Samsung just announced the first foldable phone you can buy and it will cost $1,980

by coolcomfort123 Samsung unveils first foldable smartphone from CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/samsung-galaxy-fold-release-date-price-specs.html Samsung announced the Galaxy Fold during a press event in San Francisco. The Galaxy Fold is the first phone that consumers will be able to buy with a folding display. …

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PayPal CEO predicts digital payments industry will mature into a $100 trillion market

Paypal CEO: Shouldn’t expect Venmo to be profitable in next one, two quarters from CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/digital-payments-could-grow-into-a-100-trillion-market-paypal-ceo.html We live in the space of digital commerce and digital commerce is exploding still around the world,” PayPal CEO Dan Schulman says. “I think …

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Probably Nothing To Worry About….

don't mind the gap pic.twitter.com/18I7RQca5o — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 20, 2019 A more detailed look at the flow/volume/participation into the highs $ES_F #geometrics pic.twitter.com/ThVyd6GF0o — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) February 20, 2019 If everything is SO great – then how come one …

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More Global Slowing… Fed’s Daly Says She Sees More Headwinds, Including Slower Global Growth, Uncertainty, Tighter Financial Conditions

https://twitter.com/RVAnalysis/status/1098374449630343170 20 Feb – 08:36:14 PM [RTRS] – FED'S DALY SAYS SHE SEES MORE HEADWINDS, INCLUDING SLOWER GLOBAL GROWTH, UNCERTAINTY, TIGHTER FINANCIAL CONDITIONS — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 21, 2019 China excavator sales YoY vs. M1 YoY cc $CAT pic.twitter.com/L6prSSjzd5 — …

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Forced End of “Ponzi-Like Leverage” & “Fraudulent Lending” Turns Australia’s House Price Bubble into “Property Bloodbath”

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What banks & housing markets in Sydney and Melbourne are facing in 2019. As investors are fleeing Australia’s housing bust, sales of new houses have plunged to record lows, and home prices in the Sydney and Melbourne metros have …

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Where Investors Put Their Money in 2018

by visualcapitalist For most investors, 2018 was both an eventful and frustrating year. Between the looming threat of trade wars and growing geopolitical uncertainty, the market also skipped a beat. Volatility took center stage, and the S&P 500 finished in negative …

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Former Facebook exec: “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. You are being programmed”

During his View From The Top talk, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Social Capital, discussed how money is an instrument of change which should be used to make the world a better place. “Money drives the world for better …

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