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Increasing inevitability about the Taliban advance made soldiers wonder what they were fighting for

Published on August 15th, 2021 This article is a guest contribution by David Morris.  David Morris is a self-taught investor and a member of the Sure Dividend community. He aspires to developing expertise as a freelance equity analyst on an amateur and part-time basis, primarily for purposes of personal growth and self-fulfillment. Hedge funds and […]

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China’s pandemic response initially drove faster economic growth, but the U.S. poured more resources into recovery, fueling faster gains in coming quarters, economists say.

Bond yields have tumbled during the past three months, yet equities are at new highs and corporate bonds are close to the most expensive they’ve ever been. What gives?

La Autoridad Macroprudencial Consejo de Estabilidad Financiera (Amcesfi), integrada por miembros del Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y los tres organismos supervisores de banca, seguros y mercados, considera "necesario trazar una estrategia de salida de las medidas de apoyo que evite los efectos abruptos que podrían generarse" como consecuencia de su retirada. Leer

I found this article on my old blog and just had to re-post it. This was written by Bob Lane some 20 years ago and it is just superb how to he can make something look like an engine from literally rubbish. A great way to add realism to a radio controlled model plane is to make a dummy engine:



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Analysts say camera improvements are the biggest changes hitting Apple’s coming smartphones.

Asset manager says product costs should be as clear to public as calorie counts on food labels

I chalk up the explosion in quits (2.7%, now at a 20 year high) and new business formation to three main causes: Stimulus cash padding people’s bank accounts, the combination of cloud computing plus iPhones allowing anyone to start a business, the fintech revolution enabling payments for everyone.  And that’s only part of what we get into this week. Thanks to Allison and Sam for bringing so much information ...

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Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures:

• The Lucrative Business of Stoking Vaccine Skepticism How misinformation peddlers are using crowdfunding sites to bankroll their work. (Slate)

• Acres of Money Laundering: Why U.S. Real Estate is a Kleptocrat’s Dream What do the Iranian government, a fugitive international jeweler, and a disgraced Harvard University fencing coach have in common? Kleptocrats, criminals, sanctions evaders, and corrupt government officials choose the U.S. real estate market as their preferred destination to hide and launder proceeds from illicit activities. They have all used U.S. real estate to launder their ill-gotten gains. (Global Financial Integrity) see also Notes on NFTs, the high-art trade, and money laundering NFTs create new opportunities for bad guys to move money without attribution. (Amy Castor)

• Weak Oversight Plagues Audits of Billions in Private Assets Self-regulatory audit system fails to safeguard charities, pension funds and private companies, a WSJ analysis finds (Wall Street Journal)

• Deceptions and lies: What really happened in Afghanistan. U.S. hid the truth about an attack targeting Cheney, amid fears of losing war By lying about how close the insurgents had come to harming Cheney, the U.S. military sank deeper into a pattern of deceiving the public about many facets of the war, from discrete events to the big picture. What began as selective, self-serving disclosures after the 2001 invasion gradually hardened into willful distortions and, eventually, flat-out fabrications. (Washington Post)

• An inconvenient truth (about weed) Federal laws bar cannabis from crossing state lines, driving up the cost — and the emissions — of an industry using indoor grow operations. (Politico)

• ‘Warrior mindset’ police training proliferated. Then, high-profile deaths put it under scrutiny. “What is the highest priority in policing?” said Stoughton. “One of the things that bothers me is the way that the policing industry has evolved to treat courage under combat conditions as the highest form of police professionalism.” (Washington Post)

• Secret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut” Billionaire business owners deployed lobbyists to make sure Trump’s 2017 tax bill was tailored to their benefit. Confidential IRS records show the windfall that followed. (ProPublica)

• Judge asks why Capitol rioters are paying just $1.5 million for attack, while U.S. taxpayers will pay more than $500 million Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington challenged the toughness of the Justice Department’s stance in a plea hearing for a Colorado Springs man who admitted to one of four nonviolent misdemeanor counts of picketing in the U.S. Capitol. (Washington Post)

• “All Roads Lead to Mar-a-Lago”: Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump’s Florida Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro—they’ve all made their way to the Sunshine State, fueling and profiting from a tabloid culture that turns politics into spectacle, arguably Florida’s greatest export. (Vanity Fair) see also Donald’s Plot Against America: Now, he and his GOP enablers are peddling the Second Big Lie: that January 6 was just legitimate protest. It’s the crucial ingredient in convincing America to return them—and him—to power. (New Republic)

• Farm Supply Stores Are Running Short on a Horse Dewormer/Pseudoscience COVID Cure “The hardship comes when you run to your farm supply store and they don’t have [ivermectin] on the shelves anymore because of all of this.” (Slate)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. The bank has helped fund more than 30,000 start-ups, 50% of venture-backed tech and life science companies in the US, and 69% of U.S. VC-backed tech + life science companies with an IPO banked with SVB.

 

Confidence in Big Business, Big Tech Wanes Among Republicans

Source: Gallup

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La heterogeneidad provincial y sectorial seguirá caracterizando el crecimiento para los próximos años. Leer

 

 

Petrol consumption reached a record in July while power plants shift away from natural gas

Light-touch regulation raises concerns ahead of expected rush of work as pandemic business support is withdrawn

El partido republicano de los Estados Unidos está jugando a tensar la cuerda en las negociaciones con el límite de la deuda federal del país.  

Euskaltel, comprada por MásMóvil, cotizará en bolsa por última vez el próximo martes 17 de agosto, lo que pondrá fin a seis años en el parqué en los que la operadora vasca ha pasado de una valoración de 1.202 millones a los 1.961 actuales. Leer

The online used-car dealer, known for its vehicle vending-machine towers, has a secret sauce: a unique accounting treatment that lets it book quick profits on car loans.

The government’s campaign to reduce debt in sectors such as real estate has put many developers in a tight spot, sending high-yield bond prices tumbling.

The online used-car dealer, known for its vehicle vending-machine towers, has a secret sauce: a unique accounting treatment that lets it book quick profits on car loans.