Month: March 2021

https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1367816412748640256 OOPS! US yield curve keeps steepening. US 2s/10s yield spread now at the highest level since 2015. pic.twitter.com/utdLS50cBx — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March 5, 2021 https://twitter.com/Hipster_Trader/status/1367532876191981577 Fed Chair Jay Powell didn't say last week's move in U.S. yields was disorderly, signaling that the central bank didn't intend to take additional measures to suppress the … Read more

China wants to seize the country of Taiwan for several reasons, including control of the first island Chain for force projection into the Pacific Ocean, and the Chinese realize that about 70% of the world’s semiconductors transit through Taiwan. China has constantly tried to advance their own semiconductors over the years to rival Taiwan’s but … Read more

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1367230013024702470     h/t Tess

The way this thing handles the lighting and the hair is ridiculously impressive. https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1365114676846100480   BFD

After February unleashed far-reaching brutal winter weather conditions across the United States, a relative period of calm weather has settled in for the start of March. National radar maps showed virtually no precipitation across the Lower 48 states on Wednesday, which is just about as quiet as it gets for the month. With a few exceptions — … Read more

The Colorado Senate President Pro Tempore, Kerry Donovan, is the prime sponsor of SB21-132, Digital Communications Regulation, which if passed, would fine websites $5,000 per day as a class 2 misdemeanor if they “allow” user comments that: “…promote hate speech; undermine election integrity; disseminate intentional disinformation, conspiracy theories, or fake news; or authorize, encourage, or … Read more

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Life expectancy had been steadily decreasing since it reached its record peak of 78.9 in 2014, in large part due to increased drug overdose deaths, unhealthy lifestyles and suicides in the country. The CDC noted a decrease in drug overdose deaths in 2018, contributing to a higher life expectancy. Other factors include a 2.2 percent … Read more

Longest surge in food prices since 2008 hits poorest nations mosthttps://t.co/dxuxIlsESs via @megandurisin @AggieDeSousa pic.twitter.com/JY30k6hWk6 — Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) March 4, 2021 Wanna know why governments and central banks are fighting deflation so hard? Because once you get into a deflationary spiral it could take decades to get out of them. — The Macro Pulse … Read more

Max margin debt, extreme low cash levels, no short sellers except bonds and Vix.. there will be no "correction" only financial hell. — Brando (@JungerCommando) March 3, 2021 https://twitter.com/vixsquared/status/1367242794062938114 https://twitter.com/vixsquared/status/1367242115864924160 JP Morgan Is Trying To Offload "Big Blocks" Of Corporate Manhattan Real Estate https://t.co/sVxCnf41Z7 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 4, 2021 The most reliable gains tend … Read more

Looks like the Government bans on Chinese Tech will continue! Very good sign for the future of the Drone industry for US based companies considering how DJI dominated for years and many of those fleets have already been grounded and will have to be replaced. Should produce some pretty rapid growth! Anyone who is not … Read more

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/hertz-the-original-meme-stock-is-turning-out-to-be-worthless TL;DR: Hertz is probably the original meme-stock from last year. Hertz declared bankruptcy, and then for some reason, memers decided to buy the company anyway. Hertz jumped on the opportunity, issuing a secondary offering and raising $29 million before the SEC jumped in and declared the whole mess to be a bad idea. As … Read more