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Smart Bird: Not a Scientist but…
Meaning even if Americans were to take this seriously today, the US daily death rate will STILL probably exceed 3,000 daily in weeks.
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TSP Funds: The Current Situation
The bottom line: It sucks.
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TSP Smart: Hope for the Take Down of Wall Street
“And we can reorient our economy from wealth to work. To do all of that, we have to take on Wall Street power.
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Smart Bird: An Historian on “Originalism”
I’ve spent the last years learning about the concentration of wealth in America and how this has come about from an economic perspective. I seem to be stumbling into the other side of the coin… how the concentration of power is being designed into our system. I’m not liking it. It seems very dangerous.
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Off Subject: Why Voter Suppression in Legal Again
Excerpts from Republican voter suppression efforts were banned for decades. Here’s what changed. 15 October 2020 Kevin Kruse (Historian) A federal judge finally allowed the consent decree to expire in late 2017, believing the issue had been put to rest. The… Read More ›
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TSP Smart: Short History of Boeing’s Crashes
Boeing spent $43 billion on buybacks and ran their price up 400%. The buybacks stopped, skimped on design costs and they ran into a cash problem and their price plunged. The end.
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Smart Bird: Election Risk becomes Market Risk
I’m shocked at what I have been learning about our democracy. I did not know the Governors could throw out the voters decision and throw their electoral college votes toward their party’s Presidential candidate to ensure their party wins. Astonishing.
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Smart Bird: Tearing Down the Free Markets
I don’t normally talk about single news articles, but this one has many implications. What happens when central banks do whatever it takes to keep the stock market rally going even while the world economy is in a deep recession…. Read More ›
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Smart Bird: Shifts Happen
Shifts Happen
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TSP Smart: Charles Schwab on the Correction
If you are young or middle career you may get another secular bull market, but if you are over 50, I’m sorry your returns will be low but you might be able to catch one of those cyclical bull markets before your retire… after a major reset. Everything else is speculation in a high risk market.