$VIX Crush

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via northmantrader: Every week the village gathers and watches the regularly scheduled public crushing of Mr. $VIX. It doesn’t matter what happens in the world during the week, it doesn’t matter what economic reports may bring, or what earnings reports may miss. Every single Friday, irrespective of any new data, Mr. $VIX is found guilty and … Read more

The MYTH of Trickle Down Economics

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlWCnA7TbNU In this supercharged episode of Political Juice, Juice Boy takes on all the tough questions of life…and economics. “Trickle-Down Theory” and “Tax Cuts For The Rich”. All my life I’ve been hearing about “The Trickle”. Time to bust this myth. Get your juice ready.    

FRAUDS EXPOSED: AOC found thru Casting Call! 5 Dems recruited-Political equivalent of Spice Girls

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsObPEj9ZAY&feature=youtu.be&t=165 That’s right #AlexandriaOccasionalCortex is a fraud! She was found like a Hollywood Casting Call. And the other Radicals were recruited precisely because of their ethnicity and skin color. And they say Republicans are racist? I expose the evil group behind these MANUFACTURED CANDIDATES… #IlhanOmar #RashidaTliab #JoshBernsteinShow    

George Wallace on State’s Rights: “Not one of the 13 colonies wanted to enter the state of the union unless they were GUARANTEED a government of limited power.

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Property is desirable. It is a positive good in the world. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work dilligently and build one for himself. Thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. President Lincoln It is readily apparent that the … Read more

Comedian Explains Why Facebook Is Evil (Video)

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Don McMillan shares his Greatest Charts for 2018. Charts include: Nerd vs Geek, Printer Ink Price, USB Configurations, Network Security Expert Career Path, First Thing You Do When You Get Out of Bed, The Facebook Proof, Shopping With My Wife, and The Key to a Long Happy Marriage. Keep Laughing!    

Yield Curve Pointing Towards 2019 Market Peak

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Originally posted at RecessionAlert.com Based on the methodology discussed here, we hereby update our U.S Yield-curve inversion forecast and subsequent recession and stock market peak forecasts. All the forecast dates have moved forward by 1 month as the yield curve continues to print below its regression mean: As a matter of interest, 60% of all 10 possible … Read more

US is Cleanest Dirty Shirt Among Manufacturing Giants. China, Japan & Germany Sink

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The four account for 58% of global manufacturing value added. And the big exporters are getting hit. The global slowdown in manufacturing progressed another notch in February. Among the top four manufacturing giants in the world, the US is the cleanest dirty shirt. Together, they produced 58% of the world’s “value added in … Read more

It’s All About Who Reaps the Gains (Asset Bubbles) and Who Eats the Losses (Stagnating Wages)

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Even if the Fed hadn’t institutionalized perverse incentives to borrow and speculate in asset bubbles, the economy would still be generating far fewer winners than losers. If we scrape away the shuck and jive (a difficult task when the majority of what the media presents is shuck and jive) the whole economy boils down … Read more

Global Internet Gaming Traffic Share

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by theimpossiblesalad   View this post on Instagram   Global Internet Gaming Traffic Share #internet #gaming #data #bigdata #leagueoflegends #fortnite #overwatch #minecraft #pubg #destinythegame #worldofwarcraft #warframe #blackdessertonline #clashofclans #statistics A post shared by Statistics Data Facts (@statistics_data_facts) on Mar 1, 2019 at 8:41pm PST   Source: I gathered the data from Sandvine’s “The Global Internet … Read more

Proposal To Put Bodycams On Politicians

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via defensemaven: Springfield, IL – A Republican lawmaker has introduced legislation that would require all elected officials in Illinois to wear bodycams while conducting public business. Illinois State Representative John Cabello said he sponsored his legislation to try and reduce political corruption at state and local levels, the Rockford Register Star reported. “We see the dealings going on … Read more

Mind The Red Ponzi: China’s Building Boom Hits The Great Wall….Of Debt! Manufacturing Shrinks For Third Straight Month In February

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‘There’s No Money Right Now’: China’s Building Boom Runs Into a Great Wall of Debt A building splurge in this impoverished pocket of rural China ended in half-finished projects and a trail of angry investors from some of the country’s wealthiest areas.On a recent winter workday, investors and representatives from private fund companies in Shanghai … Read more

Too Big to Fail: First, Pose a Systemic Risk, Then Make Crazy Bets and Conduct Fraud

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via trueeconomics: Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and through subsequent Euro area crises, the EU frameworks for reforming financial services have invariably been anchored to the need for reducing the extent of systemic risks in European banking. While it is patently clear that Euro area’s participation in the GFC has been based … Read more

Millennials Owe Over $1 Trillion in Debt and This Makes Millennials Sad

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via salon: Though older Americans may be perplexed by the cynicism and self-deprecating nature of millennial culture, it turns out there’s good reason: the economic outlook for millennials is dismal. A new report finds that the sum of young Americans’ debt is in the 13-figure range — much of it student debt. According to the New York Federal Reserve Consumer … Read more

Nike’s latest financial quarter, visualised.

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by chartr Made this in response to the generally positive feedback on the Apple one I did previously. Thought Nike was an interesting company to visualise. ​ Hilariously, in their SEC filing they spent $900m on what they called “Demand Creation Expense”. I have called this marketing because… what on earth. ​ But yeah pretty … Read more

Vanguard S&P500 Index Fund $VOO Expense Ratio Lowered from 0.04% to 0.03%

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by notabot_v1 $VOO Expense Ratio Lowered from 0.04% to 0.03% Congrats to all you Bogleheads — the most boring investment just got a little cheaper. via MarketWatch: Vanguard Group will not be outdone. A fintech start-up offered zero-fee ETFs first, but that’s quickly becoming old news. The latest annual reports by Vanguard, the $5 trillion money … Read more