ty for these. The video lb is equally impressive.
What an honor for everyone.
o7
they also have the olympics coming up so need to put on a different moar welcoming appearance.
Abe always been very genial but the culture just doesn't do 'in your face' for the most part.
that is true anon, no getting around this. Some restaurants will not allow any gaijins in for example-they will simply point you out. This has always been this way. I see this as a protectionist thing but when viewed from afar it certainly appears this way
Details on FCA/Renault talks set to emerge on Monday
MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler is likely to make an announcement about its talks on a potential tie-up with rival Renault on Monday, two sources told Reuters, while the board of the French carmaker will meet first thing.
One of the sources said the announcement could provide some concrete although initial details but added the situation was still “fluid”.
Fiat Chrysler and Renault are in talks on a comprehensive global tie-up that could address some of the main weaknesses of both carmakers, two sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Saturday.
A separate source with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed that the Renault board will meet on Monday morning at 0800 local time (0600 GMT) to discuss the issue.
The meeting was first reported by French newspaper Le Figaro.
Pressure for consolidation among car makers has grown with the challenges posed by electrification, tightening emissions regulations and investment-heavy technologies for connected and autonomous vehicles.
Fiat Chrysler and Renault together would have a combined market capitalization approaching 33 billion euros ($37 billion).
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fiat-chrysler-renault-talks-monday/details-on-fca-renault-talks-set-to-emerge-on-monday-idUSKCN1SW0DF
found it.. Lots available, especially on the pepe front. was not so until last year.
take away the electronics for longer periods of time and talk. This missing for many years. Don't be your child's friend all the time….be a parent first and mentor. Too many parents want to be hip and cool and have no disciprine…no lacka the disciprine.
on the racist thing. A bit over the top in categorizing it as purely racist but they certainly have a protectionist attitude towards any non-japanese, gaijins they are called. It can be off-putting to some who do not accept that they will never be accepted into that way of life as a true insider like some cultures do. Imo it is a product of what was done to them over many years-the end of WW2 being the catalyst. As already mentioned to that anon-and this is a small relatively benign one there are places that refuse to let outsiders in-restaurants, being one of those places. It's just something you have to accept …if you don't you're going to have issues.
the other thing to add is the yen-carry trade that fueled the debt binge here. The one aspect that normal non-financial people could not really take part in unless you were sneaky about it-and even then it was difficult to ascertain the hurdles placed in front of everyone on the retail level. You could certainly trade FOREX to do this but that was/is a different part of this. You are not really converting in that case only taking advantage of the flow.
they all had an open conduit to the FRB-in Black rocks case it was how they became much larger(in asset ownership) in such a short period of time. Had to put all those derivative based piles of shit somewhere right?
and she was the "face" of financial reform. Never trusted her to start with.
>She's no doubt bloodline.
think so too. Too far a rise in stature in such a short period of time. If you really read the Dodd-Frank act it is nothing moar than a legalese bullshit thing to protect the system. Plus you actually have to enforce the things in it too-kind of a problem for a long time even prior to that being passed.
agree. This entire thing will take time as old habits die hard. The only issue is what is done with the trillions of fake credit used to juice it in the first place-the entire green shoots mantra was no accident. Whatever the solution is…this will still need to be dealt with in some way. It wasn't fake as it was how we "got here".
get that way too anon…no worries. look at how in-your-face Goog and many other company's are with the reports(10-Q issues) I gather they took moar care with those. I stopped going through many of them years ago as it became a huge exercise in frustration seeing the shit they got away with.
they pretty much own themselves at this point- record levels of buybacks and it used to be illegal to do this.
The stock market would be much lower if it weren’t for companies buying back their own shares
Data compiled by Ned Davis Research shows the S&P 500 would be 19% lower between 2011 and the first quarter of 2019 without buybacks.
The other options for companies to deal with that cash — holding it, reinvestments and dividends — would have also led to lower returns.
“Without focusing too much on numbers, we can say that the S&P 500 index would probably be lower today if not for buybacks versus other uses of cash,” says Ed Clissold, chief U.S. strategist at Ned Davis Research.
Buybacks have gotten a bad rap from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers this year. But the stock market would be trading at a much lower level without them.
Data compiled by Ned Davis Research shows the S&P 500 would be 19% lower without buybacks. The firm looked at the S&P 500′s performance between the first quarter of 2011 and the first three months of 2019. Then they subtracted the amount of net monthly repurchases to arrive to that conclusion. The broad market is up more than 125% in that time while net buybacks have totaled about $3.5 trillion.
“Without focusing too much on numbers, we can say that the S&P 500 index would probably be lower today if not for buybacks versus other uses of cash,” Ed Clissold, chief U.S. strategist at Ned Davis Research, wrote in a note last month.
Lawmakers on both sides are bashing buybacks and want to make it harder for companies to repurchase their own stock. They argue that buybacks inflate corporate executives’ pay and share price at the expense of a company’s workers.
In a Feb. 20 Medium post, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, said companies should reinvest their capital differently. Earlier in February, Schumer and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT — a presidential hopeful — proposed in a New York Times op-ed that companies should provide living wages and health benefits to workers if a buyback program is launched.
“At a time of huge income and wealth inequality, Americans should be outraged that these profitable corporations are laying off workers while spending billions of dollars to boost their stock’s value to further enrich the wealthy few, ” the senators wrote in the op-ed.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, said in a series of tweets the U.S. does not have a “free market,” noting: “We have tax code which engineers economy in favor of inflating prices of shares at the expense of future productivity & job creation. ”
But while politicians clamor for buybacks to be curtailed, the market would be trading below current levels if excess cash had been put to work in other ways. Ned Davis Research found the S&P 500 would be 10% lower if excess cash had gone towards dividends rather than buybacks. The broad index would be 2% lower if buybacks were substituted for corporate reinvestment and 5% lower if companies just sat on the excess cash.
“Companies have been using buybacks because it allows them to put capital to better use and back in the hands of investors without committing to making those payments overtime,” said Kate Warne, investment strategist at Edward Jones. “We like buybacks,” though “we prefer dividends.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/the-stock-market-would-be-much-lower-if-it-werent-for-companies-buying-back-their-own-shares.html
burn one moar. Saw all you nigga's do the digs on the equity stuff over a yer ago. did not actively post until about a year ago-was not ready to be here-own reasons and needing to fully understand what was going on overall. Much patience in lurking for about 6 months prior to getting in here, glad I did .
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