The Stock Buybacks Are Coming

by UPFINA Businesses obviously have high inflation expectations now because prices have increased due to supply chain issues. However, inflation will normalize soon. As you can see from the chart below, business inflation expectations correlate with monthly core PCE inflation, but only for about 9 months. It’s not a surprise companies can only see the short … Read more

Wealthy flee coming Biden tax hikes…

(Bloomberg) — For 110 years, four generations of Mills family members earned their money by expanding their great-grandfather’s Chicago apron business into a medical supplier that ranked among the nation’s largest private companies. But soon after Democrats turned their attention toward raising taxes for the wealthy this year, the family signed a deal to cash … Read more

MSFT closes at $2 Trillion, as second U.S. company ever.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-22/microsoft-rallies-to-join-apple-in-exclusive-2-trillion-club Microsoft Corp. took its place in the history books as just the second U.S. public company to reach a $2 trillion market value, buoyed by bets its dominance in cloud computing and enterprise software will expand further in a post-coronavirus world. Its shares rose as much as 1.1% to $265.64 on Tuesday in New … Read more

Shortage Of Everything Is Here! Prices Are Soaring: Prepare Your Self For Panic And Chaos!

If 2020 was the year the health crisis tumbled the economy, 2021 is the year of stressed supply chains, widespread shortages, and rampant inflation. Most of the U.S. industries are still feeling the cascading effect of global supply chain disruptions, rising commodity prices, soaring freight costs, a computer chip shortage, and now an acute labor … Read more

No Tuna DNA found in Subway Tuna sandwiches

The New York Times tested “more than 60 inches worth of Subway tuna sandwiches” from California locations to determine if the sandwiches had one out of five different tuna species The Subway tuna saga continues after a lab study found no evidence of tuna DNA following testing of Subway’s sandwiches and wraps. The New York Times commissioned … Read more

They’ve lost security control over most cities. Descent into murderous chaos has arrived.

As homicides soar nationwide, mayors see few options for regaining control The killings rolled over the country like a fast-moving storm. From Savannah to Austin, from Chicago to Cleveland. In six hours one night this month, four mass-shooting attacks. And in their wake, a sober recognition from city leaders that they don’t have many options … Read more

THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE: EPIC Bucks County Pennsylvania Resident and Taxpayer Confronts The School Board

by Sundance Simon Campbell, a resident of the Pennsbury School District in Bucks County Pennsylvania confronts the school board in an epic confrontation of their brutal censorship.  Not only does Mr. Campbell bring the righteous indignation, he also brings the citations, documents and receipts; including the board’s own internal communication. Campbell later uploaded this speech … Read more

Rollercoaster! ‘Roller-Coaster Ride’ in Bonds Puts Onus on Powell to Bring Calm

by confoundedinterest17 Rollercoaster! (Bloomberg) — Treasury traders are looking for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to provide some calm after a volatile few sessions that have sent yields on what one bank described as a “roller-coaster ride.” Ten-year yields have swung in a 25-basis-point range in the past three sessions, having initially been thrown higher by the Fed’s comments … Read more

America’s Largest Landlord Just Got Bigger: BLACKSTONE Buys 17,000 Houses For $6 Billion

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/americas-largest-landlord-just-got-bigger-blackstone-buys-17000-houses-6-billion   Wall Street won’t rest until it become the biggest – and perhaps only – landlord in the US. At least that’s the impression one gets by observing the behavior of the two Wall Street “black” giants, Blackrock and Blackstone. As a reminder, the WSJ sparked widespread outrage recently when it exposed what most … Read more

Round 2: Delta Variant needs only seconds to infect you

2) he “brushed past a man” in his 50’s… who became case #4. Ummm, wow. 👀 pic.twitter.com/6gdvTCbJY3 — Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 21, 2021 4) NSW health minister Brad Hazzard said the Delta variant which is behind this outbreak is a “near and present danger” given the fleeting contact between cases at the Bondi Junction … Read more

GOOGLE Faces EU Antitrust Probe of Ad-Tech Abuses… AMAZON Purchase of MGM to Be Reviewed by FTC…

  Google Faces EU Antitrust Probe of Alleged Ad-Tech Abuses EU probe increases scrutiny of Google’s leading role brokering digital ads across the internet The European Union opened a formal antitrust investigation into allegations that Google abuses its leading role in the advertising-technology sector, the most wide-ranging case yet to look at that pillar of … Read more

A Single Company in Taiwan Makes 92% of the World’s Most Sophisticated Chips

Apple, Qualcomm, and Intel design chips, but when it comes to making them, the World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSM’s chips are everywhere, though most consumers don’t know it. The company makes almost all of the world’s most sophisticated chips, and many of the simpler ones, … Read more