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The Hang Seng Index opened 168 points higher at 21,220. It turned from up to down in the early part. It fell 36 points at one point and hit a half-day low of 21,015. There was support near 21,000. The market stopped falling and rebounded, up 230 points at most, and hit a full-day high of 21,282 at noon. Up 110 points. The Hang Seng Index fell below the morning low in the afternoon. Before 2:00 p.m., it fell 189 points to a daily low of 20,862 points. After that, it once regained the lost ground and softened in the late market. The Hang Seng Index closed down 60 points to 20,991, with a daily high-low range of 419 points. The HS Tech index closed at 4,431, down 63 points. The full-day turnover of the market was HK$148.2 billion , a decrease of nearly 15% from the previous day.

Entering the first week of 2023, a total of four trading days, the Hang Seng Index rose by 1,210 points; for three consecutive weeks, it rose by 1,540 points; the HS Tech index rose 303 points for the whole week

The market digested and implemented the specific arrangements for customs clearance. Hong Kong stocks first rose and then fell last Friday. The HSI technical indicators such as the RSI on the 14th have been overbought, but there is still no significant U-turn, and the capital flow is still strong. It cannot be ruled out that under the favorable factors such as the return to normal in the Mainland and the customs clearance between China and Hong Kong, funds will re-flow into Hong Kong stocks at the beginning of the year. It is not suitable for the time being. See too lightly. It is expected that the Hang Seng Index may consolidate at the 250-DMA(20,350) level, and the upper resistance is at 22,450 points. As long as it does not fall below the key level of the 20-DMA (19,750) in the short term, the possibility of a sharp drop is not high.

The United States added 223,000 non-agricultural jobs in December last year, more than the 202,000 expected by the market, reflecting the recent strength of the US labor market; however, wage growth has slowed down significantly, and hourly wages increased by only 4.6% year-on-year, which was less than expected. It indicates that inflationary pressures are slowing down, or giving the Fed room to slow down the pace of raising interest rates. The US stock market was positive, the Dow closed up 700 points at 33,630 points. The benchmark index closed up 86 points at 3,895. The Nasdaq closed up 264 points at 10,569.

Last week, the Dow climbed 1.5%, the S&P 86 also gained 1.5%, and the Nasdaq rose 1%.

Looking ahead, Leon Cooperman, a well-known American investor, has very low expectations for the US stock market this year. He believes that there is a 50% chance that the index will remain between 3,600 and 4,600 points throughout the year, and a 45% chance that it will fall to around 3,000 points.

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untitledtheunknown · 3 years

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Valor Rzeszutek timeline from birth to 2077+ cuz have put way too much thought and planning into his dumb ass. It's not 100% to everything, a lot of things are over simplified and had major effects on him, as well as other smaller events that did occur. But its something to kinda base him on of where he's been and where he's at now.

October 21st 1994 - Valor and Glory Rzeszutek were born to engineer Jeremiah and corpo Vivienne Rzeszutek in South Africa.

August 2005 - Vivienne received a new position with the HQ of her company, uprooting the family from SA to NUSA Las Vegas.

June 2006 - Jeremiah takes Valor with him on a small trip to NC, surprises him with tickets to see Samurai.

October 21st 2006 - Valor gets his first electric guitar for his 12th birthday.

November 19th 2010 - Vivienne dies of sudden health complications. Corporation covers her funeral costs and gives an additional 1 year salary to the family.

July 2012 - Valor joins Lazarus Group starting his mercenary/solo career.

September 2012 - Jeremiah leaves LV joining a group of Nomads heading East.

2013-15 - Valor served as gunner for Trauma Team LV; Glory was quickly rising through corprate ranks with Liive a doll company.

December 2017 - Corprate counter extractions, target found dead in a warehouse with a wreath around his head. First of many to be found this way.

2021-27 - Valor is assigned on military contract back to SA, orders suggested territory dispute and area fortification but actual politics of it was left out for troops. Mostly a show of muscle and patrolling different hot zones.

February 4th 2027 - Transport detail, halfway camp under fire. 14 dead another dozen injured, Valor and 3 others are taken prisoner.

February 6th 2027 - Valor wakes up strapped to an operating table, system diagnosis states a foreign piece of unregistered cyberware has been installed. Installation location is unknown as all ports are open, given the bandaging around his head and the pain at the base of his skull, assumed it was surgically implanted.

February 8th 2027 - Dumped in an unknown location, small town, in the middle of the night. Bloody, bruised, and weak manages to get himself up and starts to stumble down the empty street. Chip is activated, neural system goes offline, cyberpsychosis takes over sending Valor into a chaotic feral state.

February 9th-15th 2027 - Valor is held prisoner by local military company. Believing he works for the black market vendors he is tortured for days on end until information arrives that he is one of the MIA soldiers with Lazarus Group. Returned to a nearby base and sent back to NUSA for medical evaluation.

March 30th 2027 - Valor is released from medical care, honorably discharged from Lazarus for medical purposes. Do to the chip's nature it is unable to be removed, with no known tracers on the technology he is put on as risk for possible cyberpsychosis relapse. No evidence to prove that he will relapse he is free to leave the facility.

June 2027 - Valor meets a street drummer that goes by Rango. Former Nomad, part time roadie. He's a part time drummer and makes for good company, two start hanging out on the regular.

August 19th 2027 - Abduction in progress, high on painkillers Valor gives chase. First official run in with Arasaka Extractor, Umbra. Though the fight was short lived and Valor failed, Umbra, impressed with vitality and fight, severs Valor's ring finger. Taking it as an oath for the fight to continue on a better day for the solo.

December 7th 2027 - Valor is selected among a small group of Solos for a new prototype of cyberarms known as the MonoBlades by Kendachi. Do to his medical records he is unable to undergo the procedure for the new cybernetics though is assured his spot will be held until he's well enough.

April 2028 - Once again confronted with Umbra, though no fight happens, terms of the affair are made clear. Valor is being stalked by the other, for better or for worse. Next several months this obsession is made clear.

September 2028 - Convinced by his sister that he needs to get out more, get back to work, do something with his time. In a haze of foggy memories ends up joining an inferno and becoming a dom for hire. Pays good and keeps his nights filled can't complain.

December 19th 2028 - Clearance for the new cyberarms is granted, Valor is sent to one of Kendachi's orbital stations to receive the procedure and physical therapy for the new arms.

March 14th 2029 - Contacted by an old Netrunner friend asking to meet up. Meeting up at a Café off the old strip Sami introduces Valor to Kelvy Kai-Eurodyne, an independent media hunting down a Netrunner killer in NC. The name Umbra comes up in intercepted Arasaka documents, Valor tells them to drop it if they value any part of their lives before leaving the Café.

September 2029 - Working more on his music, got a group of friends together and produced their first demo by the end of the year going by the name Herken.

April 2030 - Local rock station for Central Vegas started playing their music, shortly there after Damion Kre Saint for No End Records signed the band, started work on their first official album.

August 2031 - Herken releases their first studio album, Remembering Nothing More to major success

October 15 2031 - First major tour for the band, switching from opening act to headliner at different gigs

May 2033 - Second album is released, touring there after

September 2036 - Third studio album is released, Cherish the Pain, album becomes a sensation in the rock scene

2038 - after several strings of murders, and NC naming a new serial killer, Sami contacts Valor thanking him for his warning nearly 10 years ago about Umbra.

February 2040 - Fourth album is released

August 2045 - Valor returns to work with Lazarus, back into solo work, mainly preforming counter extractions.

November 2046 - Attempted counter extraction comes too late, Valor calls in the body only to be confronted with Umbra as he attempts to exit the scene. Conversation was not recorded, both men left unharmed.

March 17 2049 - Glory Rzeszutek is murdered several blocks from her home, during an attempted robbery. Trauma is unable to revive her, information regarding her death is forwarded out to Valor there after.

March 23 2049 - Valor is switched from ops being put back on leave to manage his sister's affairs. He is the sole beneficiary to her estate, inheriting her wealth and stock with Liive, overnight making him a multi-billionaire and part of the Vegas elite.

April 2049 - dealing with the loss of his twin sister, Valor begins to go through a deep pit of depression. Having dealt with loss before, Solo career wasn't uncommon to lose friends, this however was different. Depression began to manifest into visual and audio hallucinations, making work nearly impossible to do

May 2049 - Jan 2050 - Valor is in and out of court and legal hearings in regards to his inheritance and the remainder of his sister's estate. Interviews running like its a celebratory thing gaining this wealth, truth being he just wants to get back to work. Ending result 75% of the wealth is locked in accounts and will not be released for another 20+ years.

February 2050 - Valor once again returns to work with Lazarus taking on smaller gigs for a time. Still dealing with his own mental state, he refuses to take on anymore large gigs.

July 2051 - Contract comes in for a security gig, easy job, 24/7 body detail for 1 year on tour. Contract is immediately pushed forward to Valor who accepts, only during briefing for the gig find out its for Kerry Eurodyne.

July 2052 - contract concluded with the tour a benefits relationship starts between Kerry and Valor. Valor opting to stay in NC for a few months extra on a "private" contract with the Rockerboy.

September 2054 - Kerry once again hires Valor as security for a shorter tour, media events for new album put on by his label.

2057 - Rumors start to surface that Umbra has been decommissioned amongst a small group of extractors, Sami brings up that Arasaka is keeping it quiet because he was the NC Gallery Killer and that is not a PR mess any company wants to deal with. All traces of him have been scrubbed from their databanks.

2058 - Valor receives a token from the Nomad group The Veils, and invitation to join them. Having heard rumors of the group, he's hesitant to act, even more so to inform anyone.

June 2059 - Valor retires from Lazarus and takes up the offering on The Veils token, following it out into the desert.

2060 - He is officially accepted into the clan, given a title by Azera and branded as part of them with his unique code. Beginning of a new life.

2067 - Valor begins spending more time at the Edges of Silence, a bleak stretch of dead desert where nothing grows. The clan believes the desert out there will either consume or the spirits will direct. Something keeps calling him back whenever he is close.

August 2074 - The choice is made to continue heading out West, follow the signs and see if he can make sense of the visions and voices. Gifted passage and return by Azera it is not a final goodbye from the clan.

2075 - Settled into NC, doesn't take long for his reputation to catch up with him, starts taking on independent Solo gigs. Quickly climbing up the chain and becoming a regular at the Afterlife, a gifted work horse for Rogue, but one she knows will get any job done.

2077 - Happens, that was a thing... yeah.

January 2078 - Valor and Kerry make the trip back out to The Veils, after a trial devoted to loyalty, Azera decides to spare them both, attempting to save Valor from the effects of the Relic.

May 2078 - Finally wakes back up, and on the recovery as his vitals have evened out and a sense of normalcy is restored. Though some side effects of the Relic cannot be reverted in his current body, he has his life with no threat of a imminent collapse.

#cp77 valor #cyberpunk oc #oc timeline #cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #i hope this makes some sense to someone who may care #i finally finished it to a point lol

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Who is he.

Ben Bernanke

14th Chair of Federal Reserve

Ben Shalom Bernanke (/bərˈnæŋki/ bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as the 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve, from 2006 to 2014. During his tenure as chair, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis, for which he was named the 2009 Time Person of the Year. Before becoming Federal Reserve chair, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.

Quick Facts 14th Chair of the Federal Reserve, President ...

From August 5, 2002, until June 21, 2005, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, proposed the Bernanke Doctrine, and first discussed "the Great Moderation" — the theory that traditional business cycles have declined in volatility in recent decades through structural changes that have occurred in the international economy, particularly increases in the economic stability of developing nations, diminishing the influence of macroeconomic (monetary and fiscal) policy.

Bernanke then served as chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush nominated him to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. His first term began February 1, 2006. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman on January 28, 2010, after being renominated by President Barack Obama, who later referred to him as "the epitome of calm." His second term ended January 31, 2014, when he was succeeded by Janet Yellen on February 3, 2014.

Bernanke wrote about his time as chairman of the Federal Reserve in his 2015 book, The Courage to Act, in which he revealed that the world's economy came close to collapse in 2007 and 2008. Bernanke asserts that it was only the novel efforts of the Fed (cooperating with other agencies and agencies of foreign governments) that prevented an economic catastrophe greater than the Great Depression.

Family and childhood

Bernanke was born in Augusta, Georgia, and was raised on East Jefferson Street in Dillon, South Carolina. His father Philip was a pharmacist and part-time theater manager. His mother Edna was an elementary school teacher. Bernanke has two younger siblings. His brother, Seth, is a lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina. His sister, Sharon, is a longtime administrator at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

The Bernankes were one of the few Jewish families in Dillon and attended Ohav Shalom, a local synagogue; Bernanke learned Hebrew as a child from his maternal grandfather, Harold Friedman, a professional hazzan (service leader), shochet, and Hebrew teacher. Bernanke's father and uncle owned and managed a drugstore they purchased from Bernanke's paternal grandfather, Jonas Bernanke.

Jonas Bernanke was born in Boryslav, Austria-Hungary (today part of Ukraine), on January 23, 1891. He immigrated to the United States from Przemyśl, Poland, and arrived at Ellis Island, aged 30, on June 30, 1921, with his wife Pauline, aged 25. On the ship's manifest, Jonas's occupation is listed as "clerk" and Pauline's as "doctor med".

The family moved to Dillon from New York in the 1940s. Bernanke's mother gave up her job as a schoolteacher when her son was born and worked at the family drugstore. Ben Bernanke also worked there sometimes.

Young adult

As a teenager, Bernanke worked construction on a hospital and waited tables at a restaurant at nearby South of the Border, a roadside attraction, amusement park and fireworks retailer, in his hometown of Dillon, before leaving for college. To support himself throughout college, he continued to work during the summers at South of the Border.

Religion

As a teenager in the 1960s, Bernanke would help roll the Torah scrolls in his local synagogue. Although he keeps his beliefs private, his friend Mark Gertler, chairman of New York University's economics department, says they are "embedded in who he (Bernanke) is." Once Bernanke was at Harvard for his freshman year, Fellow Dillon native Kenneth Manning took him to Brookline for Rosh Hashanah services.

Education

Bernanke was educated at East Elementary, J.V. Martin Junior High, and Dillon High School, where he was class valedictorian and played saxophone in the marching band. Since Dillon High School did not offer calculus at the time, Bernanke taught it to himself. Bernanke scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and was a National Merit Scholar. He also was a contestant in the 1965 National Spelling Bee.

Bernanke attended Harvard College in 1971, where he lived in Winthrop House, as did the future CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. degree, and later with an A.M. in economics summa cum laude in 1975. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 after completing and defending his dissertation, Long-Term Commitments, Dynamic Optimization, and the Business Cycle. Bernanke's thesis adviser was the future governor of the Bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, and his readers included Irwin S. Bernstein, Rüdiger Dornbusch, Robert Solow, and Peter Diamond of MIT and Dale Jorgenson of Harvard.

Personal life

Ben and Anna Bernanke

Bernanke met his wife, Anna, a schoolteacher, on a blind date. She was a student at Wellesley College, and he was in graduate school at MIT.[citation needed] The Bernankes have two children, Joel and Alyssa. He is an ardent fan of the Washington Nationals baseball team, and frequently attends games at Nationals Park.

When Bernanke left Stanford to accept a position at Princeton, he and his family moved to Montgomery Township, New Jersey, in 1985, where Bernanke's children attended the local public schools. Bernanke served for six years as a member of the board of education of the Montgomery Township School District.

In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Bernanke was a victim of identity theft, a spreading crime the Federal Reserve has for years issued warnings about.

Academic and government career (1979–2006)

Bernanke meeting with United States President Barack Obama.

Bernanke taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1979 until 1985, was a visiting professor at New York University and went on to become a tenured professor at Princeton University in the Department of Economics. He chaired that department from 1996 until September 2002, when he went on public service leave. He resigned his position at Princeton July 1, 2005.

Bernanke served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2002 to 2005. In one of his first speeches as a Governor, entitled "Deflation: Making Sure It Doesn't Happen Here", he outlined what has been referred to as the Bernanke Doctrine.

As a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 20, 2004, Bernanke gave a speech in which he postulated that we are in a new era called the Great Moderation, where modern macroeconomic policy has decreased the volatility of the business cycle to the point that it should no longer be a central issue in economics.

In June 2005, Bernanke was named chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, and resigned as Fed Governor. The appointment was largely viewed as a test run to ascertain if Bernanke could be Bush's pick to succeed Greenspan as Fed chairman the next year. He held the post until January 2006.

Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve

Bernanke testifying before the House Financial Services Committee responding to a question on February 10, 2009.

On February 1, 2006, Bernanke began a fourteen-year term as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and a four-year term as chairman (after having been nominated by President Bush in late 2005). By virtue of the chairmanship, he sat on the Financial Stability Oversight Board that oversees the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He also served as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee, the System's principal monetary policy making body.

His first months as chairman of the Federal Reserve System were marked by difficulties communicating with the media. An advocate of more transparent Fed policy and clearer statements than Greenspan had made, he had to back away from his initial idea of stating clearer inflation goals as such statements tended to affect the stock market. Maria Bartiromo disclosed on CNBC comments from their private conversation at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. She reported that Bernanke said investors had misinterpreted his comments as indicating that he was "dovish" on inflation. He was sharply criticized for making public statements about Fed direction, which he said was a "lapse in judgment."

Financial crisis of 2007–2008

Bernanke (left) in September 2008 as President Bush speaks about the economy

Further information: Financial crisis of 2007–08

As the Great Recession deepened, Bernanke oversaw some unorthodox measures. Under his guidance, the Fed lowered its funds interest rate from 5.25% to 0.0% within less than a year. When this was considered insufficient to abate the liquidity crisis, the Fed initiated quantitative easing, creating $1.3 trillion from November 2008 to June 2010 and using the created money to buy financial assets from banks and from the government.

Second term

Bernanke answers questions in 2013 at FOMC press conference

On August 25, 2009, President Obama announced he would nominate Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. In a short statement on Martha's Vineyard, with Bernanke standing at his side, Obama said Bernanke's background, temperament, courage and creativity helped to prevent another Great Depression in 2008.

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Supply Chain Experts Take on Amazon: Benjamin Gordon in Palm Beach Post

Executives pondered options this week during the BG Strategic Advisors Supply Chain Conference at the Breakers in Palm Beach. Full Link Here The rapid growth of Amazon’s delivery business model was a hot topic among concerned logistics and transportation executives at the BG Strategic Advisors Supply Chain Conference at the Breakers this week. The issue is how to deal with Amazon’s spiraling growth in the logistics business – the term used to describe the online purchasing process, including “last mile” delivery to the consumer. The issue is how to deal with Amazon’s spiraling growth in the logistics business – the term used to describe the online purchasing process, including “last mile” delivery to the consumer. Amazon took another big step forward with the development of its own network of delivery vehicles in June 2018 through a program called Delivery Service Partners. By December 2019, the company was employing more than 90,000 “logistics associates” and was on track to deliver 3.5 billion packages worldwide by the end of the year, according to company reports. Amazon’s dark gray “Prime” vans are now ubiquitous in South Florida, and other markets across the country. Companies that had counted on Amazon accounts – including big names like UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service – are worried about taking a hit. “Amazon’s move into logistics has created massive ripple effects,” says Ben Gordon, founder and managing director of BGSA Holdings in Palm Beach and organizer of the BGSA Supply Chain Conference, which is in its 14th year. The annual event is billed as a gathering of the world’s leading CEOs in transportation and logistics. Gene Tyndall, chief strategy officer for Tompkins, a fulfillment services company in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a conference attendee, says Amazon not only cuts into business volume for the smaller players but often lures away their employees. Smaller e-retailers also lose valuable data when customers buy from Amazon rather than from the company’s own website because a direct purchase leaves names and purchase information with the retailer, while in a purchase through Amazon that information stays with Amazon. In addition, other logistics companies that might have delivered for the retailer lose out. “All these ripples add up to a lot to business people,” Tyndall said in an interview. “They’re a lot more worried about it than they were before.” Major companies are looking over their shoulders as well. Gordon, who is also a managing partner of Cambridge Capital in West Palm Beach, said FedEx stock took a 13 percent hit recently after an Amazon contract was dropped. He quoted FedEx CEO Fred Smith as saying: “We basically compete in an ecosphere that’s got five entities in it. There’s UPS, there’s DHL, there’s the U.S. Postal Service, and now, increasingly, there’s Amazon.” Amazon has about 38 percent of e-commerce business, according to Bloomberg. Tyndall thinks that if they hit 51 percent Amazon could start attracting government attention for antitrust issues. In fact, Bloomberg reported in September that Federal Trade Commission investigators had begun interviewing small businesses that sell products on Amazon to find out whether Amazon was using “its market power” to hurt competitors. The company didn’t respond to a request for a comment on the FTC probe, but spokespersons did vigorously defend their Delivery Service Partners program. Amazon is helping entrepreneurs develop their own business in which they earn up to $300,000 while hiring “tens of thousands of delivery drivers across the U.S.,” according to the spokespersons and company news releases. The company “provides technology and operational support to individuals with little or no logistics experience” and offers them the opportunity to run their own delivery businesses, Amazon says. The startups need as little as $10,000 to launch. Tyndall says Amazon has done “a great job” getting products to consumers, and one reason is that the company can afford to put warehouses – called fulfillment centers – in 110 strategic locations around the country. “The closer they are to you, the less they pay to deliver it to you,” he said. “Nobody has the capital to put 110 facilities up around the country. Most of the logistics companies have five, six or seven here and there.” He advises small vendors to sell their products “everywhere,” including on Amazon, but look for cheaper delivery methods. “You can’t do the same day, but most people don’t need the same day,” he said. Guy Bloch, CEO at Bringg, a Chicago- and Israel-based company that calls itself “a delivery orchestration platform,” is urging smaller logistics companies to work together in a coalition in order to compete with Amazon. He also envisions networks of “flexible warehousing” similar to an Airbnb model to keep goods closer to consumers. “Amazon is a powerhouse in logistics – no one even comes close,” Bloch, who was also a conference attendee, said in an interview. “No single player can stand up to Amazon, it’s impossible. However, if the entire market comes together – very similar to what Android did to iPhone – the combined power of the market can create an alternative to Amazon. We’re building it.” While businesses are wary about the future of e-commerce, they admire Amazon’s approach and record of success. “It’s pretty impressive what they’ve done and as a logistic expert, I think they’ve done a great job,” said Tyndall. “We all wish we had that much capital to match it.” For the complete Supply Chain Experts article in the Palm Beach Post, click here.

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All Architects Must Be Covid-19 Architects

How the Georgia Senate January 5th election will affect global architects, President Biden Architecture, US Building News

All Architects Today Must Be Covid-19 Architects

Historic US Election Review of Architectural Aspects: Architectural Column by Joel Solkoff, PA, USA Dec 21, 2020

Architecture under President Biden Part III

Joel Solkoff’s Column Vol. VI, Number 6

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“You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” — Abraham Lincoln

Representative Marcia Fudge, Democrat, Eighth Congressional District of Ohio. Photo in the public domain

No New Housing: Impact of the Trump 2020 HUD Budget

On March 11, 2019, the Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Summary. The White House is proposing more than $9 billion in cuts to critical housing programs. The House of Representatives FY 2020 Spending Bill would increase the funding levels of those programs by more than $3 Billion.

Selected ProgramsFY19 FinalFY20 Trump ($/% Change)House FY20 ($/% Change)Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)$3.365 B$-3.365 B / -100%$0.235 B / 6.98%Public Housing Capital Fund$2.775 B$-2.775 B / -100%$0.08 B / 2.88%Public Housing Operating Fund$4.653 B$-1.79 B / -38.47%$0.1 B / 2.15%HOME Investment Partnerships Program$1.25 B$-1.25 B / -100%$0.5 B / 40%Housing Choice Voucher Renewals$20.313 B$-0.197 B / -0.97%$1.087 B / 5.35%Section 202 Housing for the Elderly$0.678 B$-0.034 B / -5.01%$0.125 B / 18.44%Section 811 Housing For Persons with Disabilities$0.184 B$-0.027 B / -14.67%$0.075 B / 40.76%Project-Based Rental Assistance$11.747 B$0.274 B / 2.33%$0.843 B / 7.18%Total For Select Programs$44.965 B$-9.164 B / -20.38%$3.045 B / 6.77%

Thank you www.affordable housing.com

DATELINE Saturday December 19, 2020. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. I have moved to New York City, where I was born. to escape the inpending death toll rural Lycoming County will experience within the next few weeks. After the virus is controlled, I will return to beautiful Williamsport Pennsylvania and its architectural treasures on February 14th. I am currently in the hospital to take care of a series of too long neglected health problems anticipating that I will receive the coronavirus vaccine shortly.

I took this self portrait in June 2015 of the less than friendly disability entrance to Trump’s International luxury hotel and apartment condominium complex at Columbus Circle. Following the principles of unversal design would have been preferable if Trump’s de facto instructions were not based on stairs and hoopla.. I waited an unnecesryily long time for the elevator and became soaked as a consequenc. Hell of a way to treat a cancer patient returning to my friend’s place after therapy. This is how The New York Times described the building in April, 1996: “Fancier than Trump Tower. Glitzier than the Trump Taj Mahal. Pricier than Trump Palace or Trump Parc. Its glossy brochure trumpets Trump International as ‘the most important new address in the world.’

How the outcome of two senate races in Georgia will affect global architecture commisions

Let us start the analysis of the Georgia January 5th election with the big picture.

The big picture: As of yesrerday, 313,797 children, women and men have died from the crnavirus according to the Centers for Disease Control base in Atlanta. On the glass is half filled for architects, take joy from President elect Joe Biden’s selection of Rep. Marcia Fudge to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Here is Rep. Fudge from her official website: “Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge is a committed public servant who brings a hard-working, problem-solving spirit to Congress and to the task of creating jobs, protecting safety net programs, and improving access to quality public education, health care and healthy foods. First elected in 2008, she represents the people of the 11th Congressional District of Ohio.

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Congresswoman Fudge serves on the Committee on House Administration, House Committee on Agriculture and House Committee on Education and Labor. She is the Chair of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Elections and Chair of the Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations. She serves on the Subcommittees on Conservation and Forestry (Agriculture), Civil Rights and Human Services (Education & Labor) and Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (Education & Labor). In the 115th Congress, the Congresswoman served on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittees on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education and on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions. She also served as Ranking Member on the House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry and a member on the Subcommittee on Nutrition. She is a member of several Congressional Caucuses and past Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. ++++

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Our Delusional President Trump flew to Georgia this week to campaign for Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler

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Senator David Perdue, Incumbent Republican

Wikipedia – David Alfred Perdue Jr. (/pərˈduː/; born December 10, 1949) is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he has served as the senior United States Senator for Georgia since 2015.

After 12 years as a management consultant, Perdue became the senior vice president for Reebok. He later joined PillowTex, a North Carolina textile company.[2][3] He subsequently served as CEO of Dollar General.

Perdue ran for U.S. Senate in 2014, defeating Democratic nominee Michelle Nunn. He is running for reelection in 2020 against Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff. As neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the November 3 election, they face each other in a January 2021 runoff election. After the November election, Perdue called for the resignation of Georgia’s top elections official and claimed without evidence that there were unspecified “failures” in the election. He later supported a lawsuit by Trump allies seeking to overturn the election results.[5]

Perdue was linked to the 2020 Congressional insider trading scandal for allegations of STOCK Act violations. The allegations arose after he sold stocks before the 2020 stock market crash using knowledge speculated to be from a closed Senate meeting After reviews by the Senate Ethics Committee and the U.S. Department of Justice, Perdue was not charged with any crimes. The Justice Department closed its inquiry in mid-2020.

Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff

N.B. Two years ago I doanted $18 to Jon Ossoff’s campaign for the House of Representatives from Georogia. The election was to fill a vacant seat that happened when Re. Azar left thye House to become a an awful Secretary of Health and Humman Services for President Trump. The number 18 has spritual signifcance because the Herew alphabet applies numbers to lwtters. The Hebrew word for life [chai] is 18. In synagogues, i ndoners add 18 to their conytibutons to their synagogue. Also works for causes. In 1952 and 1956 my mother donated $18 to the Presidential campaigns of Adkai Stervenson.Photo in the public domaine.

Wikipedia: Jon Ossoff: “Thomas Jonathan Ossoff (/ˈɒsɒf/; born February 16, 1987) is an American politician and investigative journalist. He is the Democratic Party nominee for the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Georgia, running against Republican incumbent Senator David Perdue. Neither candidate reached the 50% threshold on the November 3 general election, triggering a runoff election on January 5, 2021.

Ossoff was the Democratic nominee in the historically expensive 2017 special election for Georgia’s 6th congressional district, which had long been considered a Republican stronghold. After finishing first, but without a majority in the all-party primary election, he lost the runoff with 48.2% of the vote to Republican Karen Handel‘s 51.8%. Since 2013, Ossoff has been managing director and chief executive officer of Insight TWI, a London-based investigative television production company that works with reporters to create documentaries about corruption in foreign countries. ####

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4 Trade Ideas for Altria: Bonus Idea

Altria, $MO, rose from a low in November to make a double top into April. It then retraced 38.2% of the move and found support later that month. Since then, it reversed to a lower high and then fell back again. It has been riding rising trend support since and ended last week breaking a short term channel to the upside. Above sits the May/June plateau and then the March high. If price can get above that a major long term reversal is triggered as it would print a higher high after a higher low, ending a 4 year downtrend.

The RSI is rising in the bullish zone with the MACD positive and moving higher. Momentum has been leading price. The move Friday closed the June gap down and opened the Bollinger Bands® for more upside potential. There is resistance higher at 50.70 and 52.50. Then we go back to 2019 to find it at 53 and 54.60 before 57 and 58. Support lower comes at 49 and 47.80 then 47 and 46.20. Short interest is low under 1%. The stock pays a dividend with an annual yield of 7.27%(!!!) and it starts trading ex-dividend on September 14th. The company is expected to report earnings next on October 28th.

The September options chain shows the open interest on the put side building from 55 down to a peak at 45 then tailing to 40. On the call side it is focused and very large at the 50 strike. The October chain has much less open interest but what there is can be found at the 47.50 put and the 50 call strikes. On the December chain the open interest is focused from 47.50 to 45 on the put side and much bigger at 50 on the call side with size at 60 as well.

Altria, Ticker: $MO

Trade Idea 1: By the stock on a move over 49.75 with a stop at 48.

Trade Idea 2: By the stock on a move over 49.75 and add an October 47.50/45 Put Spread (50 cents) while selling the December 55 Call (36 cents).

Trade Idea 3: By the December 50/October 52.50 Call Diagonal ($1.50) and sell the October 45 Put (35 cents).

Trade Idea 4: By the stock on a move over 49.75 and sell the September 51 Call (21 cents).

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After reviewing over 1,000 charts, I have found some good setups for the week. This week’s list contains the first five below to get you started early. These were selected and should be viewed in the context of the broad Market Macro picture reviewed Friday which with the last full week of August in the books, saw equity markets showed strength with aggressive moves higher and all-time highs.

Elsewhere look for Gold to continue its push out of long term consolidation higher while Crude Oil may also be resuming the uptrend. The US Dollar Index looks on the edge of breaking the long downtrend the while US Treasuries pause in their uptrend. The Shanghai Composite looks to continue in broad consolidation while Emerging Markets continue to be biased to move lower.

The Volatility Index looks to remain very low making the path easier for equity markets to the upside. Their charts also look strong, especially on the shorter timeframe where the IWM had a massive week. On the longer timeframe both the QQQ and SPY also look great while the IWM remains in the broad consolidation. Use this information as you prepare for the coming week and trad’em well.

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Weekend 12th-14th December. Last weekend in Denmark and it was so Christmassy in Copenhagen. Dad & Marcia were meant to visit this weekend but because of the restrictions and Denmark going into another lockdown on Zealand they couldn’t. They however kindly gifted me a nights away in Copenhagen and some spending money. I stayed in ‘Square Hotel’ which was very close to central station and walked through Copenhagen, soaking up the atmosphere. I started off getting off the train at Nordhavn walking to Juno the bakery as they are supposedly named the best crossiants in Copenhagen however I wasn’t lucky enough to taste them as they were out of stock. I did however get a saffron bun & a cardamom bun which were delicious!! I got back on the train to make my way to central station and check in at the hotel. I went for a walk along the shopping street, doing some shopping on the way and made it to nyhavn as it was getting dark already the and the Christmas lights were out. I crossed over the bridge to where the outside food market was which has changed into an ice rink which was closed of course! Round the back of it where 108 used to be bad opened up a new hart bakery and a new burger restaurant under the noma management call POPL. I had a cheeseburger which was delicious!! A lot of people had ore booked and were ready to pick up but I was lucky enough to get one then. After my burger I went back into the centre heading for my hotel and spent the rest of the afternoon/ evening there. I ordered a takeaway from Wolt of bao buns and tempura and enjoyed the piece and quiet. In the morning o walked to the meat packing district where there were a coffee bar I wanted to check out called Prolog. I had a really nice coffee and a delicious cinnamon bun. I felt good for supporting local independant shops too. I went back to the hotel to check out and headed back to the shopping street and over the bridge to get another burger while I could! I called it a day after that and headed back home for the afternoon. There wasn’t anything to do in Copenhagen apart from shop which is pretty dangerous! A lovely last weekend in Copenhagen this year! On Friday 18th I head home for Christmas for 2 weeks which I can’t wait for!

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Romania’s first Bitcoin [BTC] exchange to halt all functions from May 1st – BTCxChange

BTCxChange, the Romanian Bitcoin exchange has announced again that it will close on May 1st, 2018. It became the first Bitcoin exchange in Romania to buy and sell Bitcoins in a fast and secure way.

The website stated:

“We inform you that starting from 1st May 2018, our platform will be closed. Operations stopped back on 1st February, you still could stock your bitcoins on our platform.”

The customers were also asked to withdraw all their balances before May 1st.

BTCxChange was launched in 2014 and from the beginning, the exchange had suffered problems due to which it had to stop its operations. In 2014, the lead programmer of BTCxChange was accused of holding its servers hostage and asked its users to withdraw their funds by 19th December 2014.

It also closed on 12th September, 2016 after it terminated its operations and put itself on sale on 18th August, 2016. On 14th November, 2016, Max Nicula the CEO, mentioned on the website that the service would be relaunched under a new team and new ownership.

Nicula said:

“Some time ago, we decided not to look for new bank accounts in case they were closed….. the reason being that the constant changes in the bank account and the lack of permanent stable solutions prevent us from developing our business, the speed we want.”

The company’s bank accounts were closed abruptly after it received a letter on 22nd January 2018 from Idea Bank, asking them to close its bank accounts in 15 days. This was the 4th bank closure in 12 months.

In a declaration in January 2018, he also wrote:

“All these actions require us to sacrifice short-term profit for long-term results……no trust in the long-term stability of our banking solutions makes it irrational to sacrifice the short-term profitability for uncertain gains in the future.”

He further added that profits in short-term require high fees, restrictions to the market engine through API, and savings on marketing costs. He discussed the company’s situation and the frustration he had about how unreliable banks were.

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The Perfect Gold Stock for Revivalists

Source: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports 12/15/2017

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts a young gold company that he believes “is going places.”Revival Gold Inc. (RVG:TSX.V) is a young gold stock that looks like it’s going places. After starting trading in March it immediately went into a steady uptrend that later accelerated into a peak in AugustSeptember, after which it ran off sideways into a rectangular trading range that has continued up to the present, as we can see on its 1-year chart below. This trading range looks like a consolidation pattern not a top, and if so we can expect the price to break above the resistance at the top of it in due course and enter another uptrend.

With the gentle downtrend of the past few weeks having brought it down towards the lower boundary of the trading range, it looks like a buy here, and a stop may be placed beneath the support at the lower boundary of the range, in case it does the unexpected and breaks lower. Note that although Revival is a stock traded on the Canadian Venture Exchange and the U.S. OTC market, its chart is not available in Stockcharts, hence this Stockwatch chart.

Conclusion: Revival Gold is an immediate buy, and a suggested point for a stop is C$0.595. Revival trades in light but reasonable volumes on the US OTC market.

Revival Gold website

Revival Gold Inc, RVG.V, RVLGF on OTC, closed at C$0.73 on 14th December 17.

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Disclosure: 1) Clive Maund: I, or members of my immediate household or family, own shares of the following companies mentioned in this article: None. I personally am, or members of my immediate household or family are, paid by the following companies mentioned in this article: None. My company has a financial relationship with the following companies mentioned in this article: None. CliveMaund.com disclosures below. I determined which companies would be included in this article based on my research and understanding of the sector. 2) The following companies mentioned in this article are billboard sponsors of Streetwise Reports: Revival Gold. Streetwise Reports does not accept stock in exchange for its services. Click here for important disclosures about sponsor fees. The information provided above is for informational purposes only and is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. 3) Statements and opinions expressed are the opinions of the author and not of Streetwise Reports or its officers. The author is wholly responsible for the validity of the statements. The author was not paid by Streetwise Reports for this article. Streetwise Reports was not paid by the author to publish or syndicate this article. 4) This article does not constitute investment advice. Each reader is encouraged to consult with his or her individual financial professional and any action a reader takes as a result of information presented here is his or her own responsibility. By opening this page, each reader accepts and agrees to Streetwise Reports’ terms of use and full legal disclaimer. This article is not a solicitation for investment. Streetwise Reports does not render general or specific investment advice and the information on Streetwise Reports should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Streetwise Reports does not endorse or recommend the business, products, services or securities of any company mentioned on Streetwise Reports. 5) From time to time, Streetwise Reports LLC and its directors, officers, employees or members of their families, as well as persons interviewed for articles and interviews on the site, may have a long or short position in securities mentioned. Directors, officers, employees or members of their immediate families are prohibited from making purchases and/or sales of those securities in the open market or otherwise from the time of the interview or the decision to write an article, until one week after the publication of the interview or article. As of the date of this article, officers and/or employees of Streetwise Reports LLC (including members of their household) own securities of Revival Gold, a company mentioned in this article.

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The Perfect Gold Stock for Revivalists

Source: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports 12/15/2017

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts a young gold company that he believes "is going places."Revival Gold Inc. (RVG:TSX.V) is a young gold stock that looks like it's going places. After starting trading in March it immediately went into a steady uptrend that later accelerated into a peak in AugustSeptember, after which it ran off sideways into a rectangular trading range that has continued up to the present, as we can see on its 1-year chart below. This trading range looks like a consolidation pattern not a top, and if so we can expect the price to break above the resistance at the top of it in due course and enter another uptrend.

Conclusion: Revival Gold is an immediate buy, and a suggested point for a stop is C$0.595. Revival trades in light but reasonable volumes on the US OTC market.

Revival Gold website

Revival Gold Inc, RVG.V, RVLGF on OTC, closed at C$0.73 on 14th December 17.

Want to read more Gold Report articles like this? Sign up for our free e-newsletter, and you'll learn when new articles have been published. To see a list of recent articles and interviews with industry analysts and commentators, visit our Streetwise Interviews page.

Clive Maund has been president of www.clivemaund.com, a successful resource sector website, since its inception in 2003. He has 30 years' experience in technical analysis and has worked for banks, commodity brokers and stockbrokers in the City of London. He holds a Diploma in Technical Analysis from the UK Society of Technical Analysts.

Disclosure: 1) Clive Maund: I, or members of my immediate household or family, own shares of the following companies mentioned in this article: None. I personally am, or members of my immediate household or family are, paid by the following companies mentioned in this article: None. My company has a financial relationship with the following companies mentioned in this article: None. CliveMaund.com disclosures below. I determined which companies would be included in this article based on my research and understanding of the sector. 2) The following companies mentioned in this article are billboard sponsors of Streetwise Reports: Revival Gold. Streetwise Reports does not accept stock in exchange for its services. Click here for important disclosures about sponsor fees. The information provided above is for informational purposes only and is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. 3) Statements and opinions expressed are the opinions of the author and not of Streetwise Reports or its officers. The author is wholly responsible for the validity of the statements. The author was not paid by Streetwise Reports for this article. Streetwise Reports was not paid by the author to publish or syndicate this article. 4) This article does not constitute investment advice. Each reader is encouraged to consult with his or her individual financial professional and any action a reader takes as a result of information presented here is his or her own responsibility. By opening this page, each reader accepts and agrees to Streetwise Reports' terms of use and full legal disclaimer. This article is not a solicitation for investment. Streetwise Reports does not render general or specific investment advice and the information on Streetwise Reports should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Streetwise Reports does not endorse or recommend the business, products, services or securities of any company mentioned on Streetwise Reports. 5) From time to time, Streetwise Reports LLC and its directors, officers, employees or members of their families, as well as persons interviewed for articles and interviews on the site, may have a long or short position in securities mentioned. Directors, officers, employees or members of their immediate families are prohibited from making purchases and/or sales of those securities in the open market or otherwise from the time of the interview or the decision to write an article, until one week after the publication of the interview or article. As of the date of this article, officers and/or employees of Streetwise Reports LLC (including members of their household) own securities of Revival Gold, a company mentioned in this article.

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CliveMaund.com Disclosure: The above represents the opinion and analysis of Mr Maund, based on data available to him, at the time of writing. Mr. Maund's opinions are his own, and are not a recommendation or an offer to buy or sell securities. Mr. Maund is an independent analyst who receives no compensation of any kind from any groups, individuals or corporations mentioned in his reports. As trading and investing in any financial markets may involve serious risk of loss, Mr. Maund recommends that you consult with a qualified investment advisor, one licensed by appropriate regulatory agencies in your legal jurisdiction and do your own due diligence and research when making any kind of a transaction with financial ramifications. Although a qualified and experienced stockmarket analyst, Clive Maund is not a Registered Securities Advisor. Therefore Mr. Maund's opinions on the market and stocks can only be construed as a solicitation to buy and sell securities when they are subject to the prior approval and endorsement of a Registered Securities Advisor operating in accordance with the appropriate regulations in your area of jurisdiction.

( Companies Mentioned: RVG:TSX.V, )

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How Was The Collective Mood As Stocks Started A 19-Year Secular Bull Run In 1982?

Stocks Must Overcome 2017 Gloom

Even with the backdrop of numerous positive technical developments, it may be difficult to envision the stock market moving higher given skepticism has been lingering for several years. The tone of reporting from this week’s World Economic Forum has had a decidedly pessimistic slant. From the International Business Times:

DAVOS, Switzerland — Despite the usual trappings of revelry here in the Swiss Alps at the World Economic Forum, an unfamiliar mood grips the proceedings: gloom. World leaders and people in charge of money are nursing angst over the potentially perilous state of the global economy. They confront an overwhelming array of crises all at once — China’s economic slowdown, the collapse of energy prices, plunging stock markets, confusion over monetary policy, conflict in the Middle East, an attendant surge of refugees into Europe, and the ever-present threat of terrorist attacks.

What Can We Learn From History?

In this article, we will examine one question and one question only:

Is it possible for stocks to successfully hold a breakout from a long-term consolidation pattern when the social mood and news of the day have a pessimistic slant?

How Was The Mood Back In 1982?

If you followed the news back in 1982, it would have been difficult to imagine the S&P 500 had already started what eventually became an 18-year secular rise. As you scan the bullet points below from the Wikipedia 1982 page, try to imagine the physiological impact of weekly headlines that included wars, bankruptcies, plane crashes, high unemployment, geopolitical strife, a debt crisis, and acts of terror:

Unemployment in the United Kingdom increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621, a post-war record number.

Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during the Dakar Rally; he is rescued January 14.

Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78. On the same day, a Washington Metro train derails to the north, killing 3 (the system’s first fatal accident).

Four Northrop T-38 aircraft of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds Demonstration Squadron crash at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada, killing all 4 pilots.

The first computer virus, the Elk Cloner, written by 15-year old Rich Skrenta, is found. It infects Apple II computers via floppy disk.

The Hama massacre begins in Syria.

Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders the army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.

London-based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.

Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes in Tokyo Bay due to thrust reversal on approach to Tokyo International Airport, killing 24 among the 174 people on board.

The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing all 84 rig workers aboard.

The DeLorean Motor Company Car Factory in Belfast is put into receivership.

Atlanta murders of 1979–81: Wayne Williams is convicted of murdering 2 adult men and is sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan support for terrorist groups.

In Newport, Rhode Island, Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife.

The Falklands War begins: Argentina invades and occupies the Falkland Islands.

A blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1–2 feet of snow on the northeastern United States, closing schools and businesses, and snarling traffic.

British troops retake South Georgia during Operation Paraquet.

The nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors. Operation Algeciras, an attempt to destroy a Royal Navy warship in Gibraltar, fails.

HMS Sheffield is hit by an Exocet missile, and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed. The ship sinks on May 10.

A Unabomber bomb explodes in the computer science department at Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.

French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter’s pilgrimage to the shrine at Fátima.

Braniff International Airways is declared bankrupt and ceases all flights.

The British Special Air Service launches an operation to destroy three Argentinean Exocet missiles and five Super Étendard fighter-bombers in mainland Argentina. It fails when the Argentineans discover the plot.

British landings spark the Battle of San Carlos.

HMS Ardent is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.

HMS Antelope is lost.

Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr.

KGB head Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

British ships HMS Coventry and SS Atlantic Conveyor are sunk during the Falklands War; Coventry by two A-4C Skyhawks and the latter sunk by an Exocet.

The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their “Operation Peace for the Galilee,” eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

The United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon.

British ship RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks.

VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into forest Fortaleza, killing 137.

The Nuclear Disarmament Rally, an event against nuclear weapon proliferation, draws 750,000 to New York City’s Central Park.

The body of “God’s Banker”, Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane, after flying through the otherwise undetected ash plume from Indonesia’s Mount Galunggung.

ASLEF train drivers in the United Kingdom go on strike over hours of work.

Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.

Pan Am Flight 759 (Boeing 727) crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.

Intruder Michael Fagan breaches Buckingham Palace security as far as into the bedroom of Elizabeth II.

Checker Motors Corporation ceases production of automobiles.

Geoffrey Prime, a GCHQ civil servant, is remanded in custody on charges under the Official Secrets Act 1911.

In New York City, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail (the Queen’s bodyguard) has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.

Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: the Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.

A coroner’s jury returns a verdict of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.

Torrential rain and mudslides in Nagasaki, Japan destroy bridges and kill 299.

On a movie set, the Twilight Zone actor Vic Morrow and 2 child actors die in a helicopter stunt accident.

In Beaune, France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident (France’s worst).

Attempted coup against government of Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya.

The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.

Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini resigns.

Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spreads throughout Latin America.

Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrive August 21, U.S. Marines August 25.

Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a Mafia ambush.

Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch is kidnapped.

Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.

A Lebanese Christian militia (the Phalange) kill thousands of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut, the massacre is a response to the assassination of president-elect, Bachir Gemayel four days earlier.

The NFL Players Association calls a strike, the first in-season work stoppage in the National Football League’s 63-year history.

The Wimpy Operation, first act of armed resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut.

In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

The Chicago Tylenol murders occur when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide.

Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.

John DeLorean is arrested for selling cocaine to undercover FBI agents.

Luzhniki disaster: During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death.

A gasoline or petrol tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 176 people.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years. It last hit a record on January 11, 1973, when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain is the biggest ever up to this point.

In Lebanon, the first Tyre headquarters bombing kills between 89 and 102 people.

The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day fire destroys an entire city block of downtown Minneapolis, including the headquarters of Northwestern National Bank.

The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.

The December murders occur in Suriname.

The 6.0 Ms North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800.

The United Freedom Front bombs an office of South African Airways in Elmont, NY and an IBM office in Harrison, NY.

Why 1982?

From Yahoo Finance:

In the last 81 years, there have been only two “outside years” before 2016: 1935 and 1982. Both of these years were followed by the S&P enjoying double-digit gains — +28% in 1936, and +17% in 1983 — which potentially sets the table for a monster rally into 2017.

There are several technical occurrences in the present day that are similar to the early 1980s. For example, the S&P 500 broke out of a consolidation box in 1982 by exceeding the high that was made nine years earlier in 1973. In 2013, the S&P 500 exceeded the highs from both 2000 and 2007, which represents a significant long-term breakout for equities. 2016 also represented a very rare “outside year”, an event that last occurred in 1982. The concept of an outside year was covered in detail on December 30.

More Recent History Also Features Consolidation

The concept of consolidation followed by a breakout or breakdown applies to all timeframes. The chart above shows a consolidation box that was in play between 1997 and 2013. A more recent view of the S&P 500 also features a consolidation box that dates back to 2014 on a monthly chart. Stocks are currently holding onto a bullish breakout from the 2014-2016 consolidation box.

How Vulnerable Is The 2017 Market?

This week’s stock market video looks at the longer-term health of the current rally in stocks. Are longer-term cracks starting to appear?

After you click play, use the button in the lower-right corner of the video player to view in full-screen mode. Hit Esc to exit full-screen mode.

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The Broad Market Has Been Consolidating For 19 Years

Similar to the multiple-year consolidation that preceded the 1982 breakout in stocks, the present day market also features a consolidation box that started forming back in 1997. As of this writing, the NYSE Composite Stock Index is holding above the orange consolidation box shown below.

The View From 30,000 Feet

If we double back to the first chart in this article, it is easier to see how the concept of consolidation and breakouts may apply to 2017 and beyond. There were plenty of reasons to be pessimistic in 1982, and yet stocks were able to advance after breaking out.

2017 Is Significantly Different From 1982

Our purpose is not to say 2017 is 1982. In fact, 2017 is a unique year that will be different from every other year in human history. The same can be said for every year; they all follow a different fundamental and technical script.

History reminds us that the recent bullish breakouts from long-term stock market consolidation patterns do not necessarily need to be coupled with widespread optimism for stocks to advance over the next several years. Almost no one was expecting an 18-year secular bull run in stocks given the news of the day in 1982, and yet, that is exactly what happened.

Before a lot of energy is wasted on the differences between 1982 and 2017, keep in mind our purpose was to examine one question and one question only:

Is it possible for stocks to successfully hold a breakout from a long-term consolidation pattern when the social mood and news of the day have a pessimistic slant?

Notice the term “possible” is used above, meaning all bearish scenarios also remain in the realm of possibility. This exercise helps us remain open to all outcomes, not just the pessimistic outcomes often covered in the media. Time will tell.

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bitcoin (BTC).

The top cryptocurrency, often touted as a safe haven, fell by 10 percent in the first three months of 2020.

While the cryptocurrency eked out 30 percent gains in January amid the U.S.-Iran tensions, it could not withstand the bearish pressures emanating from the global dash for cash in March.

The broader crypto market also suffered losses in the first quarter, as evidenced from the 5 percent decline in the total market capitalization, according to TradingView.

However, a few cryptocurrencies including the privacy coin dash and link, the native token of decentralized oracle network Chainlink, managed to put in a positive performance. Even the most actively traded cryptocurrencies have thin volumes compared to traditional assets like stocks and bonds, so ascribing market movements to fundamentals remains a tricky exercise in this young, speculative market. However, developments such as evidence of real-world adoption or new business partnerships may have played a role in these coins’ gains.

The following are notable winners and losers of the first quarter among 19 major assets featured in the forthcoming CoinDesk Quarterly Review. The list is curated to exclude cryptocurrencies with less than 12 months of trading history, and daily trading volume of less than $5 million. The list does not include stablecoins. CoinDesk Research will publish the Q1 edition of the Review this month.

Winners

Dash

Quarterly performance: +63 percent

Rank by market capitalization: 19

Market capitalization: $606 million

Current price: $64

Dash (dash), the 19th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, jumped nearly 63 percent to register its best quarterly performance since the final quarter of 2017, according to data source Messari Pro.

Back then, the privacy-focused cryptocurrency had rallied by a staggering 217 percent amid the bull market frenzy in the crypto markets.

The latest quarterly gain is largely the result of January’s stellar 180 percent price rise. While the majority of prominent cryptocurrencies outperformed bitcoin’s 30 percent rise in January, dash went a step further by scoring triple-digit gains, possibly due to increased adoption in Venezuela’s hyperinflated economy.

“Dash established meaningful collaborations with international brands including Burger King in Venezuela and Germany. These collaborations, coupled with lower transaction costs and a faster transaction experience than bitcoin, further promote dash’s narrative of day-to-day usability,” said Nemo Qin, an analyst at the multi-asset investment platform etoro.

The team behind dash has certainly been pushing that narrative. “Venezuela is now the world’s leading market for crypto adoption,” Ernesto Contreras, the chief of the Dash Core Group, declared in a blog post on Jan.11.

Some observers, however, challenged the dash community’s claim of massive adoption, accusing the cryptocurrency’s Venezuelan team of fabricating merchant usage numbers. Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, said in February that Dash was exploiting Venezuela with propaganda. Ryan Taylor, CEO of Dash Core Group countered skeptics with a detailed post outlining dash’s increasing usage in Venezuela.

Taylor’s assurances, however, did not stop the cryptocurrency from taking a hit in February and March alongside sharp losses in bitcoin. The cryptocurrency fell 23 percent in March, but still ended the quarter with outsized gains.

Link

Quarterly performance: +31.5 percent

Rank by market capitalization: 14

Market capitalization: $2 billion

Current price: $2.24

Link, the 14th largest cryptocurrency, closed the first quarter with 31.5 percent gains, having put in dismal performances in the preceding two quarters.

At one point, in early March, the native cryptocurrency of the Chainlink network was trading at record highs above $5.00, representing a staggering 200 percent year-to-date gain.

“Chainlink is benefitting from the shift in focus from base layer smart contracts like Ethereum to oracles, which began in 2019,” Vance Spencer, co-founder of Framework Ventures, a blockchain technology company, said in early March.

A decentralized oracle network built on top of Ethereum, Chainlink connects smart contracts to real-world data, events and payments. An oracle is a third-party information source, whose sole purpose is to supply data to blockchains. So for example, if two users bet on the outcome of a soccer match, the oracle will tell the smart contract which team won, so it can pay the winning bettor.

Chainlink has made encouraging noises over the last 12 months or so with multiple partnerships that look like the product of relentless business development and go-to-market strategy, as noted by Spencer Noon, head of crypto investments at DTC Capital.

Link chart by messari

Recently, decentralized finance (DeFi) platform bZx integrated Chainlink’s solutions recently following the major hack in February. Meanwhile, Celsius Network, a crypto lending and borrowing platform, announced on Monday that it has entered into a partnership with Chainlink to strengthen the security and reliability of its services.

Losers

VET

Quarterly performance: -39 percent

Rank by market capitalization: 36

Market capitalization: $262 million

Current price: $0.0030

VeChain’s VET token fell by 39 percent in the January-March period, erasing the rise from $0.0035 to $0.0055 seen in the final quarter of 2019.

The first quarter began on a positive note, with the cryptocurrency rising 10 percent in January. The gains, however, were significantly less than the broader market, as indicated by the total market capitalization, which rose by 35 percent.

VET remained on the back foot in February, having underperformed in the first month, and took a beating in March as the broader market collapsed with the sell-off in bitcoin. The cryptocurrency hit a record low of 0.0014 on the binance exchange on March 13 and ended the month with a 43 percent loss.

VeChain is a blockchain-enabled platform designed to enhance supply chain management processes and has a strong presence in China. The coronavirus outbreak in China in January and February and across Europe and in the U.S. in March hurt VeChain’s business activity. However, no projects were canceled due to the pandemic, according to a VeChain Foundation blog post.

The foundation announced on March 31 about a collaboration with Shanghai Gas (Group) Co., Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shenergy Group Company Limited with registered capital of 4.2 billion renminbi ($57 million), to develop a blockchain-enabled energy project.

NEO

Quarterly performance: -20 percent

Rank by market capitalization: 22

Market capitalization: $631 million

Current price: $6.63

NEO (NEO), which fell 20 percent in the first quarter, is also based in China. The sentiment around “China’s Ethereum” had turned bullish in the final three months of 2019, mainly due to President Xi Jinping’s decision to embrace blockchain technology.

The cryptocurrency rallied 14 percent in the October to December period, despite bitcoin’s 13.6 percent drop, only to surrender gains in the first quarter of 2020.

Disclosure strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups.

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Corona a curse on India- Astrological analysis by Ms. Manu Sisodia

“CURSE” on India Corona Virus An Astrological Analysis (Indian Perspective) -By Manu Sisodia New Delhi “Disease which can embrace anybody without racism Disease which separates individuals from their beloved ones Disease that restricts everybody to touch anything Curse which has no age bar- innocent child, oldies, energetic younger lot all are affected alike Disease which has caused political imbalance, shattered economies and social distancing” Can anybody ever think that simple cold, cough and fever take anyone’s life. But ‘YES’, it is COVID-19 which has struck the mankind very harshly and has created havoc in the world. Anxiety prevails in the minds of all, may it be the common man or a person of the highest strata of the society, that, what is COVID-19, risk involved, symptoms, precautions to be taken and treatment if any? COVID-19 is a novel virus which is highly contagious and can easily spread through droplets released from sneeze or cough, and the worst part is that it has no known or authentic treatment or medication. But only saving grace available are the precautions, which, if adopted sincerely can save numerous lives. Key to this are social distancing and personal hygiene. Now, what is the story behind this. Astrological Analysis Major planets involved in causing any disaster- Jupiter, Saturn & Mars. Shadow planets involved- Rahu and Ketu. Significance of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. Jupiter is considered as the planet for growth , expansion, protection , general well being , institutional wealth ( national assets , stock markets ). It expands the results of the house or sign where it is placed. On the other hand Saturn is planet which is significator of controlling excessive growth or speed. These two planets come together once every 20 years and whenever this happens it is marked with financial instability for about 2 years. This trend has been noticed in 1920, 1940, 1960 , 1980 and 2000. If trend continues then this is bound to occur in 2020 as well. In addition the Jupiter-Saturn combination when further combines with Ketu becomes more deadly and becomes cause of epidemics and disease spread. In transit when Saturn aspects or conjuncts with Rahu/Ketu in natal chart, it results in epidemic and infectious disease in the country and if their degree of conjunction is close then it causes mass deaths. In Mundane Astrology Mars is the significator of unnatural and violent deaths, mass murders and mass tragedies. When it conjoins with Saturn or Rahu, it results in earthquakes, epidemics, terrorism etc. Significance of Rahu/Ketu. Rahu and Ketu the shadow planet are regarded as malefic planets among all other planets. They represent violence, disasters, wars or war like situations, deaths due to suffocation, wide spread of diseases, epidemics, mass deaths etc. In fact as per Mundane Astrology, both Rahu and Ketu are karka for epidemics and spread of infectious diseases. When Rahu/Ketu combine with other malefic planets like Mars/Saturn, then these cause wars or war like situations. Historical Experiences. It is a known fact in Mundane Astrology that heavy planets when conjunct result in some major events to occur which bring about an important turning point in the history of a Nation. Following events further substantiate this fact. (a) Jan 1918 to Dec 1920 Spanish Flu. Spanish Flu (January 1918 – December 1920 ) is the last recorded global pandemic, which caused mass deaths worldwide and in addition caused major losses on the global economy front. India under the British rule that time was also badly affected with many deaths across the country. In Jan 1918 Ketu was in Ardra nakshatra and Rahu was in Mula nakshatra and continued until Dec 1920. Also, Ketu the karka for disease & disruptions is placed in Gemini sign with Saturn and Jupiter surrounding it on both sides, this placement signifies contagious and respiratory nature of the killer disease affecting global population and India. (b) 1962 Chinese Aggression. On 5th Feb 1962, Mars (9 degrees) and Saturn (10 degrees) were in Capricorn and Sun eclipse took place. This was indicative of an approaching disaster. And rightly so, China abruptly launched an offensive over India. Moreover, when China’s aggression over Indian territory took place in Oct 1962, that time Saturn & Ketu were in Capricorn, and Mars & Rahu were in Cancer in the Indian transit chart, hence were exactly opposite to each other on the heavily afflicted Cancer-Capricorn axis. (c) Smallpox Epidemic in India in 1974. In 1974 India was hit by one of the worst epidemics of the modern times wherein the country saw approximately 15000 deaths mostly in the states of Bihar, Odisa and West Bengal between the period January to May 1974. During Jan 1974 Saturn was retrograde in Gemini at 6 degree and 32 minutes and was in close conjunction with Ketu which was also in Gemini at 5 degrees and 4 minutes. In addition Saturn was aspecting Ketu in natal chart by previous house Taurus. (d) Operation Blue Star in Punjab. In India’s chart, on 5th June 1984, Saturn and Mars conjunction occurred within 1 degree in 6th house in Libra sign, where Jupiter is placed in the natal chart. This resulted in mass deaths. (e) War Like Situation in Year 2002. In the Indian chart, in the year 2002, there was an affliction of Taurus-Scorpio and Cancer-Capricorn axis. This affliction is a significator of war like situation and would be a problematic affliction always when it occurs. Present Situation India Independence Chart Eclipse Occurrence of eclipse (Solar or Lunar) are considered to have great impact in the Mundane astrology. When consecutive eclipses occur within a fortnight, this causes vast devastation and mass deaths. Such eclipses occurred on 26 Dec 2019 (Solar eclipse) and 10 Jan 2020 (Lunar eclipse). And what followed this astronomical event has been witnessed by all. Transit At present Rahu is transiting in the second house in India’s natal chart and in this second house the natal Mars is placed (in Gemini). Moreover, Rahu has entered Ardra Nakshatra (from 27 Sept 2019 and stay till 22 April 2020). This transit is a significator of massive transformation of a nation and cause mass destruction. However, towards the end of this transit, when Sun is will go to its exaltation point on 13th April, there is a possibility of a bit of relief from the epidemic which may come in the form of development of some medicine or anti-viral vaccine. During the time period from 8th Feb 2020 till 22 Mar 2020, Mars is with Ketu in Sagittarius in 8th house along with Jupiter. In Mundane astrology, 8th house is regarded as the house of destruction and hence, this transit has resulted in vast expansion and wide spread of corona virus. Mercury, which is the significator of communication, is placed in Capricorn with Saturn and it as helped in spreading the disease from one to another. Moreover, Rahu is in Gemini whose lord is Mercury which is posited in Capricorn with Saturn. This placement of planets will cause spread of the infectious disease. In Mundane astrology when Mars conjoins with Saturn or Rahu, it causes epidemics, earthquakes, terrorism acts etc. On 22 March 2020, Mars enters Capricorn and conjoins with Saturn already transiting there and aspect by Rahu. This same combination is reflected in the ‘Sankata Rashi Chakra’ where Saturn-Mars are aspect by Rahu. Moreover, Saturn and Mars would be on the same degree on 31 March. This entire combination would translate into an epidemic. On 30 March 2020, Jupiter would enter Capricorn, and this would slightly bring down the effect of the epidemic. From 1st April onwards there will be slight relief in the present situation. This would further improve after 13th April when Sun will go into its exaltation sign i.e Aries with Rahu which is in last phase of Ardra Nakshatra (Rahu has entered Ardra Nakshatra from 27 Sept 2019 and stay till 22 April 2020. According to Mundane Astrology, Rahu while moving out from Ardra Nakshtra is capable of giving some reward) and this would come in affect in form of some medical breakthrough for curing COVID-19,A hence we can say that from 14th April to 22nd April 2020 will be the ‘period full of hope’. On 30th June retrograde Jupiter enters Sagittarius where Ketu is already posited, here Jupiter is strong and it will expand ill effects of Ketu hence there will again be rise in this epidemic or some other serious medical issues which might be a fallout of this viral infection. However, these ill effects would subside and not last long and most likely by mid of Sept 2020, it will disappear. “Finally relief is expected after mid of Sept 2020 when the mankind would be out of the claws of this dreaded Virus” Astrologer and Counsellor Jyotish Archarya Manu Sisodia can be reached out at [email protected] Read the full article

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