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We’ve all heard about the college admissions scandal in which 50 parents were charged with trying to cheat to get an acceptance from elite schools for the sake of their apparently not-too-bright offspring.
As much publicity as this scandal has received, the two most well-known of the accused are these two mothers-of-the-year – Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman:
Perhaps you have noticed the market lately has been jerked back and forth with more energy than we’ve seen in a long, long time. It looks like a photograph of a handsaw:
The latest from Binkius Hippo: The trade war is a proxy for the fight between democracy and autocracy in the digital age.
The trade war is not about fighting for jobs. 25% tariffs will not work.
GM is spending $1.5 MILLION to create EACH job position at Lordstown assembly. The Peterson Institute estimates that it costs $900,000 for each steel worker job. These type of skilled-trades jobs pays $3/hour in Taiwan and $1/hour in China. Korea is a bit more expensive than Taiwan, but Vietnam and Thailand are much cheaper.
(more…)I have been champing at the bit to show you this one, and I am delighted to let you know of yet another Slope innovation: Market Meter.
Market Meter provides a new way to see how “hot” or “cold” a particular financial instrument is. Typically a trader looks at such information in an instant, by way of a historical price chart. Market Meter adds dynamism to this analysis, since it illustrates over the amount of time you choose the “coldness” or “hotness” of a given ticker symbol.
(more…)Ya know, it’s just odd to me. Because ever since Mnuchin ordered his minions at the federal government to start propping up the stock market with everything in their arsenal, our friends in Gainesville have been steadfastly pounding the table about how the entire equity market was going to collapse. Month………..
