Just Charts of Demographics…with Multiple Variables (or hot topics for your next cocktail party)

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by C Hamilton Some folks want to make economics seem complicated. It ain’t. Any who, some charts depicting the US economy…through demographics. First, 15 to 54 year old US population (blue line) and those employed among that population (green line). You may note the end of population growth among them in ’07 and not only the … Read more

Wind Farms Frozen in Texas & Europe Bezos Should be Better than Gates & Zuckerberg Put Together

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by Martin Armstrong   These environmentalists never understand that wind turbines will freeze and solar panels will be buried in snow. They seriously think that somehow renewable energy can replace fossil fuels. Even the electric buses in Germany froze. It is bad enough that they try to reduce the entire cyclical patterns in the weather … Read more

Elon Musk takes Major U-Turn on Bitcoin – Now Calls It “Almost as BS as Fiat Money”

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Excerpts – Tesla CEO Elon Musk was involved in another Twitter storm overnight, tweeting that Bitcoin is “almost as BS as fiat money” in spite of Tesla’s recent $1.5 billion investment. “Tesla’s action is not directly reflective of my opinion.” Musk wrote in response. “Having some Bitcoin, which is simply a less dumb form of … Read more

We’re limiting the hash rate of GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs so they’re less desirable to miners and launching NVIDIA CMP for professional mining

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We are gamers, through and through. We obsess about new gaming features, new architectures, new games and tech. We designed GeForce GPUs for gamers, and gamers are clamoring for more. Yet NVIDIA GPUs are programmable. And users are constantly discovering new applications for them, from weather simulation and gene sequencing to deep learning and robotics. … Read more

George Gammon: Inflation Genie Is Far More Powerful Than You Think

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Rebel Capitalist, Released on 2/19/21 George Edward Gammon is an American real estate investor and entrepreneur. He produces and stars in a popular YouTube Channel. Prior to 2012, George started, owned, and operated multiple businesses ranging from conventions to advertising. The last growing to 24 million in annual revenues and over 100 employees. After 12 … Read more

Some Of Texas’ Biggest Refineries Could Take Weeks To Restart

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By Charles Kennedy Some of the largest oil refineries in Texas could take weeks to restart as they would need to repair the damages from the big Texas freeze, Bloomberg reports, citing sources with knowledge of the situation. The Baytown and Beaumont refineries of ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum’s Galveston Refinery in Texas City, and the Port Arthur … Read more

Decline Of The West: American Education Surrenders Language, Math And Science To ‘Equity’

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by Philip Giraldi via Strategic Culture Foundation It will be difficult or even impossible to go back to a system where learning is actually a discipline that requires hard work and dedication. Public education in the United States, if measured by results, has been producing graduates that are less competent in language skills and dramatically less well taught … Read more

GameStopping Our Freedom Of Speech!

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by  J. Johnson via JS Mineset Great and Wonderful Friday Morning Folks, The February Precious Metals Options expiration happens next week Tuesday. With that in mind Gold goes lower, with the April contract trading at $1,768.50, down $6.50 after the typical London hit down to $1,759 with the high to beat at $1,776.30. Silver is harder to shake … Read more

Reddit forces Congress to target Robinhood

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nhvlfCkA8o Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev continues to battle allegations that his platform “serves hedge funds” despite its stated democratizing vision. The controversy around his company has grown to such a pitch that he has now had to testify to members of Congress. “Boom Bust” co-host Brent Jabbour joins Rick Sanchez to explain the recent Gamestock … Read more

TEXAS ORDERED by Dept of Energy – NOT MAKE MORE POWER!

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In your face from the SOURCE. https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2021/02/f82/DOE%20202%28c%29%20Emergency%20Order%20-%20ERCOT%2002.14.2021.pdf B. To minimize adverse environmental impacts, this Order limits operation of dispatched units to the times and within the parameters determined by ERCOT for reliability purposes. Consistent with good utility practice, ERCOT shall exhaust all reasonably and practically available resources, including available imports, demand response, and identified behind-the-meter … Read more

Atlanta Fed GDP Forecast Rises To 9.470%, Time To Take The Fed’s Foot Off The Pedal?

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by confoundedinterest17 Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell (and others) want to keep their foot on the monetary pedal since the economy is “still soft.” What is soft about US GDP growth of 9.47%? Powell would like to see 2% inflation, not the 1.45% Core PCE growth that we are experiencing. Maybe The Fed should include rising … Read more

Over 7 Million Texans Wake Up Without Clean Water Due To Winter Storms, ‘Boil Advisory’ In Effect

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeoX0g0M4QY Seven million Texans woke up Thursday morning under boil water advisories after a pair of deadly back-to-back winter storms brought record-low temperatures, snow and ice that knocked out power plants and caused pipes to freeze.- Learn More: https://weather.com/news/news/2021-02…    

Crazy! Amazon Changes Timing of TRAFFIC LIGHTS In Alabama to Derail Unionization Drive

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTS90xpr5Ss Online retail giant Amazon was so desperate to scuttle a unionization drive among warehouse workers in Alabama that it actually had traffic light times changed. A pro-union publication says it confirmed the rumors with the county. Amazon actually reached out to Jefferson County to change the timing of the traffic lights near its Bessemer … Read more