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Americans Are Paying More Than Ever for Cars And There’s Really No End in Sight
Via: bob-nelson
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7 hours ago
When my wife and I return to France - we split the year about equally - we'll buy an EV. A Skoda Elroq . That's a Czech variant of the VW ID.4. It's not sold in the US. There are now...
BMW is betting the company on its Gen6 EV battery
Via: bob-nelson
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Stock Market & Investments
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4 weeks ago
BMW is a company that makes stuff for rich people. It's very far from "woke". OTOH, not being political, BMW looks at the future with lucidity. It sees EVs there. There are links in...
STOCK MKT: Psychedelic Medicine (Jim Cramer re: MindMed Stock)
Via: krishna
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Stock Market & Investments
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4 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
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Stock Market & Investments
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4 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.
Oil prices finish at 10-week high as domestic crude supplies, Cushing stocks drop
Via: baron-creek
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Stock Market & Investments
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5 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...
A ‘Lehman-like’ stock market disaster could happen this week, analyst warns
Via: krishna
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6 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
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6 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...
Deficit Man and the 2020 Election
Via: bob-nelson
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6 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
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6 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...
The recrudescence of zero-sum thinking
Via: bob-nelson
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6 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
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Stock Market & Investments
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33 Comments
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6 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
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Stock Market & Investments
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6 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
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121 Comments
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6 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....