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The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy

Via: hallux • Stock Market & Investments • 5 Comments • last year

The Biotech Edge: How Executives and Well-Connected Investors Make Exquisitely Timed Trades in Health Care Stocks

Via: hallux • Stock Market & Investments • 3 Comments • last year

Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run by Venture Capital Customers

Via: hallux • Stock Market & Investments • 8 Comments • last year

Berkshire Hathaway Reports Major Investment Losses in 2022 - The New York Times

Via: jbb • Stock Market & Investments • 1 Comments • last year

Twitter stock takes a dive after Elon Musk tweet that buyout deal is 'temporarily on hold' - MarketWatch

Via: hallux • Stock Market & Investments • 11 Comments • 2 years ago

Dow, S&P 500 close at records as earnings week kicks off

Via: hallux • Stock Market & Investments • 18 Comments • 3 years ago

STOCK MKT: Psychedelic Medicine (Jim Cramer re: MindMed Stock)

Via: krishna • Stock Market & Investments • 7 Comments • 3 years ago

Related : SubReddit - Wall Street Bets: Discussion: MindMed ($MNMD) and the upcoming Psychedelics #ShroomBoom Full Disclosure: I own shares of MindMed stock...

Exxon loses board seats to activist hedge fund in landmark climate vote

Via: evilgenius • Stock Market & Investments • 9 Comments • 3 years ago

More and more we are seeing people being more conscious of where they invest their money. Engine No 1's win here could very well be a watershed moment.

Robinhood shuts down GameStop trades - CNN

Via: perrie-halpern • Stock Market & Investments • 9 Comments • 3 years ago

Oil prices finish at 10-week high as domestic crude supplies, Cushing stocks drop

Via: baron-creek • Stock Market & Investments • 1 Comments • 4 years ago

Let's ignore the 3.8m barrels of distillates added to their stocks and the 2.9m barrels of gasoline added to their inventory. The entirety of Crude and Crude Products +SPR inventory increased...

Dow closes down 1,000 points as coronavirus fears slam Wall Street

Via: perrie-halpern • Stock Market & Investments • 30 Comments • 4 years ago

Best TV Commercial Ever?

Via: krishna • Stock Market & Investments • 15 Comments • 5 years ago

" I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) " is a pop song that originated as the jingle "Buy the World a Coke" [1] in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television...

A ‘Lehman-like’ stock market disaster could happen this week, analyst warns

Via: krishna • Stock Market & Investments • 2 Comments • 5 years ago

A ‘Lehman-like’ market disaster could happen this week, analyst warns Bearish sentiment currently correlates well with sentiment before the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers in...

Is plutocracy really the problem?

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 3 Comments • 5 years ago

WHY did the policy response to the Great Recession only partly reflect the lessons learned from the Great Depression? Until recently, the smart money was on the answers given by Financial...

A better way to tax the rich

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 47 Comments • 5 years ago

Deficit Man and the 2020 Election

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 3 Comments • 5 years ago

I’ve seen a number of people suggest that the 2020 election will be a sort of test: Can a sufficiently terrible president lose an election despite a good economy? And that is, in fact, the...

Paul Krugman, Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 10 Comments • 5 years ago

Two weeks ago Michael Dunleavy, the Republican governor of Alaska, decided that it would be better to destroy his state’s future than to raise taxes, even a little. The thing is, his...

Hunching over phones could cause horn-like bone growth

Via: perrie-halpern • Stock Market & Investments • 24 Comments • 5 years ago

The recrudescence of zero-sum thinking

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 2 Comments • 5 years ago

President Trump believes we live in a zero-sum world in which one country’s gain is another’s loss. This is evident in his reaction to Mario Draghi’s comment this week that additional monetary...

The Big Question for the Fed This Week: Did We Make a Mistake?

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 33 Comments • 5 years ago

Central bankers pride themselves on being the grown-ups of economic policy. They want it known they’re basing their decisions on sound economics rather than political considerations. They...

Why Boeing May Never Recover From Its 737 Debacle

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Most of us are familiar with the acronym “ FUBAR .” A recent New York Times article on the Boeing 737 fiasco provides a perfect illustration of the concept. We’re now learning that the...

‘Socialism for the rich’: the evils of bad economics

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 121 Comments • 5 years ago

I n most rich countries , inequality is rising, and has been rising for some time. Many people believe this is a problem, but, equally, many think there’s not much we can do about it....

Fossil fuels are underpriced by a whopping $5.2 trillion

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 15 Comments • 5 years ago

The world’s top climate scientists calculated in a startling report last year that if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century to avoid devastating social and...

Boeing Is a Perfect Parable for 21st-Century Capitalism

Via: bob-nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 6 Comments • 5 years ago

Wikipedia A veteran commercial pilot and software engineer with over three decades of experience has just written the most damning account of the recent Boeing 737 fiasco. At one...

Clean copy: Bernie Sanders and the Myth of the 1 Percent