investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--What is going on in Malaysia? Lockdown suddenly lifted and volunteering for vaccines.

• Jan : COVID-19 cases started in Malaysia in January 2020 where 8 Chinese nationals came to Johor , Malaysia after coming in contact with an infected individual in Singapore .
• There were protests from the people to block all entry from China .
But the government stated they can not do that without affecting the economy or ties with China and that Malaysians should not worry and should not be racist against Chinese nationals , most of whom work , own businesses and land properties here .
• Feb : First cases of Malaysians being infected with COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Malaysia received praised from WHO for their efforts to control COVID-19 infections .
( www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/02/18/who-praises-m039sia039s-preparedness-ability-to-deal-with-covid-19-says-health-minister ) • Late Feb : a mosque in the capital city Kuala Lumpur held a religious event with 16,000 attendees , and someone in the crowd had COVID-19 and infected thousands of people from that event .
The number of cases spiked in Malaysia .
• Mar : Malaysian government put the country under quarantine lockdown called a Movement Control Order ( MCO ) .
MCO was done pretty well with most of the citizens following orders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home , ordering food online .
The streets and shops were mostly empty during this time .
• Mar-Apr : the number of cases had gone up with an average of 100 cases a day and 10 or less deaths per day .
The number continue to rise , but also stabilise ( “ the curve flattening ” ) and Malaysians even saw days without COVID-19 related deaths .
And number of new cases drop from 100 a day to a mere 30-60 a day .
The movement control order was still in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ *Now THIS is where things get interesting… • Mid April : China praised Malaysia ’ s Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah for all his efforts and strategies implemented to control the spread of COVID-19 .
• 18 April : China sent a team of so-called medical experts to Malaysia to “ help ” with COVID-19 efforts , but not to treat any patients .
( www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/04/19/china-medical-professionals-not-here-to-treat-covid-19-patients-but-to-share-experiences-says-health-dg ) • 23 April : Malaysia ’ s Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah confirmed that Malaysia will be working with China to develop a vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trial will be done in Malaysia .
( www.theedgemarkets.com/article/health-dg-confirms-malaysia-working-china-firms-covid19-vaccine-development ) • 24 April : The Chinese medical experts claimed Malaysia ’ s efforts to curb the infection were very “ comprehensive and effective.
” ( www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/04/24/chinese-expert-malaysia039s-anti-covid-19-measures-comprehensive-effective ) • 24 April : And Malaysia will be volunteering for the vaccine trials .
( www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/04/24/malaysia-could-volunteer-for-next-clinical-trials-of-chinas-covid-19-vaccin/1859926 ) • 29 April : Dr Noor Hisham reported that the Malaysia medical team found a new , much more aggressive mutation in the virus .
( sorry , non-English source : www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/covid-19-kkm-kesan-satu-mutasi-lebih-ganas-jangkiti-120-individu-dr-noor-hisham-240770 ) • 30th April : China stated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccines .
( www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/04/30/chinese-firm-all-ready-for-mass-vaccine-production ) • 1 May : Malaysia PM announced that Malaysia has lost RM63 billion due to the lockdown .
( www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/05/588982/pm-malaysia-has-suffered-rm63-billion-losses-due-mco ) • 1 May : Malaysia PM declared that people can go back to work as the Movement Control Order will be lifted conditionally on Monday ( 4 May 2020 ) .
( www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/05/01/conditional-mco-declared-to-ease-lockdown/ ) • 1 May : Malaysia health experts warned that new wave of infections will come following the 4 May 2020 so-called “ ease of lockdown ” .
( www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/05/01/conditional-mco-might-cause-third-wave-of-infections-say-health-experts/ ) None of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these events seem suspicious .
• Malaysia was doing well in controlling the spread of COVID-19 , so why did China send their medical experts to help out a country that was actually doing well ?
• Suddenly , Malaysia is working with China to develop a vaccine .
• And Malaysia accepted to be the “ volunteer ” for the vaccines from China .
• And now , the Prime Minister suddenly announced that everyone can go back to work next Monday ( 4 May ) .
Does any of these seem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going on ?
EDIT : China also donated 5,500 test kits to be used in Malaysia in March 2020 , on top of other previous donations .
www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/03/25/china-donates-5500-covid-19-test-kits-to-malaysia-on-top-of-previous-donati/1850148

by SphmrSlmp
Jan: COVID-19 cases started in Malaysia in January 2020 where 8 Chinese nationals came to Johor, Malaysia after coming in contact with an infected individual in Singapore.
There were protests from the people to block all entry from China. But the government stated they cannot do that without affecting the economy or ties with China and that Malaysians should not worry and should not be racist against Chinese nationals, most of whom work, own businesses and land properties here.
Feb: First cases of Malaysians being infected with COVID-19 started popping up.
Mid Feb: Malaysia received praised from WHO for their efforts to control COVID-19 infections. ( www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/02/18/who-praises-m039sia039s-preparedness-ability-to-deal-with-covid-19-says-health-minister )
Late Feb: a mosque in the capital city Kuala Lumpur held a religious event with 16,000 attendees, and someone in the crowd had COVID-19 and infected thousands of people from that event. The number of cases spiked in Malaysia.
Mar: Malaysian government put the country under quarantine lockdown called a Movement Control Order (MCO). MCO was done pretty well with most of the citizens following orders, staying at home, working from home, ordering food online. The streets and shops were mostly empty during this time.
Mar-Apr: the number of cases had gone up with an average of 100 cases a day and 10 or less deaths per day. The number continue to rise, but also stabilise (“the curve flattening”) and Malaysians even saw days without COVID-19 related deaths. And number of new cases drop from 100 a day to a mere 30-60 a day. The movement control order was still in place as the number kept dropping.
*Now THIS is where things get interesting…
Mid April: China praised Malaysia’s Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah for all his efforts and strategies implemented to control the spread of COVID-19.
Mid April: China TV stations named Malaysia’s Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah “top doctor” in the world. ( www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/04/15/china039s-cgtn-names-dr-noor-hisham-one-of-world039s-top-doctors )
18 April: China sent a team of so-called medical experts to Malaysia to “help” with COVID-19 efforts, but not to treat any patients. ( www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/04/19/china-medical-professionals-not-here-to-treat-covid-19-patients-but-to-share-experiences-says-health-dg )
23 April: Malaysia’s Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah confirmed that Malaysia will be working with China to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. And the first clinical trial will be done in Malaysia. ( www.theedgemarkets.com/article/health-dg-confirms-malaysia-working-china-firms-covid19-vaccine-development )
24 April: The Chinese medical experts claimed Malaysia’s efforts to curb the infection were very “comprehensive and effective.” ( www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/04/24/chinese-expert-malaysia039s-anti-covid-19-measures-comprehensive-effective )
24 April: And Malaysia will be volunteering for the vaccine trials. ( www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/04/24/malaysia-could-volunteer-for-next-clinical-trials-of-chinas-covid-19-vaccin/1859926 )
29 April: Dr Noor Hisham reported that the Malaysia medical team found a new, much more aggressive mutation in the virus. (sorry, non-English source: www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/covid-19-kkm-kesan-satu-mutasi-lebih-ganas-jangkiti-120-individu-dr-noor-hisham-240770 )
30th April: China stated they are ready to mass produce the vaccines. (www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/04/30/chinese-firm-all-ready-for-mass-vaccine-production)
1 May: Malaysia PM announced that Malaysia has lost RM63 billion due to the lockdown. ( www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/05/588982/pm-malaysia-has-suffered-rm63-billion-losses-due-mco )
1 May: Malaysia PM declared that people can go back to work as the Movement Control Order will be lifted conditionally on Monday (4 May 2020). ( www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/05/01/conditional-mco-declared-to-ease-lockdown/ )
Lastly….
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1 May: Malaysia health experts warned that new wave of infections will come following the 4 May 2020 so-called “ease of lockdown”. ( www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/05/01/conditional-mco-might-cause-third-wave-of-infections-say-health-experts/ )
None of this makes sense to me and some of these events seem suspicious.
Malaysia was doing well in controlling the spread of COVID-19, so why did China send their medical experts to help out a country that was actually doing well? Suddenly, Malaysia is working with China to develop a vaccine. And Malaysia accepted to be the “volunteer” for the vaccines from China. And now, the Prime Minister suddenly announced that everyone can go back to work next Monday (4 May).
Does any of these seem suspicious to you? The hell is going on?
EDIT: China also donated 5,500 test kits to be used in Malaysia in March 2020, on top of other previous donations. www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/03/25/china-donates-5500-covid-19-test-kits-to-malaysia-on-top-of-previous-donati/1850148


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--South Dakota has introduced HB 1235 An Act to Revise Provisions Regarding Immunizations. The bill re

South Dakota has introduced HB 1235 An Act to Revise Provisions Regarding Immunizations. The bill repeals ALL vaccine mandates in the State.

The current vaccine mandate enforcement drive by Merck and Friends has driven our community , and those who never questioned vaccines before now , back to a basic question at hand here .
Bad precedent , plus a century , has resulted in the legalization of actual war crimes .
That precedent has been the basis for the mandate of dozens of now liability-free vaccines for children and adults , where no epidemic ( or even one case ) exists , at the costs of thousands , or even hundred of thousands , per year to opt out .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Supreme Court ruled that women can be force sterilized , for the good of themselves and society , of course .
One hundred and fifteen years ago this month , the US Supreme Court made a decision that because there was a deadly smallpox epidemic , the City of Cambridge , Massachusetts was allowed to charge a pastor five dollars to opt out of a city wide vaccine mandate .
The law didn ’ t apply to children .
A growing number of legislators in South Dakota believe you do .
The knee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Americans is , “ I do.
” But that is not what most governments believes .
Even under our Constitution of individual liberties , governments strive to control even your medical choices , and if they can ’ t , they will find a reason to justify it , and the means to carry out their will .
In 21st century America , there are no deadly epidemics of communicable disease , despite the fact that we are subject to constant fear campaigns that one is coming .
In fact no such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If the fear mongers want to scare you into fearing deadly epidemics , they have to go back more than a hundred years .
So the circumstances for the justification of the government ’ s actions in Jacobson v. Massachusetts exist only in the history books .
So in this age of medical tech , including vaccines , that most people want , why do mandates still exist ?
And if Jacobson can justify the sexual mutilation of women , then what else can it justify as medical technology progresses over the next @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interventions and body tech will The Gates Foundation invent and convince ( bribe ) governments and NGOs to force people into utilizing ?
And where will the battle to end coerced “ medical care ” begin .
I submit to you that it has begun in South Dakota .
Today .
South Dakota House Majority Leader , Representative Lee Qualm ( R ) , has introduced HB 1235 An Act to Revise Provisions Regarding Immunizations .
The bill repeals ALL vaccine mandates in the State .
South Dakota would be the first US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all , joining other governments like the UK , Japan and Canada , in uncoerced vaccine decision making .
But the bill goes even further .
IT ENDS MEDICAL MANDATES ALL TOGETHER .
It adds new law that reads :

The current vaccine mandate enforcement drive by Merck and Friends has driven our community, and those who never questioned vaccines before now, back to a basic question at hand here.
Bad precedent, plus a century, has resulted in the legalization of actual war crimes.
That precedent has been the basis for the mandate of dozens of now liability-free vaccines for children and adults, where no epidemic (or even one case) exists, at the costs of thousands, or even hundred of thousands, per year to opt out. It is even the basis on which the Supreme Court ruled that women can be force sterilized , for the good of themselves and society, of course.
One hundred and fifteen years ago this month, the US Supreme Court made a decision that because there was a deadly smallpox epidemic, the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts was allowed to charge a pastor five dollars to opt out of a city wide vaccine mandate. The law didn’t apply to children.
A growing number of legislators in South Dakota believe you do.
The knee jerk reaction , and normal human response for Americans is, “I do.”
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But that is not what most governments believes. Even under our Constitution of individual liberties, governments strive to control even your medical choices, and if they can’t, they will find a reason to justify it, and the means to carry out their will.
In 21st century America, there are no deadly epidemics of communicable disease, despite the fact that we are subject to constant fear campaigns that one is coming. In fact no such event has happened in my lifetime. If the fear mongers want to scare you into fearing deadly epidemics, they have to go back more than a hundred years. So the circumstances for the justification of the government’s actions in Jacobson v. Massachusetts exist only in the history books.
So in this age of medical tech, including vaccines, that most people want, why do mandates still exist? And if Jacobson can justify the sexual mutilation of women, then what else can it justify as medical technology progresses over the next century and beyond?
What new medical interventions and body tech will The Gates Foundation invent and convince (bribe) governments and NGOs to force people into utilizing? And where will the battle to end coerced “medical care” begin.
I submit to you that it has begun in South Dakota. Today.
South Dakota House Majority Leader, Representative Lee Qualm (R), has introduced HB 1235 An Act to Revise Provisions Regarding Immunizations.
The bill repeals ALL vaccine mandates in the State.
South Dakota would be the first US state to have no vaccine mandates at all, joining other governments like the UK, Japan and Canada, in uncoerced vaccine decision making.
But the bill goes even further. IT ENDS MEDICAL MANDATES ALL TOGETHER. It adds new law that reads:


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-03--It’s happening slowly, but more investors are starting to figure out what lies ahead. It’s just goin

It’s happening slowly, but more investors are starting to figure out what lies ahead. It’s just going to be much worse than most expect.

It 's happening slowly , but more investors are starting to figure out what lies ahead .
It 's just @ @ @ @ @ than most expect .
t.co/E2ugJPlb6c Down > -90 % if # depression take place pic.twitter.com/fePFLgk9Nh @ @ @ @ @ ECONOMIC SHOCK RESULTING FROM LOW OIL PRICES , LOW DEMAND WILL LAST FOR NOT A @ @ @ @ @ you guys…This is a MUST see !
( Can not stress this enough ) t.co/Ow8nxShm6P @ @ @ @ @ four years from now when people start flying again — Reminiscences of an American Capitalist @ @ @ @ @ 2 , 2020

It's happening slowly, but more investors are starting to figure out what lies ahead. It's just going to be much worse than most expect. t.co/E2ugJPlb6c
Down >-90% if #depression take place pic.twitter.com/fePFLgk9Nh
SAUDI FINANCE MINISTER SAYS THE ECONOMIC SHOCK RESULTING FROM LOW OIL PRICES, LOW DEMAND WILL LAST FOR NOT A SHORT TIME #OOTT
Omg you guys…This is a MUST see! (Can not stress this enough) t.co/Ow8nxShm6P
… define "FED going to shit itself"…. t.co/72vYY1cdbW
Recap:
Buffett super Bullish three or four years from now
when people start flying again
Got it 😘✈
YIKES #Buffett #WarrenBuffett
— Reminiscences of an American Capitalist (@4Awesometweet) May 2, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-03--Warren Buffett “We don’t see anything attractive”

Berkshire Hathaway has been selling stocks & stockpiling even more cash .
“ If Buffett himself isn ’ t seeing @ @ @ @ @ own stock , what are we to think about the recent market selloff ?
Is @ @ @ @ @ for long-term investors ?
” t.co/RnXbC5ailW Berkshire owns such a wide range of companies that @ @ @ @ @ time take on the economy .
The fact that ( arguably ) one of the @ @ @ @ @ selling and not buying is , to me at least , a very bearish sign @ @ @ @ @ markets .

Warren Buffett "We don't see anything attractive" — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) May 2, 2020
Berkshire Hathaway has been selling stocks & stockpiling even more cash. “If Buffett himself isn’t seeing opportunities, even in his own stock, what are we to think about the recent market selloff? Is it not a buying opportunity for long-term investors?” t.co/RnXbC5ailW — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) May 2, 2020
Berkshire owns such a wide range of companies that Buffett has an almost real time take on the economy. The fact that (arguably) one of the world's greatest investors is selling and not buying is, to me at least, a very bearish sign for the economy and the markets. — Nick DuCate (@Nick_duCat) May 2, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-03--Another global conflict is more likely than most realize

COVID-19 will have lasting effects geopolitically .
In particular , China and the East Asian pacific .
The pandemic has worsened already frayed relations between China and the US .
This will accelerate manufacturing outside of China , but this was going to happen anyway as China transitions to a service economy .
However , the US and other countries are taking provocative actions by supporting Taiwanese independence , probably to distract their population from their own failures at home in containing the outbreak .
China has made it clear that Taiwanese independence will trigger an invasion from the mainland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is essentially China ’ s Cuba , and any hostile nation so close to the mainland is a huge national security threat for them .
I don ’ t rule out the possibility of U.S. formally recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation ; in fact the Trump administration is so edgy that I think this is likely if he gets a second turn .
If Taiwan declares independence , either by the U.S. formally recognizing them , or them declaring it themselves , mainland China will likely retaliate militarily and launch an amphibious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is severe economic sanctions on China .
There has been some discussion of this at the political level , but this will not “ make China behave ” as some would think , but make China more aggressive militarily .
This would be similar to the US oil embargo on Japan in the 1940s .
An isolate country with a worsening economy will have no choice left but to launch all out war in order to keep legitimacy .
Some people say , since China has nukes that a U.S.-China hot war is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buy that .
If you look at China ’ s nuclear capabilities , they have nowhere near the capabilities of the U.S. or the Russians .
China can nuke Japan and Hawaii but I doubt they will be able to nuke much of the U.S .
Whereas U.S. has complete nuclear superiority over China and can nuke them several times over .
I strongly believe that U.S. will have a “ hot war ” with China in < = 10 years .
How would this affect global markets ?

by ALL_IN_LK_SHARES
COVID-19 will have lasting effects geopolitically. In particular, China and the East Asian pacific. The pandemic has worsened already frayed relations between China and the US. This will accelerate manufacturing outside of China, but this was going to happen anyway as China transitions to a service economy. However, the US and other countries are taking provocative actions by supporting Taiwanese independence, probably to distract their population from their own failures at home in containing the outbreak. China has made it clear that Taiwanese independence will trigger an invasion from the mainland. This is not surprising since Taiwan is essentially China’s Cuba, and any hostile nation so close to the mainland is a huge national security threat for them.
I don’t rule out the possibility of U.S. formally recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation; in fact the Trump administration is so edgy that I think this is likely if he gets a second turn. If Taiwan declares independence, either by the U.S. formally recognizing them, or them declaring it themselves, mainland China will likely retaliate militarily and launch an amphibious invasion of Taiwan.
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The second possibility is severe economic sanctions on China. There has been some discussion of this at the political level, but this will not “make China behave” as some would think, but make China more aggressive militarily. This would be similar to the US oil embargo on Japan in the 1940s. An isolate country with a worsening economy will have no choice left but to launch all out war in order to keep legitimacy.
Some people say, since China has nukes that a U.S.-China hot war is impossible. However, I do not buy that. If you look at China’s nuclear capabilities, they have nowhere near the capabilities of the U.S. or the Russians. China can nuke Japan and Hawaii but I doubt they will be able to nuke much of the U.S. Whereas U.S. has complete nuclear superiority over China and can nuke them several times over.
I strongly believe that U.S. will have a “hot war” with China in <= 10 years. How would this affect global markets?


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--1 in 6 publicly traded U.S. companies did not earn enough to cover their interest payments going int

1 in 6 publicly traded U.S. companies did not earn enough to cover their interest payments going into the COVID-19 crises.

I think a big assumption in the V-shaped recovery theory is that the U.S. economy was relatively healthy going into the crises .
And that once demand returns to normal , businesses will continue to post record high profits .
This idea couldn ’ t be farther from the truth .
Data published in the WSJ on March 10 , 2020 showed that : • 1 in 6 publicly traded U.S. companies did not earn enough to cover their interest payments before the COVID-19 crises .
• In the first half of 2019 , 40 % of all leveraged loans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 6:1 or higher .
• the IMF conducted a stress test that showed an economic crises half the size of 2008 would put 40 % of corporate debt at risk of default in the 8 of the largest world economies .
I find it very odd that stories like these were EVERYWHERE in March , 2020 .
Then as stocks began to skyrocket and firms started making back losses , they practically vanished from the media .
If you are comfortable with these debt levels and believe we can keep increasing debt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all means continue to invest .
Just wanted to get the information out since I haven ’ t see much of this lately .
The Fed can give the banks money to keep lending to corporations .
Importantly , the Fed can not erase debt , so all those bad loans the bank gave out will still be in place .
This means that whenever lending restrictions get tighter ( e.g .
bad companies can ’ t take out loans to pay off other loans ) those companies will default .
Theoretically , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the banks and keep lending standards low so that they could keep making bad loans to bad companies that can ’ t afford them .
This is what Japan did and they have been in a 30 year recession ever since .
The S & P 500 is hovering near 1929 valuations and is the most overvalued it has been since the late-1990s Dot-com bubble .

by speaknovel
I think a big assumption in the V-shaped recovery theory is that the U.S. economy was relatively healthy going into the crises. And that once demand returns to normal, businesses will continue to post record high profits.
This idea couldn’t be farther from the truth. Data published in the WSJ on March 10, 2020 showed that:
1 in 6 publicly traded U.S. companies did not earn enough to cover their interest payments before the COVID-19 crises.
In the first half of 2019, 40% of all leveraged loans went to companies with a debt-to-earnings ratio of 6:1 or higher.
the IMF conducted a stress test that showed an economic crises half the size of 2008 would put 40% of corporate debt at risk of default in the 8 of the largest world economies.
I find it very odd that stories like these were EVERYWHERE in March, 2020. Then as stocks began to skyrocket and firms started making back losses, they practically vanished from the media.
If you are comfortable with these debt levels and believe we can keep increasing debt without a market contraction, then by all means continue to invest. Just wanted to get the information out since I haven’t see much of this lately.
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The Fed can give the banks money to keep lending to corporations. Importantly, the Fed cannot erase debt, so all those bad loans the bank gave out will still be in place.
This means that whenever lending restrictions get tighter (e.g. bad companies can’t take out loans to pay off other loans) those companies will default.
Theoretically, the Fed could continuously feed money into the banks and keep lending standards low so that they could keep making bad loans to bad companies that can’t afford them. This is what Japan did and they have been in a 30 year recession ever since.
The S&P 500 is hovering near 1929 valuations and is the most overvalued it has been since the late-1990s Dot-com bubble.


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Consumer confidence is collapsing in most major countries in Asia Pacific, but not in China.  Fabric

Consumer confidence is collapsing in most major countries in Asia Pacific , but not in China .

Classic.
Consumer confidence is collapsing in most major countries in Asia Pacific, but not in China.
Fabricated data.…. CCP at its finest. pic.twitter.com/VslzmXKer3
— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) May 1, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--You’re going to tell me we’re not in a housing bubble when this dump in San Francisco is going for 1

You’re going to tell me we’re not in a housing bubble when this dump in San Francisco is going for 1.5 million? Talk about a fixer upper.

by PurportedGamer
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This house is priced too high imo – Elon Musk


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Dividend Cuts and Suspensions – Week of April 26, 2020

see the complete list of dividend cuts and suspensions here www.reddit.com/r/dividends/comments/fhfgsf/coronavirus_dividend_cut_list/ Disclaimer : This information is only for educational purposes @ @ @ @ @ investment decisions based on the information in this article .
Do you own due diligence @

by AlwaysHavingFun2020
DATE ticker name comment 05-01 $WY Weyerhaeuser Company suspend thx u/invalidTypecast 05-01 $DNKN Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc. suspend thx u/nhairnuattoa7 04-30 $RDS-A Royal Dutch Shell plc reduce $0.47->$0.16 thx u/speacial_s 04-30 $WDC Western Digital Corporation suspend thx u/infidel129 04-28 $HOG Harley-Davidson, Inc. reduce $0.38 -> $0.02 thx u/brintoul 04-27 $GM General Motors Company suspend thx u/19Black 04-27 $GLP Global Partners LP reduce to $0.3938 thx u/todayisagooddayyep 04-27 $CNXM CNX Midstream Partners LP reduce 80% to $0.0829 thx u/rdking647 04-27 $ECOL US Ecology, Inc. suspend thx u/brintoul
see the complete list of dividend cuts and suspensions here www.reddit.com/r/dividends/comments/fhfgsf/coronavirus_dividend_cut_list/
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investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--This isn’t a Credit Cycle. This is a Systemic Cycle. They pushed it Too Far. Beyond the Breaking Poi

They pushed it Too Far .
Beyond the Breaking Point .
Now the Systemic Collapse has Commenced .
There is @ @ @ @ @ the Other Side , we can Rebuild Anew .
But for Now , Systemic Collapse @

This isn’t a Credit Cycle.
This is a Systemic Cycle.
They pushed it Too Far. Beyond the Breaking Point.
Now the Systemic Collapse has Commenced.
There is No Stopping it.
From here, Annihilation.
On the Other Side, we can Rebuild Anew.
But for Now, Systemic Collapse.
— Paranoid Bull (@paranoidbull) May 2, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Fed Chair Powell Just Made this Dangerous “About Face” on U.S. Debt

In the latest installment of “ Fed Face-Palm Moments , ” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears to have dangerously changed position on U.S. debt .
And it only took a little more than one year to do it .
As recently as January 2019 , Powell said he was concerned about U.S. debt : Keep in mind , that was more than a year ago when the total U.S. debt was $ 21.9 trillion .
Right now , that same debt is quickly nearing $ 25 trillion , an increase of almost $ 3 trillion in just over a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worried now ?
Hardly .
In fact , it seems he ’ s not worried at all !
Okay , so just to be clear : Last year Powell said the debt was a “ long-term issue the U.S. needs to face.
” But this year he is now saying “ this is not the time ” to be concerned with the total U.S. debt .
Unless you ’ ve been living under a rock , you ’ re probably aware that the total U.S. debt has been growing in leaps and bounds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even more dire situation is illustrated by the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) , which recently published an outlook showing how the debt is projected to skyrocket : The official “ Federal Debt as Percentage of GDP ” graph was taken from the same report , and the projection itself is worth a thousand words : If now isn ’ t the right time to be concerned with the U.S. debt , as Powell stated , when is the right time ?
It sure looks like now would be a good time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s about face even more unusual is the timing of it ; a near-term economic catastrophe appears to be inevitable .
Powell Thinks the Second Quarter Will Be Much “ Worse ” According to their most recent Federal Open Market Committee ( FOMC ) statement , the Fed “ decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent.
” It looks as though the FOMC will keep rates that low “ until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events.
” But according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ events might take a while : “ Fed Chairman Jay Powell said he expects an ‘ unprecedented ’ drop in economic activity over the next few months .
He also hinted at the need for more government stimulus.
” “ The second quarter ’ s economic data will be worse than anything we have ever seen , ” Powell added .
Worse data , coupled with trillions more added to the Fed ’ s balance sheet , sure seems like a recipe for disaster .
In the same CBS report , former Federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Their interventions are now so numerous , a spreadsheet is required to keep track of all the actions the Fed has undertaken or committed to.
” Perhaps the Fed should start focusing on the quality of their interventions instead of the quantity ?
That could prevent the need for Powell to have to do an “ about face ” of some type next year .
Until then , who knows what could happen ?
While the Fed Makes Up Its Mind , You Can Be Decisive With his about face , Chairman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impression that there ’ s “ nothing to see here , move along ” when it comes to the U.S. debt .
But while the Fed tries to figure the whole thing out , you can do an evaluation and make some real decisions about your savings .
Consider diversifying assets , examining your risk exposure , and different asset classes , such as precious metals like gold and silver .

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From Birch Gold Group
In the latest installment of “Fed Face-Palm Moments,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appears to have dangerously changed position on U.S. debt.
And it only took a little more than one year to do it.
As recently as January 2019, Powell said he was concerned about U.S. debt:
I’m very worried about it… It’s a long-run issue that we definitely need to face, and ultimately, will have no choice but to face.
Keep in mind, that was more than a year ago when the total U.S. debt was $21.9 trillion. Right now, that same debt is quickly nearing $25 trillion, an increase of almost $3 trillion in just over a year.
So is Powell even more worried now?
Hardly. In fact, it seems he’s not worried at all!
The debt is growing faster than the economy. This is not the time to act upon those concerns.
Okay, so just to be clear: Last year Powell said the debt was a “long-term issue the U.S. needs to face.” But this year he is now saying “this is not the time” to be concerned with the total U.S. debt.
That’s a pretty big change!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that the total U.S. debt has been growing in leaps and bounds since the 2008 recession:
But an even more dire situation is illustrated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which recently published an outlook showing how the debt is projected to skyrocket:
Because of the large deficits, federal debt held by the public is projected to grow, from 81 percent of GDP in 2020 to 98 percent in 2030 (its highest percentage since 1946). By 2050, debt would be 180 percent of GDP—far higher than it has ever been.
The official “Federal Debt as Percentage of GDP” graph was taken from the same report, and the projection itself is worth a thousand words:
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If now isn’t the right time to be concerned with the U.S. debt, as Powell stated, when is the right time? It sure looks like now would be a good time.
What makes the Federal Reserve Chairman’s about face even more unusual is the timing of it; a near-term economic catastrophe appears to be inevitable.
Powell Thinks the Second Quarter Will Be Much “Worse”
According to their most recent Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement, the Fed “decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent.”
It looks as though the FOMC will keep rates that low “until it is confident that the economy has weathered recent events.”
But according to a CBS News report, those events might take a while: “Fed Chairman Jay Powell said he expects an ‘unprecedented’ drop in economic activity over the next few months. He also hinted at the need for more government stimulus.”
“The second quarter’s economic data will be worse than anything we have ever seen,” Powell added.
Worse data, coupled with trillions more added to the Fed’s balance sheet, sure seems like a recipe for disaster.
In the same CBS report, former Federal Reserve adviser Danielle DiMartino Booth said, “Their interventions are now so numerous, a spreadsheet is required to keep track of all the actions the Fed has undertaken or committed to.”
Perhaps the Fed should start focusing on the quality of their interventions instead of the quantity? That could prevent the need for Powell to have to do an “about face” of some type next year.
Until then, who knows what could happen?
While the Fed Makes Up Its Mind, You Can Be Decisive
With his about face, Chairman Powell might be trying to give the impression that there’s “nothing to see here, move along” when it comes to the U.S. debt.
But while the Fed tries to figure the whole thing out, you can do an evaluation and make some real decisions about your savings. Consider diversifying assets, examining your risk exposure, and different asset classes, such as precious metals like gold and silver.


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--George Carlin Knew What Was Coming, must see humor combined with truth

Funny but so true .
Did you know many moms used to use their spit to clean their kids faces @ @ @ @ @ If Only People Listened To George Carlin WAR ON GERMS Classic Comedian for over 50 @ @ @ @ @ R.I.P George & Our other beloved fallen comrade Woodrow Wobbles , R.I.P George .

Funny but so true. Did you know many moms used to use their spit to clean their kids faces if out in public?
If Only People Listened To George Carlin WAR ON GERMS
BORDER OF CHAOS
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Classic Comedian for over 50 years GEORGE CARLIN ON GERMS
R.I.P George & Our other beloved fallen comrade Woodrow Wobbles, R.I.P George.
NSA


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Pelosi Then: “Believe Women!”. Now: “Due Process!”. WTF?

Pelosi : I don ’ t need a lecture Pelosi : immediately gives lecture unrelated to the question .
The @ @ @ @ @ “ alright we don ’ t need a lecture , you ’ re clearly covering @ @ @ @ @ standards are pathetic .
”

Pelosi: I don’t need a lecture
Pelosi: immediately gives lecture unrelated to the question.
The reporter should have interrupted with “alright we don’t need a lecture, you’re clearly covering for Biden. Your double standards are pathetic.”
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LV


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Tens of thousands of protestors throughout California against the overly draconian Wuhan Virus lockd

Tens of thousands of protestors throughout California against the overly draconian Wuhan Virus lockdown measures. Chants include: Down with Gavin, Down with democratic party. Bigger rallies in coming days. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the beaches and parks are to kept closed. #CALIRISING

Residents in Orange County , California , turned out in the hundreds to protest Governor Gavin Newsom ’ s order @ @ @ @ @ # COVID19 lockdowns enter week seven .
READ MORE : on.rt.com/ag8i

by Bigboss1738
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Residents in Orange County, California, turned out in the hundreds to protest Governor Gavin Newsom’s order to close all beaches as #COVID19 lockdowns enter week seven. READ MORE: on.rt.com/ag8i


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--BBC CAUGHT Red-Handed selectively EDITING a TRUMP SPEECH

BBC Editors have been exposed selectively editing a Trump speech and the edit is not in the slightest way favourable @ @ @ @ @ The video below forensically exposes the BBC ’ s bias .
It ’ s a @ @ @ @ @ commentator “ Politico ” .
Please watch the 11 minute video – the objective dissection @ @ @ @ @ BBC has used could be revealed by Novara Media or Pol Pot and it would @ @ @ @ @ bust as there ever was .

BBC Editors have been exposed selectively editing a Trump speech and the edit is not in the slightest way favourable to the US President.
The video below forensically exposes the BBC’s bias. It’s a video put together by YouTube commentator “Politico”. Please watch the 11 minute video – the objective dissection of the video-editing process the BBC has used could be revealed by Novara Media or Pol Pot and it would still be as blatant a bust as there ever was.
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investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos called to testify before Congress

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been requested to testify before the House Judiciary Committee following a recent report that the @ @ @ @ @ ’ data to help design its own competing products .

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been requested to testify before the House Judiciary Committee following a recent report that the online retailer used third-party sellers’ data to help design its own competing products.
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AO


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Governor Cuomo says the lockdowns are voluntary (and government can’t stop people to go out)

Well for the most part that ’ s NOT what he wants the citizens to think… .
he wants them @ @ @ @ @ obey the orders

Well for the most part that’s NOT what he wants the citizens to think…. he wants them to think they HAVE to obey the orders
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investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Covid 19 is mutating into Covert20 – & the Resistance so far is laughable.

I wonder , does anyone have a better descriptor for the place ( wherein dwell the spin doctors , Establishment bottom-feeders and technomedia corporacrats ) than “ swamp ” ?
The question is largely rhetorical , as I have one already handy : sewer .
Every week , more stools glide proudly past on the surface of the murky waters .
Some are there displaying corruption , some to continue exaggerating the threat presented by Covid19 , some to represent the quiet creeping of the State as it passes yet another batch of illiberal legislation…and of late , more and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as if they were saying , “ You think the last lot were smelly , well wait til you get a whiff of this little doozie ” .
The only way left to tackle the shit-shower is simply to list the components of The Dump in some vaguely connected order .
The most overt liar of all – and still the best weather vane of élite intentions – remains the Murdoch press .
They gave space six days ago to Ed Conway ( economics editor of SkyNews – who else ? )
for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ Has the time come for a one-off wealth tax ?
Capital levies are the nuclear button of economics but might be just what Britain needs now ’ Mr Conway concluded by asking , of his own rhetoric , ‘ …..is the simplest , boldest , most radical way of solving the coming fiscal crisis such a terrible idea after all ?
’ Um , there is a far simpler one that doesn ’ t involve stealing from the innocent citzenry : it ’ s called a Debt Jubilee .
Now I wonder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fancy that idea .
Anyway , Conway was ahead of the game in asking the question – although the first one to float this particular turd in 2018 was our dear old convicted felon , Christine Lagarde , who now runs the European Central Bank ( ECB ) – of which more in a paragraph or few .
Perhaps some folks at the Times felt he ’ d gone too far ; so four days later , Ed was back again , saying what a tragedy the whole virus thing is , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ The data , ” he began , in the tone of Job having a bad day , ” is almost overwhelmingly depressing….the total number of people who died in England and Wales in the 16th week of the year , the one that began on Easter Monday was , at 22,351 , the highest number of people to have died in any week since comparable records began.
” It was also the week that 3,981 beds ( out of 4,000 ) at the Nightingale Covid19 Centre lay empty and unused – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had earlier said that such a number was woefully insufficient .
The use of legerdemain by Conway – simply taking every single death as if it must be down to Covid19 – took even my stale breath away .
In the week he was writing about , 4,200 hospital deaths from C19 occurred…..just over 18 % of all deaths in that week .
But still the narrative didn ’ t seem powerful enough , so this week the media have jumped on another bring-out-your-dead horror .
The rumbling of the cart on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the noise is deafening .
Once again , Ed was the Town Crier sans pareil : “ ….a glance at the data on how many people are dying in the UK certainly feels like a glimpse into the heart of darkness for this country….
” The overwhelming conclusion of the media pack , in fact , is that Boris Johnson left it “ too late ” in applying lockdown , and thus he is to blame .
I like blaming Boris when he deserves it – he usually does , but not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grasp is that the “ understated deaths ” story is a reheated version of the one about care homes not being included in the numbers .
Leaving aside the fact that Johnson was fighting for his life at the time this was discovered , I must again ask : whose job is it to get these numbers right ?
And the answer is , Whitehall and its NHS/ONS specialist statisticians .
In turn , in a previous post I demonstrated the utterly shambolic reaction of NHS Big Hair people when a personal friend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went to a testing centre in Southern England and was told “ to come back when you feel ill ” ….even though C19 was raging through her workplace at the time .
I have yet to discover anywhere data on ( a ) what other countries do about care home deaths ( b ) how reliable these home death diagnoses are and ( c ) whether any part of our lackadaisical Civil Service has yet quantified a figure – it will be vastly greater than these care home additions – for the numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to present themselves as a statistic .
Earlier this week , America ’ s CDC once again repeated their view that , as 97 % of all cases we know about displayed ‘ mild symptomology ’ , it is likely that the real case numbers are ten times greater than those recorded so far .
If we don ’ t know that , then media exaggeration and jibes aimed at the Government are just so much agendered mumbo-jumbo .
But it is spooky , is it not , that when one factors in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at that same , hoary old number – C19 is killing 0.03 % of us , and the “ us ” involved are overwhelmingly – as in 85 % – in their ninth decade .
So why is Downing Street floating this boat today ?
What ’ s all the fuss really about , and why are we crashing the global economy ?
Time for us to turn to what ’ s becoming a regular feature at The Slog .
There is an old saying , “ Money talks ” .
The 21st @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , money ’ s chief job is to hide .
It ’ s effect on our media around the world is not only palpable , it has to all intents and purposes abolished the practice of investigative journalism : it exists only as a form of lackeyism we saw earlier in this piece – what I tend to call accusatory journalism .
How else could Bill Gates get away with a vaccination track record that suggests we need to add a charge for the International Courts ?
We hear much about War Criminals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Criminals .
A week ago , RFK Jr – the lawyer activist fighting the cause of those who do know the the harm done by vaccination – wrote this piece for Instagram recording in full Big Bill ’ s twisted philanthropy .
I urge you to read it .
One extract , however , stood out for me : ‘ In 2010 , Gates committed $ 10 billion to the WHO promising to reduce population , in part , through new vaccines .
A month later Gates told a Ted Talk that new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2014 , Kenya ’ s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a phony “ tetanus ” vaccine campaign .
Independent labs found the sterility formula in every vaccine tested .
After denying the charges , WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade .
Similar accusations came from Tanzania , Nicaragua , Mexico and the Philippines.
’ Bill Gates is committed to controlling freedom of movement , steering the entire direction of Homo sapiens , and reducing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a grand Bilderberger/Davos Plan to do just that , I have no idea .
But the Covid19 saga ( while in no way proving it ) has given us a glimpse into what some of the megalos up there in the top stratum would like to do .
The networking web of statistical charlatans and Big Pharma is not so much tangled as strangulating every attempt to provide a counter-narrative .
This news has been bouncing across the globe over the last 48 hours : ‘ A drug has been shown to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cutting the number of days patients take to leave hospital by almost a third .
Remdesivir , an antiviral originally designed to combat ebola , had a “ clear-cut significant positive effect in diminishing time to recovery , ” said Anthony Fauci… ’ It ’ s a pack of lies – Hydroxychlorochane not only speeds recovery from C19 , it also reverses the down-spiral into death that typifies this virus .
Earlier , this article from China cast huge doubt upon Fauci ’ s claims : ‘ ….experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir appears to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a late-stage study conducted by the Chinese government ’ …remdesivir was not associated with clinical or virological benefits.
’ The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) was impressed enough by the study to post the results on its website .
But last week , WHO hastily removed the post , later describing it as ‘ inadvertant ’ .
Doncha love that way these people have with the euphemism of evil ?
In fact , the founder of the company behind Remdesivir , Michael L Riordan , is a firm favourite of that spurious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ describes its speciality as ‘ A focus primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV ’ .
There are 4 unexplained spikes of HIV in the RNA of Covid19 .
And Dr Anthony Fauci continues to sit on the approval of Hydroxychlorochane…despite its proven C19 management record .
In the last 24 hours , more expectation management has been apparent in the media .
This relates to freedom of movement and travel across borders….an obscene volte face by the EU given their ever more bonkers commitment to Open Borders was at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yet again , the Times led the charge ( my emphases ) : ‘ Air passengers could face four-hour waits to board planes , inflated ticket prices and a dramatically reduced schedule in the future , analysts have said .
The flight experience would be “ very uncomfortable ” after lockdown , with pre-pandemic levels of service unlikely for up to five years , they predicted ’ .
Why four hours ?
Why an uncomfortable experience ?
Why five years to fix it ?
Er , because “ analysts have said ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ IABATO* Here in France , leading tabloid La Dépeche took the same doom-laden line : ‘ Will Airbus ever take off again ?
’ its headline demanded to know .
Don ’ t ask me mon copain , I just clean the windows here .
In the final analysis , however , few institutions are laying the doom on thicker than Our Chrissie , now fully in charge of her new toy , the ECB .
“ Eurozone economic output is in free-fall , ” Lagarde observed , “ It is a recession @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GDP could easily contract by a disastrous 12 % during 2020 ” .
Nothing like talking up the outlook – especially when you don ’ t have a solution .
But I have long suspected that this ghastly woman ’ s real view is “ bring it on ” .
She was , if you recall , the person who said last year , “ Surely it is more important for people to have a job and an income rather than assets they can no longer afford ” .
The impudence is mind-boggling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mrs Lagarde had done her level best not to answer any question and left confusion over what exactly the strategy is supposed to be.
” I just gave you the strategy : “ bring it on ” .
Can you see all the things that it is yet ?
But some – at long , long last – are fighting back….and not surpisingly , the lead resistance is coming from America .
Last Thursday , armed protesters surrounded Michigan ’ s Capitol in Lansing .
They had come to protest against Lockdown , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the London Mob besieging the Houses of Parliament to get the UK Reform Act passed in 1832 .
Inside the chamber , elected officials wore bulletproof vests , while protesters holding guns looked on from the gallery .
The demo was organised by Michigan United for Liberty , and drew in hundreds of residents who carried pro-Trump banners .
Not surprisingly , the Governor ’ s request for 24 further days of Lockdown was denied .
Governor Whitmer will be unable to veto the resolution .
But if the Mother of all Parliaments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ civil rights and making the country more democratic , it has spent most of the 21st century making our voting system more and more indirect , while cutting a swathe through everything from Magna Carta onwards .
The use of that glorious EU invention ‘ statutory instruments ’ has so overwhelmed those trying to keep an eye on our rights , in the year 2020 passing flagrantly illiberal laws is a piece of cake .
Tony Blair ’ s administration passed 37,000 of them in eight years , and the practice continues to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Diseases Act ( Amended ) that has emerged from Contrick19 is in a class of its own .
The Regulations were made using a statutory emergency procedure , meaning that they were not subject to Parliamentary scrutiny at all .
So effectively , the Rule of Law was ignored on Day 1 , and a clause forbidding any Englishman to leave his home on pain of heavy fines came into being .
There is little or no difference between that ( and several other amendments therein ) and the lettres de cachet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people they didn ’ t much like .
Lord Anderson of Ipswich QC concludes that “ the impact on personal liberty in Regulation 6 goes right up to the limit of what is permitted under its parent statute , and arguably beyond ” .
His point is entirely valid : you can not amend an Act with clauses that defy the Civil Rights boundaries of the original .
His Lordship ’ s observations are especially worrying , given that the original 1984 Act itself was bad enough : it allowed the Secretary of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a few clauses if he or she thought fit .
But the 1984 Act expressly prohibits the Secretary of State from imposing certain restrictions all of which would amount to confinement or a trespass to the person – several of which are in the 2020 version .
After further amendments in early April , the revised Bill “ became Law ” on April 23rd ; but it isn ’ t a Law in the constitutional sense – it ’ s an edict .
The part I find odd is that , rather than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Powers , the Government chose to take an accepted , properly passed law from 36 years ago , and hide draconian measures in it .
I very much doubt that the nastier bits in it will wither away once this nonsense is over .
The illegality of these new measures really hinges on whether it was lawful for the government to describe our current situation as an emergency .
For most thinking people , a virus that kills three people in ten thousand is not an emergency : if it was , then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be banned by law ( as would Gates and Santofi works of the Devil ) because they have disablement and death rates far in excess of that .
But other specifics are rightly attracting tough opposition from the legal community with better things to do than chase ambulances .
The police right to force people back into their own homes amounts to imprisonment without trial , and other restrictions amount to a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights , in particular Article 5 .
( That hasn ’ t , of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from passing far tougher clauses here in France ) .
Everything about the State ’ s reaction to Covid19 – be it commerce , control , civil rights , media hype and economic trashing – raises the same question in me day after day .
Why ?
Why ?
Why ?
?
Those of us who find ourselves outnumbered and framed as contrarians face insults like ‘ conspiranoid ’ and ‘ extreme ’ .
Such things bounce off me these days , but they are a concern because they reflect , once again @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to balance those legal and ehtical elements in a culture – effectively , to excuse the inexcusable , and parrot back straplines like ‘ Stay Home , Save Lives ’ .
Just as the vast majority can ’ t grasp that a relatively benign virus is not worth trashing £3 trillion of gdp , so they seem unable to see the definition of ’ emergency ’ and ‘ war ’ as utterly bogus .
They flatly refuse to accept even the idea of a hidden agenda – despite being presented with hard fiscal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I find now that the only way I can cope with the C19 farce is to shrug , wait for this round of the takeover to end , and in the meantime start writing about what some of the consequences are likely to be .
Either way , enjoy your weekend .
Bon courage .

by John Ward
I wonder, does anyone have a better descriptor for the place (wherein dwell the spin doctors, Establishment bottom-feeders and technomedia corporacrats) than “swamp”?
The question is largely rhetorical, as I have one already handy: sewer.
Every week, more stools glide proudly past on the surface of the murky waters. Some are there displaying corruption, some to continue exaggerating the threat presented by Covid19, some to represent the quiet creeping of the State as it passes yet another batch of illiberal legislation…and of late, more and more excretia are engaged in expectation management….almost as if they were saying, “You think the last lot were smelly, well wait til you get a whiff of this little doozie”.
The only way left to tackle the shit-shower is simply to list the components of The Dump in some vaguely connected order.
The most overt liar of all – and still the best weather vane of élite intentions – remains the Murdoch press.
They gave space six days ago to Ed Conway (economics editor of SkyNews – who else?) for him to dig up this UXB:
‘Has the time come for a one-off wealth tax?
Capital levies are the nuclear button of economics but might be just what Britain needs now’
Mr Conway concluded by asking, of his own rhetoric, ‘…..is the simplest, boldest, most radical way of solving the coming fiscal crisis such a terrible idea after all?’
Um, there is a far simpler one that doesn’t involve stealing from the innocent citzenry: it’s called a Debt Jubilee. Now I wonder why the 3% don’t fancy that idea. Anyway, Conway was ahead of the game in asking the question – although the first one to float this particular turd in 2018 was our dear old convicted felon, Christine Lagarde, who now runs the European Central Bank (ECB) – of which more in a paragraph or few.
Perhaps some folks at the Times felt he’d gone too far; so four days later, Ed was back again, saying what a tragedy the whole virus thing is, and why desperate times call for desperate measures.
“The data,” he began, in the tone of Job having a bad day, ” is almost overwhelmingly depressing….the total number of people who died in England and Wales in the 16th week of the year, the one that began on Easter Monday was, at 22,351, the highest number of people to have died in any week since comparable records began.”
It was also the week that 3,981 beds (out of 4,000) at the Nightingale Covid19 Centre lay empty and unused – even though Neil ‘FundGates’ Ferguson had earlier said that such a number was woefully insufficient. The use of legerdemain by Conway – simply taking every single death as if it must be down to Covid19 – took even my stale breath away. In the week he was writing about, 4,200 hospital deaths from C19 occurred…..just over 18% of all deaths in that week.
But still the narrative didn’t seem powerful enough, so this week the media have jumped on another bring-out-your-dead horror. The rumbling of the cart on the cobbles began on April 14th; today, the noise is deafening. Once again, Ed was the Town Crier sans pareil:
“….a glance at the data on how many people are dying in the UK certainly feels like a glimpse into the heart of darkness for this country….”
The overwhelming conclusion of the media pack, in fact, is that Boris Johnson left it “too late” in applying lockdown, and thus he is to blame. I like blaming Boris when he deserves it – he usually does, but not this time.
The first thing to grasp is that the “understated deaths” story is a reheated version of the one about care homes not being included in the numbers. Leaving aside the fact that Johnson was fighting for his life at the time this was discovered, I must again ask: whose job is it to get these numbers right? And the answer is, Whitehall and its NHS/ONS specialist statisticians.
In turn, in a previous post I demonstrated the utterly shambolic reaction of NHS Big Hair people when a personal friend of mine – a carehome worker – went to a testing centre in Southern England and was told “to come back when you feel ill”….even though C19 was raging through her workplace at the time.
I have yet to discover anywhere data on (a) what other countries do about care home deaths (b) how reliable these home death diagnoses are and (c) whether any part of our lackadaisical Civil Service has yet quantified a figure – it will be vastly greater than these care home additions – for the numbers who have recovered from Covid19 without bothering to present themselves as a statistic. Earlier this week, America’s CDC once again repeated their view that, as 97% of all cases we know about displayed ‘mild symptomology’, it is likely that the real case numbers are ten times greater than those recorded so far.
If we don’t know that, then media exaggeration and jibes aimed at the Government are just so much agendered mumbo-jumbo. But it is spooky, is it not, that when one factors in the Unknown Survivors here, we arrive at that same, hoary old number – C19 is killing 0.03% of us, and the “us” involved are overwhelmingly – as in 85% – in their ninth decade.
So why is Downing Street floating this boat today?
What’s all the fuss really about, and why are we crashing the global economy? Time for us to turn to what’s becoming a regular feature at The Slog.
There is an old saying, “Money talks”. The 21st century is proving that, these days, money’s chief job is to hide. It’s effect on our media around the world is not only palpable, it has to all intents and purposes abolished the practice of investigative journalism: it exists only as a form of lackeyism we saw earlier in this piece – what I tend to call accusatory journalism.
How else could Bill Gates get away with a vaccination track record that suggests we need to add a charge for the International Courts? We hear much about War Criminals, but not a lot about Peace Criminals. A week ago, RFK Jr – the lawyer activist fighting the cause of those who do know the the harm done by vaccination – wrote this piece for Instagram recording in full Big Bill’s twisted philanthropy. I urge you to read it.
One extract, however, stood out for me:
‘In 2010, Gates committed $10 billion to the WHO promising to reduce population, in part, through new vaccines. A month later Gates told a Ted Talk that new vaccines “could reduce population”. In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a phony “tetanus” vaccine campaign.
Independent labs found the sterility formula in every vaccine tested.
After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade.
Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines.’
Bill Gates is committed to controlling freedom of movement, steering the entire direction of Homo sapiens, and reducing the world population dramatically. Whether there is a grand Bilderberger/Davos Plan to do just that, I have no idea. But the Covid19 saga (while in no way proving it) has given us a glimpse into what some of the megalos up there in the top stratum would like to do.
The networking web of statistical charlatans and Big Pharma is not so much tangled as strangulating every attempt to provide a counter-narrative. This news has been bouncing across the globe over the last 48 hours:
‘A drug has been shown to treat coronavirus for the first time, cutting the number of days patients take to leave hospital by almost a third. Remdesivir, an antiviral originally designed to combat ebola, had a “clear-cut significant positive effect in diminishing time to recovery,” said Anthony Fauci…’
It’s a pack of lies – Hydroxychlorochane not only speeds recovery from C19, it also reverses the down-spiral into death that typifies this virus. Earlier, this article from China cast huge doubt upon Fauci’s claims:
‘….experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir appears to have been unsuccessful in treating COVID-19 in a late-stage study conducted by the Chinese government’…remdesivir was not associated with clinical or virological benefits.’
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) was impressed enough by the study to post the results on its website. But last week, WHO hastily removed the post, later describing it as ‘inadvertant’. Doncha love that way these people have with the euphemism of evil?
In fact, the founder of the company behind Remdesivir, Michael L Riordan, is a firm favourite of that spurious organisation, the Rockerfeller foundation:
Gilead describes its speciality as ‘A focus primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV’.
There are 4 unexplained spikes of HIV in the RNA of Covid19. And Dr Anthony Fauci continues to sit on the approval of Hydroxychlorochane…despite its proven C19 management record.
In the last 24 hours, more expectation management has been apparent in the media. This relates to freedom of movement and travel across borders….an obscene volte face by the EU given their ever more bonkers commitment to Open Borders was at one point in danger of derailing Brexit.
Yet again, the Times led the charge (my emphases):
‘Air passengers could face four-hour waits to board planes, inflated ticket prices and a dramatically reduced schedule in the future, analysts have said. The flight experience would be “very uncomfortable” after lockdown, with pre-pandemic levels of service unlikely for up to five years, they predicted’.
Why four hours? Why an uncomfortable experience? Why five years to fix it? Er, because “analysts have said”. So there you have it. IABATO*
Here in France, leading tabloid La Dépeche took the same doom-laden line: ‘Will Airbus ever take off again?’ its headline demanded to know. Don’t ask me mon copain, I just clean the windows here.
In the final analysis, however, few institutions are laying the doom on thicker than Our Chrissie, now fully in charge of her new toy, the ECB.
“Eurozone economic output is in free-fall,” Lagarde observed, “It is a recession of unprecedented speed and magnitude, and GDP could easily contract by a disastrous 12% during 2020”.
Nothing like talking up the outlook – especially when you don’t have a solution. But I have long suspected that this ghastly woman’s real view is “bring it on”. She was, if you recall, the person who said last year, “Surely it is more important for people to have a job and an income rather than assets they can no longer afford”. The impudence is mind-boggling. A Citigroup note opined that ‘Mrs Lagarde had done her level best not to answer any question and left confusion over what exactly the strategy is supposed to be.”
I just gave you the strategy: “bring it on”.
Can you see all the things that it is yet?
But some – at long, long last – are fighting back….and not surpisingly, the lead resistance is coming from America. Last Thursday, armed protesters surrounded Michigan’s Capitol in Lansing. They had come to protest against Lockdown, and the outcome was not dissimilar to the London Mob besieging the Houses of Parliament to get the UK Reform Act passed in 1832.
Inside the chamber, elected officials wore bulletproof vests, while protesters holding guns looked on from the gallery.
The demo was organised by Michigan United for Liberty, and drew in hundreds of residents who carried pro-Trump banners.
Not surprisingly, the Governor’s request for 24 further days of Lockdown was denied. Governor Whitmer will be unable to veto the resolution.
But if the Mother of all Parliaments spent much of the 19th century extending civil rights and making the country more democratic, it has spent most of the 21st century making our voting system more and more indirect, while cutting a swathe through everything from Magna Carta onwards.
The use of that glorious EU invention ‘statutory instruments’ has so overwhelmed those trying to keep an eye on our rights, in the year 2020 passing flagrantly illiberal laws is a piece of cake. Tony Blair’s administration passed 37,000 of them in eight years, and the practice continues to flourish.
But the revised 1984 Control of Diseases Act (Amended) that has emerged from Contrick19 is in a class of its own. The Regulations were made using a statutory emergency procedure, meaning that they were not subject to Parliamentary scrutiny at all.
So effectively, the Rule of Law was ignored on Day 1, and a clause forbidding any Englishman to leave his home on pain of heavy fines came into being. There is little or no difference between that (and several other amendments therein) and the lettres de cachet used by the Bourbons to bang up people they didn’t much like.
Lord Anderson of Ipswich QC concludes that “the impact on personal liberty in Regulation 6 goes right up to the limit of what is permitted under its parent statute, and arguably beyond”. His point is entirely valid: you cannot amend an Act with clauses that defy the Civil Rights boundaries of the original.
His Lordship’s observations are especially worrying, given that the original 1984 Act itself was bad enough: it allowed the Secretary of State at any time to toughen up a few clauses if he or she thought fit. But the 1984 Act expressly prohibits the Secretary of State from imposing certain restrictions all of which would amount to confinement or a trespass to the person – several of which are in the 2020 version.
After further amendments in early April, the revised Bill “became Law” on April 23rd; but it isn’t a Law in the constitutional sense – it’s an edict. The part I find odd is that, rather than bring in a batch of temporary Emergency Powers, the Government chose to take an accepted, properly passed law from 36 years ago, and hide draconian measures in it. I very much doubt that the nastier bits in it will wither away once this nonsense is over.
The illegality of these new measures really hinges on whether it was lawful for the government to describe our current situation as an emergency. For most thinking people, a virus that kills three people in ten thousand is not an emergency: if it was, then on that basis all MMR vaccinations would be banned by law (as would Gates and Santofi works of the Devil) because they have disablement and death rates far in excess of that.
But other specifics are rightly attracting tough opposition from the legal community with better things to do than chase ambulances. The police right to force people back into their own homes amounts to imprisonment without trial, and other restrictions amount to a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, in particular Article 5. (That hasn’t, of course, stopped the Boy King Macron from passing far tougher clauses here in France).
Everything about the State’s reaction to Covid19 – be it commerce, control, civil rights, media hype and economic trashing – raises the same question in me day after day. Why? Why? Why??
Those of us who find ourselves outnumbered and framed as contrarians face insults like ‘conspiranoid’ and ‘extreme’. Such things bounce off me these days, but they are a concern because they reflect, once again, the average citizen’s inability to balance those legal and ehtical elements in a culture – effectively, to excuse the inexcusable, and parrot back straplines like ‘Stay Home, Save Lives’.
Just as the vast majority can’t grasp that a relatively benign virus is not worth trashing £3 trillion of gdp, so they seem unable to see the definition of ’emergency’ and ‘war’ as utterly bogus. They flatly refuse to accept even the idea of a hidden agenda – despite being presented with hard fiscal, commercial and medical evidence for them.
I find now that the only way I can cope with the C19 farce is to shrug, wait for this round of the takeover to end, and in the meantime start writing about what some of the consequences are likely to be.
Either way, enjoy your weekend. Bon courage.


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Barack Obama’s Pretty Words Are Lies That Hide His Reprehensible Actions

I thought that I ’ d hate this groid until my last breath but now I barely think of him @

I thought that I’d hate this groid until my last breath but now I barely think of him.
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investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--A Crisis Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen. Economic Collapse Stimulus Can’t Fix

Why We Don ’ t Know Which Businesses Are Getting COVID-19 Aid | Time New York City ’ s subway @ @ @ @ @ Federal Reserve for a loan Las Vegas casinos are turned into food banks as thousands @ @ @ @ @ for blocks | Daily Mail Online This is how bad things are for museums : @ @ @ @ @ light to sell off their art – Houston Chronicle Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions @ @ @ @ @ – WSJ Coronavirus : J .
Crew prepares bankruptcy filing that could come this weekend @ @ @ @ @ trusted market indicator ‘ makes me concerned ’

Why We Don’t Know Which Businesses Are Getting COVID-19 Aid | Time
time.com/5829594/business-coronavirus-relief/
New York City’s subway system may turn to the Federal Reserve for a loan
www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/new-york-citys-subway-system-may-turn-to-the-federal-reserve-for-a-loan.html
U.S. Mortgage Rates Tumble to a Record Low
finance.yahoo.com/news/u-mortgage-rates-tumble-record-140000589.html
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Las Vegas casinos are turned into food banks as thousands of unemployed workers line up for blocks | Daily Mail Online
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8273025/Las-Vegas-casinos-turned-food-banks-thousands-unemployed-workers-line-blocks.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus
New Vehicle Sales Continue Downward Slide in April, Edmunds Forecasts | Edmunds
www.edmunds.com/industry/press/new-vehicle-sales-continue-downward-slide-in-april-edmunds-forecasts.html
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This is how bad things are for museums: They now have a green light to sell off their art – Houston Chronicle
www.chron.com/entertainment/article/This-is-how-bad-things-are-for-museums-They-now-15237054.php
Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus – WSJ
www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-racks-up-hundreds-of-millions-in-losses-due-to-coronavirus-11584723498?mod=article_inline
Coronavirus: J. Crew prepares bankruptcy filing that could come this weekend
www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-j-crew-prepares-bankruptcy-filing-that-could-come-this-weekend.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.PostToTwitter
Jim Cramer says his most trusted market indicator ‘makes me concerned’
www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/jim-cramer-says-his-most-trusted-market-indicator-makes-me-concerned.html
Boeing rules out federal coronavirus aid after monster $25 billion debt sale
www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/boeing-raises-monster-25-billion-in-bond-offering-rules-out-federal-aid.html
ECB April rate decision amid coronavirus crisis
www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/ecb-april-rate-decision-amid-coronavirus-crisis.html


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Stimulus Checks Sent to Deceased People

Stimulus Checks Sent to Deceased People

Neither my sister nor I collect Social Security .
Nevertheless , she received a check in the mail made out @ @ @ @ @ and it says “ DECD ” for her stimulus check of $ 1,200 .
Not @ @ @ @ @ with this check .
How would we cash it ?
This is really confusing .
@ @ @ @ @ 1,000 for legal advice to figure out if the check should be cashed or if @ @ @ @ @ because we knew she was deceased , even though it is made out to her @ @ @ @ @ a trick question with consequences .
This is why I say the government is just @ @ @ @ @ whatsoever .
They would never be able to run even a bubblegum machine .
When @ @ @ @ @ , they would need three committees to investigate , and a fourth one to figure @ @ @ @ @ taxes to buy more bubblegum .
The Justice Department would need to investigate if someone @ @ @ @ @ with one coin , provided they are not related to a politician .

by Martin Armstrong
Neither my sister nor I collect Social Security. Nevertheless, she received a check in the mail made out to my deceased mother, and it says “DECD” for her stimulus check of $1,200. Not exactly sure what to do with this check. How would we cash it? This is really confusing. It will probably cost $1,000 for legal advice to figure out if the check should be cashed or if they would call it fraud because we knew she was deceased, even though it is made out to her as deceased. Sort of a trick question with consequences.
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This is why I say the government is just incapable of ever doing anything whatsoever. They would never be able to run even a bubblegum machine. When they sold out of gum, they would need three committees to investigate, and a fourth one to figure out how much to raise taxes to buy more bubblegum. The Justice Department would need to investigate if someone got two pieces of gum with one coin, provided they are not related to a politician.


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Look How Nancy Pelosi Just Downplayed Her Ice Cream Stunt by Comparing Trump to Her Own Fault

Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at President Donald Trump during a @ @ @ @ @ Pelosi referenced an attack ad that showed her talking about the ice cream in her @ @ @ @ @ The Late Late Show ” with James Corden — and Trump ’ s comments from @ @ @ @ @ last Thursday when he wondered aloud about the possibility of a disinfectant to combat CV @

Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at President Donald Trump during a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC. Pelosi referenced an attack ad that showed her talking about the ice cream in her freezer — clipped from “The Late Late Show” with James Corden — and Trump’s comments from a CV Task force briefing last Thursday when he wondered aloud about the possibility of a disinfectant to combat CV.
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Deflationary Spiral Incoming

• Wages never decline — people and employers prefer layoffs .
Employees are unwilling to take pay cuts , and @ @ @ @ @ to destroy morale .
Wages didn ’ t even decline in the great recession and @ @ @ @ @ the great depression .
• This means the economic damage done so far is much @ @ @ @ @ think or what ’ s rolling out in weekly/monthly data releases • With the federal @ @ @ @ @ , states can ’ t get enough testing supplies/infrastructure in place to even begin thinking @ @ @ @ @ they ’ re doing so anyway .
We will be seeing sporadic secondary shutdowns all @ @ @ @ @ wave 2 in the fall that is worse than wave 1 .
Recovery will be @ @ @ @ @ will not bounce back .
Federal Reserve will soon need to stem deflation Disclaimer : @ @ @ @ @ educational purposes .
Do not make any investment decisions based on the information in this @ @ @ @ @ due diligence .

by Reduntu
Cliffs:
Anecdotal evidence suggests wages are starting to decline.
Wages never decline — people and employers prefer layoffs. Employees are unwilling to take pay cuts, and employers don’t want to destroy morale. Wages didn’t even decline in the great recession and were resistant to declines in the great depression.
This means the economic damage done so far is much more severe than the markets think or what’s rolling out in weekly/monthly data releases
With the federal governments head up its ass, states can’t get enough testing supplies/infrastructure in place to even begin thinking about opening up, yet they’re doing so anyway. We will be seeing sporadic secondary shutdowns all summer, and possibly a wave 2 in the fall that is worse than wave 1. Recovery will be slow as shit and employment will not bounce back.
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Federal Reserve will soon need to stem deflation
America’s middle class gets hit with office jobs disappearing
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investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--Stocks Are Recovering While the Economy Collapses. That Makes More Sense Than You’d Think.

Companies that are seen as especially vulnerable , such as retail stores spread across malls , are seeing stock declines @ @ @ @ @ only recovered marginally since March 23 .
On the flip side , clear beneficiaries of @ @ @ @ @ well .
So while markets are not moving on real-time economic fundamentals , they are @ @ @ @ @ fundamentals going forward The Fed , for instance , is committed to purchasing hundreds of @ @ @ @ @ bonds at favorable rates , which will mean that cash-strapped state governments should be able @ @ @ @ @ and programs The Fed also is about to lend another $ 500 billion to Main @ @ @ @ @ coming too late to avoid the pain of the last month but will still matter @ @ @ @ @ companies to move forward and eventually rehire .
The most visible effect of the money @ @ @ @ @ stock market , but that will be not the sole beneficiary as more Fed money @ @ @ @ @ Street .

Companies that are seen as especially vulnerable, such as retail stores spread across malls, are seeing stock declines of 50% and have only recovered marginally since March 23.
On the flip side, clear beneficiaries of the current upheaval are doing well.
So while markets are not moving on real-time economic fundamentals, they are moving on reasonable judgements of fundamentals going forward
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The Fed, for instance, is committed to purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars of municipal bonds at favorable rates, which will mean that cash-strapped state governments should be able to retain teachers and policemen and programs
The Fed also is about to lend another $500 billion to Main Street businesses, which is coming too late to avoid the pain of the last month but will still matter greatly to the ability of companies to move forward and eventually rehire. The most visible effect of the money in motion now is the stock market, but that will be not the sole beneficiary as more Fed money flows to states and Main Street.
time.com/5828898/stocks-recovering-economy-collapses-makes-sense/


investmentwatchblog--2020-05-02--The case for shorting Intel.

The case for shorting Intel.

While Intel has had a great run over the past decade , I believe we ’ ve reached an inflection point .
They ’ ve already had to start laying off employees : investorplace.com/2020/01/intel-layoffs-2020-things-to-know/ With AMD breathing down their back , Intel is lowering prices on their server chips lowering profit margins which won ’ t be coming back anytime soon : www.anandtech.com/show/15405/intel-cuts-xeon-prices Intel is constantly talking about how they ’ re going to be shipping 7nm in 2021 when they have failed to get their 10nm process working for almost 4 years now past its original expected release date @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s process has stagnated , and their choice to stick with manufacturing their own CPUs has now turned from advantage to disadvantage as it ’ s competitors are able to focus on design while leaving the process improvements to TSMC : www.pcworld.com/article/3394398/intel-commits-to-shipping-7nm-chips-by-2021-an-aggressive-change-of-pace.html I ’ ll be honest in saying that I ’ m probably somewhat biased here in that I don ’ t trust business CEOs to know how to run a tech company properly .
As an engineer , I know how important it is that you actually understand your products and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and so I prefer when the CEO actually has that capability .
Intel hasn ’ t been run by an engineer for quite some time at this point .
Just look at Intel ’ s current CEO Bob Swan .
He is literally the definition of the “ MBA business type executive ” .
We compare that to companies like AMD and Nvidia , which are both headed by strong technically minded engineers and the differences in management are like night and day .
All of these are reasons why I believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and my thesis for why Intel is a good stock to go short on right now Disclaimer : This information is only for educational purposes .
Do not make any investment decisions based on the information in this article .
Do you own due diligence .

by ilikepancakez
While Intel has had a great run over the past decade, I believe we’ve reached an inflection point. They’ve already had to start laying off employees: investorplace.com/2020/01/intel-layoffs-2020-things-to-know/
With AMD breathing down their back, Intel is lowering prices on their server chips lowering profit margins which won’t be coming back anytime soon: www.anandtech.com/show/15405/intel-cuts-xeon-prices
Intel is constantly talking about how they’re going to be shipping 7nm in 2021 when they have failed to get their 10nm process working for almost 4 years now past its original expected release date. It’s clear Intel’s process has stagnated, and their choice to stick with manufacturing their own CPUs has now turned from advantage to disadvantage as it’s competitors are able to focus on design while leaving the process improvements to TSMC: www.pcworld.com/article/3394398/intel-commits-to-shipping-7nm-chips-by-2021-an-aggressive-change-of-pace.html
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I’ll be honest in saying that I’m probably somewhat biased here in that I don’t trust business CEOs to know how to run a tech company properly. As an engineer, I know how important it is that you actually understand your products and the engineering that goes into CPU design, and so I prefer when the CEO actually has that capability.
Intel hasn’t been run by an engineer for quite some time at this point. Just look at Intel’s current CEO Bob Swan. He is literally the definition of the “MBA business type executive”. We compare that to companies like AMD and Nvidia, which are both headed by strong technically minded engineers and the differences in management are like night and day.
All of these are reasons why I believe Intel has largely peaked as a company, and my thesis for why Intel is a good stock to go short on right now
Disclaimer: This information is only for educational purposes. Do not make any investment decisions based on the information in this article. Do you own due diligence.