Kitco News, Released on 1/31/20 The fear around the coronavirus around the world has now escalated but the relatively small fatality rate don’t justify all the hysteria, said Gerald Celente, publisher of The Trends Journal. “Fear is an easy thing to sell, whether it’s in war, or weather, or this, but the numbers aren’t showing … Read more
by mark000 Peter Sandman, Risk Communication Consultant, Princeton, New Jersey, on Human Reactions to Risk and Why Denial is a Bigger Problem than Panic: Reactions and overreactions When people initially become aware of a risk, they overreact. They have a temporary short-term overreaction. People pause what they’re doing, become hyper-vigilant, check out the environment more carefully … Read more
by coolcomfort123 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/apple-amazon-microsoft-and-alphabet-and-the-road-to-1-trillion.html There’s a familiar theme to each of the four $1 trillion technology giants. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet have all looked to services and cloud businesses for growth in the past couple of years. These four tech companies are dwarfing the rest of the stock market, too, making up 17% of … Read more
by bigbear0083 Welcome to month end January! S&P set for its worst weekly decline since around mid-August 2019. As of this posting, the S&P has wiped away all January gains. Headlines pointing to the worsening cornavirus as today’s catalyst. While other outlets pointing to Bernie Sanders’ latest surge. Me? I say this market was overdue … Read more
by BEGB13 Zerohedge, the financial news blog runs this article then immediately gets account suspended. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coronavirus-contains-hiv-insertions-stoking-fears-over-artificially-created-bioweapon This happens hours after r/Wuhan_Flu gets quarantined for ‘hoax content’ Reddit has had a $150 million investment from Tencent, a ‘Chinese censorship powerhouse’ as another Redditor put it. Looks to me like there must be some truth to these claims if … Read more
Students demanded divestment from fossil fuels, a professor offered to turn off the gas heating. Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college “declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels”. They say … Read more
For 80 years the Brown, Newsom, Pelosi, and Getty families have ruled over the State of California. Turning it into the economic and social disaster that we see today. Rising stars have come and gone, but the state’s chief power players have remained. In a state famed for its youth and vitality, home to Hollywood … Read more
by basedBlumpkin https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1223437435679326208?s=20 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — The Democratic National Committee has opened the door to allowing former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York to participate in the presidential debate it will sponsor in Nevada next month, a change from its practice that demanded candidates demonstrate grass-roots fund-raising support. The D.N.C. announced Friday that … Read more
One day before Brexit, MPs contributed to a debate on global Britain. Eurosceptic Peter Bone pointed out that he has waited for more than 30 years to give his speech. Before telling MPs that he’s the last backbencher to speak in the Chamber while the UK is an EU member, he describes his happiness.
What the updated coronavirus travel alert level and the additional border measures will mean for you. Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) advice for the public. China Then And Now: Why Coronavirus Is A Bigger Threat To Global Economy Than Previous Outbreaks. Coronavirus: thousands of Hong Kong hospital workers back strike to demand closure of border with mainland … Read more
by smurfin101 Why did Bernard conveniently switch his stance on this? Is Bernie bowing down to the Koch brothers now?
So, I was going over the nih press briefing and the USA def called China out in that briefing. So, if China was really concerned about this virus and it’s global implications, why would they not let in a superpower, with many, many resources to help with their problem and preventing a global crisis? I … Read more
The China virus outbreak continues to spread, with over 11,000 coronavirus cases in China and new cases around the world.
Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained human-to-human transmission in the city of Wuhan, and that a single case was able to ignite a chain of other infections. The World Health Organization reported Thursday that there have been at least four generations of spread of the new … Read more
We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature [i.e. accidental / by … Read more
Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, Yesterday, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) declared that the Wuhan coronavirus is indeed now a pandemic. Scary news, right? Well…not if you kept listening. The W.H.O. then proceeded to downplay the risk to public health and took pains to make it clear it doesn’t recommend placing restrictions on global trade & … Read more
by Guest Author Michael Markowski has been involved in the Capital Markets since 1977. He spent the first 15 years of his career in the Financial Services Industry as a Stockbroker, Portfolio Manager, Venture Capitalist, Investment Banker and Analyst. Since 1996 Markowski has been involved in the Financial Information Industry and has produced research, information and … Read more
via Zerohedge: After slumping into year-end, Regional Fed surveys have (surprisingly) exploded higher this month with Richmond and Philly surveys spiking almost by the most on record. Today’s Chicago PMI was expected to follow suit – though less excitedly – with a modest gain but instead it missed massively, plunging to its lowest since Dec 2015 … Read more
by deplorable recollector From the beginning, I want to specify that my model is only for the infection rate. Not death rate, and not confirmed cases by the authorities and governments. It is a mathematical model, based on 4 separate patterns : -Chinese official number -The commonly accepted R0 of 2.6 among many epidemiologists -The Spanish … Read more
Members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have reportedly started discussing the implementation of a plan aimed at harming Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a socialist, in hopes of derailing his campaign. “In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about … Read more