SEC Chair Gary Gensler: “Though I’m not suggesting that such individual funds areas large as today’s largest banks, as noted in the Federal Reserve’s recent Financial Stability Report, the largest hedge funds by gross asset value have at times on average exceeded 20-to-1 leverage.

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/gensler-honest-unbiased-investment-management-05192023#_ftn10 SEC Chair Gary Gensler in speech “Honest and Unbiased Investment Management”: Remarks before the Inaugural Conference on Emerging Trends in Asset Management Highlights Private Funds: Today, nearly 75 years later, the private fund industry has grown to …

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Credit Card debt in the U.S about to pass $1 TRILLION. Average interest rate on that debt is 24.24%.

by Qplus17 https://twitter.com/GRDecter/status/1651734455537614853 ‘The US Economy Is Unwell’: Wall Street Bigwigs Pour Cold Water on Benedict Biden’s Economic Optimism JPMorgan says S&P 500 could hit 3500 ‘by early summer’ By Investing.com ‘Welcome to the recession:’ Most of Wall Street still …

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Inflation Alert! March SCE Labor Market Survey: The average full-time offer wage received in the past four months increased to $62,088 from $59,834 in November 2022. The average reservation wage—the lowest wage respondents would be willing to accept for a new job—rose to a new series high of $75,811

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce/labor#/ The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today released the March 2023 SCE Labor Market Survey. The SCE Labor Market Survey, fielded as part of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) since March 2014, provides information on …

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Inflation Nation! US REAL Average Hourly Earnings Negative For 22 Staight Months In January As Inflation Heats Up … Again (CPI Rises 0.5% MoM, Food Rises 11.3% YoY)

by confoundedinterest17 The January US inflation numbers are out and they were grim. US REAL average hourly earnings fell … again … to -1.8% year-over-year (YoY) from a revised -1.6% YoY in Deember. That makes 22 straight months of negative hourly earning …

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The average American spends over 7 hours looking at a screen each day. 7 hours/day is also the increase of life expectancy in America since the 50’s (same thing in Europe). This is how you produce a brainwashed stupid society. They live, You watch TV.

by pacmanpill “a fixed or movable upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter from draughts, heat, or light, or to provide concealment or privacy.”This is the definition of screen.In the french version, it’s something that vision/reality.They use TV/screens to …

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Average annual UK household energy bill set to hit £6,600 in spring 2023… up +500% from last winter… for reference, the median full time salary in the UK is £31,000 per year before tax…

by silvertomars ‘Freeze profits, not people’: Furious protesters take to the streets outside Ofgem HQ as anger mounts at 80% energy price cap hike – and Chancellor Zahawi faces backlash for urging people to RATION to save money “Freeze profits, …

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Recession 2022: Inflation Is Hitting The Average Joe Very, Very Bad. Personal Savings In The US Evaporating. Half Of All Us Companies Plan To Implement Job Cuts. Mortgage Lenders Are Starting To Go Broke…

Inflation is hitting the average Joe very, very bad. pic.twitter.com/x4LcD9v6Pw — Alf (@MacroAlf) August 20, 2022 Personal savings in the US evaporating. 3.9 trillion a year ago to just 968bn now. pic.twitter.com/Cebqj5OrYh — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) August 20, 2022 Half …

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