Month: February 2023

“The percentage of total trading volume coming from retail investors was about 23% from January 25 to February 1…” https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/02/03/retail-trading-just-hit-an-all-time-high-heres-what-stocks-are-the-most-popular “Retail trading hit an all-time high this year, according to JPMorgan data, as non-institutional market participation enjoys a renaissance amid a favorable start to 2023 for equities, even surpassing 2021’s high-profile, meme-driven surge in day … Read more

#JOURNALISM: INDEFENSIBLE: If a book-length compilation of errors and dishonest coverage — printed in the Columbia Journalism Review, and written by a reporter with the credentials of Jeff Gerth — doesn’t get picked up by MSM at all, it’s proof they will never reform. https://t.co/ZBDchee5nm — Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 1, 2023 h/t Cellec

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a zero draft of its international pandemic treaty which will give the unelected global health agency new powers to “tackle” anything that it deems to be “false, misleading, misinformation or disinformation” if passed. The WHO has been pushing the treaty since December 2021 and those drafting the treaty … Read more

by Dismal-Jellyfish Good evening, jellyfish here! I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful rest of the evening and an awesome start of the weekend. I want to take a minute to discuss a graph I am sure is going to catch some folks attention: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESPPLLOPNWW For starters, the Fed is playing slight of hand here. … Read more

h/t  laflammaster

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-fed-dallas-idUSN2624719220070926 h/t laflammaster

These two key ingredients are what built modern society and allows all the soy boys to tweet about the “oppression of capitalism” on their smart phones. Oil well drilling looks crazy dangerous. Much respect the the guys doing to this. 🫡 🔊 pic.twitter.com/exba8AYlxF — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 3, 2023 Is there a job … Read more

Source:CNBC Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014 Amazon lost $2.7 billion last year, the company said on Thursday. This was despite holiday-season sales growing 9%. Amazon’s shares fell in after hours trading. By far, the biggest culprit for Amazon’s losses over the year was the company’s hefty investment in the electric automaker Rivian … Read more

Let’s face it, @kishida230, you’ve got a really good security arrangement with the United States, and you’ve had the luxury of not having that arrangement discussed or seriously questioned in Congress for a long time. That’s about to change. — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 2, 2023 Why would you rock the boat by throwing one … Read more

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/pdf/2023/2/3/Issuer-Failure-MMB6.pdf https://www.sifma.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/sifma-and-dtcc-white-paper-money-market-instruments-blue-sky-task-force-report.pdf Some recent headlines: HSBC 1/13/2023: Under pressure from his biggest shareholder, China’s Ping An Insurance Group, to improve profit, HSBC (HSBA.L) Chief Executive Noel Quinn has in recent months accelerated plans to shrink its global empire and streamline its management. Reuters reported HSBC is shedding at least 200 senior managers as it prunes the ranks … Read more

Why is it okay for an “AI” to criticize one race but not another? Why has this sentiment also been parroted non-stop for the past 7 years? Is it perhaps because such divisive rhetoric serves to disrupt the western nations who are getting more and more “diverse” by the day? Could diversity in fact not … Read more

REPORT: ISRAEL PUSHING US AND FRANCE TO JOIN THEM IN STRIKING IRAN IN AN EXTENSIVE AIR CAMPAIGN HITTING 3,000 TARGETS – RADIO FRANCE — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) February 3, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1621399361442693122 https://twitter.com/_/status/1621399364139630593 Hmmm:>Nothing happening in the Middle East>Suddenly the EU proposes labelling IRGC a terror group>Israel carries out a terror attack against Iran and fails>EU proposal … Read more

We now have a stock market that falls on strong jobs numbers and rallies on recession signs. How did we end up here? — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) February 3, 2023 https://twitter.com/WifeyAlpha/status/1621512136349589507 https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1621531710297964545

“ OTTAWA — The Liberal government bowed to immense public pressure Friday and scrapped controversial amendments to an existing gun bill that would have broadly expanded the list of banned guns in Canada. The surprise move sends the Liberals back to the drawing board when it comes to moving ahead with their pledge to enact … Read more

How much money does @pfizer pay @YouTube? pic.twitter.com/wRtr3x9g4S — Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) February 3, 2023 https://twitter.com/sandra51361809/status/1621587936629198853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw h/t MonkeyWrangler

Mar-A-Lago Raid Update: Fed’s caught retroactively reclassifying material Trump lawfully declassified as President in attempt to frame Trump, all the while knowing that Biden had been criminally selling top U.S. secrets for big bucks to foreign interests for decades. https://t.co/dm3IKtMRBj — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 3, 2023 Remember: Trump was not charged with possessing classified … Read more

The Fed holds interest rates to be its primary control valve, with lower ones providing a stimulus to the GDP and higher ones a brake. Self-evidently, therefore, interest rates below the inflation level are a stimulus because they amount to economic subsidization of debt, and the spending or investment which results. Still, even the primitive … Read more

https://twitter.com/StarkNakedBrief/status/1621412932331388928 h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal

via legalinsurrection: Massachusetts bill HD.3822 sets up a program allowing prisoners to cut down their sentence if they donate organs. I’m not kidding: Section 170. (a) The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections shall establish a Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Program within the Department of Correction and a Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Committee. The … Read more

Tucker Carlson starting his show off with a FLAMETHROWER: 🔥🔥 "Ashley Biden wrote in her diary that her father Joe used to force her to shower with him and she attributed her later sexual compulsions to showers with her father." That seems like clear evidence of abuse…" pic.twitter.com/ONE8Q0BD0N — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 3, 2023 … Read more