Bank of Italy Savages Populists, Saying Policies Won’t Work

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-31/bank-of-italy-savages-populists-saying-policies-won-t-work?srnd=premium-europe “Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco told the populist government that its plan to solve the country’s economic problems by boosting public spending is set to fail.” – While I doubt the governments economic policy will change I sure …

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This is Precisely Why I’ve Been Saying: Don’t Short Tesla or Anything in This Crazy Market

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter CEO goes nuts, spaghetti-code algos & consensually hallucinating humans lap it up. “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured,” tweeted Tesla CEO Elon Musk this morning. Anyone can tweet anything, as we have seen. Even Musk. Two …

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They’ve lost control: ‘Elite’ now saying ‘too much democracy is to blame for America’s implosion!

via politico: Democracy’s lamentations sometimes seem deafening these days. “Democracy is dying,” proclaimed a recent article in Foreign Policy—and another in the Guardian, and yet another in Quartz. We’ve reached “the end of democracy,” avows a new book—as well as an op-ed in the Washington Post. But what if these …

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Got a CP14 letter from the IRS saying I owed >$1,200 for failure to file (which is true). I called them and a 25 minute call reduced it to $56, just the interest, due to their “First Time Abatement”. It never hurts to call!

by FranklyPatheticAnswr I was just dumb this year and just didn’t file on time for the first time ever. I owed substantially more than normal this year, which I anticipated, but didn’t have the funds in the right account to …

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