Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
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Consider AMD
by Tim Knight • • 0 Comments
Allow me to offer AMD as a bold short idea.
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S&P 100 Apex
by Tim Knight • • 0 Comments
Here is the OEF (the S&P 100 ETF) for the entire dozen years of this endless bull market. Take special note of the multiple trendlines all converging.
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Edelman Trust Barometer: the Age of Cognitive Dissonance?
by Constantin Gurdgiev • • 0 Comments
Some shocking, genuinely shocking data from the Edelman Global Trust Barometer for 2021. Let’s take a look. Start with this: Welcome to the world where sociopaths like Jeff Bezos are both trusted to be competent and perceived to be ethical.&n…
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Freaks
by Tim Knight • • 0 Comments
A handful of intriguing short setups for anyone lunatic enough to dare put a bearish trade
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China First Major Economy to Issue Digital Currency
by Statista | Infographics • • 0 Comments
The Chinese government has begun to issue blockchain-powered digital currency to its citizens. The Wall Street Journal reports that 750,000 recipients have been determined by a lottery system and can already spend their digital Yuan in stores and onlin…
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LG’s Exit to Leave a Hole in the U.S. Smartphone Market
by Statista | Infographics • • 0 Comments
While LG’s decision to close its smartphone business probably won’t make a huge difference at the global level, with Chinese manufacturers flooding the market with Android phones at all price levels, the company’s exit definitely will be felt in the Un…
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How Americans Are Murdered
by Statista | Infographics • • 0 Comments
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects supplementary homicide data including the age, sex, race and ethnicity of murder victims as well as the type of weapon used by the perpetrator. When it comes to the latter category, the FBI published d…
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LG Drops Out of the Smartphone Race
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In a move that sounds more industry-shaking than it is, LG Electronics announced its decision to shut down its smartphone business by July 31. In a statement published on Monday, the South Korean company explained that its exit from the “incredibly com…
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Where America’s Bridges Are Crumbling
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Back in August 2007, the dangerous and decaying state of America’s infrastructure became a shocking reality when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, sending vehicles crashing into the river below. 13 people were killed while an…
