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by | November 23, 2018 · 8:47 pm

The U.S Black Friday is on track for “blowout” but the Retailer ETF is declining

The biggest shopping day of the year has been the black friday, but that belong to the past. This has changed in the past few years and its a reason for that. Its no longer a black friday single day, but a week-long affair.

Retailers start their Black Friday Sales as early as Thanksgiving Day, Wednesday, and as early as Monday. This is why it is difficult to measure the sale related to only one day; Black Friday. So, if you look at it this way, the combined sales of Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday should be included in Black Friday numbers because they are related to each other.

Amazon is still on top of the most popular stores for Black Friday. While Amazon continue to rule the online world, WalMart remains undisputed king of the Black Friday. Next on the list is Target, BestBuy, Macys and Kohls to name a few.

What people are looking for is Apples iPhones, Macs, iPads and other devices, but Apple is not expected to give away any great deals. Gift cards up to $300 will therefore be given by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint.

Its also expected to see WalMart, BestBuy, Target and Amazon to offer the cheapest TVs, Laptops and Video Games. Google is expected to respond with deals on Nest, Nest Camera, Nest Doorbell and Google assistant.

The National Retail Federation predicts 164 million consumers will shop Thanksgiving weekend, and while 21% will shop Thanksgiving Day, fully 71% will shop Black Friday itself. Analysts are now looking at the five-day period from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday to get a sense of holiday spending, which is now being called «Thanksgiving Weekend.»

The number of people going to the stores Thanksgiving Day has declined since its peak in 2014. The sales are moving online and Thanksgiving Day last year jumped 18,3 percent YoY in online sales. Online shopping on Black Friday last year jumped 16,9 percent YoY.

A quick look at XRT Retail ETF tells us a strange story which is the opposite of last year. The value is declining and it seems to have peaked in October this year. I will continue to follow the retailers and their business.

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by | November 19, 2018 · 9:23 pm

Freedom of the Press is NOT freedom to be rude

I have repeated myself for years on this issue; «freedom of speech is not a freedom to abuse,» and now White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told her father at Fox News that freedom of the press is NOT freedom to be rude, freedom to be disruptive or freedom to interrupt.

The White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is the first press secretary to have Secret Service protection. She is also the first press secretary to be thrown of a restaurant in her own country.

President Donald Trump support freedom of the press, but if someone like Acosta misbehave, they will throw them out or stop the news conference. Mr Trump also said that no one believes in the first amendment more than him self.

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by | November 16, 2018 · 9:30 pm

The U.S tax revenue will continue to go straight up

Mainstream Media (MSM) and some of their «smart» journalists were laughing at president Trump when he said he will cut taxes and bring back jobs and money. How in the world is he gonna do that with so much debt, they argued.

Now, we know that president Trump was right. The U.S government receipts increased 7% YoY to 253 billion in October of 2018. Government revenues in the U.S reached an all-time high of 510447 USD Million in April of 2018, and the economy are growing faster and create more jobs than expected. It`s an economic boom.

The U.S income tax revenue climbed from about 1 trillion in 2000 to 1,59 trillion US dollars in 2017, but we can already now see a major shift in the market. The forecast predicts an increase in income tax revenues up to about 2,92 trillion U.S dollars in 2028. Up nearly 100%.

It seems like the booming economy will continue and the forecast predicts an increase in total receipts to reach about 4,39 trillion in 2023.

Obama is often trying to take Trump`s cred for the economic boom, but the difference between Obama and Trump is the deficit. It climbed to $148 billion under Obama while it climbed to «only» $113 in fiscal 2018 under president Trump.

So, the government did better on revenues and deficits under Trump than under Obama`s last year in office. The economy was sluggish under Obama were the federal revenues was barely increasing and the deficit increased.

The real boom in the economy came with Trump`s tax cuts and all his business reforms. The Congress (on both sides) must be held responsible for the increase in deficit as they refuse to bring federal spending under control.

The Republicans like to push down the taxes while the Dems like to keep them high. If the Dems were in charge, the taxes would have remained high on the cost of jobs and wage gains America now is enjoying. Would that be a better solution?

Obama and Bernanke «printed» money after the financial crisis, but the economy was sluggish and the growth was never 2% under Obama. The recovery was very slow but it takes some time to turn the ship around. Obama and Trump should look upon themselves as one team; Team America and that`s red, white and blue.

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by | November 9, 2018 · 9:40 pm

The Satanic Fake News Media said White House manipulated a video with Jim Acosta

How low will CNN go? Their lies and Fake News doesnt stop. CNNs popularity is declining and Jim Acosta is not helping them to stop this trend. As long as they are reporting Fake News, they are the enemy of the people, president Trump said.

During a Q&A session, Mr Acosta tried to ask a question about the Russia investigation but Mr Trump refused to answer and said «thats enough» and «put down the mic.» Press secretary Sarah Sanders said access was removed because he had put «his hands on a young woman.» CNNs Acosta called Ms Sanders` claim a lie.»

How smart is it to lie about it when everything is on tape? And how smart is it to have a specialist to say that the video is manipulated by the White House? You can clearly see that a female staff member attempted to take the microphone from the journalist, and Mr Acosta resisted handing it over telling her at one point «pardon me ma`am.»

President Trump said to Mr Acosta that he was a terrible person. Ms Sanders said the nicest thing Mr Trump will call this group of people is Animals. They have no respect for other people and have a disgusting behavior.

Author Mark Taylor claim that the Fake News Media is Satanic and said the next battle will be a mass arrest. He had warned about a civil unrest for about two years and said someone will be executed.

The Republicans won 3 seats in the Senate and Brett Kavanagh is on place. But if someone is charged with Treason, there will be a military law. Not civil. Some people at the FBI and the Deep State should be worried now, and this is all about Trump`s slogan; Drain the Swamp.

Jim Acosta`s bad behavior was on the TV News channel in Norway on Friday, but the headline was that the video was manipulated by the White House. The TV channel is funded by the Norwegian government and nobody is doing something to protect the people from this Satanic Fake News. What a shame.

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by | November 8, 2018 · 10:19 pm

Trump had tremendous success and gained 3 seats in the 2018 mid-term election

Two days before the midterm election, Norwegian journalists said President Trump admitted that he will lose. The day after the election, the same group of people said Mr Trump was looking sad. They also said he tweeted he was happy despite the fact that he lost seats. There is no secret that you can count Trump supporters on one finger in Norway. They are mocking him every single day.

They often like to refer to CNN. The channel Mr Trump call Fake News. They are also very similar because about 98 percent is negative news. All the time. Every single day. If there are some good news, they makes it look bad.

 

 

It is something fundamentally wrong when everybody is on one side. Everybody on one side means there is no balance. Ask some kids on the streets what they think about Mr Trump and I`m pretty shure they will say something negative. This is indoctrination.

There is one good thing going on right now. Some people wont listen to the MSM anymore. They dont belive in it. This is why Trump and the Republicans had tremendous success in the midterm election. It also proves that the Dems` Russia story is a hoax.

MSM predicted a blue wave on Tuesday, but what we saw was the 2016 election on repeat. People said yes to Mr Trump. Again. Maybe they will come up with a new Russia story, but it wouldn`t work.

The Russia hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Obamas Justice Department worked improperly to help Clinton and defeat Trump in the 2016 presidential election. We havent heard the last word in this case, and here comes the midterm election in.

To those who belive that Mr Trump was a big loser on Tuesday, have a listen to this; Obama lost -63 seats in the house and -6 seats in the senate in his first midterm election. That`s -69 seats.

Trump lost -27 seats in the house but gained +3 seats in the senate. That`s only -24 seats.

The presidents party has lost an average of 37 seats since the end of World War Two, and historically the party in the White House has lost a badly in midterms, especially when a presidents job-approval rating was below 50 percent.

In other words; the 2018 midterm election was great for Donald Trump.

According to Marketwatch, it`s only the third time in the past 100 years that the party holding the White House has gained seats in the Senate in a mid-term election while losing seats in the House.

The same split outcome also occurred under John F. Kennedy in 1962.

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