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by AvocadosfromHell I had a really great year with my company (very large 50000+ employees), deployed 2 new initiatives and was a major part of my department’s bi-annual audit. We got the best scores ever, and both my boss and his boss stated that it was in large part due to the information I was … Read more
by IlhanOmarsBrother I bought a house with less than 20% down in a hot market five years ago. Based on Zillow and asking prices for other houses in my neighborhood, I figured my house has appreciated about 50% since then. My mortgage is a 30 yr conventional fixed from Bank of America. Last year, … Read more
by Eff_taxes Can PayPal Continue Win Streak When It Reports Q2 Earnings? Danny Vena July 20, 2019 PYPL$ 118.63 -$ 1.24 (-1.0%) When PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) reported first-quarter revenue in line with analysts’ estimates and better-than-expected earnings per share three months ago, the stock climbed 3% on the day after its report. But that rise was just … Read more
by wisconsinmad S&P-500 performance over several decades summarized pictorially https://imgur.com/TAIBwqH https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/52950f6a69bedd9d4346b35b-960-720.jpg http://amarginofsafety.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Return-Histogram-Through-2013.jpg https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data https://www.callan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Classic-Periodic-Table-2019.pdf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVTKIZTX4AA9DAe.jpg:large If anyone has any more interesting pictorial images to share for the S&P-500’s historical performance, please share in this thread.
Link here Investors in startups have generally frowned upon founders who cash out large chunks of shares ahead of a public-markets debut, because it raises questions about their confidence in the company. On the other hand, people close to Mr. Neumann say, his borrowings against some of his WeWork shares indicate that he is bullish … Read more
by r98986 Last night, I was taking a hot shower and had some shower thoughts, and got this breakthrough idea which might be able to help me offset -$56k losses that have occurred to me in the past few years since 2012. (Not my fault. You know that the market has been difficult for … Read more
The squeeze on state and local government finances in the US is starkly visible in their sharply falling share of employment since 2009. @WellsFargo via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/ISvEMKKlqH — Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) July 19, 2019
by Natura Naturans Einstein wrote: ”to understand electron means to understand Physics“. Maxwell-Dirac Theory and Occam’s Razor: Unified Field, Elementary Particles, and Nuclear Interactions 1) Does exist a a scalar field that is the four divergence of the four electromagnetic potential 2) Charge density is the partial time derivative of the scalar field 3) Current density … Read more
by David Haggith News of significant recessionary drops in the US became as relentless this past week as the ping, ping, pang of drips from a leaking ceiling hitting pans in the New York Stock Exchange. I’ve been saying you would hear the sounds of recession everywhere as soon as the second-quarter earnings reporting season began … Read more
by visualcapitalist With a decade-long bull market and an ultra low interest rate environment globally, it’s not surprising to see capital flock to housing assets. For many investors, real estate is considered as good of a place as any to park money—but what happens when things get a little too frothy, and the fundamentals begin to … Read more
The big tech censorship is a result of Obama’s legacy. On January, 20th, 2017, hours before Trump’s inauguration, Obama signed the “Talent Act of 2017” bill into law. After Trump’s inauguration, 0bama left D.C. The first thing on his agenda, immediately after President Trump’s inauguration, was to meet with the tech giants in California. Thus … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Note: This is a re-publish of a post that was originally published on August 16, 2016, but the post is lost after WordPress unilaterally took down Fellowship of the Minds on August 15, 2018. Fortunately, PaperBlog had reblogged it, which enables me to re-publish it. Chutzpah (definition): A Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word (חֻוצְפָּה), meaning “insolence”, … Read more
I Love My freedom reports, CNN tried to convince a group of conservative women that President Donald Trump is “racist,” and it backfired in hilarious fashion. CNN’s Randi Kaye moderated a focus group with several Republican women and asked if they thought it was racist for Trump to tell “The Squad” — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Joel B. Pollak reports for Breitbart, July 19, 2019, that although self-identified socialist and 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) said he supports a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour, workers on his presidential campaign complain they are making “poverty wages” and demand that he pay them a $15/hour minimum wage. … Read more
via techdirt: The CIA is pushing for an expansion of a 37-year-old law that would deter journalists from covering national security issues or reporting on leaked documents. Thanks to a disillusioned CIA case officer’s actions in 1975, there are currently a few limits to what can or can’t be reported about covert operatives working overseas. … Read more
By JLC China recorded a year-on-year decline in its gasoline production in June 2019, the first time so far this year, which has also been rarely seen over past years. The country produced 11.17 million mt of gasoline in June, a decline of 2.3 percent year on year, according to data from the country’s National Bureau … Read more
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton on emails showing dossier-linked State Dept. officials discussing meeting on ‘Russia matter’ in 2016. #Hannity #FoxNews
by John Ward It might feel like convenience. It might look like progress. It may seem to be good for the economy. It may convince you that we need more protection from terrorists. But the ‘It’ I’m talking about – universal digital purchase via smart plastic – is nothing less than the transfer of all our … Read more
