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via gizmodo: The business team wanted to get Bluetooth permissions so it could push ads to people’s phones when they walked into a store. Meanwhile, the growth team, which is responsible for getting more and more people to join Facebook, wanted to get “Read Call Log Permission” so that Facebook could track everyone whom an Android … Read more
via freebeacon: The pro-free market Goldwater Institute and Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance petitioned the high court to review the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s unanimous ruling approving campaign finance restrictions placed on for-profit businesses. The state court ruled in 1A Auto, Inc. and 126 Self Storage, Inc. v. Sullivan that the law did not infringe on the First … Read more
Mueller cannot find Russian collusion. Comey testifies behind closed doors and refuses to answer question or says he can’t remember. Does admit dossier was not verified. House Chair Nadler will end investigation, Senate was the target. Trump nominates Barr, stealth move to put all eyes on Barr which will allow Whitaker to work behind the … Read more
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by Charles Hugh-Smith We seem to be heading into a confrontation between the two forces of Modernism: the primacy of the individual versus the increasing technological and economic might of the central state. In Kafka’s Nightmare Emerges: China’s “Social Credit Score” (May 7, 2018), I wrote about Kafka’s vision of a bureaucratic nightmare emerging in China’s “Social … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The biggest housing markets of the West Coast — the Seattle metro, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Los Angeles and San Diego metros — went through phenomenal price inflation over the past few years, with prices having shot way past their highs of Housing Bubble 1, before it imploded. … Read more
Steve Jobs, the genius of modern times, is undoubtfully worth this title. And not because he created one of the most expensive companies in the world: we’ll see later that it was not money that made him move forward. During 40 years of activity, he made revolutions in five different fields: personal computers, music, phones, … Read more
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1071472937138614272 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1071570254730530817 Breaking down this support would virtually eliminate near-term potential for $SPX $ES_F to be saved & trigger the boxed scenario (in red) targeting 2189 pic.twitter.com/zymyBhbZYO — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) December 8, 2018 $SPX going back 20 years. Red circles when 50 day crossed below flattish 200 day. Not a bullish sign obviously. We'll see … Read more
IMHO:1) Dollar in range of past 5 years2) 2018 was global synchronized growth, now synchronized slowdown3) EM face massive maturity wall in USD 19 and 204) Commodities collapsed All = Run away from EMs into a deflationary slowdown with massive $ denominated maturities ahead — Daniel Lacalle Official Account (@dlacalle_IA) December 8, 2018 https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/1071475282421403648 1881 … Read more
Job growth slows, wage growth misses, the number of people out of the workforce is at 1976 lows. House flipping is at an all time low, this is an indicator that the housing market is slowing down. Trump indicates that the negotiations are going well with China. Manufacturing increases but we need about 5 million … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer was arrested as part of a U.S. investigation into an alleged scheme to use the global banking system to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran, according to people familiar with the probe. The United States has been looking since at least 2016 into … Read more
(Bloomberg) — People’s Bank of China adviser Ma Jun has probed the economy for triggers of financial turbulence, and proposed measures including direct bailouts of enterprises and bank re-capitalization should a crisis hit. Property bubbles, local government contingent debt, the heavy reliance on land sales for financing or the shadow banking sector could set off … Read more
by pikindaguy Put together a google sheet here with weekly data from the past 10 years: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H_mm_G5edQio-iCLAbnbg_ApgMarh–jTarHgxeoHTI/edit#gid=0 I’m not much for data visualization so let me know if anything needs clarity here.
It’s second dividend cut announcement this year for the beleaguered company. GE’s stock is down by nearly 60 percent this year. General Electric made its painful dividend cut official on Friday, with the company’s board of directors authorizing the payout to be cut to just a penny a share. GE first announced in late October it … Read more
via yahoo: A few double negatives buried in legislative text may have inadvertently freed nearly all U.S. banks from a regulation known as the Volcker Rule, which sought to curb risky behavior in response to the 2008 financial crisis. The text in question comes from a package bill passed in May that pared back portions of the … Read more
by bigbear0083 Can we just all admit now that the technology behind it is great, but seeing as it can be replicated endlessly and improved beyond what it is now reduces the value of bitcoin. No to mention that when it becomes unprofitable to mine, people pulled the plug and cut their losses. It … Read more
1 hour documentary that truly reveals the scam of Babylonian Money Magic. Bankers are financial gangsters. The Fed needs to be shut down and all debt wiped out ASAP. https://youtu.be/4FyZ8UMXXxA AC
2 NYC GOOGLE EMPLOYEES DEAD! (Both In Their 20’s) “Two New York City Google employees, both in their twenties, are dead. Twenty two year old Scott Krulcik and twenty seven year old Vanessa Marcotte, both of the NYC Google headquarters have both met an untimely death in their twenties.” Pete Santilli1 Published on Dec 8, … Read more
“Europe is not free, because freedom begins with speaking the truth. Today in Europe, it is forbidden to speak the truth… Europe is under invasion, countries that don’t stop [Islamic] immigration will be lost…” https://youtu.be/EbINrdyAXlE http://grainoftruth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Listen-to-Hungarys-PM-Viktor-Orbán-Speak-G0Ds-Words.mp4?_=1 http://grainoftruth.ca/listen-to-hungarys-pm-viktor-orban-speak-g0ds-words/
Nigel Farage has said it is his “destiny” to fight for Brexit as he unveils his plans to launch a new political party to fight next year’s European Parliament elections if the Government delays Britain’s exit from the European Union. Talks have been going on for a number of months about his new party but … Read more