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China Launches Live-Fire Exercise Designed For Taiwan Invasion

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by stockboardasset China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has launched a six-day, live-fire military exercise in the East China Sea in a region that simulates an invasion of Taiwan, a move military strategist believe will send a powerful message to the United States over relations with Taipei. Geopolitical intelligence analysts told the South China Morning Post that the exercise is part … Read more

The End Is Near For The Economic Boom

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via Geoff Colvin THE OPTIMISM IS BEAMING like the summer sun. America’s big-company CEOs are bursting with confidence, in June expecting to take in even more revenue and make bigger investments than they foresaw in March, when they were more confident than ever before in the 15 years the Business Roundtable has been surveying them. CFOs are … Read more

Tariffs Already Hurting Many Americans

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by Stucky, TBP I was going to make this a QOTD Part 2: Tariffs.   In the original QOTD on tariffs I pretended that I knew absolutely nothing at all about such things and could you please help me out cuz, you know, you guys are much smarter than me.   Well, about half of you, … Read more

Nearly 40 Million Americans Are Still On Food Stamps

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by Michael Snyder If the U.S. economy is “doing well”, then why are almost 40 million Americans still on food stamps?  That number is almost exactly where it was at the end of the last recession, and supposedly we have made so much progress since that time.  Of course any progress that has been made … Read more

Zuckerberg’s sales of FB stock since 2016

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by mdcd4u2c I kept seeing Facebook pop on lists of top insider sales week after week and got curious so I did some digging and I’m sharing here. This is just all of Zuckerberg’s insider transactions (they were all sales) since the beginning of 2016. In reality, the dataset goes back to 2012, but he … Read more

$MSFT Earnings

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/18/microsoft-earnings-q4-2018.html Some points (paraphrased from article): Earnings of $1.13 per share, vs. 1.08 cents per share expected Revenue: $30.09 billion vs. $29.21 billion expected; grew 17% Commercial cloud revenue growth slowed 5%, from up 58% previously to up 53% this quarter (analyst estimates were 46% however) Graph of y/y growth of various products/services     … Read more

Sen. Rand Paul: “Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Officially Come to the Senate”… Adam Schiff: “SUBPOENA THE INTERPRETER!”

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Adam Schiff Experiences Trump Derangement Syndrome Over Putin Meeting “SUBPOENA THE INTERPRETER!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzY7vfp4Co Today Just In His Own Style Adam Schiff Tries To Get House Intelligence Committee To Vote On Subpoena For President Trump’s Interpreter While He Was Talking To Putin LINK TO FINAL VOTE! DEMOCRATS LOSE!! 11-6 https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018… Trump russia stories are popping up … Read more

The Real Deal On Broker Stocks

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by Dana Lyons Battered broker-dealer stocks are testing a potentially key line of support. Entering 2018, one of the hottest – and one of our favorite – industries was the broker-dealer space. That mantle of relative strength was further reinforced by the group’s resilience in the post-January correction. In fact, the group, as measured by the … Read more

MONEY ISN’T EVERYTHING, BUT: RNC raises $213 million ‘fastest ever,’ 99% small donors, to spend $250 million in 2018.

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Money isn’t everything, but the best case scenario of 99% small donations would be huge, because of the willpower that would represent, and because of the shift in the balance of power toward the base and away from big donors who are socially liberal and opposed to the vital interests of the Trump Republican base. … Read more