How the U.S. Could Really Hurt China: Scrapping the privileges the U.S. affords Hong Kong would downgrade the city’s economic role, but a broader basket of financial sanctions could be even more painful for China

Scrapping the privileges the U.S. affords Hong Kong would downgrade the city’s economic role, but a broader basket of financial sanctions could be even more painful for China The U.S. determination that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from mainland …

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Q1 GDP vs Q1 2008

by NineteenEighty9 Source Short Greece?     Disclaimer: This information is only for educational purposes. Do not make any investment decisions based on the information in this article. Do you own due diligence.

Morgan Stanley DD

by Particular-Wedding All the US investment banks have been on a tear after speculation that their dividends won’t come under pressure after all. A negative catalyst is that stock buybacks are still not available for most banks b/c of a …

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Investor turns $100,000 into $2.2 million — now he’s banking on a cruise line to reach his early retirement goals

by kmanhard https://www.marketwatch.com/story/investor-turns-100000-into-22-million-now-hes-banking-on-a-cruise-line-to-reach-his-early-retirement-goals-2020-05-27?mod=mw_latestnews The buy-and-hold approach to the stock market generally isn’t a celebrated strategy among Reddit’s “Wall Street Bets” bunch, but more than a few glasses are being raised for one member of the meme-making trading community who claims to …

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Money growth vs the real economy.

https://twitter.com/jtepper2/status/1266042596524163072 More than 3,600 stores are closing as the retail apocalypse drags on 🇺🇸Atlanta Fed Business Uncertainty Survey @BillardPhillipe @AlessioUrban @EconGlobal @TradersCom @LordPolemos @MI_Investments @XRP_589_Theunis @SpeculaThor @bocajoes @tey_west @wheeliedealer @Rafael60980545 @ChileBitcoin @investor1927 @paibad @rsroc @hedgefundsrati1 @ezkappdo pic.twitter.com/4a9FVKqRZG — Antonio Pérez-Algás …

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Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy

by ilikepancakez https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Hong-Kong-security-law-is-going-to-devastate-its-economy Commentary: The freedoms given to Hong Kong as a largely autonomous region helped make it a thriving center for international banking and finance. The new national security law is already creating uncertainty and greatly undermines the pillars …

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We can print our way out of anything?

We can print our way out of anything pic.twitter.com/xhlD2gmnLe — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) May 27, 2020 U.S. Corporate Credit pic.twitter.com/a1gjJpAcNI — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) May 26, 2020 #SPX Weekly – this bounce is still well within Bear Mkt …

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To Help the Economy, Wear a Mask

by John Mauldin “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink,” says an old saying. That’s right but, as I learned growing up in Texas, it doesn’t go far enough. Horses recognize hazards their riders …

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As the Economic Cycles Turn

by John Mauldin I had a chance to catch up with my friend Neil Howe at my recent Strategic Investment Conference about the “Fourth Turning”—a recurring generational cycles theory that Neil helped to write the book on, quite literally. In …

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Arizona sues Google, alleging it violated privacy and improperly tracked location data even when users had turned off the setting

https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1265767410470211584 Arizona sues Google claiming it illegally tracked Android users Arizona has sued Google over claims that it illegally collected location data from users without their permission, according to the Washington Post. The state’s attorney general Mark Brnovich argued that Google …

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