My morning train reads: • Proxy Voting Is Broken and Needs to Change (Barron’s) • Lessons from Cliff Asness (25IQ) • The Four Stories Written About Fund Managers (A Wealth of Common Sense)...
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I know it hurts, but the reality is painfully obvious: the USA is now a 3rd World nation.
Dividing the Earth's nations into 1st, 2nd and 3rd world has fallen out of favor;apparently it offended sensibilities. It has been replaced by the...
``SIX, the operator of Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, announced Friday that it "is building a fully integrated trading, settlement and custody infrastructure for digital assets."
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SIX CEO Jos Dijsselhof commented,...
``The tariffs could exacerbate investor fears that the market has reached peak earnings, said Bell.''
Since 2009 alone we have seen the number of those not in the labor force increase from 80 million to 95.5 million (this is an increase of 19.37 percent). At the same time, the U.S. population has only increased by 6 percent. In other words,...
``If we strip away the hype and propaganda, we are left with a troubling reality: there is no engine of "growth" other than speculative bubbles based on cheap credit and soaring corporate profits... We are now drifting through the troubled waters...
The Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, a.k.a. the Troll Factory, used fake social media accounts before and after the 2016 U.S. election to collect sensitive personal information on...
My easy like Sunday morning reads: • Payday-Loan Mogul Indicted for Masterminding Phantom Debt Scheme (Bloomberg) see also Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back,...
Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the...
Donald Trump Loses New York State Tax Exemption On Trump Tower Residence. Taxes To Increase $49,000 A Year
This week, we speak with Paul Vigna, reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of several books about Crypto and Blockchain, including The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the...
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish blend coffee, grab a seat on the beach, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • A Quantitative Method for Asset Allocation (American...
Some pundits are saying that the Fed will stop tightening in mid-2019. But by then the damage will be done. The markets are slowly being starved of liquidity right now. It has shown up in the relentless rise of Treasury bill rates, and the...
Succinct Summations for the week ending July 6th, 2018 Positives: 1. Non-farm payrolls rose 213k m/o/m, beating the expected 190k. 2. Home mortgage purchase applications rose a seasonally adjusted...
We're in the endgame of financialization and globalization, and it won't be pretty for all the hostages of corporate profits.
Though you won't read about it in the mainstream corporate media, the nation is now hostage to outsized corporate...
``Gateway might be the most vivid current illustration of America's literally crumbling infrastructure--and of the dysfunctional zero-sum politics that often stymies efforts to fix it. Trump's grand vision for $1 trillion worth of "gleaming new...
Mortgage Bankers Association In Panic Mode As Mortgage Applications Continue To Plummet
``In reality, the U.S. leads WTO in terms of dispute resolutions wins and in terms of intransigence to WTO functioning and reforms... the U.S. claims of unfair treatment under the WTO regime are not only wrong, but actually conceal the much less...
The fact that China learns from open-source information or that Chinese companies recruit Chinese expats with competitive pay isn't even noteworthy, much less a compelling rationale for assessing new taxes on U.S. consumers and businesses.
If...
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