Recent Posts - page 2
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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: The Other Deep State
It’s not the Left or the Right. It’s the Top versus the Bottom 99%.
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Smart Bird: Serial Felons run our Financial System
Smart Bird comment: This should be the number one debate topic today, but it is ignored by politicians and the media. The simple story is made complicated by the industry and the media. The simple story is we have felons running our financial system and they continue to get away with with merely slaps on the wrist.
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Doug Noland: Weird
The President is diagnosed with COVID-19, with rapidly worsening symptoms prompting a Friday evening Marine One flight to Walter Reed Medical Center. By Monday, he is back to the White House apparently feeling spryer than when he was a man… Read More ›
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Smart Bird: Shifts Happen
Shifts Happen
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TSP Smart: The Stock Market’s Tinderbox
The November 3rd election could be the most heavily hedged-against event in market history. Moreover, the most hedged event comes in the most speculative of market backdrops – which follows history’s greatest expansion of central bank liquidity. Tinderbox.
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TSP Smart: “The numbers are just monstrous”
The numbers are just monstrous. The Fed’s own data illuminate the historic Monetary Disorder that today runs wild. In short, finance has completely run amuck, with the data corroborating the super cycle “end game” thesis.