Cliff Asness On Buybacks – Boosting Returns or Liquidating Companies?

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by John Coumarianos Asset manager Cliff Asness recently wrote an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal wondering if those who decried companies buying back their stock didn’t suffer from “buyback derangement syndrome.” Asness allowed that net investment, normalized by total assets or total market capitalization, was recently lower for companies in the Russell 3000 Index than it was in … Read more

John Rubino – Better to Stay Out of Politics

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from Financial Survival Network John Rubino and I discussed the recent conviction of Paul Manafort and the guilty plea of Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. I blew the call on Manafort. Thought for sure the jury would hang on all counts. Cohen is an interesting case. Did Trump really commit a crime, probably not. But who … Read more

THIS IS A GOOD IDEA: New rules would force drugmakers to disclose their prices.

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via axios: The Trump administration is moving ahead with a proposal that would require drug companies to include the sticker prices of their products in direct-to-consumer advertising — a controversial part of President Trump’s blueprint for lower drug prices. Between the lines: As simple and straightforward as price disclosures might sound, this information may not end up … Read more

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook apparently identifying posts with conservative content as spam.

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via americanthinker: It looks as though Facebook has altered its algorithms overnight so that people posting conservative content receive a notice from Facebook that it looks like “spam” and has been declined.  Overnight, we have heard from many people about AT content being declined publication as spam. Once the Facebook user responds that it isn’t spam, … Read more

Mark Blyth: Why People Continue to Believe Stupid Economic Ideas

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by Jesse If you want to read a more rigorous analysis of a where economic principles go wrong, read Benoit Mandelbrot’s The Misbehaviour of Markets in which he discusses modern risk models and the efficient market hypothesis that emanate from Fama, Black, Merton and Scholes. Blyth says that people believe dumb ideas because they don’t have anything … Read more

Seismic Shocker: The Number Of Global Earthquakes Over The Last 30 Days Is More Than 50% Above Normal

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by Michael Snyder Why is the number of earthquakes happening around the world increasing so dramatically?  In recent days, we have seen very large earthquakes in Venezuela, Fiji, Italy and elsewhere.  Here in North America, significant quakes have rattled Oregon, Alaska and the west coast of Mexico.  As I reported on all of these important seismic events, … Read more

Medicare For All? Shock Poll Discovers That 70 Percent Of Americans Want Single-Payer Healthcare To Happen

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by Michael Snyder Should the U.S. government provide medical care for everybody?  A shocking new poll that was just released found that 70 percent of all Americans actually want this to happen.  Of course if they also asked people if they wanted their taxes to double in order to pay for such a system, the percentage … Read more

Why is an ICO rating created?

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With so much information about cryptocurrencies available online today, it can be confusing to find the information you are looking for. This is why many websites create an ICO rating for upcoming or current ICOs. Read this article to learn more. Creating an ICO Rating Well-informed decisions are always preferred over having to make a … Read more

Here Comes the Second Wave of Big Money in the “Buy-to-Rent” Scheme

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A different set of private-equity firms, at the peak of the market, as brokers constantly blame low inventories of single-family houses for sky-high prices. The first wave came during the housing bust when large private-equity firms acquired tens of thousands of single-family homes out of foreclosure for cents on the dollar. … Read more

New home sales, Existing home sales, Sea containers, Wage tracker chart

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by WARREN MOSLER Heading lower from already depressed levels: Highlights The headline shows a decline but the message from the July new home sales report is nevertheless mostly positive. New home sales slipped 1.7 percent in the month to a 627,000 annualized rate that misses Econoday’s consensus by 22,000 and the Econoday’s low estimate by … Read more

46 More Sears and K-Marts Are Closing ASAP: Are Your Local Stores on the Chopping Block?

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by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper The retail apocalypse continues as Sears closes another 46 stores. Last year, hundreds of stores closed, and this year, even more shops have been scheduled to shut their doors for good. Strangely, Sears is closing their stores right before Christmas. 33 Sears stores and 13 Kmarts will cease doing business in November. Are … Read more

Consumers Are Drunk On The Trump Economy

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via CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS Larry Kudlow is right: with an economy this good, there’s no chance investors will be distracted by the political drama in Washington—even if that drama includes the conviction of the President’s campaign manager and personal lawyer on corruption charges. While Wall Street is placing too high a probability on political gridlock being the result of November’s … Read more

Morgan Stanley Warns of Momentum In Hospital Closings, “they are getting eaten alive”

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by stockboardasset While the stock market could indeed be in the most extended bull market in history, there are new, troubling signs that the real economy is faltering. A new report has sounded the alarm about the pace of hospital closures across the country. It says there are several factors pressuring margins at hospitals that are contributing to … Read more

ADVANCED Ancient Civilizations! – Hidden SECRETS Of Egypt & Peru (with Brien Foerster

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Josh Sigurdson talks with author and researcher Brien Foerster of Hidden Inca Tours about many of the secrets we are not being told about lost ancient technology and the true age of ancient civilizations. Starting with the Sphinx, the claim is that dynastic Egyptians carved the Sphinx to represent Pharaoh Khafre. The fact is there … Read more