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"IN THE KNOW, AHEAD OF MARKETS, DECIDING WISELY" T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.comBlogger436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-90870753058348970572023-01-22T00:32:00.005-05:002023-01-22T00:32:53.410-05:00#LIQUIDITY CRUNCH: #GENESIS COLLAPSE SPELLS END OF #CRYPTO LENDING<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">CRYPTO LIQUIDITY CRUNCH</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOEjej9xzbrwUrbniaZhkKO_ESmRQDH1r5D6lf1ZO2dI93lP1dnV7e5cz2eGGTK_1dA9vo1bqTXbI6vM64y4a-R-mX-55eFNIqWcMpilwmL8F5Grw1kPtZ2nmonarjOUAezONy8eowPIXvrBkGHUPJ7x8y80x8eVxMlhm5Dm6x-TdE-mLjsve-VhPVqQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOEjej9xzbrwUrbniaZhkKO_ESmRQDH1r5D6lf1ZO2dI93lP1dnV7e5cz2eGGTK_1dA9vo1bqTXbI6vM64y4a-R-mX-55eFNIqWcMpilwmL8F5Grw1kPtZ2nmonarjOUAezONy8eowPIXvrBkGHUPJ7x8y80x8eVxMlhm5Dm6x-TdE-mLjsve-VhPVqQ" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Crypto lending teeters on brink of extinction after Genesis collapse</b></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi51oYcZYv0YebAgxTP9ioyxuXjdrkj_ghxChoyn7zmWD_sdg6nlEFace9YuNuMYheHpiYQJ0ECzaSck8O8tbivwlaUygksW20FoFxKcKPIG3dUrkxsaM-KiupeFBIoe0usqei82PgykIlNTDgLm0SpxkLp-LpsBfnAt5nnvHTz8QoJOd6MqnCYeFwOIQ" style="font-family: Montserrat, Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="347" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi51oYcZYv0YebAgxTP9ioyxuXjdrkj_ghxChoyn7zmWD_sdg6nlEFace9YuNuMYheHpiYQJ0ECzaSck8O8tbivwlaUygksW20FoFxKcKPIG3dUrkxsaM-KiupeFBIoe0usqei82PgykIlNTDgLm0SpxkLp-LpsBfnAt5nnvHTz8QoJOd6MqnCYeFwOIQ=w621-h347" width="621" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Montserrat, Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><br /><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>The bankruptcy of crypto’s marquee lender, Genesis Global Capital, may be one more blow than the industry can withstand, at least in its current form.</b></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The list of bull-market stars laid low now includes nearly every major player to have captured the public’s attention by offering market-beating returns for the simple act of depositing tokens. Genesis joins BlockFi Inc., Celsius Network and Voyager Digital among firms whose collapse have left countless clients angry and unlikely to risk more </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">on their daredevil exploits.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>WORLD TOP ECONOMIST CONFIRMS CRYPTO SCAMS</b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="423" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vEYEc3uJjIA" width="509" youtube-src-id="vEYEc3uJjIA"></iframe></div><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Acting as de facto banks, these firms took in assets which they then lent out freely across the market, often to hedge funds who used the borrowed funds to leverage their bets on iffy tokens. Genesis dished out $130.6 billion of loans in 2021 alone, part of a complex web of interconnected risky trades and toxic loans that helped turbocharge the market, only to spark a cascade of collapses when crypto prices started plummeting last year.</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Everyday investors across the globe have also been left</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">nursing billions of dollars in cumulative losses, and now regulators are forcing lenders to either meet the more stringent standards required in traditional financial markets or face massive repercussions. </span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>Either way, the heyday is over.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i>END OF TIMES FOR CRYPTO BANKING </i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>COINS/TOKENS NOT FAR BEHIND</i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="456" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ADK-LcCBCag" width="549" youtube-src-id="ADK-LcCBCag"></iframe></div><br /><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Montserrat, Verdana; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/cryptocurrency/crypto-lending-teeters-on-brink-of-extinction-after-genesis-collapse/articleshow/97192011.cms">READ MORE</a></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"> </b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-65094022781113587582023-01-17T19:18:00.003-05:002023-01-17T19:18:57.278-05:00Will #Global #Stock Markets #Crash in 2023?<p> </p><h1 class="mvp-post-title left entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 3.5rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 240px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1200px;">Survey Results: </h1><h1 class="mvp-post-title left entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 3.5rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 240px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1200px;">Will Global Stock Markets</h1><h1 class="mvp-post-title left entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Playfair Display", sans-serif; font-size: 3.5rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 240px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1200px;">Crash in 2023?</h1><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/survey-will-global-stock-markets-crash-in-2023/">READ MORE</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>RAY DALIO SAYS YES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="418" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3O-lpLtOtg8" width="503" youtube-src-id="3O-lpLtOtg8"></iframe></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">For the upcoming year, <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/predictions-2023/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: none; color: #91bb46; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">expert predictions</a> have ranged from extreme optimism to not-so-subtle nervousness, especially when it comes to gauging the health of the global economy.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">This chart from <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gilbert Fontana</strong> skips past expert predictions, and looks directly at those of citizens in multiple countries around the world.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Using data from the <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/en/ipsos-global-predictions-2023" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: none; color: #91bb46; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ipsos Global Advisor Predictions</a> surveys from 2019‒2023, the chart plots the percentage of average citizens that think global stock markets will crash in the upcoming year.</p><h2 style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Encode Sans Semi Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; width: 820px;">Methodology</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">The annual reports used to generate the charts draw from a 36-country survey of more than 24,000 adults. Each country shown had at least 500 individuals sampled, with countries in the G7 and other <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-global-economy/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: none; color: #91bb46; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">major economies</a> including China, Brazil, and South Korea having approximately 1,000 individuals sampled.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Specifically, respondents were asked a question on whether “major stock markets around the world will crash” in the following year, and were asked to respond either “likely” or “unlikely”.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Responses were collected at the end of the previous year in question. For example, for 2023, survey data was collected in October and November 2022. Responses of uncertainty or non-answers weren’t included in the chart above.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">And across the board, each country’s data was also weighted to accurately reflect its demographic profile according to recent census data.</p><h2 style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Encode Sans Semi Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; width: 820px;">Stock Markets Crash Predictions By Country</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">When looking forward to 2023, most of the respondents from around the world felt that the likelihood of global stock markets crashing was <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more likely</strong></em> than unlikely.</p><div class="dataTables_wrapper" id="tablepress-2782_wrapper" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dataTables_filter" id="tablepress-2782_filter" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Search:<input aria-controls="tablepress-2782" class="" placeholder="" style="display: inline; margin: 2px 2px 2px 0.5em; width: auto;" type="search" /></label></div><table aria-describedby="tablepress-2782_info" class="tablepress tablepress-id-2782 dataTable" id="tablepress-2782" role="grid" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; cursor: pointer; float: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 140.422px;" tabindex="0">Likely (2023)</th><th aria-controls="tablepress-2782" aria-label="Unlikely (2023): activate to sort column ascending" class="column-3 sorting" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; cursor: pointer; float: none !important; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 166.828px;" tabindex="0">Unlikely (2023)</th></tr></thead><tbody class="row-hover" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr class="row-2 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇦🇷" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e6-1f1f7.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Argentina</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">48%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">28%</td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇦🇺" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e6-1f1fa.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Australia</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">57%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">25%</td></tr><tr class="row-4 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇧🇪" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e7-1f1ea.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Belgium</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">49%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">27%</td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇧🇷" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e7-1f1f7.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Brazil</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">44%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">40%</td></tr><tr class="row-6 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇨🇦" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e8-1f1e6.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Canada</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">45%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">32%</td></tr><tr class="row-7 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇨🇱" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e8-1f1f1.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Chile</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">59%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">29%</td></tr><tr class="row-8 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇨🇳" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e8-1f1f3.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> China</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">40%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">50%</td></tr><tr class="row-9 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇫🇷" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1eb-1f1f7.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> France</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">42%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">35%</td></tr><tr class="row-10 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇩🇪" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e9-1f1ea.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Germany</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">43%</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">30%</td></tr></tbody><tfoot style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr class="row-29 odd" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th class="column-1" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="🌎" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f30e.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Global Average</th><th class="column-2" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">50%</th><th class="column-3" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">31%</th></tr></tfoot></table><div aria-live="polite" class="dataTables_info" id="tablepress-2782_info" role="status" style="border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Showing 1 to 9 of 27 entries</div><div class="dataTables_paginate paging_simple" id="tablepress-2782_paginate" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-controls="tablepress-2782" class="paginate_button previous disabled" data-dt-idx="0" id="tablepress-2782_previous" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153) !important; 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This includes the entire G7, with 40–47% of each member’s citizens responding “likely” compared to 26–35% responding “unlikely.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">The most pessimistic responses came from <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Malaysia</strong>, <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Poland</strong>, and <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Africa</strong>, where more than 60% of respondents thought it was likely that <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp-500-market-crashes/" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: none; color: #91bb46; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">markets would crash</a> in 2023. Malaysian citizens led the way with <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">71%</strong> viewing a 2023 crash as likely.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">The only three countries where citizens believed a 2023 stock market crash was <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">less likely</em> were <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">China</strong>, <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel</strong>, and <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hungary</strong>. China had the highest “unlikely” response rate at 50%, while in Hungary, just 33% of respondents responded “likely” compared to 47% responding unlikely.</p><h2 style="backface-visibility: hidden; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Encode Sans Semi Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 1.8rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.4; margin: 10px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; width: 820px;">Changing Stock Market Sentiments</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">When comparing 2023 responses to those from 2019, we can see that the last five years have brought uncertainty and pessimism to most countries:</p><div class="dataTables_wrapper" id="tablepress-2783_wrapper" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dataTables_filter" id="tablepress-2783_filter" style="border: 0px; float: right; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><label style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Search:<input aria-controls="tablepress-2783" class="" placeholder="" style="display: inline; margin: 2px 2px 2px 0.5em; width: auto;" type="search" /></label></div><table aria-describedby="tablepress-2783_info" class="tablepress tablepress-id-2783 dataTable" id="tablepress-2783" role="grid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: none; clear: both; font-size: 0.9rem; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 820px;"><thead style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr class="row-1 odd" role="row" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th class="column-1 sorting_disabled" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 279.766px;">Change in Market Crash Predictions</th><th class="column-2 sorting_disabled" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 224.359px;">% Likely Change (2019-2023)</th><th class="column-3 sorting_disabled" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; width: 242.094px;">% Unlikely Change (2019-2023)</th></tr></thead><tbody class="row-hover" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr class="row-2 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇦🇷" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e6-1f1f7.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Argentina</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+20 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-18 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-3 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇦🇺" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e6-1f1fa.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Australia</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+15 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-15 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-4 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇧🇪" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e7-1f1ea.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Belgium</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+09 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-12 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-5 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇧🇷" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e7-1f1f7.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Brazil</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+11 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-11 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-6 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇨🇦" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e8-1f1e6.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Canada</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+12 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-13 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-7 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇨🇱" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e8-1f1f1.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Chile</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+32 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-23 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-8 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇨🇳" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e8-1f1f3.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> China</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+12 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-09 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-9 odd" style="background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇫🇷" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1eb-1f1f7.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> France</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+06 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(249, 249, 249); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-05 pp</td></tr><tr class="row-10 even" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="column-1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;"><img alt="🇩🇪" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f1e9-1f1ea.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Germany</td><td class="column-2" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">+10 pp</td><td class="column-3" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; vertical-align: top;">-07 pp</td></tr></tbody><tfoot style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr class="row-29 odd" style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><th class="column-1" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="🌎" class="emoji" draggable="false" role="img" src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f30e.svg" style="backface-visibility: hidden; background: none !important; border: none; box-shadow: none !important; display: inline !important; height: 1em !important; margin: 0px; max-width: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: -0.1em !important; width: 1em !important;" /> Global Average</th><th class="column-2" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">+13 pp</th><th class="column-3" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(230, 239, 219); border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 12.2969px; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle;">-13 pp</th></tr></tfoot></table><div aria-live="polite" class="dataTables_info" id="tablepress-2783_info" role="status" style="border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Showing 1 to 9 of 27 entries</div><div class="dataTables_paginate paging_simple" id="tablepress-2783_paginate" style="border: 0px; 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border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Responses of global stock markets likely crashing rose in 25 of the 27 countries, with 8 countries increasing by more than 20 percentage points (pp). Notably, neighbors <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chile</strong> and <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Peru</strong> had the highest increases at 32 pp and 30 pp respectively.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">But neighboring sentiments didn’t track worldwide. For example, while <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Korea</strong> had one of the biggest increases in “likely” responses towards stock markets crashing at 26 pp, <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Japan</strong> was the only country that responded in a <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lower</em> likelihood by 4 pp.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">While global sentiment is becoming increasingly pessimistic, we can also see that previous year’s predictions didn’t always pan out. So the question remains, what will 2023 really bring?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>LOOK OUT FOR THE BIG ONE</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="419" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1YsT-OQvbOM" width="505" youtube-src-id="1YsT-OQvbOM"></iframe></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: "Noto Serif", sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.55; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-44557561715467567642023-01-17T00:04:00.004-05:002023-01-17T00:04:35.303-05:00A #TALE OF TWO CITIES - #ECONOMICS AND #SCIENCE COLLIDE<p> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SURREAL ECONOMICS OR CONCRETE SCIENCE?</span></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkCErhbfxMsMmuOK8QqtKHmDFYcRiNswU9u-5BmsPtkzm108_OXMExSVH7xmXdZLDeliPBIx2c-4tnHjnXFdiqSQ7UF_BPhuOCrYpwWFoBnv28ZMvqrAejvOqOBcaA6-3tU1HTb-GX9wFB8kT6vfnIOZLMEgWxs5NhEdTfSjFNQagiUalZkwJZki0gqg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkCErhbfxMsMmuOK8QqtKHmDFYcRiNswU9u-5BmsPtkzm108_OXMExSVH7xmXdZLDeliPBIx2c-4tnHjnXFdiqSQ7UF_BPhuOCrYpwWFoBnv28ZMvqrAejvOqOBcaA6-3tU1HTb-GX9wFB8kT6vfnIOZLMEgWxs5NhEdTfSjFNQagiUalZkwJZki0gqg=w505-h362" width="505" /></a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://woodgreentenantsassociation.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-tale-of-two-cities-economics-and.html">Original Post</a><br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">It </span></i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;">was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"><b>Charles Dickens</b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><i><b>A Tale of Two Cities</b></i></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">It is fascinating to note that the profound symbolism contained in what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written can be metaphorically applied to the human condition today. The great question facing humanity centers on how to measure its state, progress, and the remaining possible extent of human activities. Are we wisely using the planet's resources and how long can these resources last and thereby human activities be sustained? To answer these questions we need metrics and numbers to know how we're doing and to see where we're going; for how long.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>CITY ONE - SURREAL ECONOMICS</b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Over time the two cities have evolved to provide the metrics to answer these questions. The first city we refer to as the <b>Theories of Surreal Economics</b>. Its primary metric is global GDP and as we can see from the chart below human progress and achievements have been utterly astounding over the past 300 years, and by the way, so has population growth.<b> What could be better?</b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLQxFr8SxsdfihEqZSYrCsZKp6RnJdkwCTFCrhsxinOJu_qrXLvQm1HIqsLFY0s-Q6FcvjJBH7JD3iFs6bxqSAiud-5XX7ecAtacoRS6NwtW6Ebq-YW5uIIIQBy2tf5LHze8GkgPgPcfyqfh12dnhgjQh2yiA7eZrQAob2I8cHHA31XFzgVXI2slke6g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="3400" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLQxFr8SxsdfihEqZSYrCsZKp6RnJdkwCTFCrhsxinOJu_qrXLvQm1HIqsLFY0s-Q6FcvjJBH7JD3iFs6bxqSAiud-5XX7ecAtacoRS6NwtW6Ebq-YW5uIIIQBy2tf5LHze8GkgPgPcfyqfh12dnhgjQh2yiA7eZrQAob2I8cHHA31XFzgVXI2slke6g=w499-h352" width="499" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">GLOBAL POPULATION GROWTH</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTwwdr1Bjynf8WVfoAGAH-E0snHj1PyfEiryl68QdIy20FyJbdLOHzq_81ua5G6BE9PfSMw1YlYtIzaX8MPEeSx1uKKl5riYyp6WvZ45XPjkU6URARDWOTydrTDz_qbYeR0wS1mxD3ATmYl0h0Q6pQPLgchbid1TGfpU4twlPNZUgxZ5n33I_D7sxO0A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="229" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTwwdr1Bjynf8WVfoAGAH-E0snHj1PyfEiryl68QdIy20FyJbdLOHzq_81ua5G6BE9PfSMw1YlYtIzaX8MPEeSx1uKKl5riYyp6WvZ45XPjkU6URARDWOTydrTDz_qbYeR0wS1mxD3ATmYl0h0Q6pQPLgchbid1TGfpU4twlPNZUgxZ5n33I_D7sxO0A=w473-h454" width="473" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>CITY TWO - CONCRETE SCIENCE</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Well, the second city we refer to as the <b>Truths of Concrete Science </b>as they<b> u</b>se a different set of metrics that present an opposing view of the human condition and the physical state of the planet's resources and what is required to sustain human activities. The key metrics thus work to measure the overall physical climate, resources, and ecology. In other words, the real wealth of the planet and, not the abstract surreal version used by the first city.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Here are some charts that show how we're doing using these concrete metrics.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">First, here is a recent report from our contact and friend <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen&source=gmail&ust=1673938294620000&usg=AOvVaw38m2X_0s4Y6rCvj45xtQrv" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Dr. James Hansen,</a> a world-renowned climate scientist who was the first to testify before the US congress in 1988 and warn the lawmakers about the impending warming of the planet. The chart presented in <b>Table 1</b> below is deeply disturbing - as it forms a graphical hockey stick similar to the GDP and Population charts above. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">This means that there is a high correlation and good chance of causality between GDP/Population growth and global warming. Extending these variables forwards means that we are heading to ever higher temperatures unless immediate actions are taken to either mitigate or somehow reverse this terrible trend. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">But climate is not the only concern of the second city. The next is resource consumption and how long before these critical resources are practically exhausted for global economic purposes. Some researchers have <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.ca/Blip-Humanitys-self-terminating-experiment-industrialism/dp/1644380684&source=gmail&ust=1673938294620000&usg=AOvVaw3YUBgsijCI6OfZCIegAHo_" href="https://www.amazon.ca/Blip-Humanitys-self-terminating-experiment-industrialism/dp/1644380684" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">targeted the exhaustion date at 2050 </a>based on the current known planetary supplies. We can see from the hockey stick chart below - that just our consumption of critical energy sources over the past 200-plus years also strongly correlates with charts for GDP/Population growth.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBV60L_RpnBaPJABFU3yNHyEB9TVorcfKjrw9GwANDf0s_QNebdngyPzoyAHBadHpiXaaFeUkv-otAVZwYdtpq1-VVk4ijRKufTp-xMV7YEmiNAooVNFii2sy6fau8s6QgKDDaoB6qcQEZdM_Xd8KuH6oi1D4nf6gqGy7vxfFpLGw7Llgt1WFYGimCUQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="567" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBV60L_RpnBaPJABFU3yNHyEB9TVorcfKjrw9GwANDf0s_QNebdngyPzoyAHBadHpiXaaFeUkv-otAVZwYdtpq1-VVk4ijRKufTp-xMV7YEmiNAooVNFii2sy6fau8s6QgKDDaoB6qcQEZdM_Xd8KuH6oi1D4nf6gqGy7vxfFpLGw7Llgt1WFYGimCUQ=w646-h345" width="646" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">These exponential growths in human activity, population, and global warming also adversely affect the other plants and creatures living on the planet which all work together to form the ecology and thereby provide a survivable habitat for humanity. There is also always the possibility that should any small critical link in the ecology be broken, then the whole system could crash into an abyss where unknown, unknowns would prevail. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;">The hockey stick chart below again shows a correlation that infers increased human activity, GDP, and population growth results in species' extinctions increasing in tandem. <b>We know that they can survive without us - but, can we survive without them?</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiuEevuiTiGwAGgIstUuUqOXGn_rB_yI2A76g8iAUoK59L16ViVpmF_95f-PIFsC4KIFP3THIABVuuJ7rg1P96a_T8TD9141qZ76xl2VKBf9iQyzBqkNA6rzCxuFvm7Yy-wRK63absHNyad8bzyDLwVm6R-8AXjB5BVF0in7Mbr8no662fO8ySnR0C0Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="695" height="527" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiuEevuiTiGwAGgIstUuUqOXGn_rB_yI2A76g8iAUoK59L16ViVpmF_95f-PIFsC4KIFP3THIABVuuJ7rg1P96a_T8TD9141qZ76xl2VKBf9iQyzBqkNA6rzCxuFvm7Yy-wRK63absHNyad8bzyDLwVm6R-8AXjB5BVF0in7Mbr8no662fO8ySnR0C0Q=w568-h527" width="568" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>CONCLUSION:</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b>So there you have it - two </b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">different </b><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">cities with the two views and realities that they assert. One says don't worry everything is fine - be happy. The other says we are rapidly heading into the abyss where we face the unknown, unknowns of dire consequences. It is truly amazing that what Charles Dickens historically wrote in 1859, can also apply symbolically to our world today - </b><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">however, </b><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">the biggest difference today is - we are simply running out of time to get it right. </b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>And so it is:</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"><b>'we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.' </b></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"><b>- Charles Dickens</b></span></span></div><b><br /></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Global Temperature in 2022</span></strong></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Temperature2022.12January2023.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1673938294620000&usg=AOvVaw0ViaimD8SiosUjHeWerWyv" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Temperature2022.12January2023.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">FULL ONLINE REPORT</a></span><br /></b></span><br /><span style="color: dimgrey;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">12 January 2023<br />James Hansen, Makiko Sato, and Reto Ruedy</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Global surface temperature in 2022 was +1.16°C (2.1°F) in the GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) analysis[1],[2],[3] relative to 1880-1920, tied for 5<sup>th</sup> warmest year in the instrumental record. The current La Nina cool phase of the El Nino/La Nina cycle – which dominates year-to-year global temperature fluctuation – had maximum annual cooling effect in 2022 (Fig. 1). Nevertheless, 2022 was ~0.04°C warmer than 2021, likely because of the unprecedented planetary energy imbalance (more energy coming in than going out). The already long La Nina is unlikely to continue, tropical neutral conditions are expected by Northern Hemisphere spring, with continued warming as the year progresses. Thus, 2023 should be notably warmer than 2022 and global temperature in 2024 is likely to reach +1.4-1.5°C, as our first Faustian payment of approximately +0.15°C is due.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><img align="center" alt="" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhac3G2ahQfLA9luKp-SzXTnRy2z5AUirbyuxcdiwR2kOu4Qf7DchswA5LhTmm20ZPil4I8VmFcPLH8UcFwWIEVXJphdKE-aZeklhyphenhyphenCUgU5BfBi9m4_XKvtU5RDcO7VdU3fwcLAdOcZAyb4nO3viWC03xUdC5JpyfUTWpftD6Ay9-Hfft9eNJyI5YXVWyKMTBdgSk_xcuuSScuCL1_odnxH4byU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 798px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="327.12" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="color: #202020; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><strong>Table 1. Rank of 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, based on GISS temperature analysis.</strong><br /> </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjt6qQYefM1PVl59X4x6TVP6_BIgcukVnwdH5J7BWjwPiapEKyfpoTQ7zOSOW5_NcHDpmggVBRIRVnQhC4ECodGtPeBllGSTzg47qAlQ8F2gXLV5-22oWUiW9VaLGLY1E0OV4sK_smFJiokz1lsuV_ENt9xwcWFZuabiOwjEPPswfFtdBAcAMC2VRWlEOx9nZzRW2eprjit-3Fe7HsI1EnY0Wf8=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 648px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" width="479.4" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Temperature2022.12January2023.pdf">READ MORE</a></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-17300011138565081232023-01-02T07:15:00.001-05:002023-01-02T07:15:08.561-05:00THE #FUTURE #OUTLOOKS - KEY AREAS OF #CONCERN AND #RISK<p> </p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><h1 style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></h1><h1 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: xx-large; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span>Economic and Markets 2023 Outlook</span><br /></h1><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>WARNING </b></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: start;"><div style="color: #404040; font-size: 17.82px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">What Worked for the Past Decades Will Not For The Next</span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="445" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fd8ea_MHFLM" width="535" youtube-src-id="Fd8ea_MHFLM"></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">WHAT'S COMING - GLOBAL RECESSION? DEPRESSION? COLLAPSE? </span></span></div><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/average-stock-market-return&source=gmail&ust=1672676873620000&usg=AOvVaw2Xw7ZmyZb0OSWNjWjzPAcE" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/average-stock-market-return" style="color: #d90062; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>The era of easy money is over.</b></a></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJWkC-o3eelborprjkBBH3bPmpGq8Qq5Arm7wQ1SE-uBMxGRtEcXjXBcUIXTqcpNxaCiRrhsY4oibZW7de7cYxvoM72DSMZ-9a4OWsoXl4rqoFyOpRO0n5kg6rWmB_Koygpm0FKCF1eQKOfUB4HMcRb6TuYgrPLrn8ukC9YjnFV3ny8EaQXpe7WFJ7Qg&source=gmail&ust=1672676873620000&usg=AOvVaw0154iPlAAED6XNq6-FsRLR" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJWkC-o3eelborprjkBBH3bPmpGq8Qq5Arm7wQ1SE-uBMxGRtEcXjXBcUIXTqcpNxaCiRrhsY4oibZW7de7cYxvoM72DSMZ-9a4OWsoXl4rqoFyOpRO0n5kg6rWmB_Koygpm0FKCF1eQKOfUB4HMcRb6TuYgrPLrn8ukC9YjnFV3ny8EaQXpe7WFJ7Qg" style="color: #d90062; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgARPjyAqQzOFB5OrjX58IdUEQQHGuvkNJ5trxW6mslRCCk58_XXD3P0Z1aFbwAeH1EdOq2oHD19t-v8fptNQcoMwLBSoXM3jdpwDWuvehLf2fjN-JtaTdV4FM8tmlHsVOJNoB4IhcAduUoK_4yN7NzH_cTlQWLA3D_iV1SNjpei-uV5wfW81qn0rvKRQTaSpNY31ky6yn1_OQCEETCjGnwMMgqu7aKnvlqs19SJoGcUTpsBXL7NmhzxE08xDGmAiHGOPPMZtlz_2hoaGGAFVYtnoXO3tBVKNvd_d-bj4GtfGbhum3ucHHXR2-G1LLZ7oFqknWf5UoDuWBCH-uUwOu0jActa_Xr2oh7jwXLW6jns35sCbnwlSP2zB9MNzaiY3UFYXA4AGYknOh7nGEr5DeBxyfclcloSG7H2g=s0-d-e1-ft" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(243, 243, 243); padding: 5px;" width="476" /></a></h3></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;"><div style="display: flex;"><div dir="auto" style="width: 728px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700;"></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 immediately reversed a decades-long push </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/why-nato-has-become-flash-point-russia-ukraine&source=gmail&ust=1672676873620000&usg=AOvVaw3F8AqGhy7IymhYP70ywZe0" href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/why-nato-has-become-flash-point-russia-ukraine" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">for globalization as NATO pushed its pledged boundaries.</a><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Rampant <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thebalancemoney.com/causes-of-inflation-3-real-reasons-for-rising-prices-3306094&source=gmail&ust=1672676873620000&usg=AOvVaw3LNPSrKWCvGr8ultETHTG4" href="https://www.thebalancemoney.com/causes-of-inflation-3-real-reasons-for-rising-prices-3306094" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">inflation proved more structural </a>than transitory as record stimulus led to inflation. This is now causing global central banks to pursue aggressive interest rate increases to tighten monetary policy as they attempt to reign in runaway prices. Good luck.</span></span></p><p style="color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div style="clear: both; color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKIeS8fUhwQemTnVEczeH1zla-2Ljgt8x1LtsUrbF8fRlA2UlNEOamtl02QixiGtps87O1jCVYu2rUu_f5E3jAlWcaZJZRxhhT3YGaIO0zhDl0UwyQVAAlPWDpdpNzA_lp2SfXqH8_wKEt6jBF3mqaZODB8j4rcZpa1wJzBbAidKTUZCozGCzkPi8hDQ&source=gmail&ust=1672676873620000&usg=AOvVaw3ja2NMH7TL1_j2ZuwCPeA_" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKIeS8fUhwQemTnVEczeH1zla-2Ljgt8x1LtsUrbF8fRlA2UlNEOamtl02QixiGtps87O1jCVYu2rUu_f5E3jAlWcaZJZRxhhT3YGaIO0zhDl0UwyQVAAlPWDpdpNzA_lp2SfXqH8_wKEt6jBF3mqaZODB8j4rcZpa1wJzBbAidKTUZCozGCzkPi8hDQ" style="color: #d90062; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; 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font-size: large;">You can’t sell a</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.salon.com/2022/02/16/nfts-arent-art--theyre-just-the-of-cryptos-latest-scam/&source=gmail&ust=1672676873621000&usg=AOvVaw2_rCf_v61rGBnYF5jcLFvZ" href="https://www.salon.com/2022/02/16/nfts-arent-art--theyre-just-the-of-cryptos-latest-scam/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> NFT picture of an ape or a rock</a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">for $1M anymore.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20221121-scam-of-the-century-cryptocurrency-and-the-collapse-of-ftx&source=gmail&ust=1672676873621000&usg=AOvVaw2SplgGwy7Uvff1V2O9Jvnd" href="https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20221121-scam-of-the-century-cryptocurrency-and-the-collapse-of-ftx" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Crypto seemed to learn nothing</a> from the Lehman collapse, while Sam Bankerman-Fried (FTX) seems to have learned everything from the late Bernie Madoff.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div style="clear: both; color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj85TjgXx3O0rFTy_X98_FuTsTEVlh22iTbtzadhBZj4fGRRTq_aqDx9Xqvx2Yi_njyf6yDKfFqHeEORGTUa-W2rTbudAd69k2bjinH86p0-baP1ygIaRKGYZnGabaFvu6RnByDgonpwm8jJ-q1NzzpR7RSnqZhAIZ9YfsU4PIVVCL5MyzN4mdsNm2yLw&source=gmail&ust=1672676873621000&usg=AOvVaw1WSOlvEeJ9yQIV4AQMaq5m" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj85TjgXx3O0rFTy_X98_FuTsTEVlh22iTbtzadhBZj4fGRRTq_aqDx9Xqvx2Yi_njyf6yDKfFqHeEORGTUa-W2rTbudAd69k2bjinH86p0-baP1ygIaRKGYZnGabaFvu6RnByDgonpwm8jJ-q1NzzpR7RSnqZhAIZ9YfsU4PIVVCL5MyzN4mdsNm2yLw" style="color: #d90062; 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margin-left: 15px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></i></span></p></li><li style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; margin-left: 15px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Defensive vs. Cyclical Growth Asset Classes</b></span></i></span></p></li><li style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; margin-left: 15px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Energy, Materials, Minerals, Arable Land and </b></span></i></span></p></li><li style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; margin-left: 15px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Other Key Resource Declines</b></span></i></span></p></li><li style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; margin-left: 15px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Beware of Crypto Currency and Blockchain Scams or the “Next New AI Thing”</b></span></i></span></p></li><li style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; margin-left: 15px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Collapsing National Economies and Currencies Events </b></span></i></span></p></li><li style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; margin-left: 15px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></i></span></p></li></ul><div style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Nature Bats Last - Climate, 2050 Limits to Growth, Extreme Overpopulation Exponentials - Foreshadow End Times?</span></i></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="font-size: 19.8px; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The New Arena</span></span></h3><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">For sure, it’s now all about rates and what their knock-on effects are. In 2022, the impact that rates had was most heavily felt in financial markets.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">For equities (e.g. NASDAQ, et al) - it was the effect of a total multiple collapse amongst the growth names that saw the unprofitable tech basket wipe 60-90% off their values. Taking a basket of high-growth software companies, they started the year off trading at an average of 35x EV/Revenue and now trade at 7x. <i>That is a massive collapse of confidence in growth.</i></span></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">In the fixed-income market - over the last decade, we were in an environment of “There is No Alternative” and now we are in a market where “There are Many Alternatives”. As rates increased, bond prices got crushed to the point where they put up the second worst year <em>ever</em> on record, (<i>you have to go back to the Great Depression to get #1)</i></span></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></span></p><div style="clear: both; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVN77TxxCZ8UQv_oxI5dU5l3RUtWnydRz-mhfqI45XV2CEMA7846SaeAMN2NCsGn6wxjI0zH-iDEZPpI1mEhnDXBt_x84MOOt8d9EfX0FIYZQbP3Z_Jtq4sS6vAYFS54myiffQtlheE3ElOCf3SeMWZLCQ9QJgaKyzwyVKg1PrFSE-bVs-GUaqbxJL9g&source=gmail&ust=1672676873621000&usg=AOvVaw1HJqmn_dsYWPaJXhDubzoH" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVN77TxxCZ8UQv_oxI5dU5l3RUtWnydRz-mhfqI45XV2CEMA7846SaeAMN2NCsGn6wxjI0zH-iDEZPpI1mEhnDXBt_x84MOOt8d9EfX0FIYZQbP3Z_Jtq4sS6vAYFS54myiffQtlheE3ElOCf3SeMWZLCQ9QJgaKyzwyVKg1PrFSE-bVs-GUaqbxJL9g" style="color: #1155cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjdviSdtkLiXmXG3T33IKLS0k3_VPdPhucRAP6y4kIQmMc_vwfMuUBATgqOr2k_Mnsu6d0saKoQbxlSk07ZwG_CGsDA2zj14jCBnsUWabyIzSjGCC2EypAFXdwca4yFjHg_EOvkrQrOnr3lorGJMBoYeF-gJanv62JVB89btcGSicT2QueP4BqScEHrqfGVmkRO6bxmjAv-orpLulnWcfmNbfgK-bykMng5hzvbDq6ox8wlKk-E6wE7Zxk5EuGjiJXZUVea5qvvU8O-r9wX3X2cz9wYZAlPLL4QDuEAy9T-djGdTrUYuR78PEA5RzGNJYSqaGYgz-KTHmNBrfO0gLseFEiRIQBJ7a7jFu4CP378Q3hyKThnflnEO5AZmdw7y-9Lzc9iH_fm6H9-2ftJa2O74KIKqrIBBe_p6Q=s0-d-e1-ft" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(243, 243, 243); padding: 5px;" width="499" /></span></a></span></div><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">However, you can now find yield everywhere across credit and bond markets instead of having to fish into the nefarious barrel of the red-hot alternatives of scam and criminal markets. As more capital crowds around fixed income markets, lighter volume in equities and crypto hoaxes will cause higher volatility making for a bumpy ride this year.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Of course, rates do not exist in a vacuum and are a global central bank tool used to navigate exogenous factors, but it helps us frame how the reactive policies dictate our investment profiles and keeping in mind that above all else: </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Nature Bats Last and thus humanity cannot defeat the physical outcomes of Exponential </b></span><span style="color: black; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Mathematics.</b></span></span></i></p><p style="color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></p><div style="clear: both; color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKdHWsZ0VdA3y4r-Ym0Pzq8mb8GKV6u5yVi6hO3rj7YOzVzAb7DksMvZoVOLGPTCjcQ5Wsd2VTa8XLwyVQ4Y6Yn4TTWtmvW9DJkql1NZP9JDGg5UX23GhRafxU2imhOGf1E-drt5U15p8MEL3rc5PnTgXfw-W2cEntuosk73luuG0dUdAn2v1fk9EoYg&source=gmail&ust=1672676873621000&usg=AOvVaw32q8Y2Oia4aUOonrDJyMVl" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKdHWsZ0VdA3y4r-Ym0Pzq8mb8GKV6u5yVi6hO3rj7YOzVzAb7DksMvZoVOLGPTCjcQ5Wsd2VTa8XLwyVQ4Y6Yn4TTWtmvW9DJkql1NZP9JDGg5UX23GhRafxU2imhOGf1E-drt5U15p8MEL3rc5PnTgXfw-W2cEntuosk73luuG0dUdAn2v1fk9EoYg" style="color: #d90062; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEglUmXWm9kGz3Fjq4APgLgZnwbavdtGNGy_Yq2u_nRgOsvOZ7PZNK3UDwFvXErckrcP0ltrvB4xGZI4rU0bDrv0BC30R3dl0FKB-271A9owDmuC7782oEqwSlrorl4uiYCqxj3AoQm-2n6JqB55ZSJMKnHE-7Hz4zKexfXUTh5EbNcRxItLN0pk6RO-Nt07SLhncp14mYcRjjLgyz627eEvGrKx8ynsdaI1y-S1GdotNRftYddokWQjvmirLBZboz9d3LzBa5hsXE_t2Vvmlwm_D0L0c2vuONp8vtGTnly4XihUJ00JRbb0LgbCRkEaBctT2yqlvGIjOuc9CoS7JJMC99t8KNfOCcjQ3efVpJOfKO3eZVmf3LZMozkfmhmmVXAgqn1YwYzyfS0h4ncBndzVlCBK3mmDqBmPoA=s0-d-e1-ft" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(243, 243, 243); padding: 5px;" width="486" /></a></b></span></div><h3 style="font-size: 19.8px; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Cash Flow Matters</span></span></h3><p style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">A lot of ETF and factor people will proclaim that this was the year of value investing and that value investing is back. What they’re really trying to say is that operating margins and cash flow matter, and we couldn’t agree more.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19.8px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: small; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">Or else...</span></p><p style="font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; 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--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: var(--line-height-36); margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></h1><h1 class="post-title unpublished" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: var(--line-height-36); margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></h1><h1 class="post-title unpublished" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: var(--line-height-36); margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">2023 BRINGS MOTHER OF ALL COLLAPSES</span></h1><div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="393" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6hqOyAfFMlg" width="473" youtube-src-id="6hqOyAfFMlg"></iframe></div><br /></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-79554677886371592032022-04-03T03:30:00.001-04:002022-04-03T03:30:00.197-04:00ARE YOU READY FOR #LONGTERM #INVERTED #YIELD CURVE?<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/3819927-is-yield-curve-inversion-here-to-stay-and-what-does-it-mean" target="_blank">SEEKING ALPHA</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h1 class="pzA boGI cdQ cd9 cdD cdCB cdDW cdEE" data-test-id="post-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.25rem; line-height: 2.6875rem; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Is an inverted yield curve here to stay and what does that mean?</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9d8C2bolVe9yfGIrc9G6w-fE8_iSG6MaRAsMnu-aFn2JTZOYYtIwTMSGRyxmtnFUdODx5SPW8RCLmxdifdJ5ZOJyDxI-uB-E3e6qbQwF0wai6Jc5p6MGvPqA_XWQQiu0e4nzroS7fgmH-LcBITZcVCx2OYbGIU1DbFreVOilww3vcnXM3CuG6BA05Q/s1500/AAAA.US.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9d8C2bolVe9yfGIrc9G6w-fE8_iSG6MaRAsMnu-aFn2JTZOYYtIwTMSGRyxmtnFUdODx5SPW8RCLmxdifdJ5ZOJyDxI-uB-E3e6qbQwF0wai6Jc5p6MGvPqA_XWQQiu0e4nzroS7fgmH-LcBITZcVCx2OYbGIU1DbFreVOilww3vcnXM3CuG6BA05Q/w636-h423/AAAA.US.webp" width="636" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The yield curve between the 2-year and 10-year Treasury notes has inverted again to start<span class="paywall-full-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Friday’s session, a closely watched indicator that has historically been associated with eventual recessions.</span></span></p><p class="paywall-full-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">While the curve has now flirted back and forth with inversion over the last several days, investors are looking to see what the dynamic signals and whether the condition is likely to persist over a meaningful period of time.</span></p><p class="paywall-full-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">At the moment, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is up five basis points to 2.39%, whereas the U.S. 2-year Treasury yield is up twelve basis points to 2.45%.</span></p><p class="paywall-full-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Inversion describes a situation where the longer-duration bond has a lower yield than the shorter-duration one. This represents the opposite condition than usual, as investors typically ask for additional return when locking up their cash for a longer period of time. Thus, under normal conditions, long-duration bonds generally have higher rates than those with shorter durations.</span></p><p class="paywall-full-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The concern surrounding inversion centers around the idea of a potential future recession.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/3819927-is-yield-curve-inversion-here-to-stay-and-what-does-it-mean" target="_blank"><b>READ MORE</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">THE SIGN THAT PREDICTS RECESSIONS</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DCQwiF0J7hw" width="541" youtube-src-id="DCQwiF0J7hw"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-6762337484515797752022-04-02T10:30:00.001-04:002022-04-02T10:30:00.204-04:00#Inspirational #Wisdom Quotes - April 2, 2022 <p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7q7Rj4o7-YOGKTYSKk6hrWve7C4gQkihxOs4_AmcXQb5YuGVaV_VL1tgR5ZWeb3ag7Yw8aAOxk34wcBUGqzklqNqCqvc4vR-p7VdpdSsIVd7HxD8-rno7jaMxoyIjMz9cs9TC2IfKDrho1_5BjFgl_SzfpvFOuKCOqPxTEUrXFFRuERnwSYMoRZGbfQ/s680/AAAAA.MAGIC3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="697" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7q7Rj4o7-YOGKTYSKk6hrWve7C4gQkihxOs4_AmcXQb5YuGVaV_VL1tgR5ZWeb3ag7Yw8aAOxk34wcBUGqzklqNqCqvc4vR-p7VdpdSsIVd7HxD8-rno7jaMxoyIjMz9cs9TC2IfKDrho1_5BjFgl_SzfpvFOuKCOqPxTEUrXFFRuERnwSYMoRZGbfQ/w481-h697/AAAAA.MAGIC3.jpg" width="481" /></a></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">“False face must hide what the false heart</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(225, 225, 225); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> doth know.”</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>William Shakespeare</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> April 2</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, 2022</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIfDOMqGqd8OThUi74aW2609QjqWoRhjc7mVowDQkzE4i_wmULOKRLwH--PQcmoIycvV78FQgX43a6J3MVcN6o6dqvWI0O9jHf8zk_vDMkgveTH-8gt7BsiXGFUOUv-cTTaayuSlLrTJmutOL6prOUtItUqSyEU6m4Z33VkEs43x3RWOUrkcfTPSviwA/s1200/aaaaa.shakes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1200" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIfDOMqGqd8OThUi74aW2609QjqWoRhjc7mVowDQkzE4i_wmULOKRLwH--PQcmoIycvV78FQgX43a6J3MVcN6o6dqvWI0O9jHf8zk_vDMkgveTH-8gt7BsiXGFUOUv-cTTaayuSlLrTJmutOL6prOUtItUqSyEU6m4Z33VkEs43x3RWOUrkcfTPSviwA/w616-h329/aaaaa.shakes.jpg" width="616" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><p class="b-qt qt_399638" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">READ MORE</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b> </b><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></p><div><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><br /></b></b></div></span></div></b></span></div></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-29451689281303460442022-04-02T07:00:00.000-04:002022-04-02T18:52:42.921-04:00ARE WE ALSO RUNNING OUT OF #JET #FUEL?<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #202020; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insights/latest-news/agriculture/040122-feature-us-airlines-cast-a-wider-net-in-search-for-sustainable-aviation-fuel-supply?mc_cid=93b60b3a54&mc_eid=820baf6f4d" target="_blank">S&P GLOBAL</a></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #202020; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">COMMODITY INSIGHTS</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #202020; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #202020; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">US airlines cast a wider net in search for sustainable aviation fuel supply</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #202020; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #202020; text-align: left;"></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #202020; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPVTo23IWCDHarL09OMTkxlE1lgDVcW4ks1BHkMkB9KpEDoZVlJvV_gLATOOnMTpmWe3TiSzyG0t9CZedNyzKjaAkaXftxz3Pr-y7FdM8lMKJ1iPFFokL7sz6lxm9sMpgLOpDCLq9qfEr4uPugMmgvgShVtWJRdLjCTJVeuH23Lsr1CBjsRUUVKLRWw/s1094/AAAAAA.FLY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="806" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPVTo23IWCDHarL09OMTkxlE1lgDVcW4ks1BHkMkB9KpEDoZVlJvV_gLATOOnMTpmWe3TiSzyG0t9CZedNyzKjaAkaXftxz3Pr-y7FdM8lMKJ1iPFFokL7sz6lxm9sMpgLOpDCLq9qfEr4uPugMmgvgShVtWJRdLjCTJVeuH23Lsr1CBjsRUUVKLRWw/w440-h596/AAAAAA.FLY.jpg" width="440" /></a></strong></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Highlights Global supplies of oils tighten, exacerbated by lower Ukraine output SAF producers use alternate methods to meet growing demand As US airlines seek to lock in sustainable aviation fuel supply to reach their 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, many are looking beyond suppliers who produce SAF using traditional feedstocks like hydrogenated vegetable oils and tallow. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now With more renewable diesel and SAF projects starting up, renewable feedstock supplies are tightening, increasing costs. </span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The price of key soybean oil feedstock averaged 75.86 cents/lb in March, compared with the year-to-date average of 68.22 cents/lb, according to Platts assessments from S&P Global Commodity Insights.</span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insights/latest-news/agriculture/040122-feature-us-airlines-cast-a-wider-net-in-search-for-sustainable-aviation-fuel-supply?mc_cid=93b60b3a54&mc_eid=820baf6f4d" target="_blank"><b>READ MORE</b></a></span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE HAVE NO JET FUEL?</b></span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>START WALKING...</b></span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C_BK7PRugK4" width="320" youtube-src-id="C_BK7PRugK4"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A RECENT EXAMPLE </b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ln1Xd7x9k3M" width="320" youtube-src-id="ln1Xd7x9k3M"></iframe></div><br /><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insights/latest-news/agriculture/040122-feature-us-airlines-cast-a-wider-net-in-search-for-sustainable-aviation-fuel-supply?mc_cid=93b60b3a54&mc_eid=820baf6f4d" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></p><p id="m_-1200334895942952530mct_ai_excerpt" style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-16915948616982840542022-03-31T10:30:00.003-04:002022-04-02T00:56:06.016-04:00#Inspirational #Wisdom Quotes - March 31, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLn-SCJq68nuOJ4a7OGAqXItcstJzV9HtS3jxY5MQtZf6r7RnaeqM9rHwHusPXE2vb5TKJwiLokWJPzs8omyr7EtzpuiCNt_4tfFnOMUmzGrxDlrLIp8Zag6zFVokeBxRM4Bie30HEM3OGHOCFYztgUetljyjqpW451J8SvMTy-76WVdE9Km4U4B6_Q/s680/AAAA.MAGIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="564" height="692" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTLn-SCJq68nuOJ4a7OGAqXItcstJzV9HtS3jxY5MQtZf6r7RnaeqM9rHwHusPXE2vb5TKJwiLokWJPzs8omyr7EtzpuiCNt_4tfFnOMUmzGrxDlrLIp8Zag6zFVokeBxRM4Bie30HEM3OGHOCFYztgUetljyjqpW451J8SvMTy-76WVdE9Km4U4B6_Q/w573-h692/AAAA.MAGIC.jpg" width="573" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="b-qt qt_399638" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.</i></b></span></p><p class="bq_fq_a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>George Carlin</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 31, 2022</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMXBQNtom92qyK5S4W_VLeeQ-p3es6bCDVODyXKUU83HVtTLWIcIEbCXPFQUzswTqWCz0L3o-0JP5ovhzFe1HwNQc0DhzdO5stEeFsboX75cyHlqUsFzHN52hkhD7pHFoMzrYvhwOcmkS4Z76qP4bATX_8_4wsL2PNnzb7qBcLJS9XNvSj6PKK2ros_Q/s1050/aaaaa.astupid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1050" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMXBQNtom92qyK5S4W_VLeeQ-p3es6bCDVODyXKUU83HVtTLWIcIEbCXPFQUzswTqWCz0L3o-0JP5ovhzFe1HwNQc0DhzdO5stEeFsboX75cyHlqUsFzHN52hkhD7pHFoMzrYvhwOcmkS4Z76qP4bATX_8_4wsL2PNnzb7qBcLJS9XNvSj6PKK2ros_Q/w619-h377/aaaaa.astupid.jpg" width="619" /></a></div><br /><p class="b-qt qt_399638" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: 300; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">MORE</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b> </b><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><br /></b></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b>On Stage Performance- Just Too Funny</b></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><br /></b></b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="color: #181818;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="326" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aAYtAxD164A" width="392" youtube-src-id="aAYtAxD164A"></iframe></b></div><b style="color: #181818;"><br /><b>x</b></b><p></p></span></div></b></span></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-20440915668562374752022-03-29T10:30:00.001-04:002022-03-29T21:29:06.734-04:00#Inspirational #Wisdom Quotes - March 29, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzH4HpPmbrHEfGJj1jBUeGngLdPAG14S0HEHzsxgD-v2Kg5S-rbnX_wQm_sPFmuD5TWm5fYba0PUWobhW-cXh-ea90VB7OWV2opJnoLwX4sn3AcOPCpG_6lR4ykCaH48HSCEeC1jprn-U0NCEeuS7NkXSsuEYryFseaqVnSCO9Xv9Ct2YkfzifXzTvg/s236/aaaaa.akittens.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="233" data-original-width="236" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJzH4HpPmbrHEfGJj1jBUeGngLdPAG14S0HEHzsxgD-v2Kg5S-rbnX_wQm_sPFmuD5TWm5fYba0PUWobhW-cXh-ea90VB7OWV2opJnoLwX4sn3AcOPCpG_6lR4ykCaH48HSCEeC1jprn-U0NCEeuS7NkXSsuEYryFseaqVnSCO9Xv9Ct2YkfzifXzTvg/w441-h496/aaaaa.akittens.png" width="441" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; grid-column: main / main; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; margin: var(--mobiledocSpacing) 0; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span face="var(--fontFamilySansSerif)" style="font-size: 1.5rem;">.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> "<i>I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.</i>"</span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jane Austen</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>March 29, 2022</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>,</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b> </b><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></p></span></div></b></span></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-84173693188838964762022-03-28T10:30:00.003-04:002022-03-28T10:30:00.204-04:00EXPECT HIGHER #INFLATION AND #RATES AS NUMEROUS COUNTRIES FACE #FAMINE AND #COLLAPASE<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/international/sri-lanka-economic-crisis-five-other-countries-facing-a-similar-catastrophe-news-188636" target="_blank">OUTLOOK </a></span></b></p><h1 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 56px; line-height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: Five Other Countries Facing A Similar Catastrophe</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p class="story-summary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With a number of socio-political grounds inducing a growing crisis in the country’s economy, Sri Lanka has joined the line of countries that have undergone similar economic crises.</span></p><p class="story-summary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="story-summary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAABrzorw59seQxf6tX7Nx4I2TAl4_atu_m5A_c6ViMUkGEJObFUUlugqqVdYVOFVjZ_PE82GPIhCpFOCQEAsfa7Kf1E2cPV1HDofJtArnhkBfiZD1svc1U9qy5URwMv4QudsqDFWzWHNYCJPO0docu13A1O8R0bMV3BH23hFkPB0KoKD553wjI4iUHQ/s1200/aaaaa.acollpase.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAABrzorw59seQxf6tX7Nx4I2TAl4_atu_m5A_c6ViMUkGEJObFUUlugqqVdYVOFVjZ_PE82GPIhCpFOCQEAsfa7Kf1E2cPV1HDofJtArnhkBfiZD1svc1U9qy5URwMv4QudsqDFWzWHNYCJPO0docu13A1O8R0bMV3BH23hFkPB0KoKD553wjI4iUHQ/w698-h393/aaaaa.acollpase.webp" width="698" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis in years. The acute shortage of US dollars in the country has pushed up the price of basic food items including milk, that are essential for regular meals and food businesses. The island country is facing a double whammy of increasing prices and high external debt.</i></span></span><p></p><p class="story-summary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Faced with an acute economic and energy crisis, triggered due to a shortage of foreign exchange, Sri Lanka’s fuel shortage has forced tens of thousands of people to queue for hours outside petrol pumps. People are also facing long hours of power cuts daily.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">According to economists, Sri Lanka’s debt spiral was already on an unsustainable path even before the pandemic dried up the tourism funds.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">With a number of socio-political grounds inducing a growing crisis in the country’s economy, Sri Lanka has joined the line of countries that have undergone similar crises. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>NO FOREX RESERVES MAKES TRADE IMPOSSIBLE</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CKRokgchG5A" width="320" youtube-src-id="CKRokgchG5A"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 29px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <b><a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/international/sri-lanka-economic-crisis-five-other-countries-facing-a-similar-catastrophe-news-188636" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></b></span></p><p class="story-summary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-26850976645757633442022-03-27T16:19:00.000-04:002022-03-27T16:21:42.684-04:00#Inspirational #Wisdom Quotes - March 27, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="b-qt qt_120513" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #101010; line-height: 37px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.</b></span></p><p class="bq_fq_a" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Salvador Dali</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes </b></span><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-size: 20pt;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>March 27, 2020 </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwcfAgWGvL-WDowqznzeMHCzKT79BiY4SNygbAkljt7byF0d8vFDQzvOWyFwFXIcjiws-pf7e5E6ogBkl79g8nVhgPTJuxZXzQ_-UO-bdxXCv_Fq0VIYe8ybquUF-OXqACJVE9-AdA7v9DuD0MtiFWLIw5r6m0yzHvicsWVNUms0aL2_JicdZ0OtuLLw/s1200/aaaaa.dali.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwcfAgWGvL-WDowqznzeMHCzKT79BiY4SNygbAkljt7byF0d8vFDQzvOWyFwFXIcjiws-pf7e5E6ogBkl79g8nVhgPTJuxZXzQ_-UO-bdxXCv_Fq0VIYe8ybquUF-OXqACJVE9-AdA7v9DuD0MtiFWLIw5r6m0yzHvicsWVNUms0aL2_JicdZ0OtuLLw/w625-h328/aaaaa.dali.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b style="text-align: right;"><br /></b><p style="text-align: right;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">MORE</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></p>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-1125036774243866052022-03-26T16:21:00.011-04:002022-03-26T16:25:13.768-04:00BIGGER #RATE #HIKES NEEDED TO KEEP #INFLATION UNDER WRAPS<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://abc17news.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2022/03/25/inflation-is-so-hot-the-fed-may-have-to-hike-interest-rates-like-its-1994/" target="_blank"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">CNN NEWS</span></b></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 30px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Inflation is so hot the Fed may have to hike interest rates like it’s 1994</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 30px; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 30px; text-align: start;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlPCnqv8DY-zbhtoqRVBvoFL5tkRV5gD9idva4B2h6kI7N8VQ3yazRFgnKk1y_Sbr0GgCTeQfhVKR2RBlT4I2Bs0Tq5V-GC-NlVyLvtaZ3GZbqLQtctzgxcGcgj2tU0o54HYmkuDLAINVRGUdaOqz6SPdMP3aprDJkBiVbdvgT_C466QDLFXNfGdWjw/s1280/AAAAA.LA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlPCnqv8DY-zbhtoqRVBvoFL5tkRV5gD9idva4B2h6kI7N8VQ3yazRFgnKk1y_Sbr0GgCTeQfhVKR2RBlT4I2Bs0Tq5V-GC-NlVyLvtaZ3GZbqLQtctzgxcGcgj2tU0o54HYmkuDLAINVRGUdaOqz6SPdMP3aprDJkBiVbdvgT_C466QDLFXNfGdWjw/w607-h342/AAAAA.LA.jpg" width="607" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By Matt Egan, CNN Business</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Inflation is so hot that Wall Street banks are falling over each other to predict the dramatic moves the Federal Reserve will have to make to cool prices off.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Goldman Sachs raised eyebrows </b>earlier this week by forecasting the Fed will raise interest rates by a half a percentage point in each of the next two meetings.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Morgan Stanley and Jefferies quickly endorsed that view</b>, even though the Fed hasn’t done a rate hike of that size at a single meeting since 2000.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now, <b>Citigroup is upping the ante. </b>Citi economists said Friday they expect the Fed will boost interest rates by a half a percentage point during each of the next four meetings. And Citi left the door open for even more aggressive steps, such as big rate hikes at every remaining meeting this year.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The aggressive call underscores the level of concern about the inflation outlook, which has darkened considerably in recent weeks because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing spike in food, energy and other commodity prices.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="369" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rblt2EtFfC4" width="444" youtube-src-id="rblt2EtFfC4"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://abc17news.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2022/03/25/inflation-is-so-hot-the-fed-may-have-to-hike-interest-rates-like-its-1994/" rel="" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">LOOKOUT HERE COMES THE BIG ONE</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YzqZPd7l1hM" width="320" youtube-src-id="YzqZPd7l1hM"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-25203981864711452992022-03-25T10:19:00.007-04:002022-03-25T10:22:38.385-04:00#Market #Rally Trap As #Rate Hikes Will Depress PE and NPV Cash #Values - Just Simple LT Math<p><span></span></p><span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> INVESTING.COM</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 34px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Post Rate Hike Rally Fades</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 34px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7APYhIt6i5TZA4V1rRPk1PlDA16KRxoKB2pTeASWk-QAA_oU1foQosxT7jy98FqG6LxUTadubnv9P7ZMeg5-nwQWpV_BIce2slRqiJCfaprA6MtNuY5Wz1c_BTciN3p_66DJb_8fC5yd6vYgWYLIClNLwJUXTjNf1SuJd62azQUNEk0LCPF9GORcjw/s275/aaaaa.atrap.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia7APYhIt6i5TZA4V1rRPk1PlDA16KRxoKB2pTeASWk-QAA_oU1foQosxT7jy98FqG6LxUTadubnv9P7ZMeg5-nwQWpV_BIce2slRqiJCfaprA6MtNuY5Wz1c_BTciN3p_66DJb_8fC5yd6vYgWYLIClNLwJUXTjNf1SuJd62azQUNEk0LCPF9GORcjw/w609-h406/aaaaa.atrap.jpg" width="609" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>By <a href="https://www.investing.com/members/contributors/200006978" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1256a0; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Michael Pento</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The recent stock market rally is a trap. This is because Wall Street is vastly underestimating how hawkish the Federal Reserve will have to get in order to fight inflation. And how much weaker earnings and GDP growth will become as a result. The fact is Fed Chair Jerome Powell has finally become enlightened to the inflation crisis engendered by his own hand. The Powell's inflation epiphany is mainly the result of his observation that shelter costs are soaring out of control. He now realizes that he will have to pop the housing bubble in order to vanquish inflation.</span></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The data on this front is shocking. Home value growth was so extreme last year that it actually surpassed median salaries in 25 of 38 metropolitan areas across the country, according to research firm Zillow. And, rent prices have surged by nearly 20% nationwide year over year in January, while in the sunbelt, they have skyrocketed by 50%. Some 30% of these properties are owned by Wall Street and other investors.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">What else would you expect to occur when the Fed guarantees access to money for next to nothing. Wall Street then uses that cheap credit to purchase massive tracks of single-family homes with a cash deal and then rents them out to would-be first-time homebuyers who have been priced out of the market by this very process. Wall Street wins big, profiting from both the increase in real estate prices and the increased cash flow derived from rising rent payments. While the people the Fed professes to care the most about fall further behind the American dream</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, "nimbus sans l", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17px;">.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, "nimbus sans l", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.investing.com/analysis/post-rate-hike-rally-fades-200620776" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>HOW DO YOU KNOW A TRAP WHEN YOU SEE IT?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 15px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="391" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zuBEd6Ot5W0" width="470" youtube-src-id="zuBEd6Ot5W0"></iframe></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-25831988347898810282022-03-25T09:30:00.004-04:002022-03-25T11:24:29.361-04:00#Inspirational #Wisdom Quotes - March 25, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo8Q6AOfgl5d_o1Q5lMj0OzqHXCfDlHAVCDL3H5Yhgl4oQxZIY-9T9EXOfUSsuS-CwVluuzih5QYUmH-4fp33Je5MmClHYw9WOaSwaqujJkgH5L7NbHw6Fy2imagpRexSTEfA0JyOn0zBCV11znmAW_JFvH0Qgv8Q3wFprtekezVsyh9PoTQAe1V4KpA/s587/aaaa.a%20dog.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="587" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo8Q6AOfgl5d_o1Q5lMj0OzqHXCfDlHAVCDL3H5Yhgl4oQxZIY-9T9EXOfUSsuS-CwVluuzih5QYUmH-4fp33Je5MmClHYw9WOaSwaqujJkgH5L7NbHw6Fy2imagpRexSTEfA0JyOn0zBCV11znmAW_JFvH0Qgv8Q3wFprtekezVsyh9PoTQAe1V4KpA/w519-h320/aaaa.a%20dog.png" width="519" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><ul class="i8Z77e" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." </b></span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="font-size: 16px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Albert Einstein</b></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: right;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes </b></span><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-size: 20pt;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>March 25, 2020 </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11qYtwST90b4EcyHFPV2d0zYs_kEv2qU7cuqKS_BFjEOlMAHizQ7Vw4dEYojWbGx6YBEBoXTgb6sapCb9-Z33ZwWeuXlsqTYL0m4xSyapH_Uom90Q4tDab4MBL0s0sia6C9picKu0zm6KZg0HllWjlD80SGPlKhZZCLt93KzJt9o2aJY4JLyO1xYTYQ/s308/aaaaa.aal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11qYtwST90b4EcyHFPV2d0zYs_kEv2qU7cuqKS_BFjEOlMAHizQ7Vw4dEYojWbGx6YBEBoXTgb6sapCb9-Z33ZwWeuXlsqTYL0m4xSyapH_Uom90Q4tDab4MBL0s0sia6C9picKu0zm6KZg0HllWjlD80SGPlKhZZCLt93KzJt9o2aJY4JLyO1xYTYQ/w601-h320/aaaaa.aal.jpg" width="601" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">MORE</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-76639763676928133952022-03-23T12:57:00.006-04:002022-03-23T12:57:54.332-04:00#Inspirational #Wisdom Quotes - March 23, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZaXtCA58p0aO5Gizp443dddrg8su0vnAShqWvUARPzP_TbUle4LtGeEPU8R4cRCespEDNtk3fLpom-e5Bukq3_lFjxp20nBMcdc6HbznPCR4EvjC2NAY_e84Qrj1M5ub7_Cyu1ChoSWq-noKFfI81MbqBmTgMvyRC9QVVXSmpy9MPkUwg6Khp0DF/s679/aaaaa.inspire.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="453" height="763" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZaXtCA58p0aO5Gizp443dddrg8su0vnAShqWvUARPzP_TbUle4LtGeEPU8R4cRCespEDNtk3fLpom-e5Bukq3_lFjxp20nBMcdc6HbznPCR4EvjC2NAY_e84Qrj1M5ub7_Cyu1ChoSWq-noKFfI81MbqBmTgMvyRC9QVVXSmpy9MPkUwg6Khp0DF/w508-h763/aaaaa.inspire.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes </b></span><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-size: 20pt;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>March 23, 2020 </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>' The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions '</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Leonardo da Vinci</span></b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5US58qZCpKJYHcLN2cYbc63D2X92SIVhvpscnPVJIUgixeY-uclXlxksbKO1oPOTtJssmDOt5kjZB90H_GYTQN2xPKBqLwMgmLFoP7s_ORwWPT00DErU2IxHEiezfkRmv5X83bCBikg1-EtTaJR2fDLkbuk49eITBHvaSvyMi5I2dDmgHJgBoQPl/s1200/aaaaa.leo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5US58qZCpKJYHcLN2cYbc63D2X92SIVhvpscnPVJIUgixeY-uclXlxksbKO1oPOTtJssmDOt5kjZB90H_GYTQN2xPKBqLwMgmLFoP7s_ORwWPT00DErU2IxHEiezfkRmv5X83bCBikg1-EtTaJR2fDLkbuk49eITBHvaSvyMi5I2dDmgHJgBoQPl/w624-h327/aaaaa.leo.jpg" width="624" /></a></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">x</span></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-69211650889609366452022-03-22T12:38:00.004-04:002022-03-24T13:39:16.212-04:00#WSJ COMMODITIES CRUNCH - FIRST RULE OF #INVESTING - #MOTHER #NATURE BATS LAST<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFVY-iuoVaWP02YuFefVkCC7fm_IwEzQZiUlAj54WpwGCPzkjBKpgqySc4YBwd7Uf9pZqNkeWSWRbxAUv3ADpTol_YhKdEENsO6vs0nVaxz_cLv0HorkSJn3aVmbbhid_OMWfpcnOIBXtUpKgBIY4PDibW6sV2GnVl24GMYKGU4iAkk7kt2vb1lp_DQ/s600/aaaaa.alogo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="600" height="42" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisFVY-iuoVaWP02YuFefVkCC7fm_IwEzQZiUlAj54WpwGCPzkjBKpgqySc4YBwd7Uf9pZqNkeWSWRbxAUv3ADpTol_YhKdEENsO6vs0nVaxz_cLv0HorkSJn3aVmbbhid_OMWfpcnOIBXtUpKgBIY4PDibW6sV2GnVl24GMYKGU4iAkk7kt2vb1lp_DQ/s320/aaaaa.alogo.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><header class="article_header module" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px 6px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="zonedModule" data-module-id="20" data-module-name="article.app/lib/module/wsj/articleHeadline" data-module-zone="articleHeadline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wsj-article-headline-wrap" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="wsj-article-headline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cash Crunch Drives Wild Moves in Commodities</span></h1><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><h2 class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Exchanges and brokers are demanding more money upfront to trade oil, wheat and natural gas, straining markets amid supply disruptions from war in Ukraine.</span></h2><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCr5_KMbQuKghPkjZnuQjgNg6Od47CuIgyvDXc-0dRDujvpdhiGkszPpHzyTU-Cwv9ePc7tdXOhEooifYRVQJYvTvFfXReWB0zdX06FtZZwzesB-IBUWpnSeTDHIQtuYtShDJ2NqCLD06FAqQ1iyzTneqNNs28_mkhYtnwC1yxLT6Z1GnZh728iV6nfA/s259/aaaaa.acom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCr5_KMbQuKghPkjZnuQjgNg6Od47CuIgyvDXc-0dRDujvpdhiGkszPpHzyTU-Cwv9ePc7tdXOhEooifYRVQJYvTvFfXReWB0zdX06FtZZwzesB-IBUWpnSeTDHIQtuYtShDJ2NqCLD06FAqQ1iyzTneqNNs28_mkhYtnwC1yxLT6Z1GnZh728iV6nfA/w574-h430/aaaaa.acom.jpg" width="574" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 22px -80px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 860px; z-index: 0;"><figure class="media-object-video article__inset__video media-object-video--standard" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Commodity prices are hot right now. But the prices investors are paying in the open market for commodities like coffee, copper or corn can have little to do with the price customers pay at the store. </span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cash-crunch-drives-wild-moves-in-commodities-11647866942" target="_blank">READ MORE</a></b></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEght4FiPKZ5fDfMRKsD09nIdARhdz3TBCnkwvOkbxAIR4VrIXagp3JLuwOZRJDFAPp9M3YTGJ8sHWJZCj9MrgCh2QCutt70vmwlMNwFkazS4V1FH0XLHDZawGdYHBmoDURnXSg6w9hQAZjBDXSQemvNxDYZ9x28hIIbDEd_x5cykCHa7alwAEhahFvuYQ/s600/aaaaa.alogo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="600" height="42" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEght4FiPKZ5fDfMRKsD09nIdARhdz3TBCnkwvOkbxAIR4VrIXagp3JLuwOZRJDFAPp9M3YTGJ8sHWJZCj9MrgCh2QCutt70vmwlMNwFkazS4V1FH0XLHDZawGdYHBmoDURnXSg6w9hQAZjBDXSQemvNxDYZ9x28hIIbDEd_x5cykCHa7alwAEhahFvuYQ/s320/aaaaa.alogo.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>WHAT IS THE LINK WITH RETAIL PRICES?</b></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></figcaption><figcaption class="wsj-article-caption article__inset__video__caption" style="font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); line-height: 20px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G-2lKEti4qc" width="320" youtube-src-id="G-2lKEti4qc"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"> T</span></div></span></figcaption></figure></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></header>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-48399342133384414802022-03-21T07:30:00.006-04:002022-03-22T12:15:20.472-04:00#Inspirational #Wisdom Quotes - March 21, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes </b></span><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-size: 20pt;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>March 21, 2020 </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6g9O32AaW9bsGCyKrcsQGctV4FXIqQ82QNPYYAOYZSnEw8WtHThejmsxsyHnvvJcLoszBu9B_2X3PqdhoeA0ieccLbnc3i_yeBH8x4IsAzbE8j268_DpNeT-_0OEkJq_y08OJD8BMUgw4CW3hhXgQ6TvFHaKvKHlSebPyTvU62DMl4fSHES79xsgDAw=s618" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="618" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6g9O32AaW9bsGCyKrcsQGctV4FXIqQ82QNPYYAOYZSnEw8WtHThejmsxsyHnvvJcLoszBu9B_2X3PqdhoeA0ieccLbnc3i_yeBH8x4IsAzbE8j268_DpNeT-_0OEkJq_y08OJD8BMUgw4CW3hhXgQ6TvFHaKvKHlSebPyTvU62DMl4fSHES79xsgDAw=w611-h336" width="611" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></div><div><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><p><br /></p><p class="quotation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #383838; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America -- not on the battlefields of Vietnam.</i></b></span></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Marshall McLuhan</span></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE TRUTH HURTS</span></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://firstfinancialinsights.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post.html" target="_blank"> 'INVISIBLE GENOCIDE'</a></span></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MdWGp3HQVjU" width="320" youtube-src-id="MdWGp3HQVjU"></iframe></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>SING ALONG FOLKS</b></span></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NcoQHLcFPV8" width="320" youtube-src-id="NcoQHLcFPV8"></iframe></b></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-29519700485477126322022-03-19T07:30:00.085-04:002022-03-21T00:05:58.898-04:00#Inspirational Wisdom #Quotes - March 19, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes </b></span><span> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-size: 20pt;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>March 19, 2020 </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCPrz4B5XTV_p7FOh_xqRF-7m6Mmj7EMc1N6xVtaUBxqXss_I-VmQvb8ZHLLucBGwIPW9dwHMgWcAi2BxMCbyUTejo-a64Jia6Pv7DK6vl4dX81e0J80FlgZG-8ikgy2s_9l75UMRz-_uVQ-yqs9RYIzUTmta2k2-2A0uKU7M9mYM7zxVxB9tfMkT8=s680" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="555" height="710" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCPrz4B5XTV_p7FOh_xqRF-7m6Mmj7EMc1N6xVtaUBxqXss_I-VmQvb8ZHLLucBGwIPW9dwHMgWcAi2BxMCbyUTejo-a64Jia6Pv7DK6vl4dX81e0J80FlgZG-8ikgy2s_9l75UMRz-_uVQ-yqs9RYIzUTmta2k2-2A0uKU7M9mYM7zxVxB9tfMkT8=w579-h710" width="579" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”</span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; text-align: start; visibility: visible;"> </span></i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">— Confucius</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9JrfLIpO7e_co_9hvuHC3Mmr-NrorEdkpLu_DgfZkKzC8HGvVkeEIFAHQVxKzl_YLGf0UtPgdhVeFA1_Nh3AObGSn0IsN47OGoGHcpvvCYIHBxFBMBFLLSZOM0gG5Z2YubDaEmE6k22tTCDEXD0U3OnbQomrDG3qm1RsEsDz_MY2qVHlYw0DI0s4k=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1200" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9JrfLIpO7e_co_9hvuHC3Mmr-NrorEdkpLu_DgfZkKzC8HGvVkeEIFAHQVxKzl_YLGf0UtPgdhVeFA1_Nh3AObGSn0IsN47OGoGHcpvvCYIHBxFBMBFLLSZOM0gG5Z2YubDaEmE6k22tTCDEXD0U3OnbQomrDG3qm1RsEsDz_MY2qVHlYw0DI0s4k=w602-h321" width="602" /></a></b></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-2785215391724529492022-03-19T07:30:00.084-04:002022-03-21T00:03:26.945-04:00How Far Will #NASDAQ Fall?<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">FORTUNE</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Editor's Comments:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Challenge of our Times</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">First of all, it is difficult to argue that even today the index is fairly valued. On the other hand, there are a number of metavariables that leads us to conclude it is extremely over-priced and there is a major correction brewing in the winds of market volatility. In a nutshell here are a few factors that drew us to this conclusion: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Clearly, an increase in the Fed rate will impact the valuation mathematics. Simply doubling the long rate from 1% to 2% - depresses the net present value of cash flow and earnings by 50%.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Climate change weather and water shortages will continue to put pressure on the production of agricultural items and essentials; thereby inflation.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The costs of diesel fuel are rising faster than gasoline under the current oil market frenzy which adds more cost pressures and creates logistical issues for the supply chain. Result - more inflation and higher rates. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Housing costs continue to rise throughout Western societies and workers we can expect will be demanding greater compensations. Again fueling the algebra of inflation/rates.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Geopolitical issues remain unresolved and that could lead to further supply and market disruptions which could lead us to Oil priced over $200 a barrel in 2022. You know what that means!</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>The proliferation of cryptocurrencies garners little in terms of concrete real value or logistical science and hence the danger becomes that they could undermine the inherent value of sovereign currencies thereby fueling the road to the US dollar losing its reserve currency status. Fear this event above all - <b>because it provokes the unknown ravages of hyperinflation which are beyond any imaginable catastrophes.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Bottom line, one could argue that cost containment and inflation is now in the ballpark of nature - <b>and it bats last.</b> We are, most importantly, running out of essential industrial resources, water, climate conditions, and arable land. The microcosms are demonstrated today by terrible economies in a number of countries; viz, Turkey, Lebanon, SriLanka, Venezuela, Argentina and so forth. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>There is no reason to believe that nature will provide papal dispensation to Western societies from these economic diseases because our broken models and theories are corrupt and outdated. They do not recognize the consequences of the per capita imbalance of population and natural resources: particularly energy, materials, and agricultural inputs.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">To summarize, what can be expected in the future as a consequence of these hard and logical growth limits imposed by the planet? The answer is clearly more inflation, higher rates and naturally lower NASDAQ stock values over the longterm.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So don't be surprised to see the average PE Ratio for the NASDAQ market drop below 10 or worse as real earnings and future outlooks evaporate while inflation and rates sky-rocket to the high heavens. The economies are backed into a corner as we knowingly created a physical-mathematical trap that has dire consequences. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We cannot build a sustainable economic system and markets unless we redefine our economic, concepts theories and models to rebalance the relationship between population and essential resources. We need thinking based on reality and mathematics, not invisible hand abstractions.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i> "THIS IS THE MOST CRITICAL CHALLENGE OF OUR TIMES" </i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">T A McNeil</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">CEO Founder</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">First Financial Insights Group</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><h1 class="heading__saolText--RBEqW articleHeader__title--1OFB2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 3rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.016rem; line-height: inherit; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The NASDAQ’s real value is shockingly low—and it could drop another 18%</span></span></h1><div><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The NASDAQ's fall was bound to happen, and it's still not nearly deep enough to hit bedrock. The powerful momentum driving tech's shooting stars ever skywards is finally surrendering to market gravity. The "innovation-at-any-price" high spirits that sent the NASDAQ shooting into the stratosphere over less than three years, is giving way to the realization that its members can't grow profits nearly fast enough to give you a decent return. The reason is basic: These stocks are still just too damn expensive. Put simply, the fundamentals are taking hold following a long and crazy ride. The more unhinged prices became, the steeper the fall that was bound to follow––and most likely, we're witnessing the early stages of that inevitable descent right now.</span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gravity is finally taking hold</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPaPuY4bGGl2EEQttfGxFHOHpkdBXprp3L2XX2YCNrzFgs8SY6pWEzGKzHdgYxIUNMs4Sdq_0PmDS7534IoZpQTw-MXs7BpzSZWJQThzBraoZ21Rtlj_aEBFtQjjlfeIXY1EiXY2eBuFKLCihPoUSMwEqHEI1YTQ8hDNTwhkiUCmI5WXDQiVxLASmPgQ=s259" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPaPuY4bGGl2EEQttfGxFHOHpkdBXprp3L2XX2YCNrzFgs8SY6pWEzGKzHdgYxIUNMs4Sdq_0PmDS7534IoZpQTw-MXs7BpzSZWJQThzBraoZ21Rtlj_aEBFtQjjlfeIXY1EiXY2eBuFKLCihPoUSMwEqHEI1YTQ8hDNTwhkiUCmI5WXDQiVxLASmPgQ=w628-h470" width="628" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">How deeply will the <a href="https://fortune.com/company/nasdaq" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007b9d; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">NASDAQ</a> drop? To make a reasonable estimate, let's unpack the traditional metrics that are reliable predictors of equity price trends over long periods, and address the question: <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What's the NASDAQ really worth?</em> The NASDAQ 100 that represents the vast bulk of the overall index's valuation has already entered correction territory, shedding 10% from the close of 2021 to stand at 14,438 at the close on Friday, January 21, and down 13% from its all-time high, set on November 19, of 16,573. Among the glamour, stay-at-home economy luminaries that suffered the biggest hits since then: <a href="https://fortune.com/company/zoom" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007b9d; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Zoom</a> (down 41%), <a href="https://fortune.com/company/netflix" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007b9d; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Netflix</a> (-42%), Peloton (-43%), and Docusign (-56%).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2022/01/24/the-nasdaqs-real-value-is-shockingly-low-and-it-could-drop-another-18/#:~:text=It%20remains%20hugely%20overvalued%20because,each%20dollar%20they're%20paying." target="_blank">READ MORE</a></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">BOTTOM LINE </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> NASDAQ GROWTH VALUE IS A NEGATIVE-SUM GAME</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.56px; line-height: 1.575rem; margin: 0px auto 1.5rem; max-width: 40.5rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="449" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kz9wjJjmkmc" width="540" youtube-src-id="kz9wjJjmkmc"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p></span></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-18375206687623164462022-03-18T15:31:00.000-04:002022-03-18T15:31:20.186-04:00#Chinese Real Estate #Shares Soar Despite Dismal #Economic Outlook<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> The Guardian</b></span></p><h1 class="dcr-125vfar" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">China property shares soar on Beijing stimulus, despite continued debt crisis</h1><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 700; text-align: start;">Plans to shore up real estate and tech sectors welcomed by investors, but downgrade of third-biggest developer Sunac shows problems persist</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggQt0BGONeXD-yzj1vzIB5BSWID0u7KnUahutP58WpFbaS7xKMUlf5ZK7gafDsY6d2Uu0ex-PTqXxWQw-F6rGUgmr0jrjFEuXj2i1lgpHIS2_iIVh44WFtjEpToi68vnofhCa1Ubiz4x991gBTSmzzRPuzFLFUn8vk_tNY_hqJ_D1YS5NqOrhRQG_w3A=s620" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggQt0BGONeXD-yzj1vzIB5BSWID0u7KnUahutP58WpFbaS7xKMUlf5ZK7gafDsY6d2Uu0ex-PTqXxWQw-F6rGUgmr0jrjFEuXj2i1lgpHIS2_iIVh44WFtjEpToi68vnofhCa1Ubiz4x991gBTSmzzRPuzFLFUn8vk_tNY_hqJ_D1YS5NqOrhRQG_w3A=w614-h368" width="614" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="dcr-1wj398p" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Chinese property shares have soared for a second day thanks to a decision by Beijing’s leadership to throw the country’s struggling real estate sector a lifeline amid growing pressures at home and abroad.</span></p><p class="dcr-1wj398p" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Despite a downgrade for China’s third-biggest property developer Sunac on Thursday, stocks in the sector lifted again in Hong Kong and the mainland thanks to an announcement by vice premier Liu He, China’s economic tsar, on Wednesday that the government needed to reduce risks in the industry.</span></p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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color: #c70000; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">giant developer Evergrande</a> – Liu urged the roll-out of market-friendly policies to support the economy.</span></p><p class="dcr-1wj398p" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/china-property-shares-soar-on-beijing-stimulus-despite-continued-debt-crisis" target="_blank">Read More</a></b></span></p><p class="dcr-1wj398p" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><p class="dcr-1wj398p" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>HUGE CONCERN: THE BACKSTAGE CREDIT DEBACLE PREVAILS</b></span></p><p class="dcr-1wj398p" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; 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Maybe (sic) #WHO KNOWS...<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> Reuters</span></b></p><h1 style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">US STOCKS-Wall Street closes higher; worries ease around Fed, Russian default</span></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBZbAb07as-CEro7vUx9pjqlDXyHe531un7Y6wFEiJWmewa07XajDXD7Glc4LHcqwW11-2yPgZfHBG6XkhVby4e2UYJ4LeEm29_qPy9pBAxWFCNLRz8yv_hXDlQzSsbSC9iigu9T4PxE5gpcXnrA5sFYCayPgoCUa11ZNaqWZBPTl4kNNlOVrjPlHyGQ=s754" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="754" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBZbAb07as-CEro7vUx9pjqlDXyHe531un7Y6wFEiJWmewa07XajDXD7Glc4LHcqwW11-2yPgZfHBG6XkhVby4e2UYJ4LeEm29_qPy9pBAxWFCNLRz8yv_hXDlQzSsbSC9iigu9T4PxE5gpcXnrA5sFYCayPgoCUa11ZNaqWZBPTl4kNNlOVrjPlHyGQ=w600-h399" width="600" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><chron>March 17</chron> (Reuters) - All three of <location>Wall Street's</location> major indexes closed higher up more than 1% on Thursday as investors considered the Federal Reserve's path for interest rate hikes and worries eased about the prospects of a Russian default after creditors received payments.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Investors were reassured that <location idsrc="xmltag.org" value="LC/ru">Russia</location> may, at least for now, have averted what would have been its first external bond default in a century. This was because creditors received payment, in dollars, of Russian bond coupons which fell due this week, two market sources told Reuters on Thursday.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">This added to risk appetites in a market that was benefitting from some bargain hunting.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Fed had raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday as expected and forecast an aggressive plan for further hikes while policymakers also trimmed economic growth projections for the year.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Russian payment news and a breaking of technical decline lines "to the upside" in indices, including the S&P and the Nasdaq, all boosted stocks, according to <person>Michael James</person>, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/markets_sectors/news/story.jhtml?storyid=202203171601RTRSNEWSCOMBINED_L2N2VK2FS_1&provider=RTRSNEWS&product=COMBINED&category=equity" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Read More</span></b></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.09px; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Ups and Downs Have Meaning</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.09px; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S9aEHHOQ0JM" width="320" youtube-src-id="S9aEHHOQ0JM"></iframe></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.09px; line-height: 18.4977px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-70138964362816289342022-03-17T11:10:00.002-04:002022-03-17T11:10:59.881-04:00The #Fed #Rate Hikes Begin - Now What?<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Market Watch </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><h1 class="article__headline" itemprop="headline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #202020; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.125; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Powell vows Fed will conquer high inflation. Here’s what he said</span></h1><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="byline article__byline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #6a6a6a; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 75px 10px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 20px 0px 0px; position: relative; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>By Jeffry Bartash</b></span></div><div class="zonedModule" data-module-id="30" data-module-name="article.app/lib/module/mw/articleSpotIM" data-module-zone="spotIM_comment_count" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><h2 class="article__subhead" itemprop="alternativeHeadline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-size: 1.573rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Fed under the gun with inflation at 40-year high</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLFS9i7EUGPJMC-BPdHpjDiZUMUKQyxkiJZ4YwPavuu92w7jgXLGIsF1Tv_VPuTWBdBFhym1omBLvL6BZkCp3Do9YkA-zBBjOKy5GRAHsngia-G_bdeJSXhffdtgCpeO2sM6yWZt7qqWfIsJ_hpRXZEFlKYeWgMhZxqhe2jeMau9GdOxmfTnA2UB3cJA=s700" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="700" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLFS9i7EUGPJMC-BPdHpjDiZUMUKQyxkiJZ4YwPavuu92w7jgXLGIsF1Tv_VPuTWBdBFhym1omBLvL6BZkCp3Do9YkA-zBBjOKy5GRAHsngia-G_bdeJSXhffdtgCpeO2sM6yWZt7qqWfIsJ_hpRXZEFlKYeWgMhZxqhe2jeMau9GdOxmfTnA2UB3cJA=w532-h354" width="532" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday said inflation is going stay high in 2022, but he vowed the central bank will do whatever it takes to bring price rises under control.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The <a class="icon none" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-raises-rates-and-plots-strategy-of-steady-further-increases-11647453994?mod=article_inline" rel="follow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 119, 168); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fed raised interest rates for the first time in four years</a> as part of a broader strategy to combat the highest inflation in 40 years. <a class="icon none" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-inflation-rate-climbs-again-to-7-9-cpi-shows-and-ukraine-war-threatens-more-pain-for-consumers-11646919280?mod=article_inline" rel="follow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 30px 30px; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 119, 168); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rate of inflation</a> has surged to almost 8% in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.</span></p><div class="paywall" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e2e2e; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Here’s what Powell said about inflation after the Fed decision.</span></p><ul class="articleList" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 15px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“We will take the necessary steps to ensure that high inflation does not become entrenched.”</span></li><li style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“We have to restore price stability.”</span></li><li style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-55982319026903003912022-03-17T07:30:00.006-04:002022-03-17T07:30:00.190-04:00#inspirational Wisdom #Quotes - March 17, 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p> <span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><b>Inspirational Wisdom Quotes </b></span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #101010; font-size: 20pt;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <b>March 17, 2020 </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6B2UtQ_UxSNUhPPBFaouRAVflfAUFsrd6iaOeQ2tZq9vraBVX4lwHlexQAqmRQkwi8vosNZljp9uUTW9N5tDxBJzXOxyM636QIXJUJtH4S8GWIbPfQZV3jj2BK6Gqdz9rNhG7vgBaOPX-sRmHRcv77L8KXoMe0nrWB5CHohc65Wi1cXZBqUkrCih0sA=s250" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="250" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6B2UtQ_UxSNUhPPBFaouRAVflfAUFsrd6iaOeQ2tZq9vraBVX4lwHlexQAqmRQkwi8vosNZljp9uUTW9N5tDxBJzXOxyM636QIXJUJtH4S8GWIbPfQZV3jj2BK6Gqdz9rNhG7vgBaOPX-sRmHRcv77L8KXoMe0nrWB5CHohc65Wi1cXZBqUkrCih0sA=w581-h389" width="581" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://drkinesa.blogspot.com/p/doom.html">2022 Inspirations and Wisdom</a></span></b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #181818; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="proxima-nova-n4, proxima-nova, "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Aristotle</i></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p></p>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-13649111870857906602022-03-16T10:55:00.005-04:002022-03-16T10:55:58.903-04:00#Beijing To Support #Terrible Markets - #Tech #Stocks Rally<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">March 16, 2022 </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">South China Morning Post</span></b></p><h1 class="info__headline headline" data-v-77d03b61="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, "Merriweather fallback", serif; font-size: 2.42857rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 3.28571rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.14286rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Chinese tech stocks soar by record in Hong Kong as Beijing pledges support for troubled markets</h1><div><ul class="generic-article__summary--ul content--ul" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" data-v-77d03b61="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.857143rem 1.28571rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">Hang Seng Index logged best day since October 2008 while the Tech Index rallied by a record since inception in July 2020</span></li><li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.857143rem 1.28571rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">A State Council committee pledged to ensure market stability, Xinhua reported, after a rout in offshore Chinese stocks infected onshore markets.</span></li><li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.857143rem 1.28571rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></li><li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; 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text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kQzKFYRhM5w" width="320" youtube-src-id="kQzKFYRhM5w"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>T A McNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05690531689269601990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173624874736628598.post-19020137678461399062022-03-15T09:33:00.001-04:002022-03-15T09:33:29.085-04:00#Tech Stock Rout Continues Tuesday in #China/Hong Kong #Markets <p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> South China Morning Post</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">March 15, 2020</span></b></p><p><br /></p><h1 class="info__headline headline" data-v-33f7e5d7="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, "Merriweather fallback", serif; font-size: 2.42857rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 3.28571rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.14286rem; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">China tech rout: Hong Kong market sinks after JPMorgan calls sector ‘uninvestable’ as global funds shun macro, geopolitical risks</h1><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><ul class="generic-article__summary--ul content--ul" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" data-v-33f7e5d7="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.857143rem 1.28571rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Losses snowballed as JPMorgan cites macro and geopolitical risks while global funds prepare to flee China internet bets</i></span></li><li class="generic-article__summary--li content--li" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.857143rem 1.28571rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Hang Seng Index hit a new six-year low as more than US$460 billion of market value from tech stocks evaporated this year; Alibaba crashed by a record 12 per cent</i></span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #001246; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="text" data-v-6b4d63ed="" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 248); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">stock rout</span></a></span> deepened, slashing billions of dollars from the likes of Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings in Hong Kong, on heightened concerns about an industry crackdown, Covid-19 outbreaks, and China’s position on the Ukraine conflict.</span></p></div><div data-v-33f7e5d7="" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Font Roboto", "Roboto fallback", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p" data-v-2c8f4ebe="" data-v-33f7e5d7="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: inline-block; font-family: Merriweather, "Merriweather fallback", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 2.14286rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.42857rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 573.75px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Losses spiralled after JPMorgan Chase downgraded 28 Chinese internet stocks including Alibaba, Tencent Holdings and Meituan to underweight, calling them “uninvestable” over the next six to 12 months due to rising geopolitical and macro risks, Bloomberg reported.</span></p></div></div><div data-v-33f7e5d7="" style="background-color: white; 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