BALTIMORE 33 murders in 30 days

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQNOTe6Z-90 https://dailykenn.blogspot.com/2018/04/no-hope-residents-say-as-crime-surges.html DAILYKENN.com — First, let me apologize for being insensitive, offensive, and racist — even though I’m none of those things. Correction. The following may be insensitive and offensive. But it’s not racist. There have been 33 murders in Baltimore in 30 days. Simple math? Obviously. More than one per day. Black communities have … Read more

Airbnb Just Lost a Limb in its Fourth Biggest Market

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Amid a blossoming backlash against mass tourism. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Spain’s eighth largest city by population, Palma, made history this week by becoming the first Spanish city to impose a blanket ban on all tourist apartments. Starting in July homeowners in the capital of the popular island destination, Mallorca, … Read more

Short-seller Jim Chanos bets against two health-care companies: They ‘might be worth nothing’

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Short-seller Jim Chanos told CNBC on Thursday that he’s betting against health-care stocks Envision Healthcare and Mednax. “I’m betting these companies might be worth nothing,” the founder and president of Kynikos Associates told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Shares of Envision Healthcare fell more than 5 percent in premarket trade after the news, while Mednax’s stock was … Read more

Credit score wise, is it better to pay off a credit card balance before any “minimum payment” is due, or just wait until a minimum payment is due?

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by aRedLlama The nuance here is that you want to wait until the statement cuts then pay the full balance on or before the due date. If you pay the balance in full before the statement can even cut, then the issuer will report $0 to the credit bureaus. Yes, that will be 0% credit utilization which is … Read more

Why Businesses Must Double Down on Humans Instead of Technology

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BY PATRICK WATSON Economics is the study of people’s rational choices in scarcity and uncertainty. The problem: people aren’t rational. They often act against their own economic interests—or appear to. So we have behavioral economics to figure out why. Now, you might think businesses are different since they focus on the bottom line, not vague feelings. Yet companies … Read more

Stock Market Showing Signs of Weakness With A Waterfall Decline Possible | David Morgan

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David Morgan of The Morgan Report interviewed by Silver Doctors Gold and silver are still in consolidation. However, the gold/silver ratio is coming down. And both metals continue to make higher lows. Morgan expects a move to the upside. Is silver in a deficit? This depends on your definition of “deficit.” The truth is, the above ground inventory of … Read more

U.S. Exports Nearly All Gold Mine Supply To Hong Kong

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BY SRSROCCO The U.S. gold exports to Hong Kong surged in February consuming nearly all of the domestic gold mine supply.  According to the USGS recent Gold Mineral Industry Survey, February gold exports to Hong Kong more than doubled compared to the prior month.  This was an interesting increase in gold demand from Hong Kong as … Read more

Auto Sales Forecast To Tank In April

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via Investment Research Dynamics  JD Powers and LMC Automotive are projecting auto sales to drop 8% in April from a year-ago April: For much of the past two years, the discounts offered by automakers have remained at levels that industry analysts say are unsustainable and unhealthy in the long term…Sales are expected to drop further … Read more

See A Bubble? Get Out Of The Way.

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by John Coumarianos In early March, we reprinted an article I wrote for Citywire on bubbles. That article focused on an academic paper called “Bubbles for Fama” by Robin Greenwood, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You on spotting bubbles that tried to provide a definition that would satisfy proponents of the efficient markets hypothesis who doubt that bubbles … Read more