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Friday, June 29, 2018

Billionaire Buffett




Warren Buffett



Watch The Treasury-Bill / 10 Year Treasury Rate Spread... : “Davidson” submits: [REITs] Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc, Also read Lear Capital: Financial Products You Should Avo... - -





Jim Chanos and Jim Grant Talk Fraud @NY Historical Society- Video And Transcript




































Investment Advisors


Jun 2
Life is much more like poker than chess Intelligence matters & statistics matter in the long run, but from day to day it is often uncertainty, imperfect knowledge, bluffing & good fortune which determine outcomes; not long term strategy. Evaluate successes/failures accordingly.

" is so severe that it’s an actual question about survival as a well functioning global society”. The views of are always interesting to read.


16 Sep 2017
1) Nice piece about Indeed, investors would be brain dead to ignore now!





Jun 26
Watch Jeremy Grantham's 'Race of Our Lives' Speech : At the 2018 Morningstar Conference this month, Grantham gave an insightful presentation about climate . [timeless] Q1 hedge fund... -  




we're working to harness capitalism for the greater good. join us! "Capitalism is killing the planet and needs to change, says investor Jeremy Grantham"
When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden -



says we have the ability to feed the world with methods + solve . But not through .


Jan 2
Two of the finest investors of all time, and , are pointing out that today’s low interest rates justify the prices of the average &P500


  

Trump-Putin summit to unfold in Helsinki on July 16

Expectations for the summit are low.
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  27 Apr 2017
IT'S DIFFERENT THIS TIME...Recently, uttered those words, but is it really? 

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

trmps don't care

“Every recession of the past 60 years has been preceded by an inverted yield curve, according to research from the San Fran Fed “ read ⁦⁩ - What’s the Yield Curve? ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦

 





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Meet Owsley Stanley III, Grateful Dead's Acid Cooker

In his new book 'Bear,' Robert Greenfield goes deep into life of counterculture figure credited with inventing band's 'Wall of Sound'


Owsley Stanley aka 'Bear,' financial backer (and LSD supplier) to the Grateful Dead, pictured here in 

Monday, June 25, 2018

Nationalism is arrogance

Trump = cruely and corporate greed


Cato Trade‏ @CatoTrade Jun 22

Because of the Jones Act, shipping crude oil from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast on Jones Act-compliant tankers costs roughly three times greater than shipping the oil a longer distance to Canada on foreign-flagged ships. https://buff.ly/2sbSeHD #repealthejonesact

 
 

Friday, June 22, 2018

Seneca




Seneca the Younger/Quotes
 
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
 
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
 
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
 
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
 
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
 
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
 
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
 
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
 
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
 
 
 
 
A great mind becomes a great fortune.


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Aristotle/Quotes

 
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Aristotle/Quotes
 
 
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
 
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
 
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
 
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
 
The law is reason, free from passion.
 
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
 
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
 
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
 
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
 
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Jim Carey Cartoon

  
Nothing comforts a federally-abducted refugee child like a photo op with a Slovenian model wearing a coat that says she doesn’t give two craps about your misery.





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America's Crine Family 




 




America's Top Crime Family.

America's Top Crime Family.


















































Thursday, June 21, 2018

The Trump presidency can be defined by 3 corrosive qualities



The Trump presidency can be defined by 3 corrosive qualities: 
- unbridled cruelty, 
- utter incompetence, and 
- outspoken bigotry. 
It is a toxic mix, with horrifying consequences.





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Michael Avenatti on separating migrant children: We’re entering fight in big way

 https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/stormy-daniels-attorney-michael-avenatti-to-help-families-separated-at-border-1257840195738 via @msnbc




(Photo: Rudolf Kirchner)


Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Migrant parent-child separations can be permanent

"China just built a 250-acre solar farm shaped like a giant panda"









"China just built a 250-acre solar farm shaped like a giant panda"


http://www.businessinsider.com/china-panda-solar-power-plant-2017-7 …






Trump couldn't take the heat:



Babies and toddlers sent to 'tender age' shelters under Trump separations

Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in south Texas, it has emerged.

Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying pre-school aged children in emotional crisis. The Associated Press learned that the government also plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of young migrant children in Houston, where city leaders denounced the move on Tuesday.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/babies-and-toddlers-sent-to-tender-age-shelters-under-trump-separations
 

Trump ends his policy of family separations with executive order 













Trump's Child Victims




Replying to

Immigrant children forcibly drugged at a detention center in Texas? Please keep up the pressure





NEW: is currently exploring places to build temporary facilities at an Air Force Base in , Arkansas and land formerly run by the USDA in Arizona.


29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.

Steve SchmidtVerified account

@SteveSchmidtSES

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.




“Border Patrol confiscates all personal items from everyone. They take hairbands, they take shoelaces, they take belts...money, they take wedding rings, they take all personal items. They took the shoelaces from the children.” - Photographer John Moore
Jun 19
 





Again, I am reminded of my mother’s definition of Christian as “fixing yourself and helping others, not the other way around.” 600 members of Jeff Sessions United Methodist Church just charged him with violating church rules - CNNPolitics

Connie Schultz‏Verified account @ConnieSchultz Jun 19



DJT admires Joseph Goebbels' Style












Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Wilbur Ross' Investments In Russia, China Raise Questions | Forbes


 


Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has kept investments in Chinese and
Russian companies that raise conflict of interest issues. Trump Reporter
Dan Alexander discusses new findings about Ross' interests. 






 



Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed




Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed 

http://read.bi/1JmUY7d 

via @businessinsider

Trying Trump Times






Trump is a prisoner of his own pathology and so are we. It would be in his interest to back down on separating parents and kids but he can’t admit to a mistake and he can’t tolerate being wrong. This is about mental illness not policy.
 
Every day Trump pushes the boundaries of basic human decency a little further, to test whether he can get away with it. When he does, he keeps pushing. Separating children from their parents and putting them in cages won't be the end of it. How long before he starts mass arrests?

To Republican legislators: If you oppose Kim Jung Un and Putin, you must now stand up to Trump. He deeply admires and envies these men and fully intends to emulate their behavior as soon as he's certain you won't oppose him. Time is running out. The whole world is watching.

WARNING: Trump is working every day to test democracy, overrun the rule of law, emulate role models Kim Jung Un and Putin. If he can get away with it, he will suspend a free press, accelerate his kleptocracy and begin eliminating opponents. He will stop at nothing. This is no joke.





Bill Kristol Retweeted Fox News

I'm pretty sure none of us horrified by the separation of children from parents at our border care more about foreigners than our fellow citizens. But if the idea we should strive to treat foreigners decently is to be an object of scorn, I'll wear that scorn as a badge of honor.




How Congress can begin to redeem itself: Pass clean legislation (some version of Cruz or Feinstein) that stops the separation of kids from parents and moves to reunite families. Do so this week. With veto-proof majorities. As for the Trump administration: It can’t redeem itself.














Robert Reich Retweeted Jon Levine

It seems that whenever pro-Trump pundits are now confronted with the harsh realities of the policies they promote, the only explanation they can find is to accuse of the other side of "acting."
Robert Reich added,
 







Saturday, June 16, 2018

Trump Times

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Roy Marcus Cohn was an American attorney. During Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare, 
Cohn served as McCarthy's chief counsel ... Wikipedia


The Beat with Ari Melber

Shocker: Trump lawyer hints at Michael Cohen mob ties

Trump’s lawyer before Michael Cohen, Jay Goldberg tells Ari Melber, Cohen is “more likely” to flip as a result of mounting legal fees and describes Michael Cohen as someone who “regaled” people with stories of his ties to the New York mob.

Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman tells Ari Melber “if anybody knows about the mob” it’s Jay Goldberg

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Stop holding on to what hurts and make room for what makes you feel good. - Unknown



 


Trump genuinely reveres and envies dictators. He believes if he had their absolute power, he wouldn't feel so empty and persecuted -- but he is wrong. Nothing will ever fill his infinite sense of emptiness.










“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. It becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie & the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels












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