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Taylor Swift is out with a new album called “Reputation”, but it won`t be available on Spotify or Apple Music

Taylor Swift is out with a new album called «Reputation», but it won`t be available on Spotify or Apple Music. Not so far. This is the long-awaited sixth album with singles like «Look what you made me do», «Gorgeous» and «Ready for it.»

So, what are fans gonna do if they want the new album? The new album will be available at Walmart, Target, iTunes store and her own official store. Streaming will be possible at the iHeart Radio All Access Powered by Napster app.

Taylor Swift is not only a great artist, but also a smart business woman. She had previously pulled her own music from streaming services like Spotify in protest against low royalty payments.

She protested before the release of the new Apple Music streaming service in 2015, when she threatened to withhold her music from the service unless artist were paid fairly for their own music.

Adele did the same when she released her album «25». She waited for about seven months to release it to streaming services, and she can afford to do it like that. So can Taylor Swift. They are both famous enough to do it.

Spotify is probably years away from profitability. Last month they reported better deals with music labels with a 40% growth in revenue but they are still losing money. Investors estimate the value of Spotify to be about $16 billion, which is up from $13 billion earlier this year.

Spotify`s revenue for the first six months of the year is $2,2 billion. Gross margin is 22%, which is up from 15% in all of 2016. Operating loss is between 100 million and 200 million euros ($118,4 million and $236,8 million), according to the Information.

Spotify has about 140 million active users and more than 50 million are paid subscribers.

Taylor Swift`s new songs can all be found at YouTube. Not only the music but also the videos.

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Black Friday is the best time of the year to make a great deal

Black Friday is the best time of the year to make a great deal. You can make a great deal on everything from toys to tech. It is also a great day for many to do most of the shopping on net instead of running around on the streets from shop to shop and waste a lot of time.

Thanksgiving is a big day and it has always been, but there are many good reasons to avoid the hectic crowds it draws. You should be prepared and make a checklist of stores and what you want to buy before Black Friday sets in.

Those who are smart will check out prices on the products they want to buy. They will do some research and compare prices with each other, and that will in return give them big savings.

Black Friday falls on Friday Nov 24 this year, and that is a day earlier than last year, which means you have one extra day to do your Christmas shopping if you have to. You can already now see some retailers leaking their ads for Black Friday.

We have seen what madness it is on this day. People are going crazy, and we already now know what will happen this year. Last year was a record year for e-commerce and there is no reason to belive it will slow any time soon.

44% of consumers were shopping online and it will continue. The online sales will continue to grow and the online deals will be bigger and better than ever before. And again; people will go crazy. This is madness.

Some retailers are already out with their ads and it is from now the show is beginning. Next week it will be even more ads and more great deals. This is funny and the trend will continue, so you better mark the day on your calendar as soon as possible.

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Broadcom can be the third largest chipmaker in the world

Samsung and Intel are big chip makers, but Broadcom can start to join the club of the best chip makers and end up being the third largest chipmaker in the world. But firsts they need to do one thing: acquire Qualcomm.

Broadcom is planning to buy Qualcomm for about $103 billion if the deal succeeds, and that will be the largest acquisition in tech history. Qualcomm are best known for the default system on a chip called SoC and cellular modem vendor in most smartphones.

Qualcomm is famous for its near minopoly on the high-end smart phone SoC market with its «Snapdragon» line of chips.

Snapdragon semiconductors are embedded in devices of various systems, including Android and Windows Phone devices. They are also used for netbooks, in cars, wearable devices and other devices.

Snapdragon is a suite of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for mobile devices. The Snapdragon central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instruction set, and a single SoC may include multiple CPU cores, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a wireless modem, and other software and hardware to support a smartphone`s global positioning system (GPS), camera, gesture recognition and video.

Samsung and Apple does not use Qualcomm`s operating system which means they are both competing with Qualcomm. Samsung have its own Exynos line system and Apple makes it sown SoC system for its iPhone and iPad.

But in the U.S, Samsung use Qualcomm chips only for this market and Apple has packaged a separate Qualcomm chip with the iPhone, but the company recently had the audacity to use an Intel modem in some iPhone models.

Broadcomm and Qualcomm combined will be big and that can make the prices go up. Google can do something with that. They want to improve its own Android, VR and AR and have sent a list of requests to other chip makers for future SoC designs. They also want to build its own processors.

According to Reuters, Broadcom Ltd made an unsolicited $103 billion bid for Qualcomm Inc on Monday.

Qualcomm`s share price skyrocketed before the dot-com-bubble. It reached nearly $90 but have never recovered. The stock has declined in two years from 2014 to 2016 and now it is trading at $62 on Monday.

It is another story for Broadcom. The stock has gone straight up since April 2016. On Monday, the stock reached an all-time high at $277.

 

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If the Fed`s neutral rate is as low as they estimate or even lower, they will be glad to have their unconventional tools in their toolkit

President Trump will announce the next Fed Chair very soon. This is happening at a time were Mr Trump is planning a new tax reform. At a time were Mr Trump want to spend more money on infrastructure.

Mr Trump attacked Ms Yellen on the campaign trail and accused her for holding the rates too low, but he has halted any criticism of Yellen and the Fed since his inauguration. Now, Mr Trump say he like Ms Yellen and refuse to close down the possibility of reappointing her.

 

Ms Yellens term as a Fed Chair is about to end and the term is up for renewal early next year, but Yellens term as a governor on the Federal Reserve extends until January 2024.

So, if Mr Trump wants to “fire” Ms Yellen as a Fed Chair, she will still stay on the board even is Mr Trump dont want her to win the next term as a Fed Chair.

John Taylor and Jay Powell are among two of the other candidates on Mr Trumps shortlist. Anyway, whats interesting is their policy on interest rates.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen wrote an article about A Challenging Decade and a Question for the Future on the Fed`s own website. Her headline was a key question for the future. As the financial crisis and Great Recession fade into the past and the stance of monetary policy gradually returns to normal, a natural question concerns the possible future role of the unconventional policy tools we deployed after the onset of the crisis, Ms Yellen said.

My colleagues on the FOMC and I belive that, whenever possible, influencing short-term interest rates by targeting the federal funds rate should be our primary tool. As I have already noted, we have a long track record using this tool to pursue our statutory goals. In contrast, we have much more limited experience with using our securities holdings for that purpose.

Where does this assessment leave our unconventional policy tools? I belive their deployment should be considered again if our conventional tool reaches its limit, that is, when the federal funds rate has reached its effective lower bound and the U.S economy still needs further monetary policy accommodation.

Does this mean that it will take another Great Recession for our unconventional tools to be used again? Not necessarily. Recent studies suggest that the neutral level of the federal funds rate appears to be much lower than it was in previous decades.

Indeed, most FOMC participants now assess the longer-run value of the neutral Federal funds rate as only 2-3/4 percent or so, compared with around 4-1/4 percent just a few years ago. With a low neutral federal funds rate, there will typically be less scope for the FOMC to reduce short-term interest rates in response to an economic downturn, raising the possibility that we may need to resort again to enhanced forward rate guidance and asset purchases to provide needed accommodation.

Of course, substantial uncertainty surrounds any estimates of the neutral level of short-term interest rates. In this regard, there is an important asymmetry to consider. If the neutral rate turns out to be significantly higher than we currently estimate, it is less likely that we will have to deploy our unconventional tools again.

In contrast, if the neutral rate is as low as we estimate or even lower, we will be glad to have our unconventional tools in our toolkit.

The bottom line is that we must recognize that our unconventional tools might have to be used again.

If we are indeed living in a low-neutral-rate world, a significantly less severe economic downturn that the Great Recession might be sufficient to drive short-term interest rates back to their effective lower bound.

Ms Yellen concluded with this summary: As a result of the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve has confronted two key challenges over the past several years: One, the FOMC had to provide additional policy accommodation after short-term interest rates reached their effective lower bound; and two, subsequently, as we made progress toward the achievement of our mandate, we had to start scaling back that accommodation in the presence of a vastly expanded Federal Reserve balance sheet.

Ms Yellen highlighted two points about the FOMC`s experience with those challenges. First, the monetary policy tools that the Federal Reserve deployed in the immediate aftermath of the crisis – explicit forward rate guidance, large-scale asset purchases, and the payment of interest on excess reserves have helped us overcome these challenges.

Second, in light of evidence suggesting that the neutral level of short-term interest rates is significantly lower than it was in previous decades, the likelihood that future monetary policymakers will have to confront those two challenges again is uncomfortably high.

For this reason, we must keep our in conventional policy tools ready to be deployed again should short-term interest rates return to their effective lower bound.

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“Hitler is alive” is a conspiracy fact

We heard about it a few years ago but many didnt belive it. Hitler faked his own death and fled to South America. He and his wife didnt die after World War 2. He lived a peaceful life in Argentina.

What you have heard until now at school is that Hitler and his wife committed suicide whilst hiding out in a bunker at the en of World War 2. It was the end of evil terror and the case was closed. That was a big lie. We have to rewrite the history.

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(Secret classified document from CIA. Phillip Citroen, a former German SS trooper, stated that Hitler is still alive)

 

Now we have some great evidence that says: Hitler faked the whole thing and was alive. Everything is revealed by the CIA and ex-CIA agent, Bob Baer. In an interview, Baer said: «The narrative the government gives us is a lie. What we are doing is reexamining history, history that we thought was settled that Hitler died in the bunker. But the deeper we get into it, its clear to me we dont have any facts for it.»

Conspiracy theorists often said Hitler was alive and that he survived World War 2, despite him officially being recorded dead by the Allies. Russian authorities also claimed Hitler was still alive.

Officially, the Red Army closed this case and said Hitler shot himself and then his body was burned by Soviet soldiers. Western-led investigations suggest the Führer is dead, despite alleged sightings recorded by the CIA and FBI.

In the JFK documents you can see declassified CIA files reveals that Hitler escaped war-torn Germany and lived a peaceful life in the beautiful foothills of the Andes Mountains. He lived in Argentina many years after World War 2.

A man called Citroen is said to have been in contact with Hitler once a month in Colombia, and the CIA documents reads: «Citroen» also stated Hitler left Colombia for Argentina around January, 1955.

So, if CIA knew that Hitler was alive, why didn`t they take him to the court? «Citroen» said that more than ten years have passed since the end of World War 2, and the allies could no longer prosecute Hitler as a criminal of war.»

It`s odd to see that Hitler is reported in the JFK documents, but it can be because of the fight against Communism. It is no doubt that Nazism and Fascism is evil but right after the end of World War 2, a new problem occurred; Communism.

Warren Commission said Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman that killed JFK, but the Zapruder film prove another thing. You can clearly see it in the Oliver Stone film called «JFK» from 1992. In other words: LBJ had a big cover up.

The magic bullet came from the front. Not from the back were Oswald was. When the shot hit Kennedy, his head goes backward and to the left, which means the bullet came from the front. Actor Kevin Costner explain this in the court in Stone`s movie. A great movie that cover this JFK case well.

In the same movie, you can also see that Oswald only days before the assassination is doing a Communist propaganda. Oswald was a self-proclaimed Marxist/Leninist since adolescence who defected to the USSR in 1959 on his own initiative, offering to trade on his military expertise with the Marines.

Oswald`s ideal of a Soviet utopia was immediately soured by bureaucratic indifference, causing Oswald to adopt revolutionary Marxism as opposed to institutionalized Leninism, perhaps inspired by som Cuban students he befriended while living in Minsk.

By the time Oswald and his Russian-born wife Marina leave the USSR in June 1962, Oswald sees in the Castro revolution a truer form of socialism – one not corrupted by Soviet Communist Party Officials and their perks.

Oswald was very active in defending Castro through debating on radio. Oswald tried to infiltrate some anti-Castro elements, perhaps to gather intelligence to impress Havana. All this effort turned out to be for nothing when Oswald was rejected at the Cuban embassy in Mexico City in early October.

Oswald was a complex person. One part of him was ant-Castro, the other part was pro-Castro. His friends like the one who murdered him, Club owner Jack Ruby, was anti-Communists and right-wing activists, closely linked to FBI, the CIA and U.S Naval Intelligance.

Many of them was strange friends like Jack Ruby, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Guy Banister and George de Mohrenschildt. So, Oswald created a public persona for himself as a leftist agitator when he returned to the U.S.

In New Orleans, he set up his own Fair Play For Cuba Committee without the authorization of the national headquarters og the organization which was based in New York City. He was the only member of his committee. Although broke, Oswald hired two men to help him distribute his handbills.

Conspiracy theorists claim Oswald was a “patsy” because they wanted people to belive that he was pro-Russian and pro-Castro. It was just a part of the game.

Oswald had a girlfriend from Russia and spent a lot of time there. In Texas, Oswald and his family were befriended by members of a right-wing Russian emigè community.

The CIA documents is evidence and documents people have waited for in 75 years. The document is available via the CIA`s own archives site.

 

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