Month: December 2019

Respondents all agreed that they were indeed being exploited, but in more ways than one. Desperate Americans are allowed to donate twice per week (104 times per year). But losing that much plasma could have serious health consequences, most of which have not been studied Professor Schaefer warns, stressing that more research is necessary. Around … Read more

via chicagobooth The next financial crisis will not come from the traditional banking sector. So goes conventional thinking among financial policy makers. The world’s biggest banks are now safer, according to the narrative, thanks to stricter capital requirements and frequent stress tests that have curbed the appetite for extreme risk and tightened up lax regulatory standards. … Read more

via wallstreetonparade: It’s becoming clear that the reason so many Americans have their pockets picked by Wall Street scam artists year after year is that mainstream media simply won’t put the dangers of dealing with the mega Wall Street banks on their front pages. Yesterday’s Senate Banking hearing is yet one more example of mainstream media … Read more

by Dropmeoffatschool Short shares, Long Calls, Short Puts Does it work? You short the shares because TVIX is the worst ETF of all time, buy OTM calls in case the VIX pops, but short OTM puts at the same time so that you don’t get murdered by the IV in the calls that make them so … Read more

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/10/saga-launches-sga-token-to-rival-facebooks-libra-cryptocurrency.html Saga is launching a virtual currency which pegs its value to the basket of currencies that form the IMF’s special drawing rights. The U.K.-based company’s advisory board includes the likes of Nobel laureate Myron Scholes and J.P. Morgan’s Jacob Frenkel. But the firm doesn’t plan to launch its token in the U.S. yet, claiming … Read more

The United States engaged in roughly $608 billion worth of research and development in 2018. That figure includes R&D by all entities in the US, from universities to private and public corporations. During the same year, corporations in the S&P 500 spent $806 billion buying back their own stock. In other words, the 500 largest … Read more

when does the market figure out that the rate cut party is over? pic.twitter.com/6QPOVKqaxM — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 11, 2019 rate cut party lifted #es_f for the entire yr — but now fed is on hold pic.twitter.com/uL8H7RAiNh — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 11, 2019

The Fed “loses credibility every time they highlight the PCE instead of any other inflation gauge such as the CPI and tells us that low inflation is a problem and they need to get it higher. Tell that to the person that is buying healthcare insurance and services ..” @pboockvar pic.twitter.com/J1L5cSHV9D — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) … Read more

".. the 60-year-old investor believes that the next crisis will be more severe than the subprime meltdown — and it will be in corporate credit, where companies are holding record levels of debt on their books. "You never have the same crisis twice," he said. https://t.co/eAb4SBxLLw — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) December 11, 2019 https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemen/status/1203169429602869249 https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemen/status/1201567567040647168 … Read more

Link to article in Rolling Stone. As a result, a “well-developed conspiracy” theory based on a report that Comey described as “salacious and unverified material that a responsible journalist wouldn’t report without corroborating,” became the driving news story in a superpower nation for two years. Even the New York Times, which published a lot of … Read more

In the video, an engineer explains how twitter shadow bans certain accounts. And how this is unethical and risky for the company. Imagine if the general population knew how compromised our social media is? https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1204820293254098944   AC

by AT I saw this today and thought it a helpful visual for reminding us, as individuals, which life threats to prioritize keeping our eyes on: via Gfycat    

by John W. Whitehead “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us … Read more

via washingtonexaminer: “The survey suggests that the Democratic drive to impeach the president on charges of abuse of power and obstruction hasn’t won over any new supporters despite two weeks of hearings and today’s announcement of articles of impeachment to be voted on as early as next week.” Plus: Rand Paul: More Democrats to oppose impeachment, rips … Read more

The Clint Eastwood Film ‘Richard Jewel’ is an Indictment of the Media, and They are not Happy About It. The real-life dramatization of the Atlanta Olympic bombing and the central figure in that investigation — security guard Richard Jewell — is being strategically released this weekend, primed for the upcoming motion picture awards season. Yesterday … Read more

We know which States will help her . pic.twitter.com/4gcHtCXoSX — JAB SLICK (@SlickJab) December 11, 2019 h/t SG