On Wire

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 kinds of goals with a team that doesn’t actually trust each other. Not only does … Read more

by howmuch The first half of 2019 has yielded some optimism for the U.S. economy. For example, unemployment is near its lowest point in about 50 years. At the same time, the U.S. economy has experienced the longest period of sustained economic growth ever. However, recent concerns about slower wage gains and a global economic slowdown raise the question of how … Read more

via Zerohedge: Democratic presidential candidates appear to have painted themselves into a corner – abandoning their giant moderate base in order to ‘out-left’ each other, while promoting “radical, nonsensical, unpopular ideas that please only a slim minority of your own people” according to CNN‘s S. E. Cupp. In a blistering monologue on Saturday, Cupp suggested that the 2020 … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Apartment rents declined from peaks in Seattle, Southern California, New York, Oakland, San Jose, Chicago, Honolulu. But 8 markets show double-digit increases. Seattle and Southern California are the big new-comers among the most expensive rental markets whose rents have turned south. In Chicago and Honolulu, apartment rents have plunged since 2015. San … Read more

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 with the notebook. Source: Kaggle Survey 2018 Tools: Python and Photoshop

Nigel Farage is now speaking out against the globalist, it is time to remove them from power. The globalist do not benefit the people they benefit themselves and their own agenda. The everyday American cannot afford a home, wages have not kept up under the [CB] system. The MSM is pushing their agenda by not … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith If we consider the long term, it’s clear America’s economy and society have been declining for the average household for 50 years. What if the “prosperity” of the past 50 years is mostly a statistical mirage for the bottom 80% of households? What if whatever real gains (adjusted for real-world loss of purchasing … Read more

Brennan and Comey are lashing out at Trump, ammunition is running real low. Nunes is very concerned out Mueller testifying, because Weissman is testifying behind closed doors. Trump is bringing attention the NY, on how they are going after his foundation, they are projecting and he points out that nobody is looking into [HRC] foundation. … Read more

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html  

by BBMR_95   Source: Our World in Data Tool: RStudio

via Twitter: On top of: -Banking and housing bubbles -Interest rate imbalances -Shrinking current accounts -Declining excess FX reserves -Communist corruption and oppression -Capital flight $USDHKD $USDCNY      

That’s worrying because the model has been spot on with its predictions of the 2007, 2001, early nineties, early eighties recessions via Forbes: The current U.S. economic expansion turned ten-years-old in June and is poised to become the longest U.S. economic expansion in history in July. Considering all of the threats that the economy has … Read more

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