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There has been an agreed upon definition for recession decades. Anyone not using it should not be trusted. Depression is the term with no solid definition.

It's funny to watch the talk about how the government should pay for it as an "investment" while ignoring: a) How much it costs. b) What the expected resulting wage is. c) The total lack of scaling of loans for various degree programs to the actual employment prospects for those fields. If you...

Ok. But does that mean Intel won't make money? I contend that you want to look at who is providing a good value to their customer, what is their volume of sales and what is their profit margin. Often being on the bleeding edge is a great way to lose money. Would you invest in an aircraft...

I'm long Intel but I think it will be years before I win. It's less important who has the absolute fastest processor. It's more important how much they sell and what their profit is. I'm buying the company not a single chip for a CPU drag race

It's funny how the socialists here can't even see the exorbitant cost as a problem to be solved. Somehow the government paying the cost entirely will somehow magically remove the burden of that cost from society! Stuff paid for by you taxes is free!!! $39,723 tuition and fees for a...

College is so expensive in America precisely because of government intervention. If you want to prove it, just looks a the cost to go to a top tier school and a lower ranked school. The costs are almost identical because the cost is set based on what students can borrow, not the value of the...

If you're talking "value" you have to talk fundamentals. Just because somebody paid X for something doesn't mean that it's actually worth that price. People get great deals for things or overpay all the time. You can study the "price action" on a $100 million dollar deli all you want, but a...

Bull. Zero hedge is simply open to many viewpoints rather than being the groupthink echo chamber that is most of the media. It's sad that modern "liberals" cannot handle even the slightest difference in viewpoint. If you want talk talk about pushing "Russian propaganda" look at how every...

That's like saying you buy houses from house flippers, and only at prices less than their cost. You buy stock from anybody selling it. It could be a market maker, an investor, trader, or the company itself. The other side might be realizing a gain or a loss when you do so. You don't know and...

Off topic but, why on earth get involved in CFD and all the various associated risks when you can just own the actual stock? If I own shares in IBM, I lose my money if IBM fails. If you hold a CFD, you lose money from the failure of either of two companies. One of which might be exposed in...

Dot com was obvious because people were throwing money at anything even vaguely related to the internet 2008 was obvious because appropriate diligence was not being done on lending. Even with something being obviously doomed in the long term, many will pile in during the short term hoping to...

You're still calculating investable assets based on total net worth! Again, someone being a millionaire does not mean the have a checking account balance of 1 million. That may just mean they own their own house, 4 plumbing vans and a small warehouse. Yes, they could sell all that, but then...

So what? Your typical millionaire doesn't have some scrooge mcduckian vault full of liquid currency. Of that 160 trillion, a huge fraction is tied up in real estate, productive investments, non liquid accounts like 401k, etc. Assuming all the worlds millionaires decide to make themselves...

I don't think most people consider the scale of the situation. 20m Bitcoin x 1m each is 2e13 dollars or 20 trillion dollars. That's roughly the size of the entire us GDP. You would have that much money tied up in a non productive asset. People would have to sell productive assets at a...

So what price would you buy at? Revenue seems to be down 13% TTM compared to the last full year. That hardly seems like an apocalyptic loss of market share to me. Income is still positive. Operating income is more than 3X of AMD. Revenue is about triple that of AMD. Profit margin is...

For the most part they can't even effectively teach basic algebra. "New York high-schoolers who took the Regents Common Core Algebra I exam this month had to earn just 27 of 86 points, or 31.4 percent, to pass. "...

Without exchanges the price crashes. Looks what happened to Russian stocks when trading halted. I think you're dramatically underestimating the ruthlessness of governments. Read about executive order 6102. Individual gold storage was certainly "decentralized" across the entire country, but...

No, that's nit-wit nonsense. We're not in a court of law, we're on a trading forum. We don't have to pretend that some unknown rando has developed the best trading system ever, just because he's obviously tweaked some data to only show the good parts. We as free men, are free to say he's full...

It's not my problem. It's on their end. By design they steer you towards promoted content and things that they think will keep you "engaged" rather than what you actually searched for. The difference is that I know how good Google USED to be 20 years ago. It is a steaming pile of dog crap...

Youtube is super annoying to learn anything from. Want to find out how to do the brakes on a 2010 Ford XYZ? 1) The search will show you tons of crap that's not what you want but is "promoted" it takes 5X longer than it should to find something. 2) Even if you find the video, it's take a 1/2...