Trumps weakness is wimmens.
He needs a decent campaign leader to manage that part of his campaign and genuinely kick his arse into shape without fear or favour, and they need to get his delivery polished up so he looks like less of an ass.
I'm not sure how much of this dumb shit stuff is false with him, he's such a smart unpredictable cookie he knows life will be easier if he stays steadily behind Hillary in the middle leg of this race, so the MSM propaganda machine get comfy and not too shrill, then he goes for the big tamale on the last leg of the race.
You don't get to be a billionaire if you're a dummy
He needs a decent campaign leader to manage that part of his campaign and genuinely kick his arse into shape without fear or favour, and they need to get his delivery polished up so he looks like less of an ass.
I'm not sure how much of this dumb shit stuff is false with him, he's such a smart unpredictable cookie he knows life will be easier if he stays steadily behind Hillary in the middle leg of this race, so the MSM propaganda machine get comfy and not too shrill, then he goes for the big tamale on the last leg of the race.
You don't get to be a billionaire if you're a dummy
As the chart below shows, the forward PE of the S&P500 has now been flat for two years, even as the actual index has surged to record highs on the back of even greater multiple expansion, as both the economy and profit growth has slowed down: a Finance 101 paradox.
How lofty is that? Moments ago Goldman said that "The median S&P 500 stock trades at a forward P/E of 18.2x, ranking in the 98th percentile since 1976." It's also the reason why Goldman unveiled a tactical sell on stocks one week ago.
How lofty is that? Moments ago Goldman said that "The median S&P 500 stock trades at a forward P/E of 18.2x, ranking in the 98th percentile since 1976." It's also the reason why Goldman unveiled a tactical sell on stocks one week ago.
as both the economy and profit growth has slowed down: a Finance 101 paradox
The party had to hit the buffers eventually, our finite world can't support infinite profits
Additionally, "unlimited humans" are only useful during the growth phase, and on top of that robots will accelerate the next point in our social evolution
The party had to hit the buffers eventually, our finite world can't support infinite profits
Additionally, "unlimited humans" are only useful during the growth phase, and on top of that robots will accelerate the next point in our social evolution
Western world going Japanese with an aging population... Problem is we don't have the savings rate Japan has so the citizenry will be worse off (those that heavy debtors)..There's no free lunch all the overspending beyond your means that was promoted via zirp to infinity biting us now... Stocks for whatever reason haven't caught up to reality yet and extremely overvalued on a historical basis.. That said it makes sense as the stock market is the last facade "they" have left telling all the working stiffs with 401ks etc that everything ok... Plus the rig job for Hillary ... Can't have a unpredictable guy that might not follow orders in there when shit hits the fan that's the last think "they" want... The elite know well the saying never let a good crisis go to waste..
The one party system showing its true colors lotsa establishment gop openly saying no trump.. And they always win...
In the end think this presidential cycle yet another example of the illusion of choice when in reality the winner was determined long ago..
- A group of GOP national security experts claims Donald Trump is too erratic for the Oval Office
- Many high-ranking former George W. Bush administration officials signed the letter
In the end think this presidential cycle yet another example of the illusion of choice when in reality the winner was determined long ago..
Western world going Japanese with an aging population
Well you can blame Pincus and Chang for that one. Only Edward Jenner has had a greater impact on Western civilisation.
Well you can blame Pincus and Chang for that one. Only Edward Jenner has had a greater impact on Western civilisation.
They gonna manage to somehow keep it afloat for 3 more months?? Productivity continues to drop.. Who cares bubble stocks higher!
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Following the Q2 GDP print, the slowing in aggregate weekly hours suggested a modest pickup QoQ in non-farm productivity, but it plunged 0.6% - dramatically missing the +0.4% exp in this preliminary Q2 report. This is the 3rd quarterly decline in a row - the first time that has happened since 1979. This three quarter plunge is the biggest drop in productivity since 1993,and this is the first YoY drop (-0.4%) since Q2 2013.
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Following the Q2 GDP print, the slowing in aggregate weekly hours suggested a modest pickup QoQ in non-farm productivity, but it plunged 0.6% - dramatically missing the +0.4% exp in this preliminary Q2 report. This is the 3rd quarterly decline in a row - the first time that has happened since 1979. This three quarter plunge is the biggest drop in productivity since 1993,and this is the first YoY drop (-0.4%) since Q2 2013.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/09/marc-faber-tesla-shares-are-going-to-0.html
This guy is a bit of a quack but I tend to agree with his take on TSLA. Have said that a bunch in this thread obviously.
They're gonna have to crush the big boys so bad and be so far ahead to win this space.
This guy is a bit of a quack but I tend to agree with his take on TSLA. Have said that a bunch in this thread obviously.
They're gonna have to crush the big boys so bad and be so far ahead to win this space.
The polls predicted it nearly perfectly. He was ahead almost the whole time.
[h=1]BOE to Press on With Gilt-Buying Plan After Early QE Hiccup[/h]The Bank of England’s plan is to keep calm and carry on buying.
The central bank said Wednesday it will deal with a 52 million-pound shortfall ($60.8 million) in an operation on Tuesday at a later date as it made no changes to its expanded 60 billion-pound quantitative-easing program. Details of these purchases will be announced when the institution publishes information on the second half of the plan on Nov. 3.
The statement came a day after the BOE failed to buy all the gilts it wanted at a reverse auction -- the first such shortfall since it started QE in 2009 -- as investors proved unwilling to part with their holdings of longer-dated bonds.
The miss may have been partly due to thin summer liquidity, or even traders being on holiday, which means Tuesday’s issue may be a one-off. The European Central Bank has previously front-loaded purchases under its own QE program to avoid a shortage of available securities during the region’s holiday months. While the BOE’s shortfall was small compared with the total intended program, it may still be an early sign of the challenges the bank may face in expanding QE. The next auction will be held on Wednesday.
[h=3]Challenge Seen[/h]“If they were reasonably comfortable that this was just a one-off, then the natural thing to do would be to say ‘OK, fair enough, I’ll just buy some more today and then we will move on,’” Pacific Investment Management Co. money manager Mike Amey said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “So I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. And it indicates to us that it’s going to be a challenge to buy these bonds.”
The gilt purchases are part of a package of measures designed to combat the economic fallout of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The Brexit defense, announced by Governor Mark Carney last week, also included corporate-bond purchases and the first interest-rate cut in more than seven years.
At Tuesday’s operation, the central bank received offers to sell 1.118 billion pounds of gilts due in more than 15 years on Tuesday, compared with a target of 1.17 billion pounds.
U.K. government bonds rose on Wednesday, sending yields to record lows. The 10-year yield was down five basis points at 0.530 percent as of 12:15 p.m. London time, while the 30-year gilt yield declined 10 basis points to 1.291 percent.
“Yields are already extremely low so people are worried about the efficacy of this policy, whether it can really have a bite,” Bloomberg Intelligence economist Dan Hanson said in an interview. The fact “they haven’t said we’ll make up the difference in the auction today might mean they’ve got concerns about liquidity in the market and they’re just going to push the can down the road a little bit and wait until November and reassess.”
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The central bank said Wednesday it will deal with a 52 million-pound shortfall ($60.8 million) in an operation on Tuesday at a later date as it made no changes to its expanded 60 billion-pound quantitative-easing program. Details of these purchases will be announced when the institution publishes information on the second half of the plan on Nov. 3.
The statement came a day after the BOE failed to buy all the gilts it wanted at a reverse auction -- the first such shortfall since it started QE in 2009 -- as investors proved unwilling to part with their holdings of longer-dated bonds.
The miss may have been partly due to thin summer liquidity, or even traders being on holiday, which means Tuesday’s issue may be a one-off. The European Central Bank has previously front-loaded purchases under its own QE program to avoid a shortage of available securities during the region’s holiday months. While the BOE’s shortfall was small compared with the total intended program, it may still be an early sign of the challenges the bank may face in expanding QE. The next auction will be held on Wednesday.
[h=3]Challenge Seen[/h]“If they were reasonably comfortable that this was just a one-off, then the natural thing to do would be to say ‘OK, fair enough, I’ll just buy some more today and then we will move on,’” Pacific Investment Management Co. money manager Mike Amey said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “So I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. And it indicates to us that it’s going to be a challenge to buy these bonds.”
The gilt purchases are part of a package of measures designed to combat the economic fallout of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The Brexit defense, announced by Governor Mark Carney last week, also included corporate-bond purchases and the first interest-rate cut in more than seven years.
At Tuesday’s operation, the central bank received offers to sell 1.118 billion pounds of gilts due in more than 15 years on Tuesday, compared with a target of 1.17 billion pounds.
U.K. government bonds rose on Wednesday, sending yields to record lows. The 10-year yield was down five basis points at 0.530 percent as of 12:15 p.m. London time, while the 30-year gilt yield declined 10 basis points to 1.291 percent.
“Yields are already extremely low so people are worried about the efficacy of this policy, whether it can really have a bite,” Bloomberg Intelligence economist Dan Hanson said in an interview. The fact “they haven’t said we’ll make up the difference in the auction today might mean they’ve got concerns about liquidity in the market and they’re just going to push the can down the road a little bit and wait until November and reassess.”
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Not only does intervention create a vacuum but it also throws the country's infrastructure into chaos for basic services... Oh well at least the military industrial complex made lotsa fiat offa it...
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(CNN)At least 11 babies died when a fire broke out in the maternity ward of a Baghdad hospital early Wednesday, an official told CNN, fueling public outrage at perceived shortcomings in the country's governance.
The newborn infants were in the pre-term birth unit in Yarmouk Hospital and died of suffocation, said Ahmed al-Rdainy, a spokesman for the Iraqi Health Ministry. Their charred incubators could be seen outside the hospital buildings Wednesday.
Burned incubators stand outside Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital Wednesday after a deadly fire.
A preliminary report provided by the Civil Defense indicates the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit -- a common occurrence in a country where maintenance is often substandard.
The 29 women who had recently given birth in the ward were able to be rescued and were transferred, along with surviving infants, to other hospitals in the Iraqi capital, the ministry spokesman said.
Bereaved family members of the dead infants gather outside Yarmouk hospital Wednesday.
Amateur footage from the scene early Wednesday circulated on social media, showing ambulances racing victims to other hospitals. Other footage showed firefighters entering the charred, waterlogged building, and nervous families congregating outside the ward awaiting news.
Yarmouk, one of Baghdad's main hospitals, is situated in the western part of the city. Authorities cordoned off the maternity ward Wednesday.
Deaths trigger outrage at government
On social media, the fire triggered a fresh outpouring of anger at the government, blamed for incompetent management of the country's fraying infrastructure and its apparent inability to protect citizens.
"In the new Iraq, people don't live more than hours," wrote one Twitter user.
"We never hear that the parliament or the president's office have burnt down, only the institutions where the poor people go," wrote another.
A woman speaks on the phone Wednesday outside Yarmouk hospital in west Baghdad, Iraq.
Another Twitter user said that people upset over the infants' deaths should know that "every day more people die because of the negligence of the Ministry of Health."
Some called for the resignation of the country's health minister.
"Their corruption has reached infants only hours old," wrote another Twitter user.
An Iraqi security officer guards a cordon outside the hospital.
The blaze was just the latest tragedy to strike Iraq, which is locked in a battle to oust ISIS militants who have captured large swaths of territory, including the country's second city, Mosul.
Tempers boiled over in the capital last month in the wake of a massive ISIS car bombing in the largely Shiite Karrada neighborhood. About 300 people were killed, many of them perishing in an ensuing inferno in a shopping center.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's entourage was pelted with objects by members of the public when he visited the scene of the Karrada blast, and the country's interior minister swiftly resigned, citing a lack of "coordination among security systems" as the reason for his departure.
After night of burning and bombing, mourning in Baghdad
CNN's Schams Elwazer contributed to this report.
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Story highlights
(CNN)At least 11 babies died when a fire broke out in the maternity ward of a Baghdad hospital early Wednesday, an official told CNN, fueling public outrage at perceived shortcomings in the country's governance.
The newborn infants were in the pre-term birth unit in Yarmouk Hospital and died of suffocation, said Ahmed al-Rdainy, a spokesman for the Iraqi Health Ministry. Their charred incubators could be seen outside the hospital buildings Wednesday.
A preliminary report provided by the Civil Defense indicates the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit -- a common occurrence in a country where maintenance is often substandard.
The 29 women who had recently given birth in the ward were able to be rescued and were transferred, along with surviving infants, to other hospitals in the Iraqi capital, the ministry spokesman said.
Amateur footage from the scene early Wednesday circulated on social media, showing ambulances racing victims to other hospitals. Other footage showed firefighters entering the charred, waterlogged building, and nervous families congregating outside the ward awaiting news.
Yarmouk, one of Baghdad's main hospitals, is situated in the western part of the city. Authorities cordoned off the maternity ward Wednesday.
Deaths trigger outrage at government
On social media, the fire triggered a fresh outpouring of anger at the government, blamed for incompetent management of the country's fraying infrastructure and its apparent inability to protect citizens.
"In the new Iraq, people don't live more than hours," wrote one Twitter user.
"We never hear that the parliament or the president's office have burnt down, only the institutions where the poor people go," wrote another.
Another Twitter user said that people upset over the infants' deaths should know that "every day more people die because of the negligence of the Ministry of Health."
Some called for the resignation of the country's health minister.
"Their corruption has reached infants only hours old," wrote another Twitter user.
The blaze was just the latest tragedy to strike Iraq, which is locked in a battle to oust ISIS militants who have captured large swaths of territory, including the country's second city, Mosul.
Tempers boiled over in the capital last month in the wake of a massive ISIS car bombing in the largely Shiite Karrada neighborhood. About 300 people were killed, many of them perishing in an ensuing inferno in a shopping center.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi's entourage was pelted with objects by members of the public when he visited the scene of the Karrada blast, and the country's interior minister swiftly resigned, citing a lack of "coordination among security systems" as the reason for his departure.
After night of burning and bombing, mourning in Baghdad
CNN's Schams Elwazer contributed to this report.
Anybody who at this point thinks trump is anything but a plant to get Hillary elected needs their head examined.. Insinuating assignation now... Guy has gone into full circus clown/tank mode now that he has the nomination..
Hilarious part is trump one of few guys that Hillary can beat with all the skeletons in her closet continuously coming out..
this election cycle like watching the WWE .. Pure circus and purely scripted for Hillary to win..
Hilarious part is trump one of few guys that Hillary can beat with all the skeletons in her closet continuously coming out..
this election cycle like watching the WWE .. Pure circus and purely scripted for Hillary to win..
Fertility rates in America — the number of babies born per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 — are at the lowest levels ever recorded, according to researchers in a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The findings are based on population data from the CDC that track birth and fertility statistics dating back to 1909. This does not indicate there are more infertile women; rather it means that fewer babies are being born to women of likely childbearing age in the U.S. Measuring the fertility rate is viewed as a more accurate measure than overall birthrate, which compares babies born with the total U.S. population.
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The reasons... Many...
The "real" economy.. kids are uber expensive now.. especially if you want to support their college education.. The middle class evaporating so less people that feel economically comfortable with kids..
less religion more live it up this the only life I got I want my freedom
Morals/family unit breakdown people seen high divorce rates living in split families and don't want to put a child through that..
overall outlook for US/world in general.. Anybody with their eyes open can see we heading to a bad place..
already hoards of poor kids worldwide that need a loving family.. many would rather adopt than create another life..
im sure ther withers just some off top of my head..
The reasons... Many...
No. The reason... one. The pill.
You are born in the post pill generation. The people you rail at were born in the pre-pill period
We bred like rabbits until the pill arrived
You are in the first generation/s of non-rabbit humans, something that was not possible for the last 100,000 years
By all means moan about it if you want to but a crash in reproduction was inevitable.
On the brighter side, at least you didn't get caught up in the black death or shipped off to the trenches of WW1
We all have our mountain to climb, unless we get lucky and are born in the right place at the right time.
A particular favourite of mine is: "It's better to be lucky than smart"
You lucked out kiddo, 40 years too late
No. The reason... one. The pill.
You are born in the post pill generation. The people you rail at were born in the pre-pill period
We bred like rabbits until the pill arrived
You are in the first generation/s of non-rabbit humans, something that was not possible for the last 100,000 years
By all means moan about it if you want to but a crash in reproduction was inevitable.
On the brighter side, at least you didn't get caught up in the black death or shipped off to the trenches of WW1
We all have our mountain to climb, unless we get lucky and are born in the right place at the right time.
A particular favourite of mine is: "It's better to be lucky than smart"
You lucked out kiddo, 40 years too late
Anybody who at this point thinks trump is anything but a plant to get Hillary elected needs their head examined.. Insinuating assignation now... Guy has gone into full circus clown/tank mode now that he has the nomination..
tsk tsk tsk. You overeducated Libs are so closed minded.
The guy only needs a short run of luck and the entire ballgame changes.
If the markets go
up for example, October beckons
The TV is run by the establishment Tiz, the net sites are run by the establishment.
This guy is not your standard political twinkie bar and the more the establishment hates him the more those people who want real change will be drawn to him
tsk tsk tsk. You overeducated Libs are so closed minded.
The guy only needs a short run of luck and the entire ballgame changes.
If the markets go
up for example, October beckonsThe TV is run by the establishment Tiz, the net sites are run by the establishment.
This guy is not your standard political twinkie bar and the more the establishment hates him the more those people who want real change will be drawn to him
I'm very anti establishment.. Much like Obama was clearly a puppet and not some sort of anti establishment liberal.. Trump isn't the anti establishment savior either eek.. He's clearly a plant to support the establishment to get Hillary in the big house and let liberals control of Supreme Court (court become a joke highly politized now even had a liberal justice talking shit about trump utter comedy).. Guy is cut from the same cloth..NY elitist .. It's all one big dog and pony show..
I don't think he is a plant. C'mon.
His ego is huge, he would never be collateral damage for someone else, especially a woman for christ sakes.
I think the truth is far simpler than that (as it usually is), this is just what happens when you get a reality TV celebrity running for president.
Deep down I think he probably doesn't want the job, but Hillary is just the beneficiary of that. It isn't collusion or anything.
His ego is huge, he would never be collateral damage for someone else, especially a woman for christ sakes.
I think the truth is far simpler than that (as it usually is), this is just what happens when you get a reality TV celebrity running for president.
Deep down I think he probably doesn't want the job, but Hillary is just the beneficiary of that. It isn't collusion or anything.
