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Crude Oil and Ten Year Dance Brings in Obama Era GDP Rates

FIRST PUBLISHED: MIXED MARKET ARTIST Below, the price of Crude Oil rallies hard and the Ten Year futures contract moves slowly lower (yield higher). Crude Oil Ten Year Futures Analyzing the relationship can inform much about the current cycle. Of course, Crude Oil was demolished during the height of the pandemic and the lockdowns. From…
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Blockchain Technology in China Matters!

(Learn about blockchain technology from IBM.) The Communist Chinese Party has produced a Five Year Plan since 1953. The Five Year Plan outlines social and economic development initiatives. Blockchain and Fintech were mentioned for the first time in the outline of the Five Year Plan that was approved on March 13. 2021 for the period…
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Research the Conditions! Global Biodiversity is Decreasing.

Conservation and Preservation are Beautiful and Holy! There does not exist a complete and sound philosophy that discounts beauty, especially natural beauty. The conservation and preservation of the immense biodiversity of our planet is primary. Research the Problem It is the responsibility of all market operators (both consumers and producers) to understand the condition of…
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The Force of Will and Perspectives on NFT Pricing in the Present Times

By Billy Lee also Published in: MIXED MARKET ARTIST (The above featured image is The Future is Here listed on OpenSea) There is a force of will at work in the markets. Perspective plays its part in the pricing of securities. Many exclusively discuss pricing mechanisms like supply and demand, measurable differences in technology, etc. However, there is a qualitative consideration that…
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About Markets and Choice in a Free Society

Freeing the Sports World of Steroids, Silencing Donald Sterling, Stopping Global Warming and more… BILLY LEE FIRST PUBLISHED IN MIXEDMARKETARTIST.COM BY BILLY LEE When the division of labour has been once thoroughly established, it is but a very small part of a man’s wants which the produce of his own labour can supply. He supplies…
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Don’t Be So “Pretendtious”! – Pondering the State of the Union

first published in MIXEDMARKETARTIST.COM by Billy Lee on Feb 2015 We can pretend that what has not had the greatest effect on the economy during the Obama years is ZIRP or zero interest rate policy. We can pretend that the force of Federal Reserve liquidity provisions is a lesser force than the accomplishments of President Obama…
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The Wolf of Wall Street: What Big Teeth You Have! The Easier to Degrade America With.

by Billy Lee, first published in Mixed Market Artist The wolf is an animal – known for its primal nature. The wolf does not attack the well adapted. The wolf hunts and preys upon the weak. Man is not an animal. Man can reason. The rational mind separates Man from the animal kingdom. Choice in possession of a…
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DoorDash, Wish and Affirm Join Airbnb to Fuel Year-End IPO Boom

SOURCE: BLOOMBERG (Bloomberg) — As Airbnb Inc. prepares for its long-awaited Nasdaq debut, other consumer-facing technology companies are joining the going-public party, which had been dominated so far this year by enterprise software listings. Food-delivery service DoorDash Inc., online discount retailer Wish Inc. and installment loans provider Affirm Inc. could join Airbnb in making their…
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Google-backed ‘plumber’ Amwell spikes in debut, IPO a barometer of booming telehealth market

SOURCE: YAHOO FINANCE American Well Corp. (AMWL), began trading Thursday in a long-awaited move that may help boost competition in the increasingly hot telehealth market, and rides a wave of growing enthusiasm for virtual doctor visits that swelled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amwell’s stock opened at $25 per share, well above the initial public offering (IPO)…
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Clean Energy Trust backs 2 new Chicago startups

SOURCE: CHICAGO INNO Two Chicago cleantech startups just got funding from the Clean Energy Trust, a fund that backs energy upstarts across the Midwest. The Chicago-based Clean Energy Trust announced Wednesday that it invested in Renewance, a startup focused on battery recycling that connects electric vehicle companies and other businesses to recycling solutions, and Iris Light Technologies, a maker…
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