Everyone with a foot out the door… Again.

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Everyone with a foot out the door… Again. pic.twitter.com/apYc4rgd9C — Macro Charts (@MacroCharts) August 20, 2021 Citadel Advisors sold $408B in stocks according to their latest 13F-HR filling, that is 95% of their holdings. There must be a bullish reason to this too. pic.twitter.com/IUTkAc7oO2 — xTrends (@xtrends) August 20, 2021 #recession … #Tech #Bubble 2.0 … Read more

George Gammon: We are truly living in a bizarre parallel universe…

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We are truly living in a bizarre parallel universe…👇 Does anyone have a DeLorean I can use to go back to the world where Biff didn’t have the almanac? pic.twitter.com/EUwGGHavij — George Gammon (@GeorgeGammon) August 20, 2021 #recession … #StockMarket #Bubble edition#SPACs 📉 https://t.co/rivTahFTk8 pic.twitter.com/YBLJsisRf7 — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) August 20, 2021 Works as long … Read more

Grab founder to have 60.4% controlling interest despite owning a 2.2% stake if SPAC deal goes through

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https://www.ft.com/content/4e23cd61-1a8d-4dc5-aba1-8565fce31882 no paywall version: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-Spotlight/Grab-s-40bn-SPAC-plan-puts-CEO-Anthony-Tan-in-driver-s-seat Grab, the Southeast Asian ride hailing + food delivery + fintech + more buzzwords company receives a $40bn valuation and its founder retains 60.4% voting rights?! According to the FT article I linked, this is similar to mark zuccy and facebook. Grab is getting a deal like facebook’s! Despite strong competition … Read more

American Bar Association wants Law Schools to violate federal law…

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The American Bar Association is poised to mandate diversity training and affirmative action at all of its accredited law schools, a move top legal scholars say could jeopardize academic freedom and force schools to violate federal law. The association, which accredits nearly every law school in the United States, is mulling a plan that would require schools … Read more

How AI landed innocent man in jail…

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CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His three daily calls to her had become a lifeline, but when they dwindled to … Read more

Woman begs teen mob for mercy during brutal attack in Chicago…

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CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman was begging for her attackers to stop, but they just kept swinging – punching her in the face. Days after the Chicago woman was thrown to the ground by a group of teen assailants downtown, she talked only to CBS 2’s Jermont Terry. https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/08/19/woman-beaten-in-downtown-chicago-describes-pain-horror/

Farcical Canada the new totalitarian banana republic

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by westcoastjan What a surprise! https://pressfortruth.ca/independent-free-press-not-allowed-questions-at-justin-trudeau-media-event-pft-presses-on-anyways/ https://www.rebelnews.com/debates_comission_crafts_rules_to_keep_rebel_news_out https://www.rebelnews.com/cbc_named_fact_checker_for_facebook_canada_during_election 🤦‍♀️🙄 And the best for last: https://www.rebelnews.com/canadians_who_dont_want_to_wear_a_mask_should_vote_by_mail_elections_canada_says Canadians who plan to vote in the upcoming federal election without a mask should plan to vote by mail unless they have a medical exemption, the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada has said. Stephane Perrault told CTV News that voting stations will … Read more

Did The Fed’s Monetary Policy Experiment Just Fail?

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By Lance Roberts Did the Fed’s “monetary policy experiment” fail? The recent dislocation between consumer confidence and the financial markets may indicate just that. “U.S. consumer sentiment dropped sharply in early August to its lowest level in a decade, in a worrying sign for the economy as Americans gave faltering outlooks on everything from personal … Read more

Biden administration appears to have stockpiled military equipment for Taliban months before collapse

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WASHINGTON — For months, the Biden administration was stockpiling military equipment for the Taliban before the collapse of the Afghan government. The report comes from Reuters who shares that well over a month before the Taliban’s march across the country, the Biden administration was sending military equipment to Afghanistan amid a “planned withdrawal.” The plans … Read more

Introducing the new Tesla Bot

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Tesla doing that weird stuff again.. iRobot 😳👀 pic.twitter.com/T6fYDQafLH — CRYPTOWZRD (@cryptoWZRD_) August 20, 2021 Breaking: Elon Musk just announced Tesla plans to release a "prototype sometime next year," of a so-called Tesla Bot. More details to come 🤖 pic.twitter.com/xTadMutKPo — CNET (@CNET) August 20, 2021 https://twitter.com/capnyuji/status/1428553655863504896 Musk went out of his way to reassure … Read more

Inflation Isn’t Going Anywhere But Up

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from Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network Michael Busler, Professor of Finance at Stockton University, gives us a crash course on the current economic situation in the United States—probing into some of the root causes of different problems and changes we are seeing today. We dive into inflation that has worsened due to disruptions in the supply … Read more

Independent.co.uk: “The Taliban plans to ban drugs in Afghanistan. That could change the world for the worse”

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View post on imgur.com After the spectacular scenes of the fall of Kabul on the weekend, the Taliban’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid held a press conference where — along with complaining about being kicked off Facebook (the Taliban cancelled for their problematic beliefs? Somebody call Toby Young!) — he declared that Afghanistan was going to be … Read more

OH SNAP! CNN Reporter Who Called The Taliban ‘Seemingly Friendly’ Finds Out Just How Friendly The Hard Way

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She cowered like a… How much $$$$ is CNN pumping into funding the Taliban for protection, translators etc? https://vidmax.com/video/206626-cnn-reporter-who-called-the-taliban-seemingly-friendly-finds-out-just-how-friendly-the-hard-way Taliban fighters accost CNN reporter and crew https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/19/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-airport-gunfire-ward-pkg-lead-vpx.cnn https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-fighters-accost-cnn-reporter-and-crew/vi-AANvsBD The Lead CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports on the hurdles Americans and Afghans are facing trying to get to Kabul’s airport as Taliban fighters attempt to block access … Read more

Communism coming: China calls for curbs on ‘excessive’ income and for the wealthy to give back more to society

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Chinese President Xi Jinping led a meeting Tuesday that emphasized how the country would focus on moderate wealth for all, rather than just a few, state media said. Planned measures included curbs on “excessive” incomes and encouraging the wealthy to give back more to society. In his first public chairing of a meeting since late … Read more