New Zealand Reserve Bank: Unemployment could rise to 18 per cent, house prices could HALVE, and the viability of the banks could be “called into question” if the coronavirus prompted a further period of economic lockdowns

Unemployment could rise to 18 per cent, house prices could halve, and the viability of the banks could be “called into question” if the coronavirus prompted a further period of economic lockdowns, the Reserve Bank has warned. The Reserve Bank …

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This is a fascinating read, and Communist China’s similar propaganda effort on the Wuhan Virus just goes to show that commies never change.

HISTORY: Lessons From Operation ‘Denver,’ the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign. “Historian Douglas Selvage sheds light on a conspiracy theory that reverberates to this day.” In September 1985, the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) informed other Warsaw Pact foreign intelligence agencies that …

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As BofA Global Research put it this morning: “Hoping that either fundamentals will improve at record speed, or that they simply don’t matter is a real risk, given markets’ inability to decouple from recessions in the last 90 years.”

As BofA Global Research put it this morning: "Hoping that either fundamentals will improve at record speed, or that they simply don't matter is a real risk, given markets' inability to decouple from recessions in the last 90 years." — …

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This is it. It’s happening. Yuan drop steepens amid speculation #China is allowing depreciation in new cold war between US and the middle kingdom.

This is it. It’s happening. https://t.co/pi1rsDiVF2 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) May 27, 2020 Oops! Yuan drop steepens amid speculation #China is allowing depreciation in new cold war between US and the middle kingdom. https://t.co/bdmgUHvugC HT @OlafGersemann pic.twitter.com/e4INkVwGHA — Holger …

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Boredom Markets Hypothesis – Idle Retail Investor Driving up Stock Price

by reddit_user456 Saw this article from Matt Levine’s newsletter today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-22/options-are-now-all-the-rage-for-bored-day-traders-locked-inside?sref=1kJVNqnU Boredom Markets Hypothesis is this idea that: people will do more trading (1) if trading is entertaining and (2) if other things are less entertaining The article above discusses the …

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Twitter vs. Trump and the Truth about Mail-In Voting

Everyone should watch as this is going to be the next hottest subject in the news. Knowledge is power. Our favorite Munchkin, Jerry Nadler, on mail-in votes. “Jerry Nadler, 2004: “Paper Ballots Are Extremely Susceptible to Fraud” https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4877821/user-clip-jerry-nadler-2004-paper-ballots-extremely-susceptible-fraud   h/t MARsSPEED

Either we fix free speech, or these communication platforms will fix us. The Dems will cheat. Google, Facebook, Twitter, MSM and others will help them.

https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1265494719116836864 Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t …

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