"appropriate to avoid overheating" is a phrase more appropriate to a time long past.

Fed's Mester: 3 rate hikes per year appropriate to avoid overheating, reach-for-yield

They can only get away with shrinking the Fed balance sheet if they do it VERY slowly.

The Fed's about to try something that almost always has ended in recession

It was never the Trump trade. It was all about earnings and it still is. Schwab puts out earnings forecasts several quarters ahead and projections are surprisingly strong Q2 2018. Strong future earnings forecasts give investors confidence.

Stocks are at records, but it’s no longer the ‘Trump trade’

Slap on fake uniforms, march into southern Ukraine and people don't like you? What's up with that?

Russian PM: "The U.S. Just Declared Full-Blown Trade War On Russia"

"Credit expansion is followed by a credit crisis, every time. Credit expansion is the root cause behind every subsequent recession." Credit expansion is the result of following the absurd belief in linear expansion. The root cause of the 2008 ...

Why Economists Cannot Forecast Recessions

May as well find out now if the Russians gave NK a modern air defense. Clearly not. So just keep on working on antimissile weapons and pressure China to sanction NK. And I don't know why anyone would think a surgical strike on nuclear assets would ...

U.S. flies bombers over Korean peninsula after North Korea missile test

This too shall pass.

An "Angry, Frustrated" China Hits Back Over Trump's Latest Tweets

That McCain, what a maverick!

Dollar dips as the Senate denies Trump again, Q2 US growth eyed

Yep, they don't have to bother with those pesky rules of the SEC, and don't forget another possible use: magic money tree for the idiot socialists (they've been looking for the mmt for a very long time)

Billionaire investor Marks, who called the dotcom bubble, says bitcoin is a 'pyramid scheme'

Not in the USA. If crypto-currencies are determined to facilitate criminal racketeering they'll be subject to RICO statutes. And that includes personal property confiscation, surveillance, and draconian criminal prosecution.

Billionaire investor Marks, who called the dotcom bubble, says bitcoin is a 'pyramid scheme'

Yeah, money laundering, tax evasion, ransom bank, et cetera.

Billionaire investor Marks, who called the dotcom bubble, says bitcoin is a 'pyramid scheme'

News headline about 30 minutes ago: 'Feds Bust Reputed Bitcoin Baron In $4 Billion Scheme To Launder Drug Money, Ransomware, Bribes And Identity Theft Scams' I'd say the bitcoin money laundering bubble is about to burst.

Billionaire investor Marks, who called the dotcom bubble, says bitcoin is a 'pyramid scheme'

cliffedwards: Yeah..good post. Lot of ground covered. cant comment on the politics. Of course you can comment on US politics. You are a human being on planet Earth and USA screwups can affect you. cliffedwards: I cant understand how overseas wars ...

The Senate just rejected a plan to repeal Obamacare without a replacement

The earth is flat, monsters lie beyond our known limit. AI is dangerous, computers will enslave us. The common thread, some people are ridiculous.

Why China’s communist party may regret developing true AI technology

Humans are born with the need for food, water, warmth, etcetera. We develope wants and desires based on our understanding of a very limited existence. As we learn how short a time we have, the intensity and desires increase. We learn to WANT things ...

Billionaire tech titan Mark Cuban on A.I.: ‘It scares the s--- out of me’

Hurst, I could program a computer to murder you. But there is NO WAY a computer would decide to do that for itself. It simply doesn't care. I hate to tell you this but the Universe is indifferent. Our sun will expand into a red giant and swallow up ...

Billionaire tech titan Mark Cuban on A.I.: ‘It scares the s--- out of me’

Over-inflated Chipotle stock was the real reason sheeple investors wandered out of that paddock. Chipotle isn't the only restaurant that can make a burrito.

One sick worker is to blame for Chipotle’s $1B value loss

Wow. You don't know computers at all! I did my first machine coding on a 6502 microprocessor in 1979. I've been programming ever since. Computers never lie. They just do what you tell them to do. They're toasters. Complex programming can look like ...

Billionaire tech titan Mark Cuban on A.I.: ‘It scares the s--- out of me’

Ugh... Cuban will be long dead before they even get the optane computer working properly. There is no chance for significant advances in AI before then.

Billionaire tech titan Mark Cuban on A.I.: ‘It scares the s--- out of me’

Vegetarian? No. They dislike all animal products except dairy. I think dairy is toxic with hormones and antibiotics. Vegetarians say honey is out, which is crazy. Without funding for beekeepers, where do they think crops come from? Honey is ...

Cow disease found in dairy herd for first time in New Zealand