling over AND AAII sentiment at levels of Sept Highs pic.twitter.com/LbSnQKdR51 — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 18, 2019 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1119118568837091328 https://twitter.com/Simple_Trends/status/1119040341011836928
See one of many articles below for details. I don’t plan to sign up since I’m happy with my current accounts, but 4% APY is definitely eye popping. https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/18/t-mobile-money-nationwide-rollout/ AC
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1118937388942790657 https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1118931703769202690 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1118889202287038465 https://twitter.com/GreekFire23/status/1118930774324072453 https://twitter.com/lost3bitchesss/status/1118912459581079554
by kit8642 It’s kind of f*cked up Sanders has to go to Fox fucking News to get a fair shake at a Town Hall…. Dude went on CNN and they have DNC shills waiting with questions. FYI, the conspiracy is CNN being the DNC’s bitch and trying to fuck over sanders… Seriously, what world do … Read more
'It's certainly on the table. I think it’s something that can be discussed,” – New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says cutting military and economic aid to Israel would be a good way to aid Israel opposition against newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pic.twitter.com/QRyQVuEDc4 — RT (@RT_com) April 19, 2019
by Jesse Colombo In the financial world, those who subscribe to the contrarian school of thought (including myself) keep an eye out for certain cues or indications that a trend has become overcrowded and is nearing its end. Some examples of these contrarian indicators are investor sentiment indexes, fear gauges such as the CBOE Volatility Index or VIX, the … Read more
by Lance Roberts Just recently, David Robertson ran an article discussing the deviation which has grown between “fantasy” and “reality” in the investing markets. “The phenomenon of extreme differences is also increasingly appearing in financial numbers, which are the life blood of markets. Andrew Smithers conducted research on the usefulness of accounting numbers and his work was summarized by Jonathan Ford. … Read more
The redacted report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller was released Thursday, and you might as well call it the “Sour Grapes We Didn’t Get Trump” report. There was no collusion and no obstruction but a lot of dirt throwing and whining by the partisan prosecutors who wrote the report. Trump is attacked in this report … Read more
by axolotl_peyotl This excellent article strikes at the heart of the dysfunction on the world stage today, and it’s centered around the rogue military industrial complex that has seized control of the US war machine. Since World War II, a period some describe as a “a period of unprecedented peace,” the US war machine has wiped … Read more
The Obama admin abused the NSA to SPY on his political adversary. This FACT comes to light more every day. This is the consequence of allowing the fedgov to SPY on us all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m1XbWOfVk&t=188&app=desktop Nunes: Obama Made HUNDREDS Of ‘Unmasking’ Requests – Including Trump Officials President Barack Obama’s Administration made hundreds of requests during the November campaign … Read more
by John Ward Yet more evidence is emerging to confirm a growing belief among thinking Brits: that both major Parties will do anything – sign away sovereignty, restrict democracy, lie incessantly and connive with malign Superstate interests – to gain power for themselves. An overly broad grant of political power is the antithesis of free speech. … Read more
Devin Nunes: We learned from the Mueller Report that. they did in fact use the fake russian dossier to write the Investigation Scope for Mueller Very Important detail! It proves the entire Mueller Investigation was created by a total fraud! It also Proves that Rosenstein set the entire fraud up. NBC saying the “evidence against … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Judge John H. Wilson, first time guest, tells us that After almost two years of investigation, the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller concerning whether the President and his campaign staff colluded with Russian agents during the 2016 election was finally provided to the US Attorney General’s Office late in March. The … Read more
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Germany to Decide if It Can Nationalize Private Property. The difference between National Socialism (NS/NAZI) and International Socialism (INS) exactly are five letters and their definition according to that they do is pretty the same. But don´t worry about international investors. They got the real estate really cheap along with some gifts … Read more
by Martin Armstrong The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, is objecting to France’s desired changes to the EU budget. France wants aid with the inclusion of the objective to “stabilize” the economies within the Eurozone, whereby the Netherlands wants all funding to be limited to furthering “competitiveness and convergence.” The Netherlands contributes the most to … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Hello Martin, [Analyst} recently …. raise[d] the alarm that the US is headed towards a very bad debt crisis. During an interesting part of the segment, he was asked if the rich should pay higher taxes, and he said “of course”, but he clarifies that what really matters is whether the tax … Read more
By Jared Dillian Portfolio strategies like Modern Portfolio Theory and others tend to assume that market returns follow a normal distribution. Not really. Certain securities have high kurtosis. That is where out-of-the ordinary returns (larger or smaller) occur more frequently than the normal distribution predicts. Of course, nobody who is stable and balanced puts 100% of their assets … Read more