Over the past few years, video marketing has become the hottest digital marketing trend. According to HubSpot, around 81% of businesses are using video as a marketing tool. Another study claims that by 2022, video content is going to make up more than 82% of all internet traffic, and that will be 15 times … Read more
by _RyanBenson Link to the interactive visualization: https://dfir.blog/chrome-evolution/ This visualization uses data I generated by performing a fixed set of “browsing actions” in all 72 versions of Chrome (post with full details at https://dfir.blog/capturing-chromes-evolution/). I built a Python script to crawl the resulting files and SQLite databases and turn it into a JSON, which … Read more
Bear market for stocks already underway, recession coming. Great report by @bkollmeyer via @MarketWatchhttps://t.co/UmTQkI7fJX pic.twitter.com/39CLB9VR5X — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) February 27, 2019 The last few days we have witnessed tons of $VIX call buying taking advantage of mispriced $VVIX. Today, there has been stealthy Put buying in the $SPX options markets. People finally feel … Read more
by Ryan McMaken of Mises Institute A female supporter of Bernie Sanders is advertising on Twitter the fact that she went 226,000 in debt to get a college degree in speech pathology. Those who posted the video apparently believe that this ought to be interpreted as a convincing example of how hard it is to pay for college these days. … Read more
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics I don’t know if it was the intent of the Fed, but Jerome Powell has managed to trigger a rush into stocks more frenzied than the one that engulfed the last days of the dot.com/techbubble. The vertical ascent since Christmas in the Dow/SPX is unprecedented on a percentage basis over an … Read more
by DCG Her/his five pets took “one for the cause,” perishing in the fire. From Yahoo: A popular gay rights activist was charged on Monday with first-degree arson after an FBI investigation led authorities to believe he set fire to his own house in an elaborate hoax meant to look like a hate crime. Nikki Joly lost … Read more
by Simon Black It’s not enough to hand over your money to the government anymore. Now you have to pay them for the privilege to do so. That’s the basic premise behind negative interest rates: investors around the world are crazy enough to buy government bonds whose yields are actually below zero. In technical terms, this … Read more
In one sense, Lyft and Uber are like eBay, Priceline, GrubHub, Craigslist and other “marketplace” businesses that match willing buyers with willing sellers. A marketplace is one of the established business models for technology companies, and investors are relatively comfortable assessing how much to pay for their shares. More: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-26/lyft-and-uber-are-easy-to-understand-and-hard-to-value
by cellcultured Recently got a few cavities filled and paid my share of the costs up front and (I assumed) insurance took care of the rest. A month later, I get the EOBs from my insurance and a balance bill from the dentist’s office. The numbers didn’t match up at all; the dentist billed me … Read more
Josh Sigurdson reports on the most recent lawsuits hitting Monsanto where it hurts the most… The wallet. In 2018, Monsanto lost a lawsuit for $289 million after a man came forward claiming ‘Roundup’ whose main ingredient is glyphosate caused his non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Though Monsanto is appealing it and the fine has been dropped to $78 … Read more
by zyklorpthehuman Didn’t see any mention of it here so I figured I’d share this new extension that allows commenting on any website, youtube video, articles, individual tweets, etc. Even when comments have been disabled! I think it could become a great tool for the free flow of information, and for sidestepping the authoritarian … Read more
by ElderOfTheUniverse Both sides of the political dichotomy are being stoked into a frenzy on a scale I haven’t seen in my lifetime. The daily barrage of propaganda pitting us against our fellow man is exhausting. But don’t be deterred from reaching out to people. This user sums it up well: https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/av61x5/so_long_guys/ehcz11h/ You’ve been fucked … Read more
President #Trump and Xi Jinping are trying to make a US China trade deal, while Trump heads to North Korea to meet Kim Jong-Un. And if it doesn’t work, the US will hit China with a 25% tariff on 200 billion dollars of Chinese goods. How will the stock markets respond? And can China be … Read more
1st search.. Wonderful Legal immigrant who loves Trump Part 2… Search Legal immigrant who loves Trump part 2 I couldn’t find either video under their original names in the search. Just saying…. h/t Shamrock0007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLMbZ0nPjk8 Tonight we talk about nuclear fallout and what dangers to look for . Why it is dangerous and where it shows up like in water food community’s animals insects marine life etc etc .
Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander, U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, told a Senate committee that proposed barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border could increase security against any potential military threats coming from the south. But he said Russia’s advancements in training and capabilities, and its intent to hold the U.S. at risk, present … Read more
Freelance researcher and writer Edward Dutton joins Henrik to talk about his book “At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future.” We discuss why people are becoming less intelligent and the cyclical collapse of civilization as a consequence of “progress.” Dutton was born in London in 1980, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyB1A4TpJxE “socialism always ends in communism”- Lenin. LB
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by jcpayner For the frugal amongst us, here’s a quick and easy way to save a few bucks. Buy your own internet modem/router. Most ISPs will have a built in monthly rental fee for using their equipment – that box they give you when you sign up, and it provides wifi around your house. … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Can’t be making Tariff Man happy: Highlights The effects of cross-border trade actions have been difficult to pinpoint in the national economic data but outlines may be appearing in goods trade. The nation’s goods deficit swelled to a much larger-than-expected $79.5 billion in December as exports fell 2.8 percent in the month to … Read more
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by Chris If you were in a “”market”” where each and every day some major player stepped in to either cap prices (gold/silver) or put very firm floors under each selling moment, making V-bottoms at every slight decline, eventually you’d find that price discovery is utterly destroyed. This is where we find ourselves. After a … Read more
by Chris Here’s an update an hour later. The “”markets”” remain in full lock-up mode. There have been a lot of ridiculous days of obviously stage-managed US equity “”markets”” but today is shaping up to be one of the more blatant examples. And it’s got some stiff competition. Not so coincidentally, Powell is busy answering … Read more
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It was always folly to believe that inflating asset bubbles could solve the structural problems of a post-industrial economy. The Doomsday Scenario for the stock and housing bubbles is simple: the Fed’s magic fails. When dropping interest rates to zero and flooding the financial sector with loose money … Read more