sharina_mc1, to Finance
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Contrary to popular belief, the financial system isn't broken; it functions precisely as intended. Inflation, often seen as a drawback, actually serves as a deliberate mechanism to discourage saving and incentivize investing.

UP8, to Electronics
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ChrisMayLA6, to ai
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Tom Gauld on the AI (investment) bubble

#AI #investment

kubikpixel, to Facebook German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

»Facebook-Mutter Meta setzt voll auf Künstliche Intelligenz«

Der Internet-Konzern hat so viel Geld, dass es sich leisten kann, so viel in der KI zu Investieren - Zeit ist Geld aber egoistisch, wenn nicht ausbeutend. Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass deren Glaube an ihrem Erfolg, auch als Religion bezeichnet werden kann.

🤖 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/facebook-meta-ausblick-100.html


#ki #facebook #meta #investment #fb #it #internet #kunstlicheintelligenz #instagram #whatsapp #kapitalismus

jikodesu, to Philippines
@jikodesu@mastodon.social avatar

PH's biggest bank BDO thinks charter change is not necessary to attract foreign investments. The move is also unpopular among Filipinos with 74% saying the Constitution should not be amended. Others believe that the real motive of charter change is to lift the one-term limit of the president.

#Philippines #Asian #Filipino #Rappler #Business #Economy #Politics #Investment

https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/inside-track/foreign-investment-even-without-economic-charter-change-bdo/

Nonilex, to legal
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

merger wins investor approval, netting potential windfall
TFG will own ~60% of , which at its current share price would be worth ~$3.3B.

A lockup agreement will prevent him from selling the shares for 6 months.

A long-delayed move that will open the owners of TruthSocial to stock-market investors & grant Trump a stake worth billions he could use to pay down his .


https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/22/trump-mediamerger-vote/

KissAnne, to news
@KissAnne@mastodon.social avatar

Good #news for my #home #village Simpele! Metsä Board invested more than 125 million euros in the cardboard factory. #hurray #finland
#investment

Ilouutisia Simpeleelle! Metsä Board investoi yli 125 miljoonaa euroa kartonkitehtaaseen | Paikalliset | Etelä-Saimaa #suomimastodon
https://www.esaimaa.fi/paikalliset/6645573

ChrisMayLA6, to Unions
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The collective action issue in capitalism:

collective action by workers: bad, disrupts labour markets, undermines competitive pricing of labour.

collective action by investors, via stock markets & shareholding: vital to the workings of capitalism & must be protected & fostered at ever step.

It doesn't have to be this way, but it is.

#capitalism #unions #workers #investment

cdarwin, to Virginia
@cdarwin@c.im avatar

One major is pouring millions into groups funding the - candidates in three battleground states: , , and .
He is also one of the largest personal shareholders in the viral social media network, .

founded the options trading firm , and is now worth a cool $28 billion.

One of Susquehanna’s richest bets was purchasing a 15 percent stake in TikTok’s parent company, , in 2012;
according to the Wall Street Journal, Yass’ personal stake in the company is about seven percent.

A longtime member of the advisory board at the and a top donor to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Yass, 67, self-identifies as a
— a political philosophy that would seem to be at odds with the desire to increase of women’s health care decisions.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/tiktok-billionaire-yass-gop-donor-abortion-1234859270/

ChrisMayLA6, to productivity
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If you're think the key to economic success is productivity growth then the lagging expansion of productivity in the UK (and the EU) will be a concern.

Most notably while the global financial crisis hardly impacted US productivity growth, for the UK/EU, after 2008, slow(er) productivity growth has resulted in a growing productivity gap.

Is the US is benefitting from more investment, the status of the dollar as reserve currency or more state stimulus, or all three?

#productivity #investment

drrimmer, to asia
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ChrisMayLA6, to NorthernIreland
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Later this year the UK will introduce 'not for EU' labelling as part of the #WindsorFramework deal on #NorthernIreland.

The labels have already started to appear in some shops for some products, and the Food & Drink industry fears that such labelling will deter both customers & #investment in the UK's food/drink sector.

Recent headlines suggested customers took the view that this indicated sub-standard goods, whatever the actual quality....

Another #BrexitReality that was 'unpredicted'...

sharina_mc1, to Finance
@sharina_mc1@ohai.social avatar

The average person thinks the stock market is a casino. They have no idea about the concept of compound interest, dollar cost averaging, long term investing, or index funds. They confuse investing with gambling and hold themselves back by dismissing it as a rich person game.

GarlicBreath, to NovaScotia
@GarlicBreath@blackrocks.social avatar

“The abandonment of public housing by the federal government in the 1990s went hand-in-hand with a wider push to financialize the entire sector: rent controls were deregulated, rules were rewritten to make it easier for landlords to purchase buildings then forcibly hike rents.”

https://ricochet.media/en/4033/canadas-housing-crisis-isnt-being-caused-by-foreign-investors-its-being-caused-by-investors-period

ChrisMayLA6, to productivity
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Earnings growth, while easing, seems to be continuing at a level that will likely prompt the BoE to cite a wage-#inflation spiral as the reason to (again) not ease #interestrates....

I've posted a lot on this, so here will just say the BoE is missing the main issue which is the UK continuing crisis in #productivity growth, which is to say prices are driven up by external factors (and profits), but the BoE only 'sees' the wage rises...

The real problem(s) are in #management & #investment!

shansterable, to Finance
@shansterable@c.im avatar

New filing today in the ongoing train wreck that is the Trump Media SPAC merger:

Whereas Trump’s media company SPAC merger was delayed due to that pesky SEC securities fraud investigation and

Whereas a bunch of people at Trump Media were promised lucrative stock compensation deals and

Whereas those folks, having waited three long years, are ready to scatter like rats from a sinking ship

Digital World Acquisition Corp. agrees to pay $6.4 million in “Cash Retention Bonuses” to Trump Media Employees

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sec.irpass.cc/2660/0001193125-24-030969.htm

#DigitalWorld
#TMTG
#SPAC
#Finance
#Investing
#Investment
#Fraud
#USPol
#USPolitics
#Trump
#OrangeMussolini
#DevinNunes

Nonilex, to tech
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

index crosses 5,000 for the FIRST TIME
have been buoyed in recent months by positive data, a softening of policy, & the soaring success of a few Big firms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/09/sp-500-crosses-5000-first-time/

ChrisMayLA6, to food
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Times are tough for the & sectors... But, Ten-pin Bowling has actually seen revenues (& footfall) rise in the last couple of years.

While it is a classic case of a cheap(isn) family treat (when times are hard), its also a case of benefitting from sunk-costs.

Once built, blowing alleys' marginal/variable costs are low & so operators have been using that surplus to cross-subsidise their offer, thus resisting .

Its a good example of why works!

ChrisMayLA6, to Futurology
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Your #water bill will rise by 6% in April; Water companies have requested a 40% uplift in prices over the next five year period (2025-30). This, they say will help cover the necessary #investment needed to address the obvious problems we are currently seeing.

But, if #privitisation was intended to ensure a free flow of capital for infrastructure & these firms having been paying high dividends for years, how is it the customer is being tapped for investment resource?

[this is a rhetorical Q.!]

ChrisMayLA6, to climate
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

Mariana Mazzucato on six elements of a 'green growth narrative':

  1. No necessary trade-off between #growth & action on #climatechange

  2. expenditure on a #greentransition is #investment not 'cost'

  3. Long-term financing underpins #green policy

  4. #publicsector capacity/capabilities are key

  5. A new green social compact will cement support for green policy/change

  6. Deficit financing to tackle #climatechange is necessary & acceptable

All this requires leadership

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/climate-policies-public-investments-will-increase-incomes-productivity-growth-by-mariana-mazzucato-2024-01

ChrisMayLA6, to climate
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

@GarethDennis (a railways engineer & researcer, quoted in FT) points out that in light of ageing #infrastructure & the impact of #climatechange a major programme of #investment is badly needed on the #railways:

'The way you make [disruption] less costly in the long run is by spending more money upfront to build a more robust & resilient system in the first instance.... But the do-nothing option costs a lot more money over a longer period'!

But also true for all UK's ageing infrastructure!

ChrisMayLA6, to Germany
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

We now have data for #Germany; #GDP has shrunk by 0.3%.

But before the #brexiters starting rubbing their hands, like the UK's figure, this is well within the margin of error to potentially be revised upwards into growth (just like the UK, minuscule 'growth' could end up as a small negative move).

We might also be best to be looking at other figures, like levels of #investment or balance of trade...

Both of which suggest Germany's problems look temporary, while the UK's looked baked-in

Windspeaker, to business
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“We’ve got more deals in the funnel.”

The Wapiscanis Waseskwan Nipiy Limited Partnership, comprised of nine First Nations and three Métis settlements, has been provided a $150 million loan guarantee by the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation for an 85 per cent interest in oil and gas infrastructure assets in the north of the province

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/first-nations-metis-settlements-join-forces-deal-backed-indigenous

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