``Foxconn Technology Group is not saying whether it plans to invest $30 billion in the United States, as President Donald Trump claimed he was told by the company's leader "off the record."... The company signed a deal with Wisconsin last week to...
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``The sports gear maker said it was cutting about 2% of its global workforce, or some 280 jobs, and it now expects slower revenue growth this fiscal year, pointing to an intensely competitive environment in retail. What's more, sales in its once...
``The Dow breached the 22,000 mark briefly in early trading on Wednesday, powered by Apple's stellar results, before stocks retreated sharply across sectors as investors locked in gains. Apple jumped as much as 6.46 percent to a record high,...
If our faith in the future and our resilience is near-zero, then we can't take any chances.
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Motor Trend Test Drive Tesla Model 3 We believe in people.We love our technology, our devices, but what thrills us most is the individuals who spearhead their development. And although...
My heading off to Maine morning train reads: • The Great Escape: How Credit Raters Ducked Reform. After the subprime crisis, rules-tightening didn’t hit S&P, Moody’s, and Fitch as hard as the...
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Lies, half-truths and cover-ups are all manifestations of fatal weakness.
When we can no longer tell the truth because the truth will bring the whole rotten, fragile status quo down in a heap of broken promises and lies, we've reached the...
Each new policy destroys another level of prudent fiscal/financial discipline.
The primary driver of our economy--financialization--is in a death spiral. Financialization substitutes expansion of interest, leverage and speculation for real-world...
The idea that all endeavors can be distilled down to statistics has put us in the Over-Quantification Box.
Correspondent Chad D. recently submitted a thought-provoking commentary on the Over-Quantification of Life:
"I think you could constructively...
Any nation-state that meets these four requirements is fully exposed to a global loss of faith in its economy, debt, balance of payments and currency.
There's an entire sub-industry in journalism devoted to the idea that China is poised to replace...
Once the shared memories of these values are lost, the Empire ceases to exist; there is nothing left to reform or renew.
Is renewal / recovery from systemic decline possible? The history of the Roman Empire is a potentially insightful place to...
If you study these charts closely, you can only conclude that the US economy is doomed to secular stagnation and never-ending recession.
The stock market, bond yields and statistical measures of the economy can be gamed, manipulated and massaged...
Guilt by association is insidious because it can't be cleared in court.
The claims that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election are now known as RussiaGate, in a loose reference to the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s.
In the U.S., the issue...
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