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Billionaire Wealth Increased to a Record $10.2 trillion During the Pandemic, Business Insider Reports
“Between 2009 and 2020, billionaires in China have grown their fortunes by 1,146%”…Read more
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“War is Deception”: New Evidence Challenges ‘Rwandan Genocide’ Myth, More Likely a Western Backed Invasion Led by the RPF and Paul Kagame
Jared Wall of the Libertarian Institute summarizes the findings of alternative researchers such as Judi Rever, Keith Harmon Snow, et
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Jim Cramer: Coronavirus Banker Bailouts “one of the greatest wealth transfers in history.”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15pFQxG9wko FAIR USECopyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for
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(James Bullard, CEO of the St. Louis Fed, September.18th, 2019) “Trade policy uncertainty remains elevated, U.S. manufacturing already appears in recession, and many estimates of recession probabilities have risen from low to moderate levels. Moreover, the yield curve is inverted, and our policy rate remains above government bond yields for nearly every country in the G-7.” Fox News…
(September.20th, 2019) “Fed’s Bullard wanted bigger rate cut because US manufacturing ‘appears in recession’” (didn’t use the original link because
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Iran’s Oil Exports Have Declined From 2.5 million bpd in April 2018 to 100,000 — 200,000 bpd, Resulting in Only $8.9 Billion in Annual Revenue for Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Vs $119 Billion at Peak Production 10 Years Ago..Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-oil-gulf/iran-plans-oil-exports-from-the-gulf-of-oman-to-secure-crude-flow-idUSKBN23W1M1 (Business Insider, Jan 13, 2020) “How the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow stretch of water where ships carry $1.2
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The Hidden Power Players
(Bloomberg) “I still couldn’t understand how a wannabe musician from Long Island had become a millionaire investor virtually overnight. I’d
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According to GnS Economics, Zombie Firms Account for 14% of S&P 1500 Companies
https://gnseconomics.com/2019/03/11/the-dangerous-zombie-infestation-of-the-world-economy/archive (Wikipedia) “Zombie companies are indebted businesses that, although generating cash, after covering running costs, fixed costs (wages, rates, rent)
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Equity Represents About 1/3rd of Pension Fund Investment in the United States, OECD
Total pension fund investment in the United States was valued at $18.8 trillion at the end of 2019. 2019 returns
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That $GNUS Gap and Go This Morning Could Have Made a Nice Short Opportunity
The 3rd day is usually the charm with these parabolic movers. Plus, you knew that the company had to file
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From Doctors Projecting Millions Dead, to Bill Ackman Mysteriously Predicting the Greatest 1 Month Stock Market Rally in 3 Decades, The Key Take Away Seems to be this: Pivot Points!
If you’re a trader, never underestimate the power of pivot points! Today, it doesn’t matter if there is blood on
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Must Read, “The Dawning of a New Era: Post-Capitalism 1.0”: “This situation was engineered by the technocrats to produce an outcome. Since, at least temporarily, the concocted coronacrisis is losing its power to enforce lockdown compliance, now the excuse of civil unrest is being used. The population will now become acclimatized to the presence of police and military on the streets enforcing curfews and restricting mobility. The reorganization of socio-economic behavior and structures is rapidly proceeding. Expect the use of technologies such as EM wave and sound cannons against the population. We are transitioning to a centrally planned technocracy. Google and Microsoft are developing the Artificial Intelligence, Apple and Facebook collect and funnel the big data, Amazon is the central distribution/consumption hub. Obviously there are other big tech players involved, but that’s the basic layout of “the economy”. 5G rollout is HUGE, and it’s not a happenstance that it is being rolled out now at this juncture. This sets up the architecture of Internet of Things and BIG data necessary to feed and grow the central AI management systems.” By Steven Vincent
“The Dawning of a New Era: Post-Capitalism 1.0” archive
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On April.22, The Bipartisan Policy Center Revised their Social Security Depletion Estimates to 2029…
“Based on these assumptions, we estimate that another economic downturn with severity and impacts similar to the Great Recession would
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Learn More About Tech Censorship!
Learn everything about tech censorship in one place! Authored by Evan Greer, Deputy Director of Fight for the Future, via
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According to Wall Street on Parade, New York Fed Member Banks are Only on the Hook for $42.6 Billion of its $3.9 Trillion in Liabilities in the Event of any Defaults
Basically, the key takeaway is this: if any debtor happens to default on the MBS’s (and soon to be Corporate
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“Bizarre EU Funded Comic Book Predicted Pandemic, With Globalists As Saviours”, Summit News (Real Story)
It doesn’t get any creepier than this folks. The European Union, in a script right out of a Soviet spy
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Throwback: Canada’s Vancouver Stock Exchange Was Once Coined by Forbes as the Scam Capital of the World
To all the Americans that might be reading this, don’t let the word Canada fool you, because the Vancouver Stock
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Quote, Karl Blessing,President, Deutsche Bundesbank, 1958-69 “A central bank has to be Independent because one cannot really trust the politicians – they are all a rotten lot and any of them might seek to get out of a hole by printing money.”
“The Political Fight for an Independent Central Bank, 1790 – present”, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Read more
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On March.18th, 2020, Marc Cuban Said That Bailed Out Companies Should Never Be Allowed To Buy Back Their Own Stock Ever Again On CNBC
Cuban: “No buybacks. Not now. Not a year from now. Not 20 years from now. Not ever” https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/mark-cuban-says-bailed-out-companies-should-never-be-allowed-to-buy-back-their-stocks-ever-again.html
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James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley: “If you told me three months ago we could have 90% of employees out of the office and be functioning with the volumes we have had I would’ve said the probability of that being pulled off is close to zero, but it happened.”
According CNBC, stay-at-home orders are helping companies realize that working from home is not nearly as unproductive as we once
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“CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978” According to the Economic Policy Institute
“Typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time”, Read more
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On November 13th, 2016, Mark Zuckerberg Said Fake News and Hoaxes Accounted for Under 1% of Facebook Content..
“Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic. Only a very small amount
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Quote, Dr. Carroll Quigley, 1966: “The redistribution of wealth by changing prices is equally important but attracts much less attention. Rising prices benefit debtors and injure creditors, while falling prices do the opposite. A debtor called upon to pay a debt at a time when prices are higher than when he contracted the debt must yield up less goods and services than he obtained at the earlier date, on a lower price level when he borrowed the money. A creditor, such as a bank, which has lent money—equivalent to a certain quantity of goods and services—on one price level, gets back the same amount of money—but a smaller quantity of goods and services—when repayment comes at a higher price level, because the money repaid is then less valuable.
“This is why bankers, as creditors in money terms, have been obsessed with maintaining the value of money, although the
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“euro can also not be called a promising currency due to the weak crisis resistance”, Yuri Yudenkov, Professor of the Department of Finance and Banking of the RANEPA
“Professor of the Department of Finance and Banking of the RANEPA, a consultant in banking and finance, Yuri Yudenkov, agrees
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The Financial Politburo Described in Flash Points
-They have special courts –Their activities are unfairly subsidized -They write the financial legislation -They own — and direct —
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There Is Now Only One Clearing Bank In The United States, and The Financial Community Is Eerily Silent
PublishedOctober 20, 2019 With only one bank left on Wall Street to clear repo trades, things could get very ugly
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FDIC Appears to Fully Support Rent-a-Bank Schemes
These are the lenders that the FDIC is defending. You can’t make this stuff up. “This couple went to
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Short Selling Ahead of an Offering. Secrets Revealed
Dont spread this link around; it will get you into trouble. (seriously) https://web.archive.org/web/20110902145244/https://www.deepcapture.com/wp-content/uploads/story-of-dendreon.pdf https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/risk-alert-091713-rule105-regm.pdf https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2014cv00645/422848/51/ Securities and Exchange Commission v.
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Quote, Dr. Carroll Quigley, 1966,”In addition to these pragmatic goals, the powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole”.
Dr. Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University“In addition to these pragmatic goals, the powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim,
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Hedge funds are sometimes forced to buy unprofitable IPO’s under the condition that they will be given opportunities to purchase hotter, more profitable IPO’s in the future according to the International Association of Small Broker Dealers and Advisors, 2006
That was a long time ago, so maybe things have changed — but probably not.
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FINRA, ICE, NASDAQ, and NYSE Will Know All Your Personal Details and Trading Patterns Once the C.A.T. is Fully Operational
Published December.11th,2019 “Under Graber, I learnt that Wall Street was an illusion,” Israel said. “There were different magicians using different
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How Underwriters and Short Sellers Manipulate Share Prices Ahead of Stock Offerings
This report is going to show you the techniques used by short sellers and underwriters to manipulate the price of
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In 2017, Asher Edelman, The Man Behind Gordan Gekko, Said The PPT Is Manipulating The Stock Market
Many have heard whispers of the PPT, but nobody can prove when exactly they engage in open market operations. It
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Quote: How Banks Can Use Their Commercial Holdings to Manipulate Markets for the Purpose of Increasing their Trading Profits; Or Vise Versa
“One of the key policy reasons for separating banking from commerce is the fear of banks unfairly restricting their commercial-market
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From 2007-2016, Average Net Equity Issues of Nonfinancial Corporations Was *NEGATIVE* $412 Billion on an Annualized Basis, William Lazonick
Originally published on December.08,2019 “ Jang-Sup Shin, The Subversion of Shareholder Democracy andthe Rise of Hedge-Fund Activism “It has now
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In the 11 Years Following the Financial Crisis, Not One Bank Merger Has Been Rejected According to the Committee on Financial Services
Image by By Peliministeri – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71454711%5D
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The Implicit Government Bank Bailout Subsidy Was Estimated to be as High as $300 Billion In 2011, Three Times that of all U.S Bank Holding Companies Annual Earnings in the Same Year (Yes, You Read That Right)
….Richard Fisher, former President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ….Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan at the
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Knights of the Fed
“The fact that there are other directors besides the banker on the Board does not, in practice, prevent this being
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List of the Largest Custodian Banks
(Wikipedia) As of 2019 the 5 largest custodian banks in the world were:[1] The Bank of New York Mellon State
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Proofs of a Conspiracy, 1797, Authored by John Robison, Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh
(Wikipedia) “John Robison FRSE (4 February 1739 – 30 January 1805) was a British physicist and mathematician. He was a
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“Seasonal influenza kills, according to one estimate, anything from just under 300,000 to nearly 650,000 people globally per year”. RT
“For example, tuberculosis kills well over one million people worldwide each year and as many as one-third of the world’s
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Fidelity Dominates the High Risk Equity/Corporate Bond Repo Lender Market — J.P. Morgan is their Largest Customer, Grace Xing Hu, Jun Pan, and Jiang Wang
-Mean maturity is 39.3 days -For Fidelity’s equity repos, the median number of collateral is only 1.58 -For repos with
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Between the Years 101 to 200, the City of Rome Had a Population of 1 Million People.
No other city would grow that large until the 19th century. People lived surprisingly long back then too — that
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“80 percent of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) are produced abroad, the majority in China and India”, Charles E. Grassley
“Accordingly, I want to raise concerns with you that I originally raised with the FDA in an oversight letter on
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“Spending at $1 a second, it would take you 31,710 years to spend $1 trillion”, Repowatch.org
Link—>https://repowatch.org/
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“JPOW!!! to the Bulls Todayyy”..Another Day at the Office for Wall Street Bets
(just to be clear, the image above is from a post on Wall Street Bets, and it is obviously not
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Market Tanks 1500 Points in Two Days, 870 Points Today, Yet $FCEL Closes Completely Flat, Up 0%
Stocktwits front page for $FCEL archived as of 5:30pm EST
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Lloyds Bank Was Founded in 1765 by John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd, Reuters
“Lloyds became Britain’s most profitable bank and a darling of the stock market in the 1990s after takeovers, cost efficiency
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There is Up to $32 Trillion in Financial Assets Hidden in Offshore Tax Havens According to TJN
Read more by clicking on this link —->https://archive.is/MWwjJ
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The Pyramid of Wealth Visualized, Courtesy World Wealth Report, 2018
Click on the image for the full report
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A Brief History of the City of London, By Baron Glasman, Financial Times
“The City survived each wave of Victorian municipal reform. The Corporation’s assets, its property inventory and financial portfolio remain unpublished”.
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Influencers With 1 million+ Followers can Earn $20,000 for a Single Post, Businessinsider
“Influencers that have 1 million or more followers can charge $20,000 for a single post, she said”. Read more
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A Hereditary Title is Now Worth £16 Million, inews.co.uk
(inews)”Their fortunes contrast starkly with the decade experienced by the vast majority of Britons where overall productivity has stagnated and
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Interesting Quote from Italian Neo-Fascist Activist..
“The purpose of GLADIO was to attack civilians, the people – women, children, innocent people, unknown people, far removed from
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The Hidden Power Players
(Bloomberg) “I still couldn’t understand how a wannabe musician from Long Island had become a millionaire investor virtually overnight. I’d
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People are paying European companies for the right to loan them money. Yes, you read that right
According to Bloomberg, 14 companies in Europe now offer negative yielding debt, and get this: it is junk rated……… ????????????
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Charlie Munger: “There’s too much wretched excess.”
““I think there are lots of troubles coming,” he said at the Los Angeles-based Daily Journal annual shareholders meeting. “There’s
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For 50 Years Nobody Knew That Swiss Based Crypto AG Was Owned By the CIA..
(National Security Archive, February 11, 2020) “The company, founded in the 1930s by Swedish inventor, Boris Hagelin, already had a
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Roger Stone Faces More Jail Time Than Opiod Epidemic CEO Responsible For Destroying Entire Communities and Killing Millions of People
January 23, 2020 4:22 PM ET“Drug Company Executive John Kapoor Sentenced To 66 Months Of Prison”, NPR 02/10/2020 07:45 PM
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September.16th, 2009, Was the Day the Fed Made their Decision to Bailout AIG, Coincidentally the Same Day that the Repo Market Started to Collapse
March 24, 2009 American International Group Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives,
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In the Midst of the Worst Outbreak in Several Decades, and With Shanghai, Beijing, and Chongqing all on Lockdown, Markets in Both Asia and the United States Somehow Still Remain Bullish..Wtf..
Just an FYI: those are the top three most populated cities in the world..Included below are archived links from of
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SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, Former Sullivan and Cromwell Partner and Multi-Millionaire, Says Crypto isn’t Just Coming, it is Already Here.
Let’s just say he probably knows what he’s talking about.. From theintercept.com “The Claytons own a place in Ocean City,
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Before the Collapse of Northern Rock in 2007, there Hadn’t Been a Bank Run in Britain Since 1866
“More than 100,000 investors – many of them pensioners – saw the value of their holdings completely wiped out when
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Apple and Microsoft Represented 15% of the S&P 500’s Advance in 2019, CNBC
“Shares of Apple posted their best year since 2009”, Read more
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More Evidence Shows TBTF Bank Sponsored Central Planning is Highly Inefficient: 40% of Listed Companies Are Losing Money, and Tesla’s Market Cap Now Exceeds Both General Motors and Ford — COMBINED, WSJ
(WSJ) “The combination of forces has pushed the percentage of listed companies in the U.S. losing money over 12 months
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Two Years Before President Woodrow Wilson Was Elected President, He Said America Was Controlled By a Financial Elite, and That Their Actions Will Always Be Innately Corrupted By Greed, Regardless of Their Desire To Do What is Right.
“The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as that exists, our old variety and freedom
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Forex and Equity Derivatives Are Still to this Day Mostly Traded Outside of Public View. Transparency Surrounding Interest Rates and Credit Default Swaps Has Increased Since the Financial Crisis, but is Still Quite Low on a Relative Basis
‘The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has collected information on global derivatives markets, including exposures to CCPs, since the mid-2000s.
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According to Forbes, 40% of the S&P 500 Firms in the U.S. are Family-Owned
Link —>https://archive.is/daQRb#selection-3067.217-3071.23 https://www.forbes.com/sites/timtreadgold/2020/01/22/alcoas-slide-looks-awful-alongside-alumina-a-business-it-helped-create/#35730fb2303c
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Between 1997 and 2009 the Number of Public Companies Declined by 40%
“From 1997 to Year End 2009 there has been a 40% decline in the number of publicly listed (i.e., NYSE,
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[VIDEO] What Happened to Unicorns in 2019? NYSE, Goldman, and General Atlantic Provide Some Insights
The body language is priceless..
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Paul Tutor Jones Says this Bull Run is Reminiscent of 1999 on CNBC
“We are just again in this craziest monetary and fiscal mix in history. It’s so explosive. It defies imagination,” Read
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U.S. Stock Ownership Down 7% Since the Financial Crisis, Gallup
(Gallup) – “Stock ownership was more common from 2001 to 2008 when an average 62% of U.S. adults said they
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Arianna Huffington, Founder of the Huffington Post, Says We Are Under the Influence of a Small Financial Elite and They Control Both Parties
“I think both sides are under the infiuence of a small financial elite. The media like to pretend that something’s
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Countries harboring terrorists that have been subject to U.S. sanctions forced to consider barter transactions to facilitate international trade, https://ria.ru/
“to have a chance to avoid restrictions, you need to completely abandon your national interests and simply obediently fulfill any
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“Iran’s non-oil trade stood at $78.5 billion during the eleven-month period from March 21, 2019 until February 19, 2020, IRIB reported”, Tehran Times
The IRICA data show that the country has exported 125 million tons of non-oil commodities valued at $38.5 billion during
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National Banks — Those Chartered by the Federal Government Rather than the State — are Members of the Federal Reserve System by Law
(Wikipedia) “Those chartered by the federal government (through the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in the Department of
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What is the Dividend that Banks Receive for their Ownership of Shares in a Federal Reserve Branch?
For banks with assets over $10 billion, the dividend is only 6% if the price of the last auctioned 10
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The Fed’s Repo Program: Socialism for the Rich, Hard Rugged Individualism for Everybody Else
Recently it was reported by the Wall Street Journal that the Federal Reserve is considering inviting hedge funds to participate
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A Quote from “Other People’s Money, and How the Bankers Use It” (1914), Illustrates the Power of J.P. Morgan During the Early 1900’s
Image By Frank Arthur Nankivell – Puck Magazine, Cover Illustration, cropped from version available at Library of Congress [1], Public
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High-End Items Are Having Their Worst Year Since The Financial Crisis, Fortune
The number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis, with Oxfam reporting 26 people controlling the same amount of
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Michael Hudson Calls the Stock Market a Ponzi Scheme in a Conversation With The Harper’s Blog 2017
He is well known for predicting the housing collapse in 2006 when he released his unique and simple to understand
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Labour Force Participation is Down Due to an Aging Population According to the Dallas Fed
(Dallas Fed) “Our economists believe that a majority of the decline in participation is due to the aging of the
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A Shocking Statistic on Corporate Buybacks
(CNBC) –“The top 20 stock buyback programs in corporate America have spent $1.4 trillion buying back their own shares since
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From Fractions To Decimalization, The Evolution Of Market Pricing
Beginning in 1792, going way back to when the New York Stock Exchange was created through the Buttonwood Agreement, stocks were
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J.P. Morgan Moves $6 Trillion Per Day. Yes, Trillion
When Lesley Stahl interviewed Jaime Dimon on 60 Minutes back in November of last year, the CEO of America’s largest
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The Dot-Com Collapse Eclipsed the 1987 Stock Market Crash By a Factor of 4, Wiping Away $4 Trillion in Market Cap, NYT
“Let us be clear about the magnitude of the Nasdaq collapse. The tumble has been so steep and so bloody
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Debt Default Insurance Increased From $1 Trillion Outstanding At Year-End 2001 To Over $34 Trillion At Year-End 2006
“In 2003 there had been a few tens of billions of dollars of subprime mortgage loans. From June 2004 until
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Q3 Fund Activity
Click on the links to view their holdings Royal London Asset Management Ltd re-adds Apple and Amazon to the top
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Was 2019 the Best Year Financial Markets Have Ever Had? Reuters
“The numbers are staggering. Global stocks have piled on more than $10 trillion, bonds have been on fire, oil has
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Russia Accounted for 37% of Gas Imports to the European Union in 2017, S. RES. 27
“In 2017, Russian gas accounted for 37 percent of Europe’s natural gas imports, an increase of 5 percent over 2016”…Source
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The Poynter Institute: How Facebook Censors People Online
To expand each side, pull the tab in the middle back and forth LEARN MORE
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Facebook Accounts For 72% of Social Media Traffic Worldwide, Stat Counter
Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Social Media Market Share Find more statistics at Statista
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Wall Street Trader Fakes His Own Suicide in 2008
“”Under Graber, I learnt that Wall Street was an illusion,” Israel said. “There were different magicians using different tricks in
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In 2018, the Wall Street Journal Reported that 87% of Tax Receipts Come from the Top 20% of Americans
“Roughly one million households in the top 1% will pay for 43% of income tax, up from 38% in 2017.
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Incredible Article Shows there Exists a 1% Within the 1%. A Must Read
“Mankiw noted that the 1 percent’s share of total income, excluding capital gains, rose from about 8 percent in 1973
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The @realDonaldTrump Twitter Feed on Impeachment Day Archived
Continued, December.20th
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2019 Was a Record Year for IPO Unicorns, Reuters
“So far this year 66 venture capital-backed unicorns were minted in the United States versus 58 in 2018, according to
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What They Referred to as “Depression Era” Banking, NYT
“The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was intended to prevent another market crash by prohibiting banks from selling and underwriting securities.
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According to JPM, Only 10% of Stock Trading is Performed by an Actual Human, CNBC Reports
“”The majority of equity investors today don’t buy or sell stocks based on stock specific fundamentals,” said JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic”.
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October 5, 1997, Alan Greenspan Describes the Benefits of Combining Investment and Commercial Banking
“The pressures unleashed by technology, globalization, and deregulation have inexorably eroded the traditional institutional differences among financial firms. Examples abound.
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Flash Fact: “In 1992, 72 percent of the commercial banks were small institutions with total assets under $100 million”. Dallasfed
“Moreover, the share of banking industry assets held by the largest banks has become increasingly concentrated, while the share of
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*LEARN*: A How to Tutorial on Tax Avoidance Strategies That Can Maximize Your Profits While Reducing Your Costs
**DISCLAIMER**The title of this article is not meant to be construed as financial advise, and nor should you in any
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(December 11, 2019) Rep. Danny Heck Grills Mnuchin on Wage Growth; Cites BEA Data Showing Business Investment is Actually Declining, and Not Increasing
In a heated exchange, Rep. Danny Heck cited a report from the BEA showing business investment was, contrary to the
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Disney + Surpassed 22 Million Downloads, CNBC
(CNBC) “Disney+ has been downloaded to mobile devices 22 million times since its launch in November, according to mobile app
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The New York Fed isn’t Supporting the Repo Market, they are the Repo Market, Says Rep. French Hill
“In 2018, the average daily repo and reverse repo outstanding was $3.9 trillion, down 3.3% from 2017. The average daily
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Only 10 People Work Directly for the Financial Stability Oversight Council
(Wikipedia) ‘The Dodd-Frank Act provides the Council with broad authorities to identify and monitor excessive risks to the U.S. financial
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U.S. Corporations Booked $33 Billion in Bermuda Despite Having Only 384 Employees Working there
Image By BrendelSignature at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Wall Street, December. 6, 2019
Quick Summary (Short Clip) Electronic Trading has Reduced Costs to the Average Investor by More than 1/2 Over the Past
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(December 9, 2019) Bond King Warns of Potential Financial Crisis in 2020; Says it Will be Worse than 2008, Yahoo
(Yahoo) “It’s pretty interesting because the 20s in the 20th century, the 20s were super boom times. And weirdly, I
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52% of Equities are Held by the Top 1% of the Population, FRED
Image By Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]
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The Top 400 Richest Families Paid a Lower Tax Rate than the Bottom 50% of Households for the First Time in U.S. History, Washingtonpost
(Washington Post) “In 1980, by contrast, the 400 richest had an effective tax rate of 47 percent. In 1960, that
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Quick Description of the USMCA Trade Agreement
By Heraldry – Own work (Original text: Own work,)The map has been created with the Generic Mapping Tools: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ using
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Mike Wilson, Chief U.S. Equity Strategist for Morgan Stanley, Suggests Recent CB Balance Sheet Expansion Similar to Quantitative Easing, Share Prices Inflated
“Two months ago, the Fed, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan began expanding their balance sheets by
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Another Great Example of the Importance of Following Insider Buying Activity
On November.13th, 2019, the CEO and President buys $45 000 worth of stock in the open market. Less than 1
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42% of Canadian Cannabis Still Comes From the Black Market According to StatCan
“More cannabis users reported obtaining cannabis from legal sources in the second and third quarters of 2019 (53%) compared with
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In 2015, Average CEO Tenure for Fortune 500 Companies was 4.9 Years According to Fortune
(Fortune) “Fortune’s own CEO data indicates that the 500 largest companies in the U.S. have a median CEO tenure of
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Alibaba Receives $1500 Twelve Month Price Target From CNN. Yes, You Read That Right.
The fact that this hasn’t been changed in more than 6 months speaks volumes about CNN’s journalistic integrity, especially considering
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The Great Merger Movement: 1895–1905
(Wikipedia) “The Great Merger Movement was a predominantly U.S. business phenomenon that happened from 1895 to 1905. During this time,
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Carl Icahn’s Investment in Cloudera is Up Roughly 100% Since His 13-D Filing On July.22nd
When Carl Icahn took a 12% stake in Cloudera, the price spiked 12.44% in the afterhours, then proceeded to creep
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OPEC’s Oil Production Cut History, Reuters
Reuters reported yesterday that OPEC plans to cut output by 400 000 bpd Link View OPEC’s production cut history
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The New York Fed’s Balance Sheet is 500% Larger than the San Francisco Fed’s, California Economy 5th Largest in the World
“California’s economy is now the 5th-biggest in the world, and has overtaken the United Kingdom”
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This Time Last Year in the Tradewar
Dec.04, 2018: “The White House’s muddled message on Trump’s China trade truce is another headache for markets”, CNBC Dec.07, 2018:
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Subliminal Messaging: How Advertisers Use Sex to Seduce You Into Buying Their Products
Notice something that’s just a little bit odd about that picture; something that just kinda, sticks out a little bit?
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CNBC: The Average Gain From a ‘Blow-Off Top’ is 13.4% Dating Back to 1901
“Between mid-August and late November, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 10.5% in a 74-day sprint that seemed to
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“Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller”
In the book “Fooled By Randomness“, author Nassim Nicholas Taleb describes an investment strategy known as “The Taleb Distribution”, where
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France and the EU Say they are Ready to Retaliate Against Cheese/Champagne Tariffs
(Reuters) “- France and the European Union said on Tuesday they were ready to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump
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Algorithms Can Identify You Based Upon As Little As 15 Character Attributes, Wharton Reports
Does privacy still exist? If you are new to this information, you will probably be shocked, surprised, and terrified by
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Researchers Discover New Way To Maximize Energy Produced From Silicon
“A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a
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Flash Fact: In 1901, Managers At ASWC Shorted The Company Stock, Then Shutdown The Mill
After closing the mill, they covered their shorts and reopened the business! Can you imagine if somebody did that today!
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Google Is Systemically Listening To Your Personal Conversations in the Privacy of Your Own Home, VRT.BE, July.10th, 2019
(VRT.BE) “Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone
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Tin Can Full of SH*T Sold For 124 Thousand Euros In 2007! (Seriously)
As the saying goes, presentation is everything, and you can sell ice to an eskimo of you tell the right
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60% of New Mortgages Now Originate From Non-Banking Institutions Like Quicken Loans and PennyMac, Bloomberg
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In 1996, John “Ippy” Dorrance III, Heir To the Great Campbells Soup Fortune, Renounced His Citizenship and Moved To Ireland To Escape Taxes
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Quote: Peter Lynch on the Importance of Insider Buying Activity
“insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the
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The Big 5 Tech Corporations Have a Combined Marketcap Larger Than The GDP Of Every Single Country In The World Other Than The United States, Japan, and China.
Company/Country Market Cap/GDP Employees/Citizens Alphabet Inc. $899 Billion 114,096 Amazon.com $892 Billion 647,500 Microsoft Corporation $1.15 Trillion 144,000 Apple Inc.
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Between 1959 and 2006, Monthly Discount Window Borrowing Averaged $700 Million, Investopedia
“In October 2008, the month after Lehman Brothers’ collapse, discount window borrowing peaked at $403.5 billion against the monthly average
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FX rigging: ‘If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying’, Reuters
“A Barclays employee was quoted as saying in 2010: “markup is making sure you make the right decision on price…
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Canadian Debt Levels Now The Highest in the Developed World, Financial Post
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In 2008, The New York Times Said That Giving Investment Bankers Banking Charters Would Finally Put an End To Gluttonous Wall Street Paychecks
“The move alters one of the models of modern Wall Street, the independent investment bank, soon after the federal government
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Flash Fact: America’s 1st and 2nd Central Bank Was 80% Owned By Private Investors
“Although the nation’s first two central banks had slight differences, particularly in their size, they were alike in many key
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IMF: Deutsche Bank Poses a Greater Risk to Financial Stability than Any Other Bank
(WSP) “Deutsche Bank has reported losses in three of the last four years; its share price has lost 90 percent
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Flash Fact: More than 25% of Goldman Employees are Engineers
(CNBC) “For a company with just over 36,000 employees, the bank’s influx of computer engineers now represents approximately 25 percent
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Total Cumulative Value of the Feds Repo Loan Program Equal to $3 Trillion, CNBC
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Massive Hedge Fund, Eagle Capital Management, Increases General Electric by 52% in the 3rd Quarter
Starting in the 4th quarter of 2018, Eagle Capital Management — a highly concentrated hedge fund for its size —
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Flash Fact: Institutional Ownership in Public Companies Grew From 9% in the 1950’s, to 63% by 2015, Jang-Sup Shin
From “The Subversion of Shareholder Democracy and the Rise of Hedge-Fund Activism”, By Jang-Sup Shin, 2018 Click on the snapshot
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Think Long, Think Wrong; An Age Old Adage
Our first impression is usually right, and this becomes glaringly obvious in the stock market. Just like in life, when
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PG&E CORP 3rd Quarter Fund Activity
Redwood Capital Management, LLC trimmed their position by 15%. In the 1st quarter of this year they increased their position
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(November.14th, 2019) Longest Bull Run In History Returns 468%, CNBC
(CNBC) “The longest bull market in history is also the best ever. The current market boom, which started March 9,
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As of 2019, There Is More Than 5,000 Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) Trading On U.S Markets, Investopedia
(Investopedia) “As of March 2019, there are more than 5,000 exchange traded products (ETPs) trading in the U.S., with investors
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Disney+ Signs Up More Customers In 1 Day Than Most Streaming Providers Have Signed Up Over The Entirety of Their Operating History, CNBC
“Disney signed up 10 million customers for its Disney+ streaming services within the first day of its broad international launch,
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(Q3 2019) NYF: Total Household Debt Now Sits $1.3 Trillion Higher Than The Peak Immediately Before The Financial Crisis
“Aggregate household debt balances increased by $92 billion in the third quarter of 2019, a 0.7% increase, and now stand
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Bain Capital Stocks and Funds
Funds Bain Capital Investors LLC Bain Capital Public Equity Management II, LLC Bain Capital Life Sciences Investors, LLC Bain Capital
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