Dow Industrials on Pace to Notch Record High The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose a fourth straight session, pushing the blue-chip index above its record closing level in intraday trading Wednesday. The Dow industrials gained 92 points, or 0.3%, ahead …
via variety: It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Heading into the new year, box office analysts were bullish that 2019 would beat, or at least match, the record-breaking success of last season. Followups to “Avengers,” “Secret Life of Pets” and “Godzilla” combined …
by Cre8or_1 Here’s an example of when a hedge can be useful: You own a lot of SPY (S&P500 ETF) shares. Now you are afraid of a downturn, instead of selling now and rebuying your shares later (which costs you …
Do you think there will be increasing tensions between US and EU? It seems like conditions are only worsening. Don’t worry, just make sure the media continues to project everything will be alright and the fantasy will live on. …
by Jeff Thomas At the end of a long, tiring day, we may choose to treat ourselves to a soothing bubble bath. Surrounded by steaming water and a froth of sweet-smelling bubbles, it’s easy to forget the cares of everyday life. …
by Dr. Eowyn A year and nearly 2 months after former D-list Hollywood actress Meghan Markle’s wedding to Prince Harry, her honeymoon with both Harry and the British people appears to be over. On June 8, 2019, at Trooping the …
by David Haggith That didn’t take long. On Saturday, well before the US stock market opened post-China-trade-talks, I wrote: The next step for the market would likely be that the remaining stock indices that have not pushed past their own previous …
by visualcapitalist In the international finance system, U.S. debt can be bought and held by virtually anyone. In fact, if you hold a U.S. Treasury bond or a T-Bill in your portfolio right now, you are already a creditor to the …
by howmuch For this article, we look at the performance of the biggest unicorn IPOs as mentioned by a recent Business Insider article. By comparing the opening IPO price with the price listed on Yahoo Finance as of June 25, 2019, we see a …
by visualcapitalist Making progress towards ambitious and complex organizational objectives can be a tricky endeavor for even the most accomplished of teams. But if there was ever a surefire recipe to make this undertaking more difficult, it’d be embarking on these …
by thiagobc23 I made this analysis based on responses from last years Kaggle survey, I focused on the three countries with the highest amount of respondents. Here is the hosted notebook, feel free to check the full analysis or play around …
The bigger the rise, the harder the fall. https://t.co/SVEaRyv9tY — Nomi Prins (@nomiprins) July 1, 2019 This month marks the longest period of time the U.S. economy has gone without a recession, just edging past the economic cycle that ended …
by BBMR_95 Source: Our World in Data Tool: RStudio
By Patrick Watson Just as an army moves on its stomach, an economy moves on ships, trucks, and planes. They carry the goods whose purchase adds up to growth. Nowadays many goods are digital, delivered electronically. But we still need …
by Fabius Maximus Summary: An oddity of US political debates is that both Left and Right lie like rugs. See three fun but telling falsehoods from a comment yesterday. They express widely held beliefs about energy use in America. They hide …
by serkok Dozens of demonstrators broke through the glass of the Legislative Council (LegCo) building, while a large crowd observed the unrest from outside. Hundreds crowded the building’s lobby, spray-painting messages on the walls and waving to the crowd outside from …
by Ron Paul The mainstream media was too busy obsessing over Russiagate to notice that, according to an annual Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees report, the Social Security trust fund will run out of money by 2035. The trustees …
Third of Americans cut spending… A third of Americans say they’ve cut spending in the last year, and that percentage is about the same no matter the demographic, according to the Invest in You Spending Survey released on Monday. Reasons …
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton talks about how big of a role Hillary Clinton’s lawyer Heather Samuelson actually played in the entire Hillary Clinton email scandal.
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via @TaviCosta: All previous declines from cyclical highs led to recessions. Confidence leads the way. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. via @Not_Jim_Cramer: ISM New Orders – Inventory Spread leads the overall Composite by 3 to 6 months and …
by GopherFawkes The money you make earlier in life is more available than the money you will make later in life thanks to compounding interest. Here is a fun made up example of what I mean. You and I are …
by originalmuggins I had a theory last night about what might have gone down in the Trump-Xi meeting, from reading between the lines. When I cite a credible news source I put (FACT). The rest is conjecture. I think …
In 2007 a handful of people started to wake up. They realized that taking something out of thin air, assigning it the highest rating possible, and then leveraging it to the maximum was a bad idea. Well after the Financial …
by The18YONormie Let’s state two things first: More and more people are relying on headlines to get all the information. According to this Forbes Article “A recent study confirmed this phenomenon isn’t in our heads; in fact, 59 percent of all links shared …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxinVTODi60 via AP: The Latest on President Donald Trump’s visit to Asia (all times local): 7:15 p.m. President Donald Trump is on his way back to Washington after a four-day trip to Asia during which he became the first American …
by Dr. Eowyn Some folks in South Dakota, have their panties all twisted in a wad because of a parade float featuring two people wearing Obama and Hillary masks inside a cage, and the word “Guantanamo” spray-painted on a sign …
via nymag: Take the tragic tale of Oscar Ramirez and his young daughter Valeria, the father and daughter captured in death in that heartbreaking photograph. Ramirez’s widow explained to the Washington Post why her husband wanted to move to America: He …
Journalist Andy Ngo Milkshaked and Beaten Up at Portland Antifa Rally. Quillette editor Andy Ngo was beaten up and had milkshakes thrown at him by Antifa protestors during a rally in Portland. First skirmish I’ve seen. Didn’t see how this started, but @MrAndyNgo …
