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Barclays economist Michael Gapen discusses the impact workers calling in sick is having on the economy rebounding.
Our Head of Global Research, Murray Gunn highlights an interesting development in the banking sector that might mean the Fed doesn’t get what it wants.
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by negovany According to Morningstar research in the middle of 2019 almost half of all US stocks were part of some passive index fund. This number almost doubled since 2009. In the meantime, active management is on a steady decline, especially active managed funds. Around the same time Dr. Michael Burry compared index funds to … Read more
by dukey So the UK is back in full lockdown, really in the same place as March of last year. I made an info graphic to display the absurdity of this situation. The more times you go around the more jobs are destroyed and the more rights are lost forever.
As many Massachusetts residents worry about where they’ll find their next paycheck or meal amid mass unemployment during the pandemic, Beacon Hill officials are welcoming the new year with a fat raise. The state’s 200 senators and representatives are each in line for a $4,280 bump in their base salaries — their third raise in … Read more
Indeed, scientists have recently discovered that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can actually pose more serious threats to your wellbeing than previously thought—even if you’ve never used them. In particular, the bits and pieces of information your friends, family and acquaintances share about you on social media, could equip AI-based algorithms or bots to … Read more
The prayer to open the 117th Congress ended with "amen and a-women." Amen is Latin for "so be it." It's not a gendered word. Unfortunately, facts are irrelevant to progressives. Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/FvZ0lLMDDr — Guy Reschenthaler (@GReschenthaler) January 3, 2021 Democrats propose ban on ‘he’ and ‘she’ and all gender-specific words in new rules for Congress … Read more
There were six people in a house in Gatineau, Canada. A neighbour snitched. Police went in, Gestapo style. Assaulting citizens. So, yeah. Every lockdown politician who made this monstrous world and then tries to sneak away to Florida or Hawaii? Fuck you. https://t.co/9IwcgAvqiJ — Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) January 2, 2021 This stuff is insanity. … Read more
Corn/Soy/Wheat hit 6-year highs as Argentina is the latest country to limit their corn exports. While major feed companies in the US are renting river barges just to hoard soybeans, smaller markets like Nigeria and Trinidad & Tobago are canaries in the coal mine, running out of feed for their animals already, and offering a … Read more
The stock market is rising higher and higher. There has never been a time in which so many investors have been putting money like this into the markets before. More tech stocks are becoming household names. Many unicorns are born every day. Billion dollar companies with excessive debt, SPAC deals, and IPO’s are absorbing the … Read more
UK judge has ruled that Julian Assange will not be extradited to the US, however this can still be appealed by the US. h/t ImperatorAugustus_
A Texas state lawmaker has vowed to introduce a referendum for voters to cast their ballots on whether to secede from the United States. On Tuesday, Rep. Kyle Biedermann (R-Fredericksburg) told his supporters on Facebook that he is committed to authoring legislation in the 2021 legislative session. “The federal government is out of control and does not … Read more
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Kamala Harris Was Sworn in as a US Senator on Sunday Democrats know that it looks awful that Kamala Harris has not vacated her Senate seat, no matter how they try to redirect questions about it, or how they to gaslight Americans and make us feel crazy for asking about it, it is extraordinary that … Read more
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Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday endorsed the GOP effort to challenge the Electoral College certification of President-elect Joe Biden‘s win on January 6. A coalition of 11 GOP senators and senators-elect, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, announced earlier today that they will vote to oppose Congress certifying the Electoral College vote on Wednesday, unless an audit of the results is … Read more
by confoundedinterest17 Venezuela currently has an inflation rate of almost 2,500 percent, according to Steve Hanke. This corresponds to Bloomberg’s Cafe con Leche index of the cost of a cup of coffee with milk (or espresso with scalding milk) which is now 1.767 MILLION Bolivars in Caracas Venezuela (or 5,790% for the last 12 months). In 2017, with the … Read more