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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

daniel January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Does eBay actually compete with Amazon?, eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), eBay is a value investment, eBay is a value investment because it could be Amazon-proof., eBay is a value investment because it generates a lot of cash, eBay is a value investment because it makes money, Why eBay is a value investment

Why eBay is a value investment, sort of?

Under these circumstances, eBay achieves classic value investment criteria. In particular, eBay generates a lot of cash but maintains a low stock price.

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daniel November 23, 2018 Does Salesforce Make Money?, How Cloud 2.0 will power future growth at Salesforce (CRM), How GitHub Threatens Salesforce's (CRM) Future, Is Salesforce (CRM) a Good Dividend Stock?, Is Salesforce a value investment?, Is Salesforce making money?, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), New Opportunities for Salesforce (CRM), Salesforce, Salesforce (CRM) and Cloud 2.0, Salesforce (CRM) is a Cash Rich Company, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), The Bright Future at Salesforce (CRM), Why Microsoft is a Better Stock than Salesforce (CRM)

Is Salesforce (CRM) making money?

Salesforce (CRM) is a profitable software company that most people are unfamiliar with. Most investors are unfamiliar with Salesforce because

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daniel August 22, 2018 (Advanced Technologies Group, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), autonomous van, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Fiat Chrysler’s (NYSE: FCAU), Khosrowshahi, Self-Driving Van, Toyota (NYSE: TM), Uber, Waymo, Will Khosrowshahi sell the Uber Self Driving Car?

Uber and Toyota plan Self-Driving Van

Strangely, Uber’s exit from autonomous vehicles will hasten the self-driving car’s arrival. A manufacturer will gain several years of intensive research and vast amounts of data from the ATG.
That research and data will put a company several years ahead of the competition. A company with experience building autonomous vehicles; like Fiat Chrysler; can use that data to create a self-driving car.

Cryptocurrency Market Commentary

daniel August 8, 2018 Are Prediction Markets a Good Bet?, are Prediction Markets Profitable?, Augur, Augur (REP), Augur (REP) or Reputation, Augur and Gnosis, Augur asks are Prediction Markets Profitable?, Building Better Algorithms and AI through Predictions Markets, Do Prediction Markets have any Value?, Gnosis (GNO), prediction market cryptocurrency, Prediction Markets, Predictions Market, Stox (STX), The Most Ambitious Predictions Market Yet, Using wagers and Blockchain to Hedge Cryptocurrency

Augur asks are Prediction Markets Profitable?

Augur is designed to be the most ambitious blockchain predictions market yet. It intends to collect data from Political Forecasts, Event Hedging, Weather Prediction, and Company Forecasting.
Anybody can go into Augur’s Ethereum blockchain platform and create a prediction market. That’s where the weird markets about Betty White’s murder came from. A person can take odds on any event.

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daniel July 25, 2018 Alibaba Holdings, Alibaba Holdings (NYSE: BABA), Alibaba is undervalued, China’s middle class, China’s Wealth is Sustainable, Chinese middle class, Investing in China’s Middle Class, Is China’s Middle Class Sustainable?, Is the China Boom Sustainable?

Is Alibaba Holdings Making Money?

Such figures make the case for Alibaba as a growth and a value investment. China is becoming a middle class nation and Alibaba is its department store. Just as Sears was America’s department store in the 20th Century.
Upwardly mobile Chinese will buy the trappings of their middle class lifestyle from Alibaba. Just as upwardly mobile Americans religiously shopped at Sears in the 1960s and 1970s.

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daniel July 9, 2018 Can Instacart Save Costco from Amazon?, Costco, Costco Dividend, Costco is Huge, Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), free Instacart, free Instacart delivery, Instacart, Is Costco Making Money?, Is Costco’s Business Sustainable?, The Wonderful Costco Dividend, Will Costco make More Money?

Will Costco make More Money?

Despite the success of Amazon, Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) is still one of the most followed retailers around. Costco can

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daniel June 14, 2018 Are Gold Mining Stocks a Value Investment?, Autonomous Mining will help Newmont Make More Money, Green Energy will soon cut Mining Costs, How Technology will Help Newmont Make More Money, Is Gold a Value Investment?, Is Newmont Mining a Value Investment?, Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM), Newmont Mining Corp, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA

Are Gold Miners Making Money at Newmont Mining Corp?

Gold is one of the most interesting economic barometers around because its price is a good measure of the fear

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daniel October 21, 2017 000 created over the past four years still exceeds the number of lost department store positions; 80, 000 department-store positions were cut between July 2016 and July 2017., 000., Around 32, Destructive Effects of the Retail Job Apocalypse, Online retail jobs pay far better than department-store work., Retail Job Apocalypse, Retail Jobs Apocalypse is worse than you think, Sears Canada is dead, The number of new retail jobs 100, The rate of overall employment fell in 75% of the counties the Fed studied between 2012 and 2017, the retail jobs apocalypse is more widespread and destructive than most people think

Retail Jobs Apocalypse is worse than you think

It looks as if the havoc being wreaked by the retail apocalypse is worse than we thought. This study also gives us a rough picture of the future of retail employment and it is not pretty.

There will be fewer jobs in fewer places in the future but they will pay more. That means more competition for fewer jobs between employees and communities.

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daniel July 24, 2017 Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Alphabet and Facebook Reporting, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Big Earnings Week, Big Earnings Week Amazon, Earnings Week, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), How Amazon or Alphabet could trigger a Market Crash, Is McDonald’s Stock about to Collapse, McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), PG, Proctor & Gamble (NYSE: PG), Same Old Same Old with some Great Stocks

Big Earnings Week Amazon, P&G, Alphabet and Facebook Reporting

What’s even more frightening is that one bad earnings report from either Amazon or Google might trigger a market crash. Those companies are simply that huge and important to investors; that alone should have us asking if those behemoths are now too “big to fail.”

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daniel May 29, 2017 confiscatory taxation aimed at the rich, Data shows why Americans’ Retirement Accounts will be subjected to Confiscatory Taxes, Great Wizard Trump, Half of All Americans Have no Retirement Savings, high confiscatory taxes directed at affluent seniors and their retirement accounts, Nearly half of whom have no pension; or meaningful retirement savings, Retirement Income Inequality, Retirement Income Inequality will drive a Paradigm Shift to the Left in American Politics, Tax Those Rich Boomers, Why Class Warfare will break Out among Senior Citizens, Why Politicians will Tax IRAs

Data shows why Americans’ Retirement Accounts will be subjected to Confiscatory Taxes

Income inequality will lead to deep political divisions among senior citizens that will profoundly change voting patterns. These divisions will unfold along racial, regional and class lines and bring about a paradigm shift to the left in American politics.

A result of that will be high confiscatory taxes directed at affluent seniors and their retirement accounts. Expect to see many wealthy older people flee the United States to escape those taxes in the decades ahead.