tyb
and ty for that late add B
<3
it takes a bit 'o time to get those capped, named/saved then retrieved.
Not da fastest fingers in da west...yet.
kek
Muh Chatlogs!!!
Dhey pretty much own everything at this point and wut they don't they can lean on with the 'relationships' they habs.
And that doesn't account for derivatives that the banks have and the custodial relationships wif Blackrock and the ETF market(s)
With $20 trillion between them, Blackrock and Vanguard could own almost everything by 2028
Imagine a world in which two asset managers call the shots, in which their wealth exceeds current U.S. GDP and where almost every hedge fund, government and retiree is a customer. It’s closer than you think. BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group — already the world’s largest money managers — are less than a decade from managing a total of US$20 trillion, according to Bloomberg News calculations. Amassing that sum will likely upend the asset management industry, intensify their ownership of the largest U.S. companies and test the twin pillars of market efficiency and corporate governance.
None other than Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, widely regarded as the father of the index fund, is raising the prospect that too much money is in too few hands, with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Corp. together owning significant stakes in the biggest U.S. companies.
“That’s about 20 per cent owned by this oligopoly of three,” Bogle said at a Nov. 28 appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “It is too bad that there aren’t more people in the index-fund business.” Vanguard is poised to parlay its US$4.7 trillion of assets into more than US$10 trillion by 2023, while BlackRock may hit that mark two years later, up from almost US$6 trillion today, according to Bloomberg News projections based on the companies’ most recent five-year average annual growth rates in assets. Those gains in part reflect a bull market in stocks that’s driven assets into investment products and may not continue.
Investors from individuals to large institutions such as pension and hedge funds have flocked to this duo, won over in part by their low-cost funds and breadth of offerings. The proliferation of exchange-traded funds is also supercharging these firms and will likely continue to do so.
Global ETF assets could explode to US$25 trillion by 2025, according to estimates by Jim Ross, chairman of State Street’s global ETF business. That sum alone would mean trillions of dollars more for BlackRock and Vanguard, based on their current market share. “Growth is not a goal, nor do we make projections about future growth,” Vanguard spokesman John Woerth said of the Bloomberg calculations.
While bigger may be better for the fund giants, passive funds may be blurring the inherent value of securities, implied in a company’s earnings or cash flow. The argument goes like this: The number of indexes now outstrips U.S. stocks, with the eruption of passive funds driving demand for securities within these benchmarks, rather than for the broader universe of stocks and bonds. That could inflate or depress the price of these securities versus similar un-indexed assets, which may create bubbles and volatile price movements.
Stocks with outsize exposure to indexed funds could trade more on cross-asset flows and macro views, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The bank found that, for the average stock in the S&P 500, 77 per cent might trade on fundamentals, versus more than 90 per cent a decade ago.
https://financialpost.com/investing/a-20-trillion-blackrock-vanguard-duopoly-is-investings-future
Sec. of State Blinken defends Afghanistan withdrawal at House hearing
Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the administration's handling of the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in an appearance before a House committee Monday.
Blinken testified in front of the House foreign affairs committee via video link during a hearing entitled "Afghanistan 2001-2021: Evaluating the Withdrawal and U.S. Policies."
As President Joe Biden and others in his administration have said previously, Blinken in his opening statement reiterated that the scenes of chaos at the Kabul International Airport as thousands of Afghans sought to flee from the Taliban's lightning victory couldn't have been predicted.
"Even the most pessimistic assessments did not predict that government forces in Kabul would collapse while U.S. forces remained," he said. "As General (Mark) Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, 'Nothing I or anyone else saw indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days."
But, because of contingency planning, the State Department was "able to draw down our embassy and move our remaining personnel to the airport within 48 hours. And the military placed on stand-by by the president was able to secure the airport and start the evacuation within 72 hours." The result, he said, was "one of the biggest airlifts in history, with 124,000 people evacuated to safety," followed by massive efforts by U.S. personnel to house and process tens of thousands of Afghan refugees.
"We can all be deeply proud of what they're doing," Blinken said. "And as we've done throughout our history, Americans are now welcoming families from Afghanistan into our communities and helping them resettle as they start their new lives."
Republican critics of the White House, as well as some Democrats, have contended the withdrawal was botched and ill-planned. But committee chairman Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., defended the administration's handling of the withdrawal. "For my friends who presume a clean solution for the withdrawal existed, I would welcome hearing what exactly a smooth withdrawal from a messy, chaotic 20-year war looks like," he said. "In fact, I've yet to hear the clean withdrawal option because I don't believe one exists."
The House committee hearing is just the first among what is expected to be a series of congressional probes of the Afghanistan withdrawal this week. Blinken will also appear before the Senate foreign relations panel on Tuesday in what could be a contentious meeting.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/09/13/Blinken-defends-Afghanistan-withdrawal-House-hearing/6831631557239/
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not answering any questions either.
U fuk't it "tony"
wonderful...nao gibs us the real answer.
82-8000 USAF 747 Potato +/Not AF1 Joe departed Boise Airport for Mather Airport Sacramento, CA
Crowds Gather to Protest Biden's Idaho Visit
More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Boise, Idaho, on Monday morning during a visit by President Joe Biden to express their displeasure about his coronavirus plan, the election and other issues. Biden came to Boise as part of a swing through three Western states to promote his administration's use of a wartime law to aid in wildfire preparedness, survey wildfire damage and push his economic agenda. He arrived at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise late Monday morning to meet with fire officials and Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/biden-idaho-protests/2021/09/13/id/1036197/
Dis next on Potato's schedule
5:40PM EST (2:40pm PST) Potato receives a briefing from local, state, and Federal emergency response personnel on the impacts of recent wildfires-California Governor’s Office Of Emergency Services Mather Field
6:25pm EST (3:25pm PST) Potato surveys damage from the Caldor Fire by taking an aerial tour of hard hit communities in El Dorado County
https://factba.se/biden/calendar
09-0016 USAF C-32A departed Hill AFB, SLC
and should go to Travis AFB if it stays in NorCal if not then SoCal and most likely March AFB
was gonna do Long Beach but no idea where and when until earlier this morning.
They kept it pretty hidden until a few hours ago.
Would rather spend that time on a positive thing instead of yelling at some old fart.
Pentagon reclaims 6% of the entire internet that was mysteriously handed over to a Florida company on the day Trump left office
*Transfer of idle DoD IP addresses took place minutes before Trump left office
*The Department of Defense reclaimed the large amount of internet from Global Resource Systems LLC, which is headquartered in Plantation, Florida
*At one point, the company more than quadrupled to 175 million addresses - about 6 percent the size of the entire current internet
*The company's address is listed in a co-working space
*It is still unclear what exactly the program did or why Global Resource Systems LLC was chosen
Minutes before former President Donald Trump left office, a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank took control over a large chunk of internet space owned by the Pentagon.
Now the Department of Defense has reclaimed the 175 million IP addresses - about six percent the size of the entire current internet - from Global Resource Systems LLC, which is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, the Washington Post reported Friday.
'It is massive. That is the biggest thing in the history of the internet,' said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network operating company. It's also more than twice the size of the internet space actually used by the Pentagon. The sell off of Internet space sparked theories the Pentagon could be eventually responding to repeated demands to monetize its collections of millions of dormant web pages.
The military said it hoped to 'assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,' according to a statement issued in April by Brett Goldstein, chief of the Pentagon's Defense Digital Service, which ran the project. But it has not answered many basic questions, beginning with why it chose to entrust management of the address space to a company that seems not to have existed until last September. 'The Defense Digital Service established a plan to launch the cybersecurity pilot and then transition control of the initiative to DoD partners,' Defense Department Spokesperson Russell Goemaere told The Washington Post.
'Following the DDS pilot, shifting DoD Internet Protocol (IP) advertisement to DoD's traditional operations and mature network security processes, maintains consistency across the DODIN. This allows for active management of the IP space and ensure the Department has the operational maneuver space necessary to maintain and improve DODIN resiliency,' the statement said.
When program was launched in the fall, Goemaere said the timing of the transfer was 'agnostic of administration change.' It is still unclear what exactly the program did or why Global Resource Systems LLC was chosen.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9984513/Mysterious-Pentagon-program-started-exact-day-Trump-left-office-expires-8-months-later.html
did I miss dis earlier?
FUGGEN NOTABRUH!!
kek
would go just about anywhere to see 45 and got really close in 2019 and 20-like only a few feet away.
Was in da beast but they slowed and pointed us out.
had muh kekistan flag-also another one with a Q sign next to me...dat was a fun day for sure.
Then we all drove to the base and watched AF1 depart
Always habs that
ty
82-8000 USAF 747 on descent for Mather Airport from Boise Airport depart.
09-0016 USAF C-32A went to Beale AFB (U2s are based at Beale) and not Travis.
Powell Backed for Fed Chair by Authors of Dodd-Frank Bank Reform
The architects of the sweeping regulatory legislation adopted after the financial crisis backed Jerome Powell for another term as Federal Reserve chair.
Former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Barney Frank said Powell’s reappointment would provide “strong support” for President Joe Biden’s comprehensive program for tackling the underlying social and economic problems facing the U.S. Their support coming in an opinion article written for The Hill is noteworthy because a number of progressives have criticized Powell for rolling back some of the reforms initiated under the Dodd-Frank legislation and called on Biden to replace him as Fed chair.
“We acknowledge that Powell did implement some relaxation for the financial industry -- but we do not believe this outweighs the case for reappointing him,” Dodd and Frank wrote in an article published on Monday.
Powell’s term as chair ends in February. Bloomberg has reported that advisers to Biden are considering recommending that the president give Powell another four years. A decision is likely this fall.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/powell-backed-for-fed-chair-by-authors-of-dodd-frank-bank-reform-1.1651647
backed by the Dude at Treasury and nao these two traitors.
Book it....
"and all the bullshit bans accumulated over the last year will be removed"
Something that will NEVER habben for $1000 Alex...
dunno
they made an announcement after it became KUN that all the old bans from chan were removed so I guess they kept them
>>90669 pb
SAM298 USAF C-32A inbound to JBA from Spangdahlem AB ground stop and departure from Athens Int'l Airport earlier after arriving yesterday from Belfast, Ireland
Presently about to get 'on' the sidewalk (Newfoundland) heading to JBA
Greece launches mandatory testing for unvaccinated workers
Greece on Monday introduced mandatory weekly testing for all unvaccinated workers as it struggles to boost vaccination rates that are lagging the European Union average. Public and private sector employees will have to pay for weekly tests or carry a vaccination certificate to gain access to their place of work, while unvaccinated children at high schools, which reopened Monday, are being given test kits distributed at government expense. Similar restrictions will also apply at sports stadiums, museums and archaeological sites, as well as indoor leisure areas like cinemas and restaurants. Some 56% of Greece’s residents have been fully vaccinated, while the average rate in the EU is just over 60%. Greece has imposed vaccine mandates for health care workers and allows the vaccination of children starting at age 12. Lockdowns last year pushed the economy into recession, with 2020 output shrinking by 8.2%. Government officials say the country cannot afford to halt economic activity for a second year. “At the moment, the pandemic (in Greece) is showing signs of de-escalation, so the measures seem to be working,” Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis told private Skai television. “Unfortunately this de-escalation is accompanied by the deaths of our fellow citizens who are unvaccinated. It hurts me to know that these people could have lived, but they fell victim to conspiracy theories.”
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Greece-launches-mandatory-testing-for-16454147.php
Biden to nominate three Democratic regulators to serve on CFTC
Rostin Behnam will be tapped to lead the derivatives watchdog.
Joe Biden announced his intention Monday to nominate three financial regulation experts with academic and government backgrounds to fill the three Democratic seats on the five-member board charged with regulating U.S. derivatives markets.
The president said he would nominate current Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rostin Behnam to lead the agency that has gotten greater public attention of late for its role in regulating markets related to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether.
Behnam previously served as senior counsel to Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and worked at the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General within the Bureau of Securities.
Biden also intends to nominate Emory University professor Kristin Johnson and Christy Goldsmith Romero, currently serving in the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, to fill the two other Democratic seats on the commission.
The CFTC is a five-member board and no more than three commissioners of the same party can serve at a given time. The only Republican currently serving as a CFTC commissioner is Dawn DeBerry Stump, following the departure of Brian Quintez last month.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-to-nominate-three-democratic-regulators-to-serve-on-cftc-11631568175
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BOXER42 USAF C-40C on final approach for San Francisco Int'l from JBA depart earlier today
I noes you do
it doesn't really matter either way exactly for the reason you say.
Din't want to lose control cause that has always been the issue with them.
chek't
everything went to shit man!!!
kek
The money for live shows got well beyond the value imo.
Got shot at on the way to a Stones show in 1989-hit the car and din't know it until parked at Stadium.
Round was still in the pickup tailgate when we busted out the bbq in the parking lot.
Those were $50 and we were like dayum!!!
saw dat one at candlestick park (gone nao) SF.
Should not habs been there -way too young but older frens went so I went too.
Prince opened at got booed off stage.
wasn't eben in HS yet..still in grade school.
it was never an issue as muh dad took us to many of those shows-mom made him take us so he wouldn't get into trouble-pretty sure on that one.
refresh it
ty JW
Aye
82-8000 USAF 747 Potato+/Not AF1 Joe departed Mather Airport, Sacramento for Long Beach Airport
09-0016 USAF C-32A departed Beale AFB after it's ground stop and a lazy trip south waiting for Potato
Cap#3 from the set up
Biden To Hold Campaign Rally With Gov. Newsom In Long Beach Monday
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/09/13/president-biden-to-campaign-with-gov-newsom-in-long-beach-monday/
Nope