US Labor Apr Nonfarm Payrolls +266K; Consensus +1M. If you can’t even closely forecast monthly jobs how can you even pretend to predict growth for next year?

The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April, far below the Wall Street consensus of 978,000; unemployment rate 6.1% pic.twitter.com/C4yyXGvd4U — Reuters (@Reuters) May 7, 2021 *US Labor Apr Nonfarm Payrolls +266K; Consensus +1M — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) May 7, …

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Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! VIX short positioning by speculators is more extreme than it was just prior to the market selloff in Q4 2018.

Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! Previous inflow extremes also preceded significant market selloffs. Record bullishness at near record valuations can never a good sign. Credits to @jessefelder pic.twitter.com/fSpEIEVr20 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 1, 2019 …

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Are social security monthly benefits really this low? Trying to calculate the monthly SS benefit of a hypothetical worker who earned $100k every year from 1983 to 2017.

by I_need_one_dollar Found this link on the ssa.gov website: https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10070.pdf There are step by step instructions on Page 2 (https://imgur.com/IsptZqk.jpg). I followed all of the steps. Created an Excel spreadsheet with the following columns: Year, Maximum Earnings, Actual Earnings, Index Factor, …

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