Volatility Numbness As Central Banks Keep QE’ing

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by confoundedinterest There are three prominent measures of volatility: VIX for the S&P 500 index, TYVIX for the 10-year Treasury Note, and MOVE (Ml Option Volatility Estimate Index). All three show an interesting pattern. The stable volatility patterns prior to the massive Fed intervention starting in Q4 2007. That never ended. Here is the massive Fed … Read more

Soaring inventory in Southern California

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via doctorhousingbubble: So much for the spring and early summer bounce.  Southern California is seeing a large increase of inventory.  And some of this inventory is coming in the form of new condos and homes.  The housing bull market was so good that builders jumped back into the mix to get top price for properties.  But … Read more

10 Proven Ways to Build Trust With Employees

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by visualcapitalist Making progress towards ambitious and complex organizational objectives can be a tricky endeavor for even the most accomplished of teams. But if there was ever a surefire recipe to make this undertaking more difficult, it’d be embarking on these kinds of goals with a team that doesn’t actually trust each other. Not only does … Read more

The United States of Unemployment Benefits: Here’s What You Need to Know in 2019

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by howmuch The first half of 2019 has yielded some optimism for the U.S. economy. For example, unemployment is near its lowest point in about 50 years. At the same time, the U.S. economy has experienced the longest period of sustained economic growth ever. However, recent concerns about slower wage gains and a global economic slowdown raise the question of how … Read more

CNN Admits 2020 Democrats’ “Voters, You’re All Wrong” Strategy Is The Dumbest Ever

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via Zerohedge: Democratic presidential candidates appear to have painted themselves into a corner – abandoning their giant moderate base in order to ‘out-left’ each other, while promoting “radical, nonsensical, unpopular ideas that please only a slim minority of your own people” according to CNN‘s S. E. Cupp. In a blistering monologue on Saturday, Cupp suggested that the 2020 … Read more

Is ULIP a Better Investment Option than the Traditional Pension Plan?

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In order to fulfill the long-term and short-term financial goals of life, it is very important to make proper financial planning. However, while doing financial planning, people often ignore the important aspect of planning for post-retirement. In order to live the golden days of retirement in a relaxed and stress-free way, it is very important … Read more

Southern California & Seattle Join Markets with Falling Rents

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Apartment rents declined from peaks in Seattle, Southern California, New York, Oakland, San Jose, Chicago, Honolulu. But 8 markets show double-digit increases. Seattle and Southern California are the big new-comers among the most expensive rental markets whose rents have turned south. In Chicago and Honolulu, apartment rents have plunged since 2015. San … Read more

How much money Data Scientists make

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by thiagobc23 I made this analysis based on responses from last years Kaggle survey, I focused on the three countries with the highest amount of respondents. Here is the hosted notebook, feel free to check the full analysis or play around with the notebook. Source: Kaggle Survey 2018 Tools: Python and Photoshop

America’s Concealed Crisis: Fifty Years of Economic Decline, 1969 to 2019

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by Charles Hugh-Smith If we consider the long term, it’s clear America’s economy and society have been declining for the average household for 50 years. What if the “prosperity” of the past 50 years is mostly a statistical mirage for the bottom 80% of households? What if whatever real gains (adjusted for real-world loss of purchasing … Read more

The bigger the rise, the harder the fall.

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The bigger the rise, the harder the fall. https://t.co/SVEaRyv9tY — Nomi Prins (@nomiprins) July 1, 2019 This month marks the longest period of time the U.S. economy has gone without a recession, just edging past the economic cycle that ended when the dot com bubble burst. Why it matters: This milestone comes at one of the … Read more