by bartturner Apple overreached for sure. People followed Apple rapidly from $400 for a new phone over a few years to $800 a phone, aided by cell phone companies amortizing the costs into people’s plans over a long term. But …
By Robert Ross The Wall Street Journal called it “the largest corporate cash disbursement in history.” It was 2004, and Microsoft was one of the biggest companies on the planet. Besides, they had a great year. So great that the company …
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by Shaun Richards Today brings a development which will no doubt be trumpeted across the media and it is explained by this from Reuters yesterday, Greece will return to bond markets with a five-year issue “in the near future, subject …
by Sabremesh All clinical trials of pharmaceutical products should be pre-registered, and the results should always be released. The prevalence of deliberate non-disclosure means that data which shows adverse side-effects is simply being swept under the carpet. The World Health Organization …
by DCG I was looking through Ivanka’s Instagram account the other day and found a little bit of leftist hypocrisy (shocker, I know). Ivanka posted a picture of her son watching a band play amongst holiday decorations with the following description: “Holiday cheer …
from Bloomberg: Of all the holiday gatherings Jerome Powell gets invited to, a sit-down in the Oval Office might be one of the last he’d want to attend. Just days after President Donald Trump blamed the Federal Reserve chairman for …
from Zero Hedge The global scramble for a little known metal called vanadium is officially underway. The metal, which when used in small amounts can help strengthen steel significantly, is in high demand following new Chinese regulations on infrastructure and buildings. The …
by Chris Well, it turns out that the futures pop in the overnight “”markets”” could not be sustained and the indexes are selling off in today’s half-day, holiday market. Steve Munchin [sic] yelled “Fire!” in a crowded theater and then …
SF DA Gascón carried guns on planes, then whistle-blower was fired, suit says. A former senior investigator says he was fired for blowing the whistle on his boss, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who he alleged carried a gun …
via politico: “Twitter’s gone crazy banning people on the right, so I’ve deactivated my Twitter account,” he wrote in his Instapundit blog on Sunday night. Calling Twitter “the most socially destructive of the various platforms,” Reynolds accused the “crappy SJW types” …
We’re close to neutral! Or not! But we might raise! Or not! “The Federal Reserve’s Vice Chairman Richard Clarida has recently crossed the wires arguing that gradual rate hikes were appropriate ‘as data shows the way to neutral policy stance.” …
Here is today’s articles mentioned in this news update: 1. Fed proposes easing capital rules, testing of some big banks http://www.startribune.com/fed-propos… 2. Too-big-to-fail banks keep getting bigger https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/21/inve…
by kit8642 On September 18, 2001, The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) was signed by President Bush. This legislation was argued by the Bush Administration to allow the United States to indefinitely detain US without Trial. This law …
Tradunity’s EA First: a trading robot which is described to be profitable, user-friendly, requires no prior trading knowledge, made for long-term trading where it offers a large reward for a small risk. Can this be real? This trading piece …
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks The rout in global stocks continues into its second day with little movement in risk-haven assets like Gold and the Yen US stocks index futures are dropping ahead of the open in NY with the Dow Jones …
Image by iStock/fstop123 From ZeroHedge: Are you a convicted felon who has dreams of traveling abroad? Or a cybercriminal looking to set up a legitimate bank account into which you can deposit your ill-gotten funds? Then buying a passport off …
by Chris Black Here’s the latest on the Kavanaugh never ending saga: https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1045779267827699712 Statement from President @realDonaldTrump: “I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, …
via QuantalyticsResearch: US Stocks Global stocks are nominally positive this morning, with a bid into tech stocks ahead of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone refresh US stock index futures are little changed ahead of the open in NY with the Dow Jones minis +0.09%, …
When Professors Think They’re Rock Stars. “There is a whole dissertation to be written on intellectuals using the word neoliberal to mean ‘rules I shouldn’t have to follow.’” Plus: “Just as in the communist and socialist regimes that academics so admire, the universities …
via GSB/LTD: It may be a very tiny little gift, but just like their spreading presence it’s a pervasive one. While shopping at my local ACE Hardware store yesterday an odd thought hit me: that with the upsurge in illegal immigration …
By Adam O’Dell I saw Harry at a planning meeting this week and as we were “talking shop” about the markets, we could only shake our heads in acknowledgement of the Fed’s lingering lift on the market. We agreed the Bank of Japan’s Halloween …
Big drop in sales prices right as the last few #InterestRate hikes materialized in #mortgage rates got above 4.5% #Housing was a bubble in search of a pin…. First domino h/t @OccupyWisdom
Caterpillar to add 250-plus jobs at North Little Rock plant “Company officials at the non-union plant said within the next year they will begin hiring assemblers, welders, mechanics, machinists, fork truck drivers, and order pickers on first, second and third …
by DoctorBraveStone Source CNBC Chipotle Mexican Grill‘s shares tumbled by almost 9 percent Thursday morning after the company announced its strategy to revitalize the fast-casual restaurant chain but provided few details on its future growth prospects. “The call was lighter …
via confoundedinterest: Affordable housing policy in the US is a mess. As I mentioned at the American Action Forum meeting on the future of the GSEs yesterday, the housing market today reminds me of the housing market from the 2000s … …
by Yojimbo, TBP Patrick Little is peeling off some of the Asian vote in California. Asians are regularly discriminated against in the Ivy League colleges in acceptance rates. They know this, and a lawsuit was filed against Harvard demanding to see …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/967832000735469574 Very few see it coming. Many know what happened in history but they never understand the causation (which in why history never repeats itself, it just has similarities). Unfortunately, most people will be told and believe that Capitalism is …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mu27cxPiZY Jessica Chasmar for the Washington Times reports, Former Vice President Al Gore’s 10,070-square-foot estate near Nashville, Tennessee, expended more than 21 times more energy than the average U.S. household over the past year, according to a new report. Read …
De Blasio aide busted with gun in car. A $90,000-per-year director with Mayor de Blasio’s Office of Criminal Justice was arrested along with two men Saturday night in Queens after a loaded gun was found in their car — double-parked …