This Expense Is Probably Burning a Big Hole in Your Budget… Worse, It’s Losing Value Every Day.

via MarkeWatch: A home isn’t guaranteed to appreciate but historically housing has beat the rate of inflation, it’s a form of forced savings, it’s the roof over your head, and it can provide some level of psychic income. Student loans can be taken to the extreme, but they generally offer the potential for higher earningsover the … Read more

Recession Fears Spike to 2011 High as Risk of Bubbles Spreads… Morgan Stanley: Bear Market Started In January 2018 – About To Get Worse

Recession Fears Spike To 2011 High As Risk Of Bubbles Spreads Recession fears are spreading among investors at a time when valuations across major assets are looking dangerously stretched following years of monetary stimulus, the latest Bank of America Corp. survey shows. About a third of asset managers polled believe a global recession is likely … Read more

Economy of the world as categorized by the World Bank

by BackRow1 Data was gathered from The World Bank here: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519 To visualise this I used: https://mapchart.net/world.html Info about this map: the * for country is due to The World Bank using the term country interchangeably with economy and does not imply political independence but refers to any territory for which authorities report separate social or economic … Read more

Hiring Growth Diverges From Retail Sales Growth

via upfina: For much of this expansion, the Fed has wanted inflation to increase as it would signal economic growth was strong. We can debate whether the economy needs to generate inflation to be strong, but we can’t debate that the Fed’s goal is 2% inflation; core (PCE) inflation has spent much of this cycle below … Read more

Top Cities Worldwide by number of Skyscrapers (≥150 m) and Decade of Completion

by LivinAWestLife Tool: Google Sheets Source: http://www.skyscrapercenter.com This is my first amateur post to r/dataisbeautiful! As a Hong Konger, I’ve always had a love for skyscrapers, and I was interested in the development of skyscrapers in various cities over time, especially in regards to economic growth patterns and geographical and demographical factors. The data is completely from http://www.skyscrapercenter.com, … Read more

Comparison of upcoming Space Internet Companies!

by Dash3Dot1 Sources: Starlink- https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/wiki/index http://systemarchitect.mit.edu/docs/delportillo19a.pdf http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts?q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number/%3D/SATLOA2016111500118&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number OneWeb- http://systemarchitect.mit.edu/docs/delportillo19a.pdf http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170824_oneweb_satellite_internet_project_status_update/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OneWeb/comments/axfo9j/faq/?st=jsw29003&sh=13efd348 http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts?q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number/%3D/SATLOI2016042800041&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number TeleSat- http://systemarchitect.mit.edu/docs/delportillo19a.pdf https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/110.nsf/vwapj/996_TelesatCanada_4a_EN_CA.pdf https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-r/oth/0a/0E/R0A0E0000B90001PDFE.pdf https://spacenews.com/telesat-says-ideal-leo-constellation-is-292-satellites-but-could-be-512/ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts?q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number/%3D/SATPDR2016111500108&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number Astrome- https://astrome.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Astrome-YellowPaper.pdf https://astrome.io/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-07-08-Astrome-ICO-Whitepaper.pdf ​ Tools Used: Inkscape 0.92.4

FITTON: BIG Question: Murder or Suicide? Judicial Watch pursuing answers on Epstein death.

by TFittonJW Judicial Watch prepared to push significant weight on this issue. Good summary piece by my JW colleague: https://www.judicialwatch.org/investigative-bulletin/murder-or-suicide-high-stakes-huge-challenges-in-epstein-investigation/ My take on Lou Dobbs last night: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6072100164001/?playlist\_id=933116636001#sp=show-clips  

Reddit is actively curating and removing Chinese Shenzhen content showing paramilitary vehicles preparing for Hong Kong incursion

by suckfail This started with a r/videos post which hit top 5 on r/all before being removed as political: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/cpiaq0/disturbing_video_taken_in_shenzhen_just_across/ After this a GIF was posted showing the same video. It too reached top 5 before being removed, this time saying it was a recent cross-post (from where? The removed videos one?): https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/cpj9g3/disturbing_video_taken_in_shenzhen_just_across/ In addition, if you browse to … Read more

The Average U.S. Farm Is $1,300,000 In Debt, And Now The Worst Farming Crisis In Modern History Is Upon Us

by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen anything like this since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Leading up to this year, farm incomes had been trending lower for most of the past decade, and meanwhile farm debt levels have been absolutely exploding.  So U.S. farmers were desperate for a really good year, but instead 2019 … Read more

Researchers Working on Pill for Loneliness… Condition worse than obesity

via nationalpost: The volunteers at the University of Chicago’s Brain Dynamics Laboratory, all otherwise young and healthy, were tied together by really only one thing: nearly off-the-chart scores on the most widely used scale measuring loneliness. Asked how often they felt they had no one they could turn to, how often they felt their relationships seemed … Read more

TRADE WAR: ‘Brutal consequences’: Ansell warns China over exodus of manufacturers. A massacre in Hong Kong will only make that worse.

via smh.com.au: Ansell chief executive Magnus Nicolin has warned China of “brutal” consequences as manufacturers leave the country over rising costs and fears at the escalation in trade war with Donald Trump. “So many manufacturers are moving out of China at breakneck speed. You don’t see it in the China-reported GDP growth numbers yet. I suspect … Read more

Brain-Dead Investors Get Crapped on Again by Argentina

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter They had it coming. The chase for yield in a central-bank manipulated low-interest-rate environment is very costly, as brain-dead buyers of Argentina’s dollar-denominated and euro-denominated bonds found out. These junk bonds were issued with great Wall-Street hype in 2016 and 2017, including inexplicably a 100-year bond, backed by a country that … Read more