Average Cost of a Weeklong Holiday, in Selected Cities
via eyeball1234: Here’s the output for Sofia, using the same assumptions from the chart. Interested to hear your thoughts. https://imgur.com/a/BDW9nbd
How has EU development funding been shared out across its members states?
via UKHouseOfCommons: Sources: European Commission data Tools: PyQGIS API, GIMP, Adobe Illustrator This graphic shows the distribution of European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, Cohesion Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development from 1989 to 2015. If you want more information on EU funding for regions within its member states, you can find it … Read more
Potential tax loss harvesters: gentle reminder to re-examine any relevant automatic investments.
by DESTWOY Now that we’re approaching 31 days before the last trading day of 2018, it’s a good time to examine and/or temporarily pause/modify any automated investments to avoid triggering the wash sale rule. If you aren’t familiar with TLH, it’s (at a high level) the practice of selling losing investments as a way of … Read more
It’s a myth that a raise can cost you money in US Federal Income Taxes
by arghvark I’ve heard stories about people who got a raise only to find out that they were bringing home less money because of “taxes” on the additional income, and I’ve always been suspicious. It just didn’t sound right. So I’ve done calculations to satisfy myself that, in fact, it can’t happen as regards US … Read more
Shopping around for auto insurance: Found $1,715 in annual savings!
by taxable_efficiency I stayed with the same insurance company for auto since 2007. I added my wife to the policy when we got married in 2013, and then added a policy for our home in 2014. I noticed that the premiums were always trending up, as though there was no benefit for being a loyal … Read more
Buy Walmart, Target as online sales growth starts to outpace Amazon’s, Bank of America says
Bank of American Merrill Lynch says Target and Walmart online sales are outpacing those at Amazon and urges clients to buy the stocks. Analyst Robert Ohmes says Walmart saw its U.S.-owned e-commerce growth accelerate to 43 percent in the third quarter, while Target jumped 49 percent year-over-year. Ohmes adds that the snowballing growth has been … Read more
Kass Calls the Next Black Swan, and It’s Derivatives Death Star Deutsche Bank
via thestreet: Stocks quotes in this article: SHLD, DB, C, JPM, BAC, WFC * Large U.S. banks are rapidly gaining share in fixed income trading and retail and corporate lending Deutsche Bank’s shares hit another new low overnight. As I have written in the past, I view (DB) as the next Black Swan in Europe: “Like Sears (SHLD) , Deutsche Bank has … Read more
MUELLER CAN’T INDICT TRUMP ON MOSCOW HOTEL PROJECT WITHIN COHEN PLEA DEAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9Ns… Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says he lied about Trump’s knowledge of Moscow project
Personal income and spending, Pending home sales
by WARREN MOSLER No drama here: More housing weakness news: Highlights This has not been a good run for housing data. Pending home sales fell a very steep 2.6 percent in October which is far below Econoday’s consensus range. Existing home sales did end a long downturn in last week’s report but today’s results point strongly … Read more
Day 2: Deutsche Bank Compliance Chief, 5 Board Member Offices Raided – Stock Hits All Time Low
From Zero Hedge Reeling from a Morgan Stanley downgrade of European Banks and a second day of raids on its Frankfurt headquarters, Deutsche Bank shares declined by another 3% on Friday to a new all time low just above €8, bringing the YTD loss to 50%. In what appears to be the latest in a string … Read more
Caravan leaders are urging women volunteers to go on a hunger strike
Caravan leaders are urging women volunteers to go on a hunger strike, the goal is to pressure immigration to free their entry into the US (39:10) They want to keep women on hunger strike with the children in the immigration booth to protest h/t marcomartim
Does HRC Think She Can Defeat Trump In 2020? See Here As This Should Set The Record Straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9by-2y6eww Hillary thinks that by running for president again..that money will start pouring back into the Clinton foundation again …by other world leaders and corrupt elites as they donate millions to Hillary in order to get favors onces Hillary’s. elected into office again….play for pay…Hillary is planning on the dirty money rolling in from her … Read more
The world of negative interest-rates now has negative economic growth too
by Shaun Richards It was not that long ago that many of us “experts” in the interest-rate market felt that negative interest-rates could not be sustained. Back then the past Swiss example could be considered a tax – which remains a way of considering negative interest-rates – and the flicker in Japan was covered by … Read more
The concept of the Deep State is being pushed to the public to distract from the existence of the Shadow Government.
by TIMOTHY_TRISMEGISTUS One of my early introductions to conspiracy thought was the Deep Politics of Peter Scott Dale. I was very impressed with the cohesive argument that power is wielded in private and that the public facing heirarchies are nothing more than puppets parroting the will of occulted sources. I then found the Institute for … Read more
FBI raids home of Clinton Foundation & Uranium One whistleblower!
I might be wrong, but it looks to me like Hillary and the Deep State sent out their corrupt FBI goons to harass and intimidate a Clinton Foundation & Uranium One whistleblower, and perhaps even destroy evidence! ——– -The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton … Read more
There Is A Reason Why Pelosi Has Been In Power For Decades
The most corrupt politicians in control of the House and it’s committees, smh. This is going to be a huge circus the next 2 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYKDXXVIp0I AC
Watch This ATM Go HAYWIRE, Spit Out Free Money! The Bank’s Response is PRICELESS!
Hank Berrien for the Daily Wire reports, Some customers of a bank in Houston got an early Christmas gift on Sunday night: an ATM at a Bank of America dispensed $100 bills instead of $10s, and the word was spread on social media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olSESQAA6AE Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/38717/…
Weekend Reading: The Powell Put
by Lance Robert All it took was two 10% stock market corrections in a single year and some heavy “browbeating” from President Trump to reverse Jerome Powell’s hawkish stance on hiking interest rates. On Wednesday, Powell took to the microphone to give the markets what they have been longing for – the “Powell Put.” During his speech, Powell took … Read more
Trade, New home sales, Federal interest payments
by WARREN MOSLER Trade deficit still increasing: Highlights The goods portion of October’s trade deficit is deeper than expected, at $77.2 billion vs expectations for $76.9 billion and compared with a monthly average in the third-quarter of $74.6 billion. October’s data opens fourth-quarter net exports on a negative note following the third quarter when trade … Read more
The Next Financial Crisis Will Be DEFLATION First, Then Massive INFLATION!
Do you think we will see DEFLATION or INFLATION first? The next financial crisis will be much worse than 2008. It’s simple to understand why. We have decided not to fix the issues which were exposed in 2008 and instead actually just paper over them. This has fully resulted in a guaranteed catastrophic end. When … Read more