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Manufacturing Contracts, Goldman’s Capex Tracker Dips, and Business Inventory Nears Contraction Levels, Echoing Troubling Precedents

The convergence of contracting manufacturing, a downward trend in Goldman’s Capex tracker, and business inventory nearing contraction levels raises ominous parallels with past economic downturns. This alarming pattern, witnessed during the Dot Com bubble, the Financial Crisis, and the Pandemic, underscores potential challenges ahead for the economy. Manufacturing pic.twitter.com/7NYfAV8mVk — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) November …

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If you’re a business owner, you can pay your children $13,850 (tax-free) and deduct it from your own taxes (legally). Here’s how:

by TonyLiberty By doing this, you can legally reduce your taxable income by $13,850 and avoid paying tax on that amount, plus your child will owe $0 taxes on that amount, and you can also invest $6,500 of that in a tax-free Roth IRA. (When you employ your children it’s s a business expense and …

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Mark Zuckerberg’s $36 Billion Plan for Metaverse… Most Addictive Tech Ever… WEF, Big Business on Board!

via breitbart: Out today, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life, blows the lid off of Meta’s pattern of intentionally using harmful and aggressive tactics to get users addicted to social media apps like Facebook and Instagram and documents a shocking rise in depression and suicide that …

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Alarming Downturn: China’s Economic Rebound Falters as Consumption and Business Confidence Decline

China’s economic landscape appears fraught with concerns as the rebound in consumption stalls and private business confidence loses momentum. In October, key indicators like the QuantCube Technology recreation and transport demand measure and the Morning Consult consumer sentiment survey recorded troubling declines. Furthermore, the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business poll echoed this sentiment, indicating …

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People think nothing is happening, but Israel is taking care of business and bombing the shit out of everyone with any connection to Hamas.

No, this is NOT Gaza ….This is LEBANON tonight…. 🚨No, this is NOT Gaza This is LEBANON tonight pic.twitter.com/DLstWd16dC — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 7, 2023 LEBANON UNDER FIRE pic.twitter.com/xOJ990CYa8 — Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) November 7, 2023 Lebanon is bringing out the big guns For the first time, they have activated their air defense system …

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More “zombie” companies whose business models were only viable in a world awash with central bank funny money are entering the Dead Pool.

127 ASX-listed ‘zombie’ companies on brink of collapse, KPMG research warns Dozens of ASX-listed companies are on the brink of collapse and in need of drastic change to turn things around, with potential investors warned to be on the lookout for ‘zombie’ firms. According to data from big four accounting firm KPMG released on Monday, …

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Disney Is Seriously Struggling Right Now As Business Faces Massive Failures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36ZLBikdfLw Disney is on track to be the first studio to collapse amid unprecedented financial problems, a new report reveals. The mammoth entertainment company just turned 100, and investors are worried it’s starting to show its age. Nearly all segments of the business are underperforming right now, with box-office results going from bad to worse, …

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Small business owners are struggling, despite claims of a thriving economy.

These entrepreneurs, spanning various sectors, face challenges such as limited credit access, rising debt, reduced consumer spending, and escalating labor costs. One poignant example is a retail store owner, who, after a decade in the community, had to return to a corporate job to keep the business afloat. “The Economy is doing well” Let’s talk …

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Ultra-Low Interest Rates Spawn Bizarre Business Ventures, Now Revealing Their Viability

The era of near-zero interest rates has given rise to a series of what many may consider absurd business ventures, including the likes of “buy now, pay later,” car vending machines, extravagant digital art sales, algorithmic home buying, and virtual metaverse offices. During such times of readily available capital, even seemingly weak ideas manage to …

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America begins to seize Chinese business and land in America

Arkansas has become the first state to order that a Chinese company give up ownership of local land, amid fears of attempts by Beijing to malignly infiltrate and influence the U.S. through various means. On Tuesday, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she was ordering Syngenta to relinquish its 160 acres of land holdings in …

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Amazon Is Falling Apart Before Our Eyes As Retail Business Continues To Struggle

Amazon faces allegations of using a secret algorithm to raise prices significantly for U.S. consumers, with reports of sharp price hikes both online and in physical stores, impacting products from groceries to streaming services, potentially leading to regulatory action and stock declines amid a tough year for the e-commerce giant. Are you ready for some …

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TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS: Denver business owner whose ‘poop’ protest against City Hall went viral demands solutions on homeless problem.

via foxnews: A Denver think tank president and radio host who went viral last week for transporting the human waste left on his building to City Hall is demanding politicians start seriously enforcing the laws against the homeless people and “vagrants” leaving waste around Colorado’s capital. Jon Caldara, a local columnist and the head of …

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Judge revokes Trump’s NY business licenses, finds Trump guilty of fraud charges…

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday found Donald Trump committed fraud by exaggerating the value of his wealth — and canceled the former president’s New York business licenses, which could hamper his longtime company’s ability to operate in the Empire State. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron found Trump, 77, his family and his business, the Trump Organization, liable for …

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Is Joe looking to put Detroit out of business?

Between the UAW contract set at a 40% increase and the incentives/requirements surrounding electric vehicles from the government, you would think Joe was actually looking to put Detroit out of business. — GranTorino (@GranTorinoNY) September 26, 2023 Kiss of death 😬 https://t.co/ZyAqAO44U0 — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) September 26, 2023

Businesses are going out of business? Federal tax revenues are sharply declining

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1702146403475030390 https://twitter.com/WinfieldSmart/status/1702286302597554676 Citi Bank is planning mass layoffs to stem costs $C — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) September 13, 2023 This is incredible: 1. China unexpectedly cut rates by their most since 2020 2. Europe unexpectedly raised rates to their highest since 2001 3. The Fed is expected to pause rate hikes for months 4. Australia …

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Largest Groundfish company on East Coast suddenly shuts down all operations, goes out of business. This is what Economic collapse looks like.

via the-sun: The credit crunch is here. The middle class consumers are all tapped out. We will start seeing all sorts of small, medium and large businesses dying suddenly – No notice, shutting down all operations. Get ready for the economic collapse. It’s not just America, China is on thin ice too. Major food company …

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Warning: The car business is facing major League economic headwinds, car dealers are experiencing “died suddenly”

Just in: Average monthly payment for new vehicles financed hit an all-time high of $738 in August. (via Edmunds) — Car Dealership Guy (@GuyDealership) September 11, 2023 This kind of business failure happens when things are collapsing. They may have had bank lines pulled. Who knows but larger businesses like this don’t usually go under …

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In June, the total amount of money owed to finance companies (Consumers, Real Estate, Business) increased 17.7%. In the first quarter, the interest rate for new car loans was 6.4% with a maturity of 66 months financing $39,066. For used cars, 15.7% with 66 months financing at $23,537

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g20/current/g20.pdf In June 2023, the total outstanding amount owed was approximately $1,850.9 billion dollars–up 14.7% from May! In the first quarter, the interest rate for new car loans was 6.4% with a maturity of 66 months financing $39,066. For used cars, 15.7% with 66 months financing at $23,537. Wut Mean?: Folks and businesses are …

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Hawaiian Business Goes Viral for Sign Blasting Bribery Biden’s Tone-Deaf Visit: “It’s Not Always About You”

Hawaiian Rent-All was disgusted with Biden’s contrived empathy. A new sign in front of their building reading “Sorry you almost lost your ’67 Corvette in a fire, Mr. President” has gone viral for its more sarcastic “empathy” in finger quotes. It’s a good thing for Biden that he isn’t Republican. This story would be all …

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Any problem addressed by government will never be solved because solving it would put them out of business.

Former SF Mayor Frank Jordan criticizes London Breed’s approach to solving homeless crisis. “When you look at the homeless issue, we spent $2.8 billion in 7 years,” he said to California Insider. “We are averaging more than $700 million a year just on homeless. But when break that down, nobody seems to know if it’s …

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Inflation Alert! New York Fed Business Survey (New York State, northern New Jersey and southwestern Connecticut): “Employment continued to increase slightly, and wage growth picked up. The pace of price increases was somewhat higher than last month”. Inflation is not slowing down!

by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/Survey/business_leaders/2023/2023_08blsreport.pdf Wages and Prices expected to continue rising over the next 6 months. TLDRS: New York Federal Reserve Bank’s August 2023 Business Leaders Survey shows the region’s (New York, southern New Jersey, and southwestern Connecticut) service sector activity as stable for the second month in a row. Remember, services are where ~2/3 of …

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Everything indicates that growth will be slower: US industrial companies experience significant business slowdown in China; Student loan payments resume in September.

Industrial US companies are seeing their businesses in China slow down considerably. DuPont, Dow and Caterpillar have cut their sales outlook for the country into this year. https://t.co/LJ0ARJ9jMW Tesla cut prices in China again. https://t.co/tuTnwNZFSO — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) August 14, 2023 Everything is fine … 🔥🔥🔥 Student loan payments resume in September. pic.twitter.com/l7C34hjf10 — …

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