by Simon Black If your retirement plans consist entirely of that pension you’ve been promised, it’s time to start looking elsewhere. As you probably know, pensions are giant pools of capital responsible for paying out retirement benefits to workers. And …
by DCG From SF Chronicle: The state Department of Motor Vehicles incorrectly registered 23,000 people to vote, including putting the wrong political party and vote-by-mail preferences for those Californians, the embattled agency said. The DMV, which has been criticized for excessive wait times in …
Florence has re-intensified into a hurricane, and is expected to rapidly intensify into a very dangerous Category 4 hurricane by Tuesday as it heads towards the Southeast U.S. Coast. Florence is likely to make landfall on Thursday evening or Friday …
by badpauly This is a list of the top 20 companies that experienced the largest change in insider shares in the last seven (7) days. The SEC defines an insider as any officer, director or 10% shareholder. It is not …
by badpauly These are the latest Schedule 13D forms filed by activist investors in the last 7 days. Activist investors are investors that make an investment with the intention of influencing management in some way. There is evidence that following …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcelqwu94b8 Amanda Prestigiacomo for the Daily Wire reports, Fired up from the bombshell New York Times editorial written by an anonymous source claiming to be a senior member of the Trump administration and part of the “resistance,” President Donald Trump …
by John Rubino This is the last emerging market crisis story for a while, promise. But one angle – exactly how a plunging currency in a far-off place affects supposedly stable markets like the US – is worth exploring because …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1038772764306563075 Markets are just losing the "easy money" froth…. Fed balance sheet shrinks $260bn, market corrects $1.6 trillion. Sounds about right. https://t.co/uSgE3WJwYb — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) September 9, 2018 "Mission Accomplished" -10 yrs later the bubble today makes the prior …
via Iforgotmyhandle: Background I’m a software engineer that has been learning about Spark lately and leveraging data to figure out new information. As a pet project, I want to build a tool that can identify red flags in the economy and …
U.S. Discretionary Spending from Will Geary on Vimeo. Made with Processing: https://processing.org/ Data from the Office of Management and Budget: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/historical-tables/ (Table 8.8) h/t transitmapper
via Bloomberg: In Hong Kong, a city of property superlatives, add this one: World capital of flipping office floors. Logistics heir Johnny Cheung Shun-yee made roughly HK$900 million ($115 million) in about nine months by buying and selling two floors …
NYTimes article HONG KONG — Alibaba’s co-founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma, said he planned to step down from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to pursue philanthropy in education, a changing of the guard for the $420 billion internet …
by VisheshRai Bought solar city to bail out musk and his cousin Brother sits on board 14% first pass rate at factory Long list of senior executives leaving in past two years. “Funding Secured” but Saudis invested in competitor No …
by raddingy AWS is tailored for companies to move off of existing “legacy” datacenter operations into the cloud. They also have companies by the balls and, honestly, ethically I dislike them (though I haven’t really used anything else besides AWS). Developing …
via dipsplode: The Perks of Being a Wallflower FSO So, FedFIRE? Well, if you’re a federal employee, there are a couple of ways to retire early, and plenty of routes to financial independence, but I happen to be in the unusual (in a …
https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/08/african-swine-flu-is-causing-alarm-in-china-and-beyond From the article: This time the pig fever is stoking fears of inflation. The cost of pork has an inordinate effect on the consumer-price index. With a fifth of the world’s population, China consumes half its pork. The government …
via openzambia: The publication Africa Confidential has revealed that secret talks are underway for a Chinese company to takeover ZESCO. This is yet another instance of Zambia handing over sovereignty to the Chinese, putting us in a dubious position should we …
I’m trying to find news or other media concerning a bubble prior to the 08 housing crash. For example If jib jab knew it was coming 2 years prior there had to be other sources. http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/pubs/p1089.pdf I remember subprime started …
h/t @StockBoardAsset https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-08/cautionary-sign-insider-selling-soars-10-billion-amid-record-buybacks COT Report: $VIX Volatility Index Signaling Caution via @hedgopia The chart and data that follow highlight non-commercial commodity futures trading positions as of September 4, 2018. This data was released with the September 7, 2018 COT Report (Commitment of Traders). …
Authored by Richard Galustian via TheDuran.com, “Why does John Brennan need a security clearance other than to commercially exploit it? “ Let’s get something clear from the start. In 1976, in his 20s, John Brennan was a card-carrying communist who supported …
Via Investment Research Dynamics “Today’s job numbers might be the biggest disaster I’ve ever seen reported. This Fall could get real ugly real fast. The deterioration of the participation rate is so big it makes me suspicious of earlier numbers.” – …
Here is what the Swedish election means for the future of Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c48uMePUdro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxxr0T4qj3w https://truthfeednews.com/busted-kamala-harris-caught-using-taxpayer-dollars-for-her-lavish-travels/ They should vet our politicians the same way they do when interviewing candidates for the supreme court and I bet 99% of them would be rejected. I have had enough of untouchable politicians such as the Clintons …
What is wrong with socialism? – At it’s core socialism is force. The force of a government to tell you how to live your life. “Trying to do good with methods that involve force lead to bad results. Because the …
You should see this! He does a great job of telling how our constitution is SUPPOSED to work. I am making all my teenage kids watch it for homework! Republican senator from Nebraska says Congress too often punts its power …
President Obama switched into campaign mode Saturday morning, rallying an army of die-hard Democratic activists who gathered to hear him speak in Orange County. “We have the chance to flip the House of Representatives and make sure that we have …
via Doug Casey: You’re likely thinking that a discussion of “sound banking” will be a bit boring. Well, banking should be boring. And we’re sure officials at central banks all over the world today—many of whom have trouble sleeping—wish it were. …
Via Marketwatch Nearly half of Americans won’t owe a dime of federal income tax. Approximately 76.4 million or 44.4% of Americans won’t pay any federal income tax in 2018, up from 72.6 million people or 43.2% in 2016 before President …
A high school student was asked to leave a Trump rally in Montana after making animated facial expressions during the President’s speech. RH
by ssilBetulosbA Avaaz, a 47+ million member strong activist group that battles corruption, helps protect the environment and in general fights for human, animal and environmental rights across the globe, has been hit by a nasty subpoena after actively battling …