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Small Business Owners Push Back Against Mischaracterization of Trump’s Tax Cuts. FLASHBACK: Congrats to Vox.com’s Matt Yglesias, who just admitted ‘in one tweet’ how progressives lie about Trump’s tax cuts: h/t SG
via mercurynews: Even under the rosiest of regulatory scenarios, California’s residential construction industry needs at least 200,000 new workers to produce enough new housing to improve affordability. But it is struggling to compete for them. Industry leaders often claim it’s because “Young people don’t want to get their hands dirty;” “Parents are pushing college instead of … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter There are now 486 EV manufacturers in China, triple from two years ago. Most will disappear. New vehicle sales in China plunged 14% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers today. For the whole year 2018, new vehicle sales had dropped 4.1%, the first such … Read more
by Shanshan_33 source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?view=chart&year_high_desc=false https://instantnoodles.org/en/noodles/market.html Tool: Tableau
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/13/analysts-dont-know-what-to-make-of-ubers-100-billion-valuation.html Analysts got their first look into Uber’s financials on Thursday, but they still are unsure whether they justify a $100 billion valuation. Uber posted an adjusted EBITDA loss of $1.85 billion in 2018 and showed slowing revenue growth. Lyft’s debut on the public market has been less than stellar, hitting a new low on … Read more
by EarningsCallsApp Net revenues of $8.81 billion and net earnings of $2.25 billion for Q1 2019. EPS $5.71 Annualized ROE: 11.1% Annualized ROTE: 11.7% BVPS: $209.07 TBVPS: $198.25 Investing & Lending net revenues included record quarterly net interest income in debt securities and loans of $835 million. Net Revenue decrease compared with Q1 2018 … Read more
As of the end of 2018, net worth as a share of the U.S. total had shrunk considerably for the upper middle class. In one generation, U.S. wealth held by households from 50th to the 90th percentiles fell from 35.2 percent of the total to 29.1 percent. Most of this wealth has transferred to the … Read more
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 4/14/19 Jason talks about Franco Nevada (NYSE:FNV), which, in his opinion, is the most bulletproof, gold stock. However, the stock is almost never cheap. The company, which re-IPOd in 2007 has over 100 producing assets generating cash flow and has 11 straight years of progressive dividends.
There’s been a lot of accusations of incitement by elected Democrats and the media this week. Here’s a video of real incitement, elected Democrats and Media should know what it looks like since they’ve engaged in it for three years now. Video by @MarkDice https://t.co/YyufGDJE3s — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 14, 2019 Related: Plus: Pay attention … Read more
Europe looks to remold internet with new copyright rules LONDON (AP) — The European Union has approved a copyright overhaul that aims to give more protection to artists and news organizations but which critics say will stifle freedom of speech and online creativity and punish smaller web companies. Artists, celebrities and tech experts have spoken … Read more
My Campaign to become an MEP for South West England 194,252 views … Sargon of Akkad Published on Apr 12, 2019 It’s time to be the change we want to see. If you do not know who Sargon of Akkad is, he is a popular internet personage doing political and social commentary. Listen to his … Read more
Well this may be one way to solve the homeless situation. Man Living in a 10’x10′ Tiny House & Homesteading in the City h/t Supporter
Jimmy really lays into the fake lefty fake newsers. New torture technique called “Walling”; they throw prisoners against a wall. Jimmy does a great job of showing some of the awful things they have exposed. Particularly Neera Tanden arguing Libya should pay us back for destroying their country so we could afford social programs here … Read more
https://twitter.com/sotiridi/status/1117815477026398208 Congolese Migrants Monitored for Ebola Along Texas Border, Says Official A public health official in Laredo, Texas, said 20 Congolese migrants were monitored for Ebola and other diseases in shelters in his city and across the Mexican border in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Shortly after his announcement during a Laredo City Council meeting, the World Health … Read more
Spire of Paris’s 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral COLLAPSES as fire ravages historic building with flames erupting through the roof – with Macron lamenting seeing ‘part of us burn’ Officials in Paris said a large operation had been launched in an attempt to bring the raging fire under control Pictures from around the city posted on … Read more
so the wave of guide downs starting? pic.twitter.com/nDlob8FDel — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 15, 2019 https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1117831277896450048 ‘Growth Stocks Haven’t Been This Expensive Since the Dot-Com Peak’ Global value stocks near cheapest since 2000 versus growth Bernstein, SocGen quants see tactical case for value rebound For students of market history, the third month of the 21st century … Read more
by confoundedinterest17 As I wrote at the beginning of The Fed’s quantitative easing (QE) ventures back in 2008, The Fed will never be able to “normalize” monetary policy. As we have seen, The Fed has all but quit rate hikes and has annoucned end an to QT (quanitative tightening) in the Fall. In celebration of the … Read more
by Adam Taggart EHSToday “A bully is always a coward.” ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton The current market rally is like a playground bully; shoving to the ground anyone in its path. But like all bullies, the braggadocio belies an underlying cowardice. Those in charge of the status quo must be absolutely terrified to resort to … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNlHXYzvrmc When President Donald Trump declassifies all the FISA-related documents—as he has vowed to do—we’ll see a most sordid story of how top FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) officials launched a politically motivated “counter-intelligence” investigation of the Trump campaign, using confidential informants who were sent to entrap innocent people.