U.S. Gas Prices Explode On Freezing Weather

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By Irina Slav U.S. natural gas prices hit record highs last week after the temperature in many parts of the country fell far below forecasts. In Oklahoma, gas traded at as much as $600 per million British thermal units during the long weekend, pushed up by freezing temperatures across much of the central and western … Read more

Trump Acquitted (Again), But Trump Hatred Continues

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by Ron Paul Last week’s second impeachment trial of former President Trump should serve as a warning that something is very wrong in US politics. Far from a measured, well-investigated, rock-solid case against the former president, America was again abused with day after day of character assassination, innuendo, false claims, and even falsified “evidence.” The trial … Read more

Supercycle in Commodities as Crude Oil Rises! Is This 2008 All Over Again? Inflation Up!

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Commodities have been surging since March 2020. Crude oil, platinum, agriculture. Could it be 2008 all over again? The financial system is seeing a massive uptick, massive flows of money, cash, debt into equities. More stimulus is on the way. This is in every form. Money printing from the central banks but also stimulus packages … Read more

WTI Call Trading Soars On Arctic Blast (WTI Hits $60), Bitcoin At $48K

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by confoundedinterest17 The rally in U.S. crude futures toward $60 a barrel triggered a frenzy of activity in a lesser-known corner of the market. Trading of West Texas Intermediate call options — used to place bullish bets — surged to a record on the Intercontinental Exchange on Friday, while the CME Group’s more actively traded benchmark contract also … Read more

Robinhood raked in $700 million by backstabbing users on behalf of hedge funds

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by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) After blocking retail investors from purchasing any more GameStop (GME) stock last week, the Robinhood trading app was caught funneling nearly $700 million into its coffers from the sale of private user data to wealthy hedge funds. As GME share prices rose to nearly $500 a piece last week, Robinhood blatantly interfered … Read more

Analysing Institutional Investor Transactions

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by jomarca23 Hi all, I came up with a good way to extract institutional investor transactions using Python from an API in order to analyse if investors are buying or selling stocks in a particular company. For example, below table is the outcome showing the transactions performed by institutional investors since the 11th of February … Read more

2,382,119 customers without power right now in Texas

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each “customer” can represent one person, or a business, or a family. many people impacted. https://poweroutage.us/ Will update numbers in this post as day goes on – 6:15 EST – 1,678,700 6:30 EST – 1,834,260 6:57 EST – 2,068,765 7:47 EST – 2,382,119 Oregon has had over 200,000 customers without power for at least a … Read more

DEMOCRATS DON’T CARE: Biden shutting Dakota Access pipeline would cause food prices to spike. They think food should be more expensive already.

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President Biden shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline would result in Americans paying higher prices at the supermarket, according to experts. The Biden administration will decide the fate of the Dakota Access pipeline, which was approved by former President Donald Trump in 2017 after being denied by former President Barack Obama, following a court-ordered environmental review. More than … Read more

Robinhood, Too-Big-To-Fail, and Naked Short Selling

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by interestingstuff6 Q. Have you heard the term “pay for hold”? A. Yes. Q. What’s your understanding of what that is in relation to locates? A. I think it’s borderline illegal, but allegedly some firms would try to preborrow the stock before they actually did it so if they wanted to short the stock the borrow would be there.” … Read more

CNN thinks Hong Kong is in South America

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American news network CNN made the embarrassing mistake of relocating Hong Kong – to South America. The geographical error was made on a picture used to illustrate a news story on China’s outbreak of deadly hornets. And the presenter is none the wiser as she completes her piece to camera. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/video-cnn-use-graphic-showing-2349565.amp?fbclid=IwAR3HEMhOoKhRDo2TpHTR-Pj5plXgWQ1UaNGCzUV_slUzSnoruo278gw1Geo

Investing in Employee Satisfaction: Why It Matters

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Building a powerful company is impossible without a team of loyal, dedicated, and motivated employees. When employees derive satisfaction from their work and are happy with how the company treats them, they perform better. Various studies have shown that employee satisfaction is intrinsically linked with performance, productivity, and team cohesion. What do successful business owners, … Read more