u***r 发帖数: 4825 | 1 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/affirmative-action.html?hp
&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-
region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented
at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago
By JEREMY ASHKENAS, HAEYOUN PARK and ADAM PEARCE AUG. 24, 2017
Even after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are
more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and u... 阅读全帖 |
|
s******r 发帖数: 5309 | 2 California professor, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks
out about her allegation of sexual assault
Kavanaugh denies making unwanted sexual advances as an adult
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh denied committing sexual or physical harassment as
an adult when asked by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) on Sept. 5. (JM Rieger /
The Washington Post)
By Emma Brown
September 16 at 3:36 PM
Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a
senior Democratic lawmaker alleg... 阅读全帖 |
|
M******a 发帖数: 6723 | 3 http://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20181203/china-rise-series-declining-economy/dual/
The Real China Challenge: Managing Its Decline
BRET STEPHENS
2018年12月3日
中国杭州,阿里巴巴集团园区内的雕塑。
Bryan Denton for The New York Times
In 2009, The Economist wrote about an up-and-coming global power: Brazil.
Its economy, the magazine suggested, would soon overtake that of France or
the U.K. as the world’s fifth largest. Sao Paulo would be the world’s
fifth-richest city. Vast new reserves of offshore oil would provide an ad... 阅读全帖 |
|
发帖数: 1 | 4 India’s electricity demand declined for the third straight month, another
indication of an economic slowdown that seems to be deepening.
Electricity demand from distribution utilities declined 13.2% in October
from a year earlier, data from the Central Electricity Authority showed. The
slump began in August when the power requirement dropped for the first time
in more than two years.
Slowing requirement mirrors a widespread slump in demand for consumers goods
to cars and houses. Industrialized p... 阅读全帖 |
|
u****n 发帖数: 7521 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ubcumn (ubcumn), 信区: Military
标 题: 看到你的祖国死去很痛苦,只有止不住的叹息和哭泣zz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 13 14:16:38 2011, 美东)
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7835.6441.0.0
It’s Hard to Watch Your Country Die -One can’t help but sigh and cry.
看到你的祖国死去很痛苦,只有止不住的叹息和哭泣。
America suffers with several ills from which it will not recover. This
reality is becoming inescapably plain.
美国正在遭受好几个病痛的折磨,这些病好不了了。这是一个不可避免的(inescapable)而且很简单的( plain)事实。
原文链接+全文
========================
It’s Hard... 阅读全帖 |
|
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 7 By Mark Steyn
Had I been asked to deliver the State of the Union address, it would not
have delayed your dinner plans:
“The State of our Union is broke, heading for bankrupt, and total collapse
shortly thereafter. Thank you and goodnight! You’ve been a terrific crowd!”
I gather that Americans prefer something a little more upbeat, so one would
not begrudge a speechwriter fluffing it up by holding out at least the
possibility of some change of fortune, however remote. Instead, President
Obama ass... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 8 Mon, Jul. 23, 2012 Posted: 09:14 AM EDT
In 2006, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, Katherine Jefferts Schori,
told the New York Times that Episcopalians were not interested in "
replenishing their ranks by having children." Instead, the church "[
encouraged] people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not
use more than their portion."
"Stewardship of the earth" and having children are not incompatible, but if
Schori's goal was a principled extinction, she's about to succee... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 9 Published October 18, 2012
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Violent crimes unexpectedly jumped 18 percent last year, the
first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a
decade. But academic experts said the new government data fall short of
signaling a reversal of the long decline in crime.
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday that the increase
in the number of violent crimes was the result of an upward swing in simple
assaults, which rose 22 percent... 阅读全帖 |
|
d***h 发帖数: 97 | 10 Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/business/global/family-of-wen
BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in
northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s
political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,”
the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
But now 90, the prime minister’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, not only left
poverty behind — she became outright ric... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 11 By KRIS MAHER And MATTHEW DOLAN
Unions in Michigan are trying to fend off a push by Republican lawmakers to
pass right-to-work legislation—the latest in a string of challenges to
organized labor in one of its traditional Midwestern strongholds.
Separate right-to-work bills that would ban contracts requiring employees to
pay union dues are drafted and could be introduced in the Michigan Senate
and House this week, according to lawmakers.
Conservative groups that support the measures plan to appea... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 12 DOJ: Murders of School-Age Children Down 42%; Only 1% Take Place at School
By Terence P. Jeffrey
December 17, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - Murders of school-age children---those between the ages of 5
and 18—declined by 42 percent between the 1992-93 school year and the 2008
-2009 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and only
about 1 percent of the school age children murdered during the 2008-2009
school year were murdered at school.
In February 2012, the Bureau of Justice Statistics... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 13 The Decline of America
By Victor Davis Hanson
February 14, 2013 12:00 A.M.
Why do once-successful societies ossify and decline?
Hundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end of
the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation and
excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, when historians
attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans, the Aztecs,
and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from Catullus to Edward
Gibb... 阅读全帖 |
|
c*****g 发帖数: 21627 | 14 英文原文,for reference:
Silicon Valley's Mouthwatering Tax Break
Debate Emerges Over Whether Daily Fringe-Benefit Meals Are Taxable; Issue Is
Now on IRS's Radar
By MARK MAREMONT
Reuters
Google has more than 120 corporate cafes world-wide serving over 50,000
meals a day. Above, a cafeteria at Google's Venice Beach campus.
When outsiders visit Silicon Valley, the first thing they often notice is
the food: Cafeterias brimming with free gourmet meals and snacks offered to
employees of Google Inc., Faceb... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 15 By Michael Snyder, on August 20th, 2013
Obama Follow MeBarack Obama has been running around the country taking
credit for an "economic recovery", but the truth is that things have not
gotten better under Obama. Compared to when he first took office, a smaller
percentage of the working age population is employed, the quality of our
jobs has declined substantially and the middle class has been absolutely
shredded. If we are really in the middle of an "economic recovery", why is
the homeownership... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 16 Stephen Moore: Obama's Economy Hits His Voters Hardest
Young people, single women and minorities have fared the worst during the
past four years.
By
STEPHEN MOORE
For better or worse, a truism of American politics is that voters vote their
pocketbooks. Yet according to a new report on median household incomes by
Sentier Research, in 2012 millions of American voters apparently cast
ballots contrary to their economic self-interest.
Each month the consultants at Sentier analyze the numbers ... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 17 http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/business/41816402
Unemployment dips to 7.3 percent, but only 63% of Americans are in labor
force
By Ylan Q. Mui and Amrita Jayakumar,September 06, 2013
Americans are participating in the workforce at the lowest level in 35 years
, according to government data released Friday, as lackluster job growth
fails to offset the droves of people who have given up looking for work.
According to the Labor Department, the economy added a disappointing 169,000
jo... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 18 Detroit's abandoned buildings draw tourists instead of developers
Detroit has seen an uptick in history buffs and photographers visiting its
ruins since its bankruptcy filing.
By Alana Semuels
December 25, 2013, 4:33 p.m.
DETROIT — He'd heard stories of ruin and blight, but that didn't prepare
Oliver Kearney for what he saw:
Prostitutes roaming the streets at 8 a.m., rubble-strewn parking lots
overrun with weeds, buildings taken over by bright pink graffiti, the
message scrawled on blackboards i... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 19 Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Added Just 74K Jobs In December, Unemployment Down
To 6.7%
The stretch of positive economic news that led to the Federal Reserve’s
decision to begin trimming asset purchases last month has not continued into
the new year.
Employers added just 74,000 jobs in December, well below the 197,000
economists expected. The unemployment rate, which is drawn from a different
survey of households, was down to 6.7% from 7% in November. The labor force
participation rate was down fro... 阅读全帖 |
|
m*********a 发帖数: 3299 | 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission have both held investigations into whether Bank of America (BAC.
N) engaged in improper trading by doing its own futures trades ahead of
executing large orders for clients, according to a regulatory filing.
The June 2013 disclosure, which Reuters recently reviewed on a website run
by the securities industry regulator FINRA, sheds light on the basis for a
warning by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Janua... 阅读全帖 |
|
t*******y 发帖数: 21396 | 21 热烈祝贺我南方大红州囊括要饭榜三甲。妈的,你们荔波肉不是要滥发Food Stamp吗?
你们只要敢发,我们南方共和党就敢拿。我们看谁狠。
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/3-states-where-more-than-1-i
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
3 States Where More Than 1 in 5 People Receive Food Stamps
Earlier in September, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to advance a
measure that would cut $4 billion, or 5 percent, from the food stamps
programs each year for 10 years. The cost-cutting measure comes as the U.S.
faces yet another round of debates over the fiscal budget and debt c... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 22 Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Marriage Could Face Jail Time and
Exorbitant Fines
October 21, 2014 - 11:21 AM
By Ryan T. Anderson
For years, those in favor of same-sex marriage have argued that all
Americans should be free to live as they choose. And yet in countless cases,
the government has coerced those who simply wish to be free to live in
accordance with their belief that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.
Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day th... 阅读全帖 |
|
l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 23 Irvington, NJ Mayor Forced Employee to Have Sex in Township Office, Lawsuit
Claims
Of course we have to play Name That Party, since there’s no mention he’s a
Democrat.
An Irvington employee contends in a lawsuit that Township Mayor Tony
Vauss forced her to have sex with him last June in a municipal office.
The employee claims she told Vauss “no” twice, but he wedged her
against a desk and performed the sex act, according to a lawsuit she filed
last month against Vauss and the township.
... 阅读全帖 |
|
p*******m 发帖数: 20761 | 24 美国人这么多无知的人 需要教育 这个比长大了祸害要省钱多了
对世界的各种认识都会好一些
Question:
What are the new Back to School statistics for 2015?
Response:
Elementary and Secondary Education
Enrollment
In fall 2015, about 50.1 million students will attend public elementary and
secondary schools. Of these, 35.2 million will be in prekindergarten through
grade 8 and 14.9 million will be in grades 9 through 12. An additional 4.9
million students are expected to attend private schools (source). The fall
2015 public school enrollment is e... 阅读全帖 |
|
g********2 发帖数: 6571 | 25 August 9, 2016
Why Multinational Corporations Favor Hillary
By Raymond Richman, Howard Richman and Jesse Richman
On August 24, Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser for Democratic Party
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The minimum donation required to
attend will be $2,700, with $50,000 a suggested donation. Apple is
incorporated in the U.S., but its products are produced in China.
At least Apple still designs its products in the United States. In contrast,
many other American multina... 阅读全帖 |
|
a*****1 发帖数: 3817 | 26 自己去看美国宪法
United States Constitution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
United States Constitution
Constitution of the United States, page 1.jpg
Page one of the original copy of the Constitution
Created
September 17, 1787
Ratified
June 21, 1788
Date effective
March 4, 1789; 227 years ago
Location
National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
Author(s)
Philadelphia Convention
Signatories
39 of the 55 delegates
Purpose
To replace the Articles of Confederation (177... 阅读全帖 |
|
a*****1 发帖数: 3817 | 27 自己去看美国宪法
United States Constitution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
United States Constitution
Constitution of the United States, page 1.jpg
Page one of the original copy of the Constitution
Created
September 17, 1787
Ratified
June 21, 1788
Date effective
March 4, 1789; 227 years ago
Location
National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
Author(s)
Philadelphia Convention
Signatories
39 of the 55 delegates
Purpose
To replace the Articles of Confederation (177... 阅读全帖 |
|
|
u****n 发帖数: 7521 | 29 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ubcumn (ubcumn), 信区: Military
标 题: 看到你的祖国死去很痛苦,只有止不住的叹息和哭泣zz
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 13 14:16:38 2011, 美东)
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7835.6441.0.0
It’s Hard to Watch Your Country Die -One can’t help but sigh and cry.
看到你的祖国死去很痛苦,只有止不住的叹息和哭泣。
America suffers with several ills from which it will not recover. This
reality is becoming inescapably plain.
美国正在遭受病痛的折磨,这个病好不了了。这是一个不可避免的(inescapable)而
且很简单的( plain)事实。
原文链接+全文
========================
It’s Hard t... 阅读全帖 |
|
m***d 发帖数: 1050 | 30 I have car insurance. Do I really need to buy their coverage, too?
The answer is: it depends. You want to make sure you’re covered, but you
also don’t want to pay for unnecessary duplicate coverages that could
double the price of your rental.
The first step is to check your auto policy to see what your coverage is. If
you carry comprehensive and liability coverage on your personal car,
coverage will extend to your rental car. If you’re renting a car of similar
value to your personal car, in all... 阅读全帖 |
|
f****l 发帖数: 8042 | 31 摘要一下:自作孽(单车车祸),大车比小车危险;拉人垫背(多车车祸),小车比大
车危险;男人比女人危险;小孩比大人危险(无论乘客还是司机);suv比sedan容易翻
;sedan越重越安全,pickup和suv则是安全和重量没有明显关系;前撞死得多,侧撞死
得少。下面是原文图例,具体数据和图表见http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts_2009/occupants.html
A total of 23,437 passenger vehicle occupants died in 2009, 23 percent less
than in 1975. However, the distribution of vehicle types among these crashes
has changed. Car occupant deaths have declined 45 percent since 1975, while
pickup occupant deaths have risen 29 percent and SUV occupan... 阅读全帖 |
|
b******e 发帖数: 5547 | 32 Pay in Full
471.00
or
Pay Monthly
75.36 94.20 down
具体项目如下,有什么欠缺的?
Coverages Included Costs
Total Liability Coverages: 314.00
Bodily Injury $300,000/$300,000 140.00
Property Damage $100,000 145.00
Medical Payments Coverage Declined 0.00
Uninsured/underinsured Motorist Bodily Injury $15,000/$30,000 29.
00
Customize Coverage
Vehicle1: 2012 DODGE DURANGO CREW Included Costs
Total Coverage for 2012 DODGE DURANGO CREW: 157.00
Comp... 阅读全帖 |
|
B*Z 发帖数: 7062 | 33 很奇怪,居然这个没人贴。Highlights:
1. GM sales gained 1% -> recall和质量有关系么?
2. VW sales dropped 22% -> nm再不买vw,德国工程师不给你长翅膀了。
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-june-auto-sales-gm-for
140630-story.html
Business
June auto sales defy predictions; Chrysler has best June in 7 years
June auto sales
A row of 2014 Ford Motor Co. Focus vehicles sit on display at Uftring Ford i
n East Peoria, Ill. While most of the industry posted gains, Ford's sales fe
ll in June. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg)
Jerry Hirsch contac... 阅读全帖 |
|
f********a 发帖数: 367 | 34 On Sept. 4, employees of Good Technology, a mobile security start-up in
Sunnyvale, Calif., awoke to discover that their company was being sold to
BlackBerry, the mobile device and software maker.
Some workers immediately began trying to figure out what it meant for Good
to abandon its long-anticipated plan to go public — a move that would have
potentially turned their shares in the start-up into gold. They didn't get
firm answers that day, but the prospects did not look great.
Around 9 a.m., hun... 阅读全帖 |
|
h*******y 发帖数: 864 | 35 As a value investor, my eyes will not roll with 30-40% decline in equity
market, I will just continue my DCA purchase strategy. I will only add more
equity exposure in a declining market. Look at the bigger picture, that is
nothing and should be factored in before one makes his/her first investment.
I calculated 30% price decline possibility before I bought my current house,
although I estimated only about 10% most-likely decline. 30% is just worse
case scenario (I'm revising that up right now, |
|
T****8 发帖数: 505 | 36 The real estate market is already in the deepest depression in modern U.S.
history. If you think it can't get any worse, think again. In several cities
, the real estate market is about to drop even more. Home values in many of
those cities, such as Las Vegas, have already collapsed as unemployment has
shot higher. And with no hope of quick recovery, housing prices are expected
to continue to fall. 24/7 Wall St. identified ten housing markets that are
expected to drop by at least another 10% by ... 阅读全帖 |
|
T****8 发帖数: 505 | 37 The real estate market is already in the deepest depression in modern U.S.
history. If you think it can't get any worse, think again. In several cities
, the real estate market is about to drop even more. Home values in many of
those cities, such as Las Vegas, have already collapsed as unemployment has
shot higher. And with no hope of quick recovery, housing prices are expected
to continue to fall. 24/7 Wall St. identified ten housing markets that are
expected to drop by at least another 10% by ... 阅读全帖 |
|
z****l 发帖数: 5282 | 38 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
horselibra (冷静神功 - 修炼第一层) 于 (Wed Jun 30 21:32:30 2010, 美东) 提到:
另外,如果不住旅馆的,
想换机票的话也很不错
20000点可以换好多家航空公司的25000点
直接就是一张往返机票
发信人: horselibra (冷静神功 - 修炼第一层), 信区: ebiz
标 题: starwood AMEX cc 30000 points Bonus
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 30 21:14:42 2010, 美东)
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=91487&t=21048
神医神护游医散户骚货旅游开房必备的仙卡阿
approved的请自觉给俺个包子攒rp阿
☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
nkbluemouse (蓝皮鼠) 于 (Wed Jun 30 23:45:36 2010, 美东) ... 阅读全帖 |
|
l*****f 发帖数: 2198 | 39 今晚第二次发生了才引起我的重视。打电话过去把他们痛骂了一顿,要了1000点补偿,
这才平息我的怒火。
事情缘由:这个季度的chase freedom不是5% cashback on gas嘛,我7月1号的当天正
好去常去的一个加油站加油,刷freedom卡被decline了,刷了好几次都不过,只好临时
换了张卡。回来以后email果然收到fraud alert,我点进去confirm了,此后相安无事
,freedom卡在其他一些地方用都没问题。
今晚我正好回家路上 又去另一家加油站加油,刷freedom卡居然再一次被拒。这两次的
两个加油站都在我家附近,连zip都和我的billing zipcode一样。恼火无比,但还是换
了张卡完成了加油。随后去walmart买东西,结账的时候突发奇想,又试了试freedom,
这次居然刷过了!我这才反应过来,chase开始玩阴的了,不想让你拿那5%,所以想方
设法给你制造障碍阻止你在加油站用卡。
回来后一个电话打去chase,质问阿三客服为何会被decline,对方解释是security
concern,我继续追问,为啥这种情况7月1号之前没发生,... 阅读全帖 |
|
l***1 发帖数: 1223 | 40 拿了600,都是100的。女小2马上叫了经理。经理管我要信用卡,说是规定要打电话pre
athorize,然后回来跟我说,被decline了,此卡不能用。我说我买300,我要看你的
register decline不decline,他说register 是能过的,可是我打电话给我的merchant,
说你的卡不能买。我说我要知道你merchant的电话以及谁告诉你decline,他说这我不能
告诉你。这个打电话是office max的corp policy吗。有人遇到过吗?那经理很肯定说
是corp policy |
|
A****S 发帖数: 2066 | 41 首先第一张卡被decline,然而第二张卡通过,但第一张卡老刷不过我就让先void,然
后refund。现在两张卡都是一分钱都没有的。刷出来但refund那张应该是会过一段时间
,前面被decline的我上网查了transaction确实是在kroger被刷掉500。虽然估计应该
也是过段时间回来,因为发票上确实写的decline,但到底还是这么多钱心慌,为啥就
这张卡被decline也不知道。想问问有人有类似经历的给讲解下,大概多久钱会过来,
万一钱不回来如何argue。多谢了。
等钱回来了我还是俩卡分开买MO吧,免得再一张通过了被另一张拖累,我这地方MO价钱
极其便宜,现在有优惠只要九分钱,之前买过很多次一直没问题这次却被反撸了。 |
|
a*****g 发帖数: 19398 | 42 The nation’s per-pupil spending on K-12 public schools dropped in 2013 for
the third year in a row, reversing more than a decade of funding increases,
according to federal data released Wednesday.
Spending continued to vary widely across the country, from a low of $6,432
per student in Utah to a high of $20,530 per student in the District of
Columbia. The biggest spenders were largely clustered in the Northeast,
while the lowest were in the West and Southeast.
The national average was $10,763, d... 阅读全帖 |
|
s***y 发帖数: 357 | 43 By Dina Bass
March 7 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj
more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based
handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement,
according to two people with knowledge of the terms.
Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used
in its phones, costs that will be offset as Nokia curtails its
own budget for software research and development, said one of
the people, who declined to be identified because the final
contrac... 阅读全帖 |
|
w*********s 发帖数: 2136 | 44 By Using False and Incomplete Information, You Will Make Bad Decisions About
Gold and Silver
May 5, 2011 By Patrick A. Heller
Back in January 1980, when the Hunt brothers pushed up the price of silver
to $50, many politically well-connected Wall Street firms were facing
massive losses. Suddenly, the COMEX changed the rules for trading
specifically to punish the Hunts and help these Wall Street firms recoup
some of their losses.
Among the most outrageous rule changes was a prohibition against ne... 阅读全帖 |
|
u********e 发帖数: 4950 | 45 其实熊市中不乏强烈的反弹,这些强烈反弹有一部分可能要归功于short squeeze.
When a stock is sold short, the sellers always represent future demand for
the stock because they must repurchase shares they sold short at some future
date either to close out a winning trade or to minimize their losses.
A short squeeze develops when those who sold short the stock, expecting it
to declining in price, change their minds about the trade and attempt to
cover their position before the market advances and large losses accumulate.
There ... 阅读全帖 |
|
M*****8 发帖数: 17722 | 46 Is It 1937 All Over Again?
Background:
Have global events begun to look and sound too familiar in 2011 to a
previous era in the 1930s? In 1937, economic conditions were surprisingly
similar to those at present. Commodity prices were rising, people worried
about inflation and deficits, and so they acted -- and paid the price. Many
who remember history ask: how does the recent stall in major economies
compare to 1937? At that time, the US economy had been growing rapidly for
three years, thanks in... 阅读全帖 |
|
v****e 发帖数: 19471 | 47 THINGS MAY HAVE TO GET WORSE BEFORE THEY GET BETTER
"Arthur Hill recently described the current trading range as a "wave four" c
onsolidation within a "five-wave" decline. That fits with my view for anothe
r downleg which would most likely occur during the month of October. That ca
rries good and bad news. The bad news is that lower prices are expected into
October. The good news is that a five-wave decline is usually followed by a
rally. In addition, Octobers have a history of experiencing lowe... 阅读全帖 |
|
c*****r 发帖数: 8227 | 48 这么多不利因素合力作用,Fed恐怕也是无力回天了。。。
By David Rosenberg
1. The Philly Fed index: The Philly Fed index came in at -12.9 in July
and in the past three months has averaged -11.8. Rosenberg writes that an -
11.8 average over three months has "coincided with the U.S. economy tipping
over into recession seven of the eight times that such a negative reading
has occurred over such a time frame."
2. Retail sales: Retail sales crumbled in June falling 0.5 percent,
declining three months in a row. Looking b... 阅读全帖 |
|
a**i 发帖数: 608 | 49 市场急需 CRASH 一把来提高点人气,
否则很多机构和短线 trader 包括 day trader 都要死掉了。
Wall Street Equities Traders Face Worst Year Since 2006
By Michael J. Moore | Bloomberg
Wall Street banks' equities-trading units aren't getting much relief from
the strongest stock rally since 2009, as sinking volume and already thin
margins threaten to make their annual performance the worst in six years.
Third-quarter equities-trading revenue probably fell 14 percent from the
same period in 2011, the fifth straight drop of more than 8... 阅读全帖 |
|
t*****9 发帖数: 10416 | 50 巴豆来啦 ~~
ISM manufacturing hits 51.3 in January vs. 56.0 estimate
Ford sales fell 7.5% vs. Est. Decline of 2.3%
GM sales declined 12% vs. Est. Decline of 2.5%
Toyota Sales Down 7.2% vs. Est. Decline of 2.7% |
|