Grassley – calls for Biden Inquiry. Invokes Uranium One. BIDEN OUT?

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3023025/senator-wants-inquiry-whether-conflict-interest-led-us Senator wants inquiry into whether ‘conflict of interest’ led to US approval of deal involving Chinese state company and Joe Biden’s son interesting source – link not great. Hunter is a liability, not that it matters. Joe Biden is …

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FITTON:BIG News you won’t read in New York Times: FBI/DOJ Docs show Clinton operative Nellie Ohr may as well had a desk at Obama DoJ to conduct her anti-Trump operation.

by TFittonJW Real news: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-doj-docs-show-nellie-ohr-sent-doj-anti-trump-russia-dossier-materials-through-her-husband-bruce-ohr/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-email-exchanges-of-russian-related-material-between-nellie-ohr-and-doj-top-official-lisa-holtyn-during-the-time-ohr-worked-at-fusion-gps/

HMM: In blue Seattle, Trump supporters are starting to come out of hiding… California: ‘resistance’ state has donated more to Trump than to most Democrats in 2020 race

via seattletimes: The latest federal-election reports show that Trump is doing surprisingly well getting backers in this bluest of blue places. With nearly 15 months to go before the 2020 election, he already has drawn more donations from Seattle addresses than …

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Warren Buffett comments on GE’s accounting and debt, and explains why Berkshire Hathaway sold all its GE stock

by nooorol YouTube video of Buffett talking about GE’s problems: The Markopolos report is essentially quantifying these problems and showing that they are far more serious than previously believed Read the report here: http://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorialfiles/2019/8/15/2019_08_15_GE_Whistleblower_Report.pdf Be careful, everyone  

Inverted Yield Curve Triggers Recession Warnings

From Birch Gold Group On the morning of August 14, the yield curve between 2-year and 10-year treasuries inverted. The Fed swept this type of curve “under the rug” last year in favor of a version that examines shorter-term treasuries. Oddly enough, even the shorter-term version that …

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Which Countries Have the Most Wealth Per Capita?

by visualcapitalist Our animated chart this week uses data from the ninth Credit Suisse Global Wealth report, which ranks countries by average wealth, calculated as gross assets per adult citizen. While using such a metric certainly gives a quick snapshot of wealth …

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Google trends forecasting

by kyrychenko17roman Created using VAR model from vars R-package and ggplot2. You can find approach description here – http://randomforest.run/posts/var-time-series-analysis-using-r/ Data collected using trendyy package from Goggle trends.

Median home price in America’s most expensive and least expensive metro area, 1991-2019

by academiaadvice Source: NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index | https://www.nahb.org/research/housing-economics/housing-indexes/housing-opportunity-index.aspx | Adjusted for inflation using CPI-U: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/consumer-price-index-and-annual-percent-changes-from-1913-to-2008/ | Tools: Excel; Datawrapper