Author: Jon Delaney

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Something Happened on the Way to Monetary Heaven
26. 3. 2021 No Responses

Something Happened on the Way to Monetary Heaven

Something Happened on the Way to Monetary Heaven: Janet Yellen’s Plunge Protection Team Has $142 Billion to Play With. Most Americans are unaware of the existence of the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF). Together with the Federal Reserve Bank of New...
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Event Horizon Telescope Reveals Spiraling Lines of Magnetism in Black Hole
25. 3. 2021 No Responses

Event Horizon Telescope Reveals Spiraling Lines of Magnetism in Black Hole

In 2019, the first ever direct image of a black hole was a hazy, orange revelation. Now, the same team of researchers has produced an update of that image that renders the swirling arcs of the supermassive black hole’s magnetic fields, reports...
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The 15th Century Medici Bank Is Getting A 21st Century Re-Launch
23. 3. 2021 No Responses

The 15th Century Medici Bank Is Getting A 21st Century Re-Launch

The 15th century Medici Bank is getting a 21st century re-launch and also will serve crypto sector. The Medici Bank name, most notably associated with the 15th century banking giant in Italy that, at the time, was the largest and...
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WeWork Losing $3.2 Billion Last Year, In Talks With SPAC
22. 3. 2021 No Responses

WeWork Losing $3.2 Billion Last Year, In Talks With SPAC

The fact that potential investors were even taking meetings with Tel Aviv playboy managed WeWork is a sign of just how few suitable takeover opportunities remain in a market that has been saturated by SPACs (following a decade-plus post-crisis bull...
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Household Portfolios Are Oversized, Unbalanced, & Vulnerable
18. 3. 2021 No Responses

Household Portfolios Are Oversized, Unbalanced, & Vulnerable

Once again, household portfolios are oversized and unbalanced, driven higher by a massive gain in a single asset (equities). Unbalanced portfolios have proven to be vulnerable to abrupt and sharp corrections. Will history repeat? The most significant vulnerabi...
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Morgan Stanley Becomes First Major US Bank To Offer Crypto Funds
16. 3. 2021 No Responses

Morgan Stanley Becomes First Major US Bank To Offer Crypto Funds

Morgan Stanley is about to become the first major US bank to offer its wealth-management client access to cryptocurrency funds. In a major coup for former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz, a veteran crypto bull who held on during the...
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GE Sells Aircraft-Leasing Unit to AerCap for $31 Billion
11. 3. 2021 No Responses

GE Sells Aircraft-Leasing Unit to AerCap for $31 Billion

General Electric (NYSE:GE) took the next step in its dramatic transformation under CEO Larry Culp. The industrial titan finalized a deal to sell its GECAS aircraft-leasing business to top rival AerCap (NYSE:AER) as Culp seeks to simplify GE and refocus on...
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Cathie Wood Warns Of Stock Market Correction
22. 2. 2021 No Responses

Cathie Wood Warns Of Stock Market Correction

ARK Invest’s CIO Cathie Wood joined CNBC’s Scott Wapner last week. She warned of the increasing risk of a stock market correction if rates continue to “sharply” rise. Wood went on to say: “Now one of the things that I found inte...
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We Officially Have Central Planning With No Plan
20. 2. 2021 No Responses

We Officially Have Central Planning With No Plan

Rabobank analyst: Yet this is CENTRAL PLANNING WITH NO PLAN. One does not have to be an advocate of MMT to see its promise to directly employ people to do something society wants is more logical than pouring trillions into markets –like candy...
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Professor Dr. Roland Wiesendanger, University of Hamburg: Laboratory Accident Most Likely Cause Of Coronavirus Pandemic
19. 2. 2021 No Responses

Professor Dr. Roland Wiesendanger, University of Hamburg: Laboratory Accident Most Likely Cause Of Coronavirus Pandemic

“A research group at the Wuhan City Virological Institute has been genetically manipulating coronaviruses for many years with the goal of making them more contagious, dangerous and deadly to humans…” Unlike previous coronavirus-related epidem...
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F-15EX Flies For First Time
9. 2. 2021 No Responses

F-15EX Flies For First Time

The F-15EX took off and landed from St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri on Tuesday, completing a 90-minute test flight before returning to the airport. Matt Giese, Boeing F-15EX’s chief test pilot, said the new fighter jet is packed...
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Commodities Are Soaring 25%
7. 2. 2021 No Responses

Commodities Are Soaring 25%

As BMO’s Doug Porter shows, the year-over-year rise in a basket of commodity prices (and they mostly all show a similar pattern) is now a bit above 25%. This is a problem because in the past 20 years, that’s been consistent with headline inflation....
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Robinhood shelves IPO plans after GameStop PR disaster
2. 2. 2021 No Responses

Robinhood shelves IPO plans after GameStop PR disaster

Planned Robinhood IPO is reportedly off the cards for now as Robinhood continues to deal with the fallout from the GameStop saga, and the resultant plunge in public confidence. Trading app Robinhood may have put its plans for an initial...
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Global notebook shipments surge to 60 million units in 4Q20
1. 2. 2021 No Responses

Global notebook shipments surge to 60 million units in 4Q20

Global notebook shipments, excluding detachable models, surged over 10% sequentially to hit a fresh high of 60 million units in fourth-quarter 2020, mainly driven by robust demand for remote work and study amid the worsening pandemic woes, year-end e-commerce ...
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Rolls-Royce warns on £2bn cash outflow
26. 1. 2021 No Responses

Rolls-Royce warns on £2bn cash outflow

Rolls-Royce has slashed its forecast of flying hours and expects to burn through £2bn in cash this year, as uncertainty about the new coronavirus variants and increased travel restrictions put the brakes on a recovery in air travel. The engine-maker...
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