The cost of owning my BMW 328i – OC

by doinkypoink BMW HUD Dashboard   The data wasn’t beautifully presented I missed out on a couple of key expense categories – Fuel and Tolls I didn’t incorporate Depreciation   So, I wanted to provide an update on the cost of owning my BMW 328i. Here is the background on the car & the data collection … Read more

Recent Tesla layoffs confirmed as impacting solar division

Article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-solar-exclusive/exclusive-tesla-to-close-a-dozen-solar-facilities-in-nine-states-documents-idUSKBN1JI013?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Electric car maker Tesla Inc’s move last week to cut 9 percent of its workforce will sharply downsize the residential solar business it bought two years ago in a controversial $2.6 billion deal, according to three internal company documents and seven current and former Tesla solar employees. The latest … Read more

Robinhood Looking To Add Bank Accounts To Platform

Looks like Robinhood aiming to become a one stop shop for investors https://sludgefeed.com/robinhood-looks-into-banking-products/ “Robinhood is in early discussions with regulators to begin offering banking-like products. These products could be made possible either through the acquisition of different licenses or partnering with a banking partner. Insiders share that Robinhood has met with the Office of the … Read more

Expectant Parents, Read Your Bills!

by cjw_5110 My wife and I are first-time parents, and although we love our little string bean, we have been greeted by a complicated mess of insurance coverage and billing issues. Allow me to summarize: General note – my wife and I are on separate insurance through our jobs; her insurance is cheaper (100% company … Read more

EM equities struggling again…currencies continue falling relative to the USD

EM #equities struggling again… pic.twitter.com/LGbAvhb0On — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) June 21, 2018 EM crisis spreads. #Hungary Forint plunges to all-time low vs. Euro. pic.twitter.com/C3aomc6VKN — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) June 21, 2018 Emerging market currencies continue falling relative to the USD. … Wiping out investors’ view that emerging markets were the place to be. pic.twitter.com/7ZOeN6JosK — … Read more

Globalists FREAK OUT After Trump Orders United States to Withdraw From Sham UN Human Rights Council

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU16fUhI5TA Ben Marquis for the Conservative Tribune reports, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has been nothing short of a rock star in President Donald Trump’s “America First” administration, perhaps even surpassing his expectations when he initially appointed her to the post. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/nik…

It Calls for Reflection on Current SP500 Valuations

No traditional recession indicators raising their hands, but valuations are https://twitter.com/RecessionAlert2/status/1009848956208271362 With the caveat that a clear improvement in our measures of market internals would shift us to a neutral/constructive near-term outlook, the recent low-volume squeeze has returned the most reliable valuations we track to the highest 0.5% or less of historical extremes. Just FYI. … Read more

This is what success means in Eurozone.

Greece🇬🇷: Euro zone hits ‘historic moment’ as it closes “successfully” eight years of financial support to Greece. “Successfully”: 180% debt to GDP 20% unemployment Annual Growth Rate 0.87% 1996-2018 Imagine what the EU would call “failure”. Greece🇬🇷: Euro zone hits 'historic moment' as it closes "successfully" eight years of financial support to Greece. "Successfully": 180% … Read more

NYC’s crumbling subway system falling in on itself

NEW YORK (FOX5NY) – The Borough Hall subway station in Brooklyn is more than 100 years old and is known to have water problems. That issue led to a ceiling collapse on Wednesday. A 10-feet-by-10-feet section of ceiling tile came crashing down onto the 4/5 subway platform. Luckily, only one rider suffered a minor injury to … Read more

Multi-Decade Outsourcing Boom Comes to Sticky End in the UK

After scandals, collapses, and the government’s off-balance-sheet debt. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. The United Kingdom, widely considered to be the birthplace of the modern incarnation of the public-private partnership (PPP), in which private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects, could be one of the first countries to … Read more

Next Central Bank Puts QE Unwind on the Calendar

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The end of an era spreads. Markets were surprised today when the Bank of England took a “hawkish” turn and announced that three out of nine members of its Monetary Policy Committee – including influential Chief Economist Andrew Haldane, who’d been considered dovish – voted to raise the Bank Rate to … Read more

Just Over The U.S. Border, A Once Mighty Nation Is In The Process Of A Complete And Total Societal Meltdown

by Michael Snyder What would the United States look like right now if 113 political figures had been gunned down since last September?  Well, that is precisely what has happened in Mexico.  Once upon a time, Mexico had a thriving economy and a very stable government, but now the nation is devolving into a Mad Max … Read more

Trump and Melania Troll Fake MSM

“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares! “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how … Read more

Bumpiness Signals Weakness

by Tom McClellan After bottoming on April 3, the DJIA’s Price Oscillator has been making a bumpy up move. That is important because bumpiness or smoothness of a move carries important information. Our Price Oscillator is calculated using the same math as the McClellan A-D Oscillator, by finding a difference between two exponential moving averages (EMAs).  … Read more