Tag: 2020 recession
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2 million new investors are buying stocks on their cellphones
Stuck at home, but armed with online trading apps, individual investors helped drive the historic comeback for stocks
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![5 Reasons to buy Facebook (FB.Q) now]()
5 Reasons to buy Facebook (FB.Q) now
On a March 18, 2020 call to NYC media, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is experiencing “big surges” in usage. Voice and video-calls on WhatsApp (owned by FB) and Facebook Messenger are 200% higher than normal.
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![How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)]()
How to Invest in Social Distancing: Zoom Video (ZM.Q) Grubhub (GRUB.NYSE), Blue Apron (APRN.NYSE)
“I’m practicing as much social distancing as I possibly can” stated Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Director of Disease, “I’m working on getting the boss [Trump] to do this. I may not be successful, but we’re working on it.”
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NMC Health (NMHLY.OTC) gets sued – stock surges 90% anyway
Last week, NMC admitted that it identified an additional $2.7 billion in debt, rounding the total debt to around $5 billion. NMC staff were not paid last month.
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![Market Meltdown: gold & housing: “It’s not the pins – it’s the bubble”.]()
Market Meltdown: gold & housing: “It’s not the pins – it’s the bubble”.
“It’s the financials that are really getting killed,” stated Schiff, “They have made all the loans that are not going to get repaid, so this is just like 2008, only it’s not just the banks that are going to need a bailout, it’s the hotels, it’s the airlines, it’s companies like Boeing, it’s the cruise…
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DJIA plummets: divorce lawyers shudder as poor sexless couples grope each other in the night
“The National Marriage Project dubbed the drop in divorce ‘a silver lining’ to the Great Recession,” stated The L.A. Times, “arguing that tough times were pulling many husbands and wives closer together.”
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Leagold (LMC.T) & Equinox (EQX.T): why did 99.9% of shareholders just vote to approve this $1.7 billion gold merger?
“This merger will create one of the world’s largest gold companies operating entirely in the Americas,” confirmed Beaty, “This is the kind of gold company investors want today.”
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![Euro Sun Mining (ESM.T): how to buy gold for $2.30 an ounce]()
Euro Sun Mining (ESM.T): how to buy gold for $2.30 an ounce
Euro Sun’s gold is valued at $2.30 an ounce. I assumed Euro Sun’s gold was in the “inferred resource” category, which according to 43-101 standards, is “too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to it.” My assumption was false.
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![The emperor’s new clothes or welcome to debt-fueled consumer-driven economics]()
The emperor’s new clothes or welcome to debt-fueled consumer-driven economics
Remember Han Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes? It starts off about seeing something and saying nothing, but then ends with deliberate denial. It seemed as though Anderson’s satire came to life when analysts proclaimed retailers would enjoy a busy Christmas because the latest consumer sentiment index (CSI) was up. The CSI is based on…
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![16 million U.S. workers will die before their debts are paid off]()
16 million U.S. workers will die before their debts are paid off
We’ve been hearing about the “global debt crisis” for so long it’s become background noise – like a sherry-soaked auntie babbling about UFOs at Thanksgiving. But if a building has been burning slowly for a long time, it’s legitimate to point out that smoke is still billowing – and there is no fire-truck in sight.…
