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If during the fakest, phoniest, most over-supported stock market in the history of the human race, if all you can produce for investors is an 85% loss during the ten months you’ve been public, you might as well give up. Overpriced crap for your pregnancy and baby clearly isn’t a business model that’s working.
honest.com is a company that’s never shaken hands with an uptick………..
Sigh.
A month ago, this market was so riveting that I could barely take my eyes off of it. As it is right now, if I may be so candid, it is as dull as dog shit. Honestly. And I say that, even if it harms me, because an unspoken component of my role is to get people excited about trading the markets. But one look at the VIX, and I think you’ll understand how disingenuous this would be. All the oxygen has left the room.
Uh-oh, Tim’s got the layered charts out again.
Anyway, here is the long-term continuous contract of France’s CAC-40 Index.
Astonishing how much land a small island nation with 0.6% of the world’s population controlled at one point (and, ultimately, relinquished).
American workers were seen leaving the labor force in droves throughout most of 2021. A seven-month-long period of millions of workers quitting their jobs for all sorts of reasons. By November 2021, a record-shattering 4.4 million employees quit within one month, an amount that represented at least 3% of the American labor force at the time.
There have been plenty of reasons why employees have been quitting, with most citing reasons of low pay, limited opportunities, and toxic work environments where they’re feeling disrespected. Around 63% of employees left their jobs because of inadequate wages, and roughly 39% felt they were working too many hours.
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