Lyft v Uber in Numbers

by shane_stockflare   Here are the figures for Lyft including the forecasts from analysts (who weren’t on the deal). 2016A 2017A 2018A 2019E 2020E 2021E 2022E 2023E Bookings $1.9bn $4.6bn $8.1bn n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Sales $0.3bn $1.1bn $2.2bn $3.4bn $4.6bn $5.4bn $6.0bn $7.4bn EBITDA -$0.7bn -$0.7bn -$0.9bn -$1.1bn -$1.0bn -$0.8bn -$0.2bn +$0.4bn EPS n/a n/a … Read more

Trump Signs Ambitious EMP Preparedness Executive Order

by Daisy Luther After years of the government blowing off concerns about an electromagnetic pulse, President Trump has signed an executive order that will put EMP preparedness in the hands of the White House. What’s in the executive order? The Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses is a first step toward learning more about … Read more

Californians react with derision to presidential aspirant Eric ‘we’ll nuke you’ Swalwell and impeach Trump plan

by Dr. Eowyn Rep. Eric Swalwell, 38, is a California Demonrat who represents the 15th congressional district in the San Francisco Bay Area. On April 8, 2019, Swalwell joined the growing list of hate-America freaks and communists who’ve announced their candidacy for the 2020 Demonrat presidential nomination. Swalwell fittingly chose as the venue to make his announcement, … Read more

Wow! Psycho market builds up a near record short $VIX position in about 3 months when the previous record took 1.5 YEARS to reach the same level.

Wow! Psycho market builds up a near record short $VIX position in about 3 months when the previous record took 1.5 YEARS to reach the same level. What could go wrong? https://t.co/ff7lM9CLYK — Premature Accumulation Pajama Investooor (@MoMoBagholder) April 13, 2019 For a short squeeze on $VX to materialize, a strong form of convexity is … Read more

FAR-LEFTIST Has Hilarious Meltdown Over Trump, Peddles Excuse For Acting Like ‘Spoiled Brat’

I Love My Freedom reports, Hollywood actress and far-left activist Chelsea Handler suffered a total meltdown on Tuesday over President Donald Trump and his election victory in 2016. While appearing on ABC’s “The View,” Handler claimed that her “white privilege” drove her to behave like a “spoiled brat” after Trump’s election victory over Hillary Clinton. … Read more

Ted Cruz Gives HARSH Warning To Tech Giants Censoring Conservative Ideas

Jim Hoft from The GAteway Pundit reports, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) threatened to regulate far left social media giants Facebook, Twitter as well as Google on Wednesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7E-MhFDfZw Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/senator-ted-cruz-threatens-to-regulate-google-facebook-and-twitter-over-anti-conservative-bias-video/    

The Markets Just Dodged a Bullet, but for How Long?

by FS https://static.financialsense.com/audio/2019-04/fsn2019-0412-dodgedbullet-5fdabf173.mp3 Apr 12 – There is a lot of bullishness now that the markets came roaring back this year. Several of the issues that threatened to cause major damage to the economy receded. This leaves only the trade war with China…or does it? On the Big Picture, Jim Puplava and Chris Preitauer discuss … Read more

Doug Casey: Orwell’s Worst Nightmare Is Coming True

via caseyresearch: Justin’s note: Stop saying offensive words. That’s what the Associated Press (AP), the world’s largest news agency, is telling reporters. The AP puts out a stylebook every year that includes universal guidelines for stylistic matters like punctuation, capitalization, and even word choice. In a recent version, it encouraged writers to not use words such as “pro-life,” “migrant,” … Read more

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: The Liberal Media ‘Matrix:’ Covington, Smollett, Mueller, Avenatti and other adventures in unreality.

via freebeacon: I used to laugh every time I heard someone like Elon Musk say that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation. These days, not so much. Don’t call the funny farm just yet. On the major question of the nature of sense experience, I remain with Aristotle and against Bishop Berkeley. Matter is real. … Read more

NY Lawmakers Show They Care More About Illegal Immigrants Than Gold Star Families

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa-4QPAOiA8 NY Lawmakers Show They Care More About Illegal Immigrants Than Gold Star Families Just one week after the passage of a bill which would set aside $27 million dollars annually to support tuition aid for illegal immigrants, New York lawmakers have voted to hold a bill which would provide similar financial supports to a … Read more

Rand Paul floats immunity for Julian Assange as senators seek answers in Russia probe: Report

Julian Assange should be let off the hook for releasing stolen material through his WikiLeaks website if he agrees to testify in person before lawmakers investigating his publication of Democratic Partydocuments, Sen. Rand Paul said in an interview published Wednesday. “I think that he should be given immunity from prosecution in exchange for coming to the United … Read more

Julian Vs. Zuckerberg

by Chris Trump is dead wrong on not pardoning or otherwise absolving Assange, but it’s worth remembering that Julian became a target under Obama. The true crime?  Embarassing the power eloites in DC by exposing war crimes (and then later CIA/NSA misdeeds). As a reminder, just this week it was aqlso revealed, with something of … Read more

Big Banks Still Reaping Profits from ‘Astounding’ Legal Violations

via Danielle Park: Better Markets (BM) describes itself as a “non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization founded in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to promote the public interest in the financial markets, support the financial reform of Wall Street and make our financial system work for all Americans again”. Eleven years in, BM continues to … Read more

SB-978 Gun Control Bill So Hysterically Restrictive That PEPPER SPRAY IS A FELONY

by Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper A new gun control bill introduced in the Oregon State Legislature added 45 pages of draconian amendments the night before the vote. SB978 passed the Judiciary Committee yesterday and now heads to the Oregon Senate. It’s a good thing that some parts of this state have vowed to be 2A sanctuaries because Oregonians are going … Read more

The Democrats can own US politics. This might sink them.

by Fabius Maximus Summary: The Democrats have a potentially winning game. But economics are trump in politics, just as in almost everything else. Past spending sins might crash their parade.   The Democratic Party’s leaders probably believe they have a winning strategy. Open the borders, offer increased welfare, reparations to Blanks (and then perhaps other formerly … Read more

How do they measure up against the most splendid housing bubbles in the USA? Oops!

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter In Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada, house prices fell 0.5% in March from February, the eighth month in a row of declines, according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index released this morning. It was the sharpest eight-month decline since February 2013. The index is now down 4.3% from the peak in July 2018. … Read more