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Home Depot Panics Over Millennials; Forced To Host Tutorials On Using Tape Measures, Hammering Nails
( This is the result of all the liberal crap that coddles this new generation turning them into zombies to the point that they can't even handle life's basic functions. )
As wall street analysts celebrate the coming of age of the millennial generation, a group of young people who were supposed to lead another revolutionary wave of consumerism if only they could work long enough to escape their parents' basement, retailers like Home Depot are panicked about selling into what will soon be America's largest demographic...but not for the reasons you might think.
While avocado resellers like Whole Foods only have to worry about creating a catchy advertising campaign to attract millennials, Home Depot is in full-on panic mode after realizing that an entire generation of Americans have absolutely no clue how to use their products. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the company has been forced to spend millions to create video tutorials and host in-store classes on how to do everything from using a tape measure to mopping a floor and hammering a nail.
Home Depot's VP of marketing admits she was originally hesitant because she thought some of their videos might be a bit too "condescending" but she quickly learned they were very necessary for our pampered millennials.
In June the company introduced a series of online workshops, including videos on how to use a tape measure and how to hide cords, that were so basic some executives worried they were condescending. “You have to start somewhere,” Mr. Decker says.
Lisa DeStefano, Home Depot vice president of marketing, initially hesitated looking over the list of proposed video lessons, chosen based on high-frequency online search queries. “Were we selling people short? Were these just too obvious?” she says she asked her team. On the tape-measure tutorial, “I said ‘come on, how many things can you say about it?’ ” Ms. DeStefano says.
And just in case you think we're joking and/or exaggerating, here is Home Depot's tape measure tutorial in all its glory:
Home Depot Panics Over Millennials; Forced To Host Tutorials On Using Tape Measures, Hammering Nails
( This is the result of all the liberal crap that coddles this new generation turning them into zombies to the point that they can't even handle life's basic functions. )
As wall street analysts celebrate the coming of age of the millennial generation, a group of young people who were supposed to lead another revolutionary wave of consumerism if only they could work long enough to escape their parents' basement, retailers like Home Depot are panicked about selling into what will soon be America's largest demographic...but not for the reasons you might think.
While avocado resellers like Whole Foods only have to worry about creating a catchy advertising campaign to attract millennials, Home Depot is in full-on panic mode after realizing that an entire generation of Americans have absolutely no clue how to use their products. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the company has been forced to spend millions to create video tutorials and host in-store classes on how to do everything from using a tape measure to mopping a floor and hammering a nail.
Home Depot's VP of marketing admits she was originally hesitant because she thought some of their videos might be a bit too "condescending" but she quickly learned they were very necessary for our pampered millennials.
In June the company introduced a series of online workshops, including videos on how to use a tape measure and how to hide cords, that were so basic some executives worried they were condescending. “You have to start somewhere,” Mr. Decker says.
Lisa DeStefano, Home Depot vice president of marketing, initially hesitated looking over the list of proposed video lessons, chosen based on high-frequency online search queries. “Were we selling people short? Were these just too obvious?” she says she asked her team. On the tape-measure tutorial, “I said ‘come on, how many things can you say about it?’ ” Ms. DeStefano says.
And just in case you think we're joking and/or exaggerating, here is Home Depot's tape measure tutorial in all its glory:
So where is your outrage when Al Sharpton sets up picket lines and demands corporate concessions when they don't roll over to his demands?
With power plants 100's of miles away from where all these "clean" cars are being charged the electrical transmission losses are huge. Makes you wonder if the tree huggers will ever figure out that the carbon emissions are higher than if you just pour the fuel in the tank rather than paying for all the transport losses vis electricity.
And then there is the question of what to do with all the non-ferrous battery material, that is is hazardous to your health, that can no longer be recycled. I mean that is some REALLY TOXIC stuff.
And solar panels won't solve the waste problem either. Those materials are worse than the battery components.
Just maybe they will figure out that the carbon emissions caused by gasoline engines is much easier to absorb in the environment.
Doesn't anyone use their head any more ??? No one ever asked what the next step will be when they promote some action. It's called critical thinking... Where did it go ?
Don't upload all the slides...
Just do a copy of the link to the slides and then paste that link in your next message.
Thank you for posting that chart.
This is clear evidence of what Obamacare has done re the health care cost vs benefit !
Single payer will make it much worse. Costs ALWAYS GO HIGHER when the government gets involved.
Anytime the government gets involved the price goes UP.
It's a shame so many people are being bankrupted by Obamacare.
If you think it's expensive now, this is just the beginning if we go to one payer. It will bankrupt the entire country.
Even California voted it down after they realized that they could not afford it.
This is a Real CNBC Article on “Economics”
A chicken in every pot, and a unicorn in every garage. That’s the progressive dream.
No, seriously, they are dreaming, and they must have smoked something crazy before bed.
I almost couldn’t even write about this subject because I just kept staring at my computer screen wide-eyed and shaking my head. Really? Is this seriously being passed off as economics and news?
The larger the universal basic income, the greater the benefit to the economy, according to the report.
A $1,000 cash handout to all adults would grow the economy by 12.56 percent after eight years, the study finds. Current Congressional Budget Office estimates put the GDP at $19.8 trillion. The cash handout would therefore increase the GDP by $2.48 trillion. (Vox first did this extrapolation in their coverage of the report, and Steinbaum confirmed the accuracy of the extrapolation to CNBC Make It by email.)
Wow! You’re saying that by the U.S. government simply creating money out of thin air, we can increase the amount of money in existence! Why didn’t we think of this before? Why are we only $20 trillion in debt! why not go $200 trillion in debt. Why not $900 trillion?! Who cares, it just boosts the economy.
The super-serious-legitimate-intellectual study found that the larger the handout, the more the economy grows! Hear that? We can all be millionaires! It’s easy street from here on out.
We can all quit our jobs at the factories, farms, grocery stores, and office buildings. Things will keep being produced, sold, and organized according to the report.
What they didn’t add is that in order to finance these handouts without taxation, the U.S. would add $24 trillion of debt. The already insane national debt would more than double in 8 years.
And what would a cash influx of that kind cause?
Exactly what the study did not take into consideration. Inflation.
The factor that other models emphasize which is not present in the Levy Model is “potential output”—that the size of the macroeconomy is theoretically limited by supply constraints, and that once these bind, the effect offurther expansion in aggregate demand is primarily to increase inflation.
I love it. “Theoretically” the economy is limited by the supply of goods.
The grocery store has 100 loaves of bread, so theoretically, they can only sell 100 loaves of bread. Good thing only 100 people want to buy a loaf of bread.
But this study adds 1,000 more people who want to buy that bread. They conclude that this will not increase the price of the bread and that the extra 1,000 people who want bread will not be constrained by the fact that there are only 100 loaves.
It is utter nonsense! They are basically saying that they can drastically increase the consumption of goods without having to increase supply, and without the price of the goods rising.
And why do they believe this baloney? Because they are still using Keynesian economics, explained in the image below.
At very least the study concluded that raising taxes would have no net benefit to the economy. So they understand that taking from one person and handing to another would not grow the economy.
These estimates are based on a universal basic income paid for by increasing the federal deficit. As part of the study, the researchers also calculated the effect to the economy of paying for the cash handouts by increasing taxes. In that case, there would be no net benefit to the economy, the report finds.
But they apparently don’t believe that demand is enabled by supply. Have they tried to consume something that doesn’t exist? It’s a difficult task.
And they also don’t believe in inflation. But when the supply stays the same, and the demand grows, prices will rise. If the demand is enabled by increasing the monetary supply by going into more debt, that means that the value of the new dollars is derived from the old dollars. Every dollar gets a little bit more worthless because nothing about the real physical economy has changed. Supply has not grown to match increased demand.
And finally, maybe they don’t want to finance the universal basic income with taxation, but how are they going to pay the interest on the extra debt? Currently, it costs almost half a trillion dollars per year just to pay the interest on the $20 trillion national debt. They want to more than double that in just eight years. Who in their right mind would keep lending the U.S. money?
You can play with numbers, but you can’t change reality. This model would DESTROY the economy in 8 years, not improve it. Yes, there will be more money in supply, and therefore the economy has “grown” if you don’t factor in real purchasing power, which will collapse.
It would be a transfer of wealth from people with savings, to people in debt.
This trash is clearly being sold so that idiots can cite a study that says a universal basic income is a good thing. The chorus grows in the media, training the sheep how to sing their song of ignorance.
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/yes-this-is-a-real-cnbc-article-on-economics/
"excellent retort with factual backup !!!! "
Are you saying that we should be like Denmark where half of the GDP comes via taxes???
If you think that confiscating more money from the citizens, what do you think about having some of the people pay some taxes that aren't paying any at all?
I mean, we are already at the point where half the population is supporting the other half ! If the half that is not paying into the system would pony up a bit we could be like Denmark where the government receives most of what is produced and then decides who should benefit from the hard work of those supporting the slugs.
You can be assured that Equinox is looking out for your best interest.
Equifax executives sold stock after data breach, before informing public
SEC filings show sales worth about $1.8 million that were not pre-planned
From left: Equifax executives John Gamble, Rodolfo Ploder and Joseph Loughran.
After Equifax Inc. discovered a massive data breach that may have endangered the personal information of up to two-thirds of Americans, but before the company divulged the information, three executives sold their Equifax stock, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Equifax EFX, -14.87% discovered the data breach July 29. On Aug. 1 and Aug 2., ahead of Thursday’s breach announcement, several Equifax executives sold almost $2 million worth of stock combined, according to SEC documents from August.
Read: Equifax breach risks 143 million Americans’ data, stock plunges 13%
Also see: After huge data breach, Equifax not telling all customers if they are affected
As first reported by Bloomberg News, Chief Financial Officer John Gamble banked $946,374 on the sale, U.S. Information Solutions President Joseph Loughran made $584,099 and Consumer Information Solutions President Rodolfo Ploder earned $250,458. In the same filing, Loughran exercised an option to buy 3,000 shares at a price of $33.60.
While Equifax did not return a call from MarketWatch on Thursday, a company spokesperson told The Guardian and Gizmodo that the executives had “no knowledge” of the breach at the time they sold their shares.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-executives-sold-stock-after-data-breach-before-informing-public-2017-09-07
You can buy your credit monitoring from EquiFax !!
At their web site you can read all the wonderful things they are doing to protect your financial information !
" Princeton professor who is also a Nobel Prize winner..."
Well, we all know what a Nobel Prizes is worth...
Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
"It's simply immoral to profit off the pain and suffering of others"
Why do you think medicare costs so much ??? Certainly the recipient of medicare thinks its a good deal because other peoples money is used for his healthcare. For the person providing the money it's s bigger scam than social security. Not only is the profit made by the medicare providers immoral but also the government administration of it.
The government doesn't provide anything... They use other peoples money to contract it by others and the waste and corruption is outrageous.
Why in the world do you want more of this crap ???
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The EV ARC looks like a fun gadget to show off to your neighbors. There is one problem... The cost is $40,000 each ! With the typical cost of electricity at 12 cents per kilowatt you can buy 333,333 Kw for $40,000. You can charge a Tesla about 4,200 times. A Tesla gets around 250 miles per charge so for that $40,000 you can drive almost 1 million miles. The average car is driven about 12,000 miles per year so the $40,000 needs to go for about 83 years to break even. It pays you to own it after that.
I did a google on the EV ARC and see that New York and San Francisco are are buying some of these. But that doesn't have to make any economic sense for the investment since they are use other peoples money.
BTW... Did you notice that the cost of revenue for EVSI is HIGHER than the revenue ?
Anyway... My guess is that this idea is a bit further out in the future... I won't live long enough to profit from it.
Any time a new tax is imposed it siphons money out of the productive private economy. More money going to the government results in the usual fraud, waste and pay of play stuff that we know so much about. So yes, a new tax on anything reduces economic activity and should be a topic for discussion. The productivity of our economy ALWAYS goes down when there are new taxes.
Only In California - Governor Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Regulate Cow Flatulence
Sep 20, 2016
In yet another attack on California businesses, yesterday Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill (SB 1383) that requires the state to cut methane emissions from dairy cows and other animals by 40% by 2030. The bill is yet another massive blow to the agricultural industry in the state of California that has already suffered from the Governor's passage of a $15 minimum wage and a recent bill that makes California literally the only state in the entire country to provide overtime pay to seasonal agricultural workers after working 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day (see link "California Just Passed A $1.7 Billion Tax On The Whole Country That No One Noticed").
According to a statement from Western United Dairymen CEO, Anja Raudabaugh, California's Air Resources Board wants to regulate animal methane emissions even though it admits there is no known method for achieving the the type of reduction sought by SB 1383.
"The California Air Resources Board wants to regulate cow emissions, even though its Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) reduction strategy acknowledges that there’s no known way to achieve this reduction."
Among other things, compliance with the bill will likely require California dairies to install "methane digesters" that convert the organic matter in manure into methane that can then be converted to energy for on-farm or off-farm consumption. The problem, of course, is that methane digesters are expensive and with California producing 20% of the country's milk we suspect that means that California has just passed another massive "food tax" on the country.
That said, many California dairies will probably elect to simply close down and move to other states as they did in 2015. Per the California Department of Food and Agriculture, all but 1 of California's top 10 dairy producing counties saw a reduction in dairy production in 2015.
The National Federation of Independent Businesses highlighted the detrimental effects of SB 1383 on small business, describing the bill as a "direct assault on California’s dairy industry."
“SB 1383 (Lara) creates an inconsistent, new climate change policy which will further increase the cost of doing business in California, especially for our agricultural economy. This mandated 40% reduction in methane and 50% reduction in anthropogenic black carbon gas represents a direct assault on California’s dairy industry and will hurt manufacturing by creating an arbitrary limit on natural gasses which dissipate quickly. The process by which this bill developed is also troubling; complex amendments were taken in the final hours of the legislative session, barring small business owners from understanding the impacts of this bill and voicing their strong opposition.
But Jerry Brown's new restrictions on cow flatulence isn't bad news for everyone...perhaps there is now hope for Argentina's cow fart backpack invented by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-19/only-california-governor-jerry-brown-signs-bill-regulate-cow-flatulence
Only In California - Governor Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Regulate Cow Flatulence
Sep 20, 2016
In yet another attack on California businesses, yesterday Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill (SB 1383) that requires the state to cut methane emissions from dairy cows and other animals by 40% by 2030. The bill is yet another massive blow to the agricultural industry in the state of California that has already suffered from the Governor's passage of a $15 minimum wage and a recent bill that makes California literally the only state in the entire country to provide overtime pay to seasonal agricultural workers after working 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day (see link "California Just Passed A $1.7 Billion Tax On The Whole Country That No One Noticed").
According to a statement from Western United Dairymen CEO, Anja Raudabaugh, California's Air Resources Board wants to regulate animal methane emissions even though it admits there is no known method for achieving the the type of reduction sought by SB 1383.
"The California Air Resources Board wants to regulate cow emissions, even though its Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) reduction strategy acknowledges that there’s no known way to achieve this reduction."
Among other things, compliance with the bill will likely require California dairies to install "methane digesters" that convert the organic matter in manure into methane that can then be converted to energy for on-farm or off-farm consumption. The problem, of course, is that methane digesters are expensive and with California producing 20% of the country's milk we suspect that means that California has just passed another massive "food tax" on the country.
That said, many California dairies will probably elect to simply close down and move to other states as they did in 2015. Per the California Department of Food and Agriculture, all but 1 of California's top 10 dairy producing counties saw a reduction in dairy production in 2015.
The National Federation of Independent Businesses highlighted the detrimental effects of SB 1383 on small business, describing the bill as a "direct assault on California’s dairy industry."
“SB 1383 (Lara) creates an inconsistent, new climate change policy which will further increase the cost of doing business in California, especially for our agricultural economy. This mandated 40% reduction in methane and 50% reduction in anthropogenic black carbon gas represents a direct assault on California’s dairy industry and will hurt manufacturing by creating an arbitrary limit on natural gasses which dissipate quickly. The process by which this bill developed is also troubling; complex amendments were taken in the final hours of the legislative session, barring small business owners from understanding the impacts of this bill and voicing their strong opposition.
But Jerry Brown's new restrictions on cow flatulence isn't bad news for everyone...perhaps there is now hope for Argentina's cow fart backpack invented by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-19/only-california-governor-jerry-brown-signs-bill-regulate-cow-flatulence
Who wudda thought ??
'Inconvenient' Fact: Morgan Stanley Says Electric Cars Create More CO2 Than They Save
( I've been saying for years that this fantasy of reduced or zero emissions re electric cars is a huge ruse... The electricity needed to charge all those batteries produces more carbon than it saves. Consider the massive losses from the power plant to your outlet,,, HUGE. And when all the smoke and mirrors are removed we will also learn that the long list of all the special non-ferrous metals used to make the batteries will be a pollution disaster as well. That stuff can only be recycled so many times 'till it becomes hazardous waste. )
For all the funds out there looking to fill their portfolio with "environmentally conscious" companies working diligently to avert an inevitable global warming catastrophe that will result in the extinction of the human race, we guess in lieu of their actual fiduciary duties to simply make money for their investors, Morgan Stanley has compiled a list of how you can get the most 'environmental healing' per dollar invested.
As MarketWatch points out, it's not terribly surprising that of the 39 publicly-traded stocks analyzed, the solar and wind generation companies landed at the very top of Morgan Stanley's environmentally friendly the list.
Morgan Stanley identified 39 stocks that generate at least half their revenue “from the provision of solutions to climate change,” something it said was a central component of investing to make a difference, as opposed to just a making a buck.
“In our view, impact investing needs to begin with companies whose products and services have a notable positive environmental or social impact,” wrote Jessica Alsford, an equity strategist at the investment bank.
Not surprisingly, alternative-energy companies ranked the highest in terms of their positive impact, and the “top five climate-change impact stocks” were all manufacturers of solar and wind energy: Canadian Solar, China High Speed Transmission, GCL-Poly, Daqo New Energy, and Jinko Solar.
What is surprising, however, is that publicly traded electric car manufacturers, darlings of the environmentally-conscious Left, were actually found to generate more CO2 than they save. As a stark reminder to our left-leaning political elites who created these companies with massive taxpayer funded subsidies[, Morgan Stanley points out that while Teslas don't burn gasoline they do have to be charged using electricity generated by coal and other fossil fuels.
This is where Tesla, along with China’s Guoxuan High-Tech fall short.
“Whilst the electric vehicles and lithium batteries manufactured by these two companies do indeed help to reduce direct CO2 emissions from vehicles, electricity is needed to power them,” Morgan Stanley wrote. “And with their primary markets still largely weighted towards fossil-fuel power (72% in the U.S. and 75% in China) the CO2 emissions from this electricity generation are still material.”
In other words, “the carbon emissions generated by the electricity required for electric vehicles are greater than those saved by cutting out direct vehicle emissions.”
Morgan Stanley calculated that an investment of $1 million in Canadian Solar results in nearly 15,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide being saved every year. For Tesla, such an investment adds nearly one-third of a metric ton of CO2.
Ironically, as we recently pointed out, Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) credits (a nicer way of saying taxpayer funded corporate welfare) is pretty much the only 'product' that Tesla seems to make money selling and is the only reason they managed to 'beat' earnings in Q2.
I'm referring to zero-emission vehicle, or ZEV, credits. California and several other states require that a certain proportion of the vehicles sold by an automaker emit no greenhouse gases. These cars earn the automaker credits, and if they don't have enough to meet their quota, they can buy extra ones from someone who does. As Tesla only makes vehicles that run on batteries and emit nothing, it usually has a surplus for sale.
The profit margin on these is very high, perhaps 95 percent. The implied $95 million of profit equates to about 58 cents a share. Tesla reported a loss of $1.33 per share this week -- beating the consensus forecast by 55 cents.
Ponder that for a moment...as taxpayers we're actually subsidizing a product (and an eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire) that is bad for the environment...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-18/inconvenient-fact-morgan-stanley-says-electric-cars-create-more-co2-they-save
Who wudda thought ??
'Inconvenient' Fact: Morgan Stanley Says Electric Cars Create More CO2 Than They Save
( I've been saying for years that this fantasy of reduced or zero emissions re electric cars is a huge ruse... The electricity needed to charge all those batteries produces more carbon than it saves. Consider the massive losses from the power plant to your outlet,,, HUGE. And when all the smoke and mirrors are removed we will also learn that the long list of all the special non-ferrous metals used to make the batteries will be a pollution disaster as well. That stuff can only be recycled so many times 'till it becomes hazardous waste. )
For all the funds out there looking to fill their portfolio with "environmentally conscious" companies working diligently to avert an inevitable global warming catastrophe that will result in the extinction of the human race, we guess in lieu of their actual fiduciary duties to simply make money for their investors, Morgan Stanley has compiled a list of how you can get the most 'environmental healing' per dollar invested.
As MarketWatch points out, it's not terribly surprising that of the 39 publicly-traded stocks analyzed, the solar and wind generation companies landed at the very top of Morgan Stanley's environmentally friendly the list.
Morgan Stanley identified 39 stocks that generate at least half their revenue “from the provision of solutions to climate change,” something it said was a central component of investing to make a difference, as opposed to just a making a buck.
“In our view, impact investing needs to begin with companies whose products and services have a notable positive environmental or social impact,” wrote Jessica Alsford, an equity strategist at the investment bank.
Not surprisingly, alternative-energy companies ranked the highest in terms of their positive impact, and the “top five climate-change impact stocks” were all manufacturers of solar and wind energy: Canadian Solar, China High Speed Transmission, GCL-Poly, Daqo New Energy, and Jinko Solar.
What is surprising, however, is that publicly traded electric car manufacturers, darlings of the environmentally-conscious Left, were actually found to generate more CO2 than they save. As a stark reminder to our left-leaning political elites who created these companies with massive taxpayer funded subsidies[, Morgan Stanley points out that while Teslas don't burn gasoline they do have to be charged using electricity generated by coal and other fossil fuels.
This is where Tesla, along with China’s Guoxuan High-Tech fall short.
“Whilst the electric vehicles and lithium batteries manufactured by these two companies do indeed help to reduce direct CO2 emissions from vehicles, electricity is needed to power them,” Morgan Stanley wrote. “And with their primary markets still largely weighted towards fossil-fuel power (72% in the U.S. and 75% in China) the CO2 emissions from this electricity generation are still material.”
In other words, “the carbon emissions generated by the electricity required for electric vehicles are greater than those saved by cutting out direct vehicle emissions.”
Morgan Stanley calculated that an investment of $1 million in Canadian Solar results in nearly 15,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide being saved every year. For Tesla, such an investment adds nearly one-third of a metric ton of CO2.
Ironically, as we recently pointed out, Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) credits (a nicer way of saying taxpayer funded corporate welfare) is pretty much the only 'product' that Tesla seems to make money selling and is the only reason they managed to 'beat' earnings in Q2.
I'm referring to zero-emission vehicle, or ZEV, credits. California and several other states require that a certain proportion of the vehicles sold by an automaker emit no greenhouse gases. These cars earn the automaker credits, and if they don't have enough to meet their quota, they can buy extra ones from someone who does. As Tesla only makes vehicles that run on batteries and emit nothing, it usually has a surplus for sale.
The profit margin on these is very high, perhaps 95 percent. The implied $95 million of profit equates to about 58 cents a share. Tesla reported a loss of $1.33 per share this week -- beating the consensus forecast by 55 cents.
Ponder that for a moment...as taxpayers we're actually subsidizing a product (and an eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire) that is bad for the environment...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-18/inconvenient-fact-morgan-stanley-says-electric-cars-create-more-co2-they-save
Maybe you would feel better if he called it
"Workplace violence " ???
And they wonder why people voted for Trump!
Everything is always the white guys fault.
All you need to do is look at the result of where the non-whites are in charge and you'll get more clarity on this idiot way of thinking. You don't need to be very smart to find the places... Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Middle East, Venezuela ... It's the same result everywhere.
Trump condemns violence.. Markets soar upward !!
Good article !
" A DOJ that didn't see skin color as automatically creating guilt was a radically new concept..."
Is this the same DOJ headed by Eric Holder that said ..." If the plaintiff is white and the defendant is black we will not bring the case" ? It seems that you are living on a different planet. Of course this is exactly why we have the chaos that we have today... When you give corruption a pass you get more corruption.
EX–DOJ LAWYER: HOLDER WON'T PROSECUTE BLACKS
A leading Department of Justice attorney who quit his job after over the Obama administration’s refusal to prosecute Black Panthers who intimidated voters outside polls during the 2008 election claims the administration has ordered the DOJ not to pursue voting-rights cases against black people.
In an interview today, J. Christian Adams, former DOJ attorney and now a contributor at Pajamas Media, told Fox News, “There is a pervasive hostility within the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department toward these sorts of cases.”
http://www.wnd.com/2010/06/173117/
Many Youtube videos on this...
Are you like this in real life?
Or is this just an act you play on the internet ?
No voter suppression here... Just out right fraud.
Nearly a dozen Calif. counties had more registered voters than eligible voters in 2016 election
Judicial Watch went on to report that officials from Los Angeles County since told the watchdog group in June that the “total number of registered voters now stands at a number that is a whopping 144% of the total number of resident citizens of voting age” for that county.
( And I don't think these are Republican voters.)
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/06/nearly-a-dozen-calif-counties-had-more-registered-voters-than-eligible-voters-in-2016-election/
voter suppression ??? That never happens...
HDSN Looks decent. The acquisition fits their business very well. HDSN is up 21% after-hours.
It's not just the banks. Many companies that proudly announce share buybacks year after year end up with an ever increasing share count ! This has been going on for a very long time.
It's a very simple corporate model... Use company money ( shareholder money ) to buy back shares and give those shares to the principals as stock options. The public end up being fleeced while the company officers end up with more money than they can ever figure out how to spend.
Yes... the pathologically stupid went for it hook, line and sinker !
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=133363781
Democrats begin to see Pelosi as a 2018 problem
( Democrats ALWAYS require so much longer to figure things out. )
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article165213507.html
Salon struggling to pay its rent
( Another example of failing liberalism. )
Salon, the struggling digital publisher, is having trouble paying its rent.
A landlord who late last year evicted Salon from its New York offices for nonpayment of $90,000 in back rent is now trying to force the digital publisher to pay more than $700,000 for the unused portion of a five-year lease that is slated to run through September 2019.
Salon had been paying over $300,000 a year to Vbgo Penn Plaza for offices at 31 Penn Plaza, near Madison Square Garden.
By the fall of 2016, according to a suit filed recently in Manhattan state court, Salon had already fallen behind in its rent covering the period from July 2016 to Sept. 30, to the tune of $90,565. Vbgo said it evicted Salon in December and now is trying to get the struggling Web media company to pay up for the rest of the lease.
Salon, which has since set up New York offices elsewhere in Manhattan, declined to comment.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/salon-struggling-to-pay-its-rent/
The reason nothing is being done about the illegal voters is because they all vote for the incumbent democrats currently in office.
A google on "Politicaldig.com" ,where Lance Permian provides his wisdom, results in Wiki providing a list of fake news web sites.
You need to do a little bit better.
The better question is if he is allowed to sell on the same day just hours PRIOR to the earnings announcement.
As far as the number of shares goes I always thought that if shares are in the sale for the purpose of paying taxes that those shares are part of the sellers account. After all, the taxes are an obligation of the seller. If the CEO's share count didn't go down by the full amount then it looks like the company is covering his taxes. Something doesn't look right. But what do I know...
Anyone that "forgets" that they are carrying a loaded gun thru an airport security check point should be arrested.
"Ignorance has no cure..."
There seems to be something we can actually on.