Visualizing the Extreme Concentration of Global Wealth

via visualcapitalist: In recent decades, extreme world poverty has declined significantly and many millions of people have joined the swelling ranks of the middle class – particularly in China. While these economic shifts are positive, it’s the other end of the global wealth spectrum that attracts the most attention. A high degree of wealth creation is amassed by … Read more

Forbes: A Worldwide Debt Default Is Coming

via Forbes: When Oracle rolled out its Autonomous Database earlier this year, Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison thought the biggest selling point would be that it eliminates the cost of human labor to patch, tune, upgrade, and secure the database. Another big selling point was that it eliminates human errors, since all of that work happens … Read more

Facebook is the ‘biggest concern’ among the FAANG stocks, analyst says

Facebook is the ‘biggest concern’ among the FAANGs: Analyst from CNBC. Wang said many of Facebook’s trust woes have been “centralized” around Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who was in the spotlight after a New York Times report in mid-November about the executive and the social media media company’s internal operations. The Times report came on the back … Read more

Presidential history of market timing. They have been pretty good.

Presidential history of market timing. They have been pretty. darn. good. pic.twitter.com/h9of1Gmtl9 — SentimenTrader (@sentimentrader) December 25, 2018     Trump, the Perpetual Stock Bull: “Really a Great Opportunity to Buy” “For Trump, the stock market has served as a barometer on his administration, and while he was pointing out virtually every major uptick for … Read more

The U.S. equity market meltdown in numbers

via thistimeitisdifferent: Records are being broken shattered … Technically, a bear market is a 20% or more drop from a recent peak. The S&P 500 is down 12.06% in 2018 (so far), the most since 2008. It is also down 20% from its peak of 2,940.91 so technically in a bear market. The S&P 500 is down 14.82% in December … Read more

2019 high odds the Bear continues. Global Liquidity far too tight… Central Banks to blame…big error

via @crossbordercap: Crashing Global Liquidity is making bonds look pretty good again… Post-G20, The US Dollar Is Armed And Pointed At Europe For 2019. Could Capital Flows Be The Trigger? http://bit.ly/2SnIdSX How Low Can They Go? Major Central Banks – China Apart – Tighten Further In current US$ terms, policy liquidity is shrinking at an even … Read more

The change in iPhone prices

via statista: The unveiling of the iPhone X was the most eagerly anticipated part of Apple’s launch extravaganza yesterday. The new handset made a daring design move in ditching the home button while it now boasts a facial scanner and the ability to make animated emojis. For some fans, the enthusiasm of the event and the enormous hype … Read more

‘Panic selling’: Global angst snowballs as Japan enters bear market

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average tumbled 5 per cent into a bear market on Christmas Day as the global equity rout continued unabated in the last week of the year, with renewed turmoil in Washington rattling investors. Tuesday’s selloff took its cue from the S&P 500’s worst-ever trading session before the Christmas holiday. Shares … Read more

SOME PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO DIMLY GRASP THAT THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRUMP’S THEATRICS AND TRUMP’S ACTIONS

via Twitter:   Gee, remember all the pussyhats claiming Trump would lead the country into many wars. Now they are mad at him for ending a war.   Scott Adams is arguing that Trump could conceivably end five wars in his first four-year term. – American forces out of Syria – American forces out of … Read more

THE ART OF THE LEGISLATIVE DEAL

Here is an explanation of how the compromise involved in passing the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 was itself compromised. The Democrats wanted a law that would allow easy registration. The Republicans wanted a law that would require states to keep their voting rolls clean and up to date. They both thought they had gotten what … Read more

Selective outrage

war is peace. libtards keep saying they want peace in the middle east but now we know for a fact they wanted perpetual war so they could virtue signal. the deep state was pleased with those retards.     h/t MrShekelstein