Wall Street’s Newest Frankenstein Scam: “Collateralized Fund Obligations”

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via bloomberg: The townspeople just can’t win. Consider Wall Street’s latest financial Frankenstein of a bad idea, collateralized fund obligations. Perhaps a better monster metaphor would be zombies, because these securities are the sort of terrible concoction that rise out of the Wall Street swamp and don’t seem to die. Collateralized fund obligations, or CFOs, were first given … Read more

“Stimulypto! How The Federal Reserve’s Stimulus Model Is Like A Block Of Sugar”

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via confoundedinterest: Following The Great Recession and the financial crisis, The Federal Reserve enacted their zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and started buying Treasury Notes and Agency MBS.  QE1, the first round of asset purchases by The Fed starting in late 2008, was like a block of sugar for the economy and real hourly wages.  Real Average Hourly Earnings … Read more

8 Billionaires Own as Much Wealth as 3.6 Billion People (Half the World’s Population)

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by howmuch If you want stark visual proof of global inequality, here it is. Both halves of this graph represent an equal amount of global wealth. The top half consists of the world’s eight richest billionaires. The bottom half represents the poorest half of humanity – that’s 3.6 billion people. Such levels of global wealth … Read more

Hussman: Current Conditions “Often Occur Within a Few Days of Pre-Collapse Peaks in the Market”

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via John P. Hussman, Ph.D.: Chuck Prince famously said we have to dance until the music stops. Actually the music had stopped already when he said that. – George Soros In recent days, the combination of extreme valuations and unfavorable market internals has been joined by acute dispersion in daily trading data that often occurs within … Read more

An index-plus strategy where you buy the S&P and then buy the top performers in it would not have significantly improved your performance and in fact would have hurt it in the last 30 years.

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by nowrongturns I see a common strategy that many tend to employ is to pick an index like the s&p and then pick some of the stocks in the top 10 of the index that they think are good companies. The idea behind this is to get a boost by increasing the concentration of the … Read more

Yes, Italy Is Greece All Over Again…Only the Crisis Is 7x Larger

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Could Italy be the next Greece? “Italy to Bow to EU and Cut Deficit Targets, Corriere Says” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/italy-to-bow-to-eu-and-cut-deficit-to-2-in-2021-corriere-says?srnd=premium-europe Despite bowing down to the EU and cutting the budget deficit, do you guys think that their populist government will become more fiscally responsible? Imo we might see a scenario similar to the 2010 Greek debt crisis … Read more

CDC: Steep increases in sexually-transmitted diseases, esp. syphilis

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by Dr. Eowyn Despite sex ed classes in public schools and a wealth of information on the Internet about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), increasing numbers of Americans still manage to get infected. So much for human rationality, which is the necessary foundation for a republic in which citizens supposedly employ their capacity for reason to … Read more

The worst totalitarian since Mao

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From the American Conservative: This summer, a UN panel received reports of a human rights crisis unfolding in China’s far western Xinjiang province. The information showed that as many as two million people had been subjected to an intense political indoctrination and reeducation program. The backlash has largely focused on the ethno-religious nature of this crisis. Pakistan, China’s … Read more

Why self-checkout will lead to less privacy

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From Vox: Rochester, New York, is a notorious model of terrible urban planning and idiotic corporate sponsorship. On the underdeveloped side of the Genesee River, next to the bus station, sits the “National Museum of Play,” an odd institution founded by Margaret Woodbury Strong — a Rochester native who inherited millions of dollars and used it to collect thousands … Read more

As Seen On Forbes: Higher Volatility Is Likely Ahead

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by Jesse Colombo As seen on Forbes by RealInvestmentAdvice.com’s Jesse Colombo: “Why Another Market Volatility Surge Is Likely Ahead“: The U.S. stock market is climbing to record highs once again and volatility has calmed down dramatically from its panic-induced levels reached earlier this year. Traders have become complacent as they passively ride the stock market higher and … Read more

Sick Leftists Attack Trump’s Motorcade In NYC, He Rolls Down Window And Gives Shock Of Their Lives

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ZMMuy8-2s Jorge Washington for Right Wing News Reports, There is literally no escaping the liberal madness. In what is a hilarious outburst of TDS, someone caught President Trump’s motorcade going through New York City as protesters screamed at him. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://rwnofficial.com/sick-leftists…

Trump – One Accuser Turned Down $750,000!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLHDDpqN6k Synopsis: Shortly before the 2016 election, the desperate Dems did to then candidate Trump exactly what they are now doing to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – have George Soros-funded groups pay women to accuse him of a variety of misconduct. These anarchist leftists behind this illicit funding know that even if their smears … Read more

They get their pay raised to $15 an hour but they lose out on the employee stock purchase plan, and will no longer recieve bonuses based on performance.

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by flying_panini_press So in the end Amazon is actually saving a bunch of money as well on top of killing mom and pop shops. For the many low wage Amazon workers – both full time and temporary – set to receive a raise thanks to the just announced boost in minimum pay to $15/hour, the … Read more

Artificial sweeteners have repeatedly been linked to obesity, cancer, type 2 diabetes, migraines and even liver toxicity.

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A new study shows that 6 artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame and acesulfame potassium-k) are all toxic to gut bacteria. For years, aspartame and other artificial sweeteners have been associated with an increase in diabetes and other obesity-related conditions. Marketed as a “healthy alternative” to sugar, because they contain virtually no calories, it … Read more