"A number of endmarkets continue to be sluggish. In particular, the trend of declining vehicle sales in China has accelerated in February, causing dealer inventories to increase sharply."
The current rally off the December 2018 low has been lead by tech stocks, and has the Semiconductor ETF approaching another important crossroads. (see chart)
We either take down Facebook and Google and turn them into tightly regulated transparent public utilities available to all or they will destroy what little is left of American democracy...
When the Matrix came out (20 years ago), the idea of living in a video game was squarely in the realm of science fiction. Today, the simulation hypothesis is debated seriously by computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others...
Facebook and Google - which earned 60% of all digital advertising revenue in the US last year - have played a major role in the decline of local news outlets.
In its quest for global, and galactic monopolistic domination, Amazon had refused to do was to aggressively go after his online tech giant peers. Until now.
"The games have shown to be very accurate in measuring a wide range of relevant social, cognitive and behavioral features -- things like attention, memory and altruism."
