China Politburo Meeting Points To New Phase For Domestic Markets Chinese markets will enter a new cycle for the remainder of this year and at least the early part of 2022, given the fresh policy signals from Friday’s all important Politburo meeting, writes Bloomberg’s Shen Hong. As we first noted in “China’s Credit Impulse Just Bottomed […]
Biden Has A Solar Panel, Climate Change Dilemma; Will Hypocrisy Rule? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Do we promote solar panels or not? At what price? Do we think long-term or short term? Tariffs Set to Expire Trump imposed tariffs on solar panels from China. The result was less demand for solar panels. Do […]
Moderna, Pfizer Hike Vaccine Prices By Up To 25% Pfizer and Moderna have both made clear that they see their COVID vaccination businesses as long-term profit drivers, not the public service that enabled them to receive billions of dollars in public money to effectively subsidize their development. And now that jabs from China and Russia […]
Futures Jump, China Soars After Beijing Promises More Stimmies Any other day, especially with traders so on edge over anything to do with China, futures would be deep in the red after Beijing reported another sharp drop in the Caixin manufacturing PMI, which slumped from 51.3 in June to 50.3, missing expectations of 51.0 and […]
Watch: Chaos Erupts On The Streets Of Berlin As Police Attack Anti-Lockdown Protesters Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Worldwide protests against the decimation of freedom continued this weekend, with Berlin in Germany becoming the focal point as thousands took to the streets, rising up against lockdowns and the introduction of vaccine passports in […]
Millions Locked Down As China Battles Worst COVID Outbreak Since Wuhan We noted last week that the delta variant has finally arrived in China, causing one of the country’s worst outbreaks since the original wave of COVID that spread from Wuhan across China (and world). Well, despite authorities’ best efforts, the outbreak appears to have […]
Apollo’s Eighth Flagship Fund Books A $1.6 Billion Gain After Selling Its Majority Stake In LifePoint Health To Another Apollo Fund What goes around comes around, especially in the world of private equity, where business is often times drummed up by passing the same assets between well known PE funds. In this case, Apollo Global […]
The Short And Long-Term Bull Cases For Ethereum Via Vineyard Holdings, OVERVIEW Thesis Long term: sustainable growth, huge TAM, superior products, scale economics shared, underappreciated due to complexity, and mispriced as a “young bitcoin”. Short term: Upcoming gross supply/demand mismatch given structural outflows of supply enforced by the London fork (EIP1559) and the phased Ethereum […]
US Women’s Soccer Team Is Actually Overpaid Relative To Men Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team just filed an appeal in a gender discrimination lawsuit. Let’s review the case… Equal Pay Day Joe Biden and the women’s national soccer team demand equal pay. I embrace the idea. Let’s see where […]
Polish Influencer Sells Her “Digital Love” As An NFT For $250,000 In what is likely going to be cited as Central Banks’ most recent proof that there’s nary a sign of a bubble to be seen anywhere, a Polish influencer just sold her “digital love” as an NFT for $250,000. 26 year old Marta Rentel […]
Burundi Has The Lowest GDP-Per-Capita In The World, US The Highest GDP per capita has steadily risen globally over time, and, as Visual Capitalist’s Avery Koop notes, in tandem, the standard of living worldwide has increased immensely. This map using data from the IMF shows the GDP per capita (nominal) of nearly every country and territory in […]
Want To Avoid Mandatory Vaccine In UK? Try Identifying As “Trans Vegan” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News (emphasis ours), After the revelation that half a million vegans in the UK could be prevented from having to take mandatory workplace vaccinations due to their beliefs being protected by employment law, actor Laurence Fox […]
Craig Murray’s Jailing Is The Latest Move In A Battle To Snuff Out Independent Journalism Authored by Jonathan Cook, Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, handed himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. […]
The Road To Totalitarianism Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking […]
Taibbi: Can History Itself Violate ‘Community Standards?’ Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News substack, Meet the Censored: Hitler Can history itself violate community standards? 100 years ago last week – on July 29, 1921 – Adolph Hitler was elected leader of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party, later known as the Nazi Party. The […]
Can Masturbation Boost Your Immune System to Fight COVID? With COVID-19 and the Delta variant spreading worldwide, people have been exploring ways to boost their immune systems. Immunity-boosting supplements, exercising, eating healthy, reducing stress, and quitting smoking are some common strategies to boost the immune system, but now masturbating could be added to the list, […]
Sky News Australia Suspended By YouTube Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, YouTube has temporarily suspended Sky News Australia from posting on its video platform, issuing a first strike to the popular conservative news channel over “COVID-19 misinformation,” according to a statement. The tech giant said its decision to issue a strike was […]
Apple Bans “Tinder For Anti-Vaxxers” On App Store Apple on Saturday removed a dating app for unvaccinated people. Allegedly, the app violated Apple’s policies for COVID content. Considered the “Tinder for anti-vaxxers,” Unjected is a dating-and-community app for unvaccinated people. In May, the app was launched after top dating websites, such as Bumble and Tinder, […]
by Calculated Risk on 8/01/2021 07:29:00 PM Weekend: • Schedule for Week of August 1, 2021 • A Few Comments on Inflation Monday: • At 10:00 AM ET, ISM Manufacturing Index for July. The consensus is for the ISM to be at 60.9, up from 60.6 in June. The employment index was at 49.9% in […]
‘Purge-Like Siren’ Blares Near US Census Building, Keeps Residents Up At Night “It sounds kind of like a combination of a tornado siren and a spaceship taking off, like the siren from the ‘Purge’ movies,” Suitland, Maryland, resident Scott Bovarnick told NBC4 Washington. An unidentified siren keeps Suitland residents up “all night – every night” and […]