World population by highest level of education.
via CUTE_DATA: Data source: The World Bank Tools: RStudio, Adobe Illustrator
via CUTE_DATA: Data source: The World Bank Tools: RStudio, Adobe Illustrator
by Chris The usual Monday night special (stock futures up, gold down) was a 50/50 affair, with only ‘gold donw’ being achieved. The big news is that China cut its reserve requriements again to combat the increasingly obvious slowdown in …
by howmuch Technology companies have a unique advantage over other businesses, and it’s called the network effect. Each new user who joins a platform adds value to everyone already on it. Facebook would be boring if you were the only one …
by Thinker LORD MARK MALLOCH-BROWN – THE GLOBALIST RACKETEER KINGPIN RUNNING THE QUEEN’S PRIVY COUNCIL WITH GEORGE SOROS He rigs elections from Venezuela to Estonia He rigs electronic voting machines owned by him, George Soros and Mitt Romney He controls …
by IndenturedServant, TBP I know that Q is Kryptonite to The Burning Platform but I watched this because Q suggested it. I tried playing it in the background but had to stop multitasking and restart it from the beginning. It truly …
If retail is recovering and everything is getting back to normal then why are the mall vacancies still rising. Pensions depend on the market, the market is in a bubble and when the bubble pops the pensions are going to …
by howmuch Warren Buffett once said, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” The top 50 most valuable retail brands doing things better than …
From Brandon Smith Blind faith in the U.S. dollar is perhaps one of the most crippling disabilities economists have in gauging our economic future. Historically speaking, fiat currencies are essentially animals with very short lives, and world reserve currencies are even …
by howmuch If you want stark visual proof of global inequality, here it is. Both halves of this graph represent an equal amount of global wealth. The top half consists of the world’s eight richest billionaires. The bottom half represents …
this is STRONGMAN SHELFORD REPORTING LIVE FROM ARGENTINA. OUR COUNTRY GOT CRAZY AND NOW THEY WANT TO TAKE INFLATION AND DEVALUATION DOWN. SO THEY ARE TAKING PESOS out of the market and forcing banks to buy a 70% interest rate …
by Simon Black Howard Marks is one of the greatest investors in history. Marks is the founder of the credit investment firm Oaktree Capital Management. And he’s been sharing his insights with the public in his Chairman memos since 1990 (which …
To be honest there is a long list of candidates that could have been chosen for inclusion in the “top 5”, but this RT’s (politicised) list, which predictably singles out US corporations, with only a couple of exceptions, and includes …
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-09-26.html
via revolutionofthemind: SOME HISTORY This story begins back before the United States was the United States. The original thirteen colonies printed their own currency, and it worked very well at empowering commerce and turning the young America into a powerful growing …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/chicago-stands-alone-as-undervalued-housing-market-ubs-says https://twitter.com/ZSchneeweiss/status/1045257289878458369
Must watch! A corporation that controls nukes? Bad idea! And SERCO isn’t the only culprit… h/t Mr.Fox
Positioned deep in Siberia, the village of Oymyakon Known as the ‘Pole of Cold’, holds the distinction of being the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. Just a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle, it’s utterly dark – for …
via trust.org: LONDON, Sept 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World happiness levels are at their lowest level in over a decade, with the number of people who say they feel stressed and worried rising, according to a survey published on …
Take note of the RESPECT world leaders have/had for each man. Guess who warranted more RESPECT. I’ll give you a hint….MAGA!!! China: Saudi Arabia South Korea Israel: h/t Halsey Knox
A FEW EXCERPTS: Chevy Chase rips ‘Saturday Night Live’ as ‘The worst f–king humor in the world’ “First of all, between you and me and a lamppost, jeez, I don’t want to put down Lorne or the cast, but I’ll …
by Lance Roberts In our last installment of Technically Speaking, we discussed the current bullish trend and our price target of 3000 by year end. To wit: “Regardless of the reasons, the breakout Friday, with the follow through on Monday, is …
by Dr. Eowyn The late CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite was called “the most trusted man in America” in an opinion poll. He retired from anchoring the CBS Evening News in March 1981, succeeded by Dan “fake news” Rather. On October 19, 1999, …
by howmuch Given the 8-month long crypto bear market, lots of bitcoin naysayers are feeling smug right about now. From JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon to CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramerand Nobel economist Robert Shiller, every media personality seems to think bitcoin’s downward trend …
by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmWxoc9XcAAluHi.jpg By definition, the largest companies by market cap are the most valued by investors in absolute terms. Of course, these companies change all the time. Secular trends rise and fall, and economic cycles rinse …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent takeover of countless nations by China as they loan countries way more money than they can possibly pay back, followed by the inevitable takeover of major industries …
by twomtt https://www.ventusky.com/?p=27;-106;2&l=gust&w=fast
the rest of the world is unraveling pic.twitter.com/AvUAfxGy1j — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 10, 2018 all at once pic.twitter.com/E3etFT7sWe — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 10, 2018
An interesting documentary about the week of October 6th 2008, it is premiering on Wednesday at 10pm
The whole internet should be up in arms about this conspiracy to defang the very nature of the Internet platform as we know it. The two proposed legislative changes will make reddit completely unusable as a platform yet reddit and …