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By observing the eye movements of schizophrenia patients while playing a simple video game, a University of British Columbia researcher has discovered a potential explanation for some of their symptoms, including difficulty with everyday tasks.

Spent some time looking at DB’s reports / presentation. To understand DB’s problem you need to look back at Lehman. Here is Lehman’s last report (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/806085/000110465908045115/a08-18147_110q.htm) – if you look at assets / liabilities – their total assets were 639,432 million and total equity was 26,276. In essence levered 24:1. This high leverage means that … Read more

I hope you found this one informative. They give us these prepackaged statistics and they only tell you a very limited amount of information. Dig just one layer deeper and suddenly we see a much better picture. What do you think? There is a perpetual lie that is told to the public: Everything is fine. … Read more

by Adam Michael Every, Rabobank’s Head of Financial Markets Research Asia-Pacific, shares my view on today’s bizarro markets: If one ever wanted a perfect example of just what a mess we are in globally, look at the market reaction to Friday’s payrolls data. Even with the caveats offered in the last Daily (that the data … Read more

by Adam Where to from here? It all depends on what investors think Powell will do next:      

by Michael Snyder We are about to open up a can of worms that could turn our entire country completely upside down by the time it is all said and done. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes have been well known for a very long time, and I have been writing about them for many years. … Read more

by Michael Snyder Are we about to see some of the biggest names from Hollywood, Wall Street and Washington actually go to prison?  As I discussed in the first part of this series, the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein has the potential to erupt into the biggest scandal that America has ever seen.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office … Read more

by howmuch 2018 in general was not a great year for stocks, with the S&P 500 down 6.2%. However, the CEO compensation of S&P CEOs continued to rise, reaching a median of $12.4 million in 2018. What explains this unprecedented rise in executive compensation, and is it reason for concern? Our viz highlights the results of … Read more

by Top_P0st   Obvious statement is obvious, I know. Here is the deal, though. This topic is SO politically charged and important that your average, honest user, that is blinded by politics, will be here throwing shade one way or the other. There will most certainly be government actors and paid political activists here trying … Read more

by Adam Taggart Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. ~ Charles Mackay (1841) Like me, you may often feel gobsmacked when looking at the world around you. How did things get so … Read more

by Amy S. Are you ready for a major stock market crash and the next Great Depression? We continue to get more indications that U.S. economic conditions are going to deteriorate rapidly during the second half of this year. Yesterday, I reported on a brand new survey which found that 69 percent of U.S. CFOs … Read more

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by Simon Black Every time I come to Singapore I can’t help but marvel at its spectacular rise. I have a number of local friends who have been living here since independence in the 1960s, and they tell me the most incredible stories about how impoverished and underdeveloped Singapore was back then. Things were so backward … Read more