China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score has already banned 11 million flights and 4 million train trips by “undesirables.”

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via zerohedge: The “Beijing Further Optimization of the Business Environment Action Plan (2018-2020)” has just been distributed to all district committees, district governments, municipal party committees, local government ministries and commissions bureaus, various head offices, multiple people’s organizations, colleges, and universities. The new report details Beijing’s ambitious plan to control each of its 22 million citizens based on a system of social scoring that punishes … Read more

“Property is the biggest risk in China in the next 12 months, much greater than the US-China trade war”

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via scmp: Home prices have skyrocketed 325 per cent in the past two decades. OP Capital’s chief executive Oscar Choi said he’s “100 per cent sure” there’s a bubble in the housing market. Meanwhile, overbuilding has emerged as a concern. Local governments’ reliance on land sales for revenue has led to ghost cities – fully built but unoccupied. … Read more

List of Finance Free Courses

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by thequanttt13 Excel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H8SEcfTAXkwjlHXm0lF-ROglEXHiLyj Capital Budgeting https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H8SEcfTAXm7fyZMEDYhaBoeUerYtxJ5 Working Capital Management https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H8SEcfTAXnCoAu-2SR28m4iXLcxRfwH Finance 101 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H8SEcfTAXkOcrOQ_qYORmi1mtvfHbAk Accounting https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H8SEcfTAXnA42_To-s6bI_2xIuJPfvv Financial Statements Analysis https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H8SEcfTAXlbakU7emSZBFoFJQPlQUZt Financial Analyst Full Course https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H8SEcfTAXkGKvfYaBniT0boAwMkRqHt    

Cumulative return for FAANG stocks in 2018

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by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsvCoreUcAA1AIE.jpg FANG got wrecked this year – so far. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google parent Alphabet plummeted during 2018, compounding weakness that has plagued the broader tech space. At least one of those names could have hit a bottom, according to Matt Maley, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. “The stock … Read more

3D data visualization tool for financial statements

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via ghostofgbt: What’s up everyone! I wanted to share an update to this site which I’ve been working on for the last few months cause it’s REALLY awesome and gives you a very cool way to navigate financial statements: in three dimensions! I got this idea after stumbling across an awesome charting library called eCharts and I was … Read more

Will DOJ Hold Bullion Banks Accountable?

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via Money Metals: It is hard to cheer for the Department of Justice these days, but federal prosecutions have begun to offer hope for precious metals investors hurt by rigged markets and crooked traders. The DOJ looks poised to do what regulators at the CFTC have not. They will use evidence of blatant cheating and fraud … Read more

Is crypto finished?

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by Simon Black Think back to this time last year, around 2017’s Thanksgiving holiday in the US. . . As you probably remember, BITCOIN was the dominant theme of the day, whether around the dinner table or in the news headlines. Crypto prices had soared throughout 2017, climbing from $1,000 at the beginning of the year … Read more

What can we expect next from UK house prices?

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by Shaun Richards A feature of the credit crunch era has been the way that central banks have concentrated so much firepower on the housing market so that they can get house prices rising again. Of course they mostly hide under the euphemism of asset prices on this particular road. For them it is a … Read more

U.S. companies benefiting from 2017 arms deal with Saudi Arabia and the politicians these companies support

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by loratcha Factbox: Deals signed by U.S. companies in Saudi Arabia, Reuters, May 20, 2017 U.S. and Saudi Arabian companies signed tens of billions of dollars of business deals on Saturday as Riyadh sought help to develop its economy beyond oil during a visit by President Donald Trump. National oil firm Saudi Aramco said it … Read more

Marriage dying. Less sex. More loneliness. Society dying.

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by Fabius Maximus Summary: The results of fourth wave feminism begin to appear. Marriage is dying, people are living isolated lonely lives. The stress on America society will be immense as these trends continue. “The sexual revolution, however, wanted men and women to get together bodily, while feminism wanted them to be able easily to get along … Read more

Who Owns The Fed, And Does It Even Matter?

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by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report The Federal Reserve isn’t “federal” and it has no “reserves.” Is it a public institution? No…Is it private? No again…Is it Constitutional? Absolutely not!…Who owns The Fed, and does it even matter?  

Night video of illegals climbing over US-Mexico border wall, kicking aside concertina wire

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by Dr. Eowyn Rodney S. Scott is Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol – San Diego Sector. On November 15, 2018, Scott posted to Istagram a video taken the night before, of two men climbing over the border wall and kicking aside the coils of concertina wire that our military had placed along the border to discourage and prevent the … Read more

The Agenda 2030 Smart City Challenge – Gov’t To Award $75 Million For Best Smart City Design

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via Press For Truth: The following video was produced by Press For Truth Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. owns a company called Sidewalk Labs, and they are working with the Canadian government to launch a new “smart city” at the waterfront of downtown Toronto called “Quayside.” Quayside is proposing a centralized identity management system which each resident … Read more

Thousands More ‘Enemy Combatant’ Migrants Expected To Arrive In Tijuana And Will Also Be Demanding Asylum In The United States

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by Geoffrey Grider Thousands of additional migrants are expected to arrive Tijuana, Mexico, expecting to claim asylum at the U.S border. The migrants expected to arrive are in addition to the approximately 5,000 migrants who already arrived in this border city during recent days. The border battle is on. Emboldened by wins by the Democrats in … Read more